Opus Finale .... A Warts an' all Exposé of Paintball's Very Own Megalomaniac
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Ive been pretty silent reading all this, keeping abreast of whats going on and not saying my thoughts. I have always thought something smelled fishy about the SL events or how they did business but didnt know it ran to this extent.
Having said that, I ran up a paypal dispute to get my ticket money back for the SOA2 game,(based on the concerns raised) and to be fair to Suzy/Tim, they did refund me the full amount (whilst assuring me I was the only one backing out of the game and that the events are still cracking on. Not sure if its the case.
With enough people buying tickets upfront he will have the initial capital to run events still.
(Oh, the paint is alledgedly a custom made paint for that event only...)
Having said that, I ran up a paypal dispute to get my ticket money back for the SOA2 game,(based on the concerns raised) and to be fair to Suzy/Tim, they did refund me the full amount (whilst assuring me I was the only one backing out of the game and that the events are still cracking on. Not sure if its the case.
With enough people buying tickets upfront he will have the initial capital to run events still.
(Oh, the paint is alledgedly a custom made paint for that event only...)
I'd guess that it's custom made by Valken and sold to Shoreline Outdoor Ltd by Shoreline Events Ltd for £0.01 the day before they went under, I'm sure tim will have all the proper receipts etc, normal business practice, standard business admin, nothing to see here...
Lee, it looks like circumstances forced barnett's hand when he had to make the old shoreline cease trading.
When you're desperate, you cut corners especially when you have a reduced time-line underwriting proceedings.
He was always gonna ditch the old shoreline, the only thing in question was, when.
I'd think that his creditors, in trying to get their money back ended up forcing barnett to pull the plug on the old shoreline.
His only life-line now is his incredible capacity to fabricate a delusional reality and the hope he will claw in as many prepayments for future events as he can.
Other than that, his days must be numbered now because eventually, even his most ardent of hangers-on will come to realise the sheer scale of his deceit.
When you're desperate, you cut corners especially when you have a reduced time-line underwriting proceedings.
He was always gonna ditch the old shoreline, the only thing in question was, when.
I'd think that his creditors, in trying to get their money back ended up forcing barnett to pull the plug on the old shoreline.
His only life-line now is his incredible capacity to fabricate a delusional reality and the hope he will claw in as many prepayments for future events as he can.
Other than that, his days must be numbered now because eventually, even his most ardent of hangers-on will come to realise the sheer scale of his deceit.
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I've just noticed the view count which stood at something like 132,000 four days ago and now it's 142,000 give or take.
10,000 views in four days just shows the sheer scale of interest in this thread.
Some of it may well be 'grab the popcorn' views but still, I'm amazed.
The level of interest in this sorry saga indicates [i think] the concern people have for one of our sport's more notorious episodes.
At least we can say we got the news out there to people, I just hope the resolution to all this is a positive one.
As to what some might deem positive?
I think most just wanna see an end to all the sh!t this guy has been up to.
We've had maverick idiots pop up in our sport before but I genuinely believe barnett is a one-off who should fuhk-off whence he came. It's time for paintball to evacuate its bowells I think.
10,000 views in four days just shows the sheer scale of interest in this thread.
Some of it may well be 'grab the popcorn' views but still, I'm amazed.
The level of interest in this sorry saga indicates [i think] the concern people have for one of our sport's more notorious episodes.
At least we can say we got the news out there to people, I just hope the resolution to all this is a positive one.
As to what some might deem positive?
I think most just wanna see an end to all the sh!t this guy has been up to.
We've had maverick idiots pop up in our sport before but I genuinely believe barnett is a one-off who should fuhk-off whence he came. It's time for paintball to evacuate its bowells I think.
Ive been out of the sport now for a number of months, not played apart in any form what so ever, left the great team i played for, i used to be highly focused and motivated on it, it was for me a way of life, games, team, forum, organising tech and kit for people.
The enthusiasm over the years just ebbed away, ( was so sick of listerning to the broken record ).
Ive got to say TB always had my support, until going back a few years he screwed over a bunch of lads close to him, over a possible smallish deal.
As we the team were discussing behind the scenes wether to accept an offer which he was apart of, he decided he was going to have that deal for himself and proceded to do just that and took that deal for himself and his own branded teams. ( That didnt sit well with me personaly and a good few of the lads )
You would think the guys would have said, you know what FU thats lower than low ( obviously not ) , but they didnt.
I had questions in my mind about what he was all about months before that, but decided it would be better to ignore, as i had seen what he dose when he dosent get his own way, he had been giving several players a rough time, who did not deserve it, for example Dunc, Duncs Mrs, mick, Rob, Lee, and Pete thats for starters.
he treated them so bad, but the shiet list was growing bigger by the day so you didnt want to rock the boat.
All of his inner circle hated with a passion what he was doing by singling people out, we just kept quiet. The fact is most of the older players grit there teeth and just get on with it, the new guys just follow him like sheep for free stuff / tip bits and that all special pat on the head for a great job done. ( grooming ) thats the best / only description i can think of, ( grooming the impressionable ), thats pretty much what it boils down to, and if out of that grooming process youve got your own thoughts and ideas about how stuff should be done, then your not in favour and instantly orstrosised.
Ive got to say, reading back the accounts that Pete Russell ( paintball pete ) and Lee whickham posted are totaly true, it dosent matter what spin TB puts on them, those two guys i hold in high regard and i know for a fact there stories are water tight. TBs DEFENCE is just so full of inaccuracies and to be honest full of nonsense and non truths.
Another case of the guys who are closest to him, nodding yep TB is totaly telling the truth liking all those FB posts without knowing what the truth acctauly is.
When they read this, because they will all read it, most know exactly what im saying wether they want to hear it or not and that its all made up stories probley involving copious amounts of gin and paranoid thoughts, but they defend him they cant help it. The amount of people speaking out, cannot be ignored, its staggering.
So people here are making stories up, surely not.!!!
What really took the biscuit though is this.!
UKS as a resource for the scenario player was fantastic and the loyal members and mods like myself happily pointed players in the right direction with the dont buy shiet buy this brand of kit as it will suit your playing needs kinda advice.
This forum and its resources was killed off single handedly overnight virtualy by TB, taking everything to Face Book, as he had decided overnight that internet forums were dead, so he had total control and could ban who he wanted to keep people asking the hard questions he didnt like, i really dont care what people say about it, thats a fact, i had a very recent conversation with and old mod still a mate of TB and a good mate of mine, when this very conversation took place, his responce... was ( real life and FB killed it...) Im sorry no thats just not right at all, and he knows it the, but choses to ignore what happend.
Most if not all of this has been said before on here, and other places, a no BS account of some of the repugnant last few years in the sport.
The list could and probley should go on from my memory, ill probley continue with this, if i get some free time.
The above are all my personal thoughts, after years of personaly seeing the master at work.
What a smeg head...!!
The enthusiasm over the years just ebbed away, ( was so sick of listerning to the broken record ).
Ive got to say TB always had my support, until going back a few years he screwed over a bunch of lads close to him, over a possible smallish deal.
As we the team were discussing behind the scenes wether to accept an offer which he was apart of, he decided he was going to have that deal for himself and proceded to do just that and took that deal for himself and his own branded teams. ( That didnt sit well with me personaly and a good few of the lads )
You would think the guys would have said, you know what FU thats lower than low ( obviously not ) , but they didnt.
I had questions in my mind about what he was all about months before that, but decided it would be better to ignore, as i had seen what he dose when he dosent get his own way, he had been giving several players a rough time, who did not deserve it, for example Dunc, Duncs Mrs, mick, Rob, Lee, and Pete thats for starters.
he treated them so bad, but the shiet list was growing bigger by the day so you didnt want to rock the boat.
All of his inner circle hated with a passion what he was doing by singling people out, we just kept quiet. The fact is most of the older players grit there teeth and just get on with it, the new guys just follow him like sheep for free stuff / tip bits and that all special pat on the head for a great job done. ( grooming ) thats the best / only description i can think of, ( grooming the impressionable ), thats pretty much what it boils down to, and if out of that grooming process youve got your own thoughts and ideas about how stuff should be done, then your not in favour and instantly orstrosised.
Ive got to say, reading back the accounts that Pete Russell ( paintball pete ) and Lee whickham posted are totaly true, it dosent matter what spin TB puts on them, those two guys i hold in high regard and i know for a fact there stories are water tight. TBs DEFENCE is just so full of inaccuracies and to be honest full of nonsense and non truths.
Another case of the guys who are closest to him, nodding yep TB is totaly telling the truth liking all those FB posts without knowing what the truth acctauly is.
When they read this, because they will all read it, most know exactly what im saying wether they want to hear it or not and that its all made up stories probley involving copious amounts of gin and paranoid thoughts, but they defend him they cant help it. The amount of people speaking out, cannot be ignored, its staggering.
So people here are making stories up, surely not.!!!
What really took the biscuit though is this.!
UKS as a resource for the scenario player was fantastic and the loyal members and mods like myself happily pointed players in the right direction with the dont buy shiet buy this brand of kit as it will suit your playing needs kinda advice.
This forum and its resources was killed off single handedly overnight virtualy by TB, taking everything to Face Book, as he had decided overnight that internet forums were dead, so he had total control and could ban who he wanted to keep people asking the hard questions he didnt like, i really dont care what people say about it, thats a fact, i had a very recent conversation with and old mod still a mate of TB and a good mate of mine, when this very conversation took place, his responce... was ( real life and FB killed it...) Im sorry no thats just not right at all, and he knows it the, but choses to ignore what happend.
Most if not all of this has been said before on here, and other places, a no BS account of some of the repugnant last few years in the sport.
The list could and probley should go on from my memory, ill probley continue with this, if i get some free time.
The above are all my personal thoughts, after years of personaly seeing the master at work.
What a smeg head...!!
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It is fair to say that TB has killed a good amount of enthusiasm for our past time.
The constant theatrics. The theatre. The "I am being singled out by the establishment as I dare to do things differently". The "everyone is conspiring against me". The discrediting of numerous players and situations. The playing off of one player (customer) against others.
There may well have been a day when events were sell out. Does anyone really believe that is the case now? Especially when you here "it is sold out" and then shortly before the event you hear "a team has had to drop out" or "flash sale of tickets".
Come on people, wake up and smell the coffee.
I see petty minded blinkered individuals who USED to hold my respect making petty school playground style comments. Grow a pair. Ask some real questions for a change - if you dare. Then you will see some true colours.
All these people who say "they have never seen anything to make them doubt various scenarios taking place", which by definition means peoples FIRST HAND ACCOUNTS of things being done to them must be a FIGMENT OF THEIR IMAGINATION. Ask yourself a question. Are you truly happy being a part, albeit a very small part, of all the lies, deceit and spin that the TB exudes? Is it all worth it?
I know what happened to me and some people close to me, Mick and Dave being just two of them. It all kicked off against me when I was on a family vacation away from technology and the internet. Tell me again it was a figment of my imagination!
It is just incredible that trouble keeps on following one particular person around - and still nothing gets done. I have seen and heard a lot of the going on, warning signs and signals - but you just know the avid followers and newbies wishing to make good impressions will troll the life out the information. And you hear the comments "more internet drama from the keyboard warriors sitting in their grotty bedsits...." blah blah blah blah blah.
Barnet - I truly do not know how you can sleep at night knowing how much damage you are leaving in your wake. I can only hazard a gues that the only sleep you find is after seeing the bottom of an empty gin bottle.
The constant theatrics. The theatre. The "I am being singled out by the establishment as I dare to do things differently". The "everyone is conspiring against me". The discrediting of numerous players and situations. The playing off of one player (customer) against others.
There may well have been a day when events were sell out. Does anyone really believe that is the case now? Especially when you here "it is sold out" and then shortly before the event you hear "a team has had to drop out" or "flash sale of tickets".
Come on people, wake up and smell the coffee.
I see petty minded blinkered individuals who USED to hold my respect making petty school playground style comments. Grow a pair. Ask some real questions for a change - if you dare. Then you will see some true colours.
All these people who say "they have never seen anything to make them doubt various scenarios taking place", which by definition means peoples FIRST HAND ACCOUNTS of things being done to them must be a FIGMENT OF THEIR IMAGINATION. Ask yourself a question. Are you truly happy being a part, albeit a very small part, of all the lies, deceit and spin that the TB exudes? Is it all worth it?
I know what happened to me and some people close to me, Mick and Dave being just two of them. It all kicked off against me when I was on a family vacation away from technology and the internet. Tell me again it was a figment of my imagination!
It is just incredible that trouble keeps on following one particular person around - and still nothing gets done. I have seen and heard a lot of the going on, warning signs and signals - but you just know the avid followers and newbies wishing to make good impressions will troll the life out the information. And you hear the comments "more internet drama from the keyboard warriors sitting in their grotty bedsits...." blah blah blah blah blah.
Barnet - I truly do not know how you can sleep at night knowing how much damage you are leaving in your wake. I can only hazard a gues that the only sleep you find is after seeing the bottom of an empty gin bottle.
Unfortunately i think he probably sleeps very well as people like him don't think their actions are wrong so have no Conscience to trouble
one thing that has got me throughout this are the people who's counter argument was to either a 'personal grudge' to whoever dared speak out or to say they were drama queens with nothing better to do, even with this whole thread to show why they had come to the conclusion that they did, while providing nothing constructive on the contrary.... Reminded me of this....
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