Has anyone seen Sartre?

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OP, should we expect another thread in 2025 asking where Sartre went?
 
ConradFelix said:
I think you are being too harsh. He may have pulled an exit scam, but there were exactly 3 big players of AI-generated content at the time and I knew all 3 of them. Sartre was operating at the largest scale.
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no there were a lot more and sartre wasn't a pioneer. he was a friend of mine too and we shared a lot of data and were in a private group. i helped him out too and while he was scaling up his operation and did well, he was by no means anywhere near being the best in the field. he did a good job yes, but thats about it. even his system he created wasn't that special. i got it for free from him so i know.
i defended him all the time here as he was my friend, but by now i'm still not sure what happened if it really was an exit scam, or something happened to him, but i have friends from the private group we were in who investigated deeply (as he was sharing a lot of private details with us) and it seems he really tried to cover his tracks later on and just vanished, so it probably was an exit scam as he couldnt deliver what he promissed. was a nice guy at the time, but even though i thought he was a friend by now i also think he just lied a lot and went to hide. there were a few signs before that he is not as smart as he made it look like, but i ignored it at the time... reflecting i see it now that some of his claims were bs.
 
I have only made 3 transactions of amounts that, for my economy, I consider "high" (2-5k), and it has always been either by receiving payment in advance or by physically meeting the other person. Moreover, the last transaction I made, almost a year ago, even though I met the buyer in person and had known them for years, they scammed me for €3,500. They came to my city, made an initial cash payment of €1,500, and then, once everything was delivered, they disappeared and blocked me, leaving me owed €3,500. This person knows that if we ever cross paths again, they won't escape spending a good while in the hospital.

One of the things that holds me back from paying for JR.VIP and doing business on this forum is the number of reports in the disputes section, some of them for very respectable amounts.
 
Ignatius_Reilly said:
I have only made 3 transactions of amounts that, for my economy, I consider "high" (2-5k), and it has always been either by receiving payment in advance or by physically meeting the other person. Moreover, the last transaction I made, almost a year ago, even though I met the buyer in person and had known them for years, they scammed me for €3,500. They came to my city, made an initial cash payment of €1,500, and then, once everything was delivered, they disappeared and blocked me, leaving me owed €3,500. This person knows that if we ever cross paths again, they won't escape spending a good while in the hospital.

One of the things that holds me back from paying for JR.VIP and doing business on this forum is the number of reports in the disputes section, some of them for very respectable amounts.
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Just build your local brand here with jr vip and get marketing done by word of mouth instead of bst thread.

It's not forbidden to exchange telegram usernames etc.
 
Ignatius_Reilly said:
One of the things that holds me back from paying for JR.VIP and doing business on this forum is the number of reports in the disputes section, some of them for very respectable amounts.
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Of the thousands of transactions that take place via the forum on a daily basis, very few are brought up in the dispute resolution subforum.

You may want to consider that should you decide to move onto a paid membership to offer products or services to sell.
 
MrWhite2018 said:
At this point I honestly believe you're Sartre.
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It is a tad unusual that this subject matter was brought up, and I did some investigating despite not having anything close to @Zwielicht's skills, and have not seen anything tying the 2 together.

Still though, anyone that says that Satre was a good guy, knowing he scammed members here for thousands of dollars, could use a little tune up.
 
BassTrackerBoats said:
Of the thousands of transactions that take place via the forum on a daily basis, very few are brought up in the dispute resolution subforum.

You may want to consider that should you decide to move onto a paid membership to offer products or services to sell.
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Yes, that's correct. I take into account that the number of disputes is small in relation to the amount of transactions that take place daily. Additionally, I must say that the moderators give the impression that disputes are taken seriously. However, I believe that the resolution system is somewhat imprecise and should be fine-tuned a bit more, since the only tool moderators/admins have is to ban the infringer, but unfortunately, that does not cover the losses of the claimant.

Personally, something that would give me more confidence would be for sellers to be required to deposit a small bond in addition to the cost associated with jr.vip, to cover possible refunds/complaints.
This bond could be a fixed price or adjustable according to the prices of the services offered by the seller.
 
Ignatius_Reilly said:
Yes, that's correct. I take into account that the number of disputes is small in relation to the amount of transactions that take place daily. Additionally, I must say that the moderators give the impression that disputes are taken seriously. However, I believe that the resolution system is somewhat imprecise and should be fine-tuned a bit more, since the only tool moderators/admins have is to ban the infringer, but unfortunately, that does not cover the losses of the claimant.
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We most certainly take it seriously (I spend an unreasonable amount of time working them) but you do offer some solid positive criticism and thanks for that.

Personally, something that would give me more confidence would be for sellers to be required to deposit a small bond in addition to the cost associated with jr.vip, to cover possible refunds/complaints.
This bond could be a fixed price or adjustable according to the prices of the services offered by the seller.
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sxmb@rtoche said:
This is exactly what came to my mind. If he were such a good friend as he claims, there would be no need to start a thread on BHW, he should contact him directly. There are chat programs like Skype, Telegram, WhatsApp, etc. Unfortunately, if OP have no contact with him other than here, it likely means Sartre didn't consider him a friend.
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I had his contact on multiple chat programs, including Telegram and Discord, where we communicated daily.

He deleted his Telegram account, as well as all of his sites and his partner's sites. He essentially vanished.

I even know where he last lived and where he lived as a child. Even his Github account was closed!

All of that to say, I did consider him a good friend, but I don't know where he's been.
 
itz_styx said:
he is not as smart as he made it look like
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Well, he was smart enough to vanish successfully.

Also, I know of that private group, and he was always a thought leader there.

I respectfully think you are letting the passage of time sway your opinion.
itz_styx said:
he was scaling up his operation and did well, he was by no means anywhere near being the best in the field.
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If his operation wasn't very big, then he wouldn't have pulled an exit scam (if he did). He could have continued to make big bucks off of his reputation for years.

But he did essentially disappear, which means he either made enough money to retire (if so, good for him) or he will one day return.

By the way, Sartre is just an account he bought. He was a very, very, very long-time member of this forum across many accounts.
 
Bro, I just read literally all the comments lol, it's incredible.

If this guy is not such a sartre, then there are only two options left, either he ran out of money and came back bored, or with the last money he scam he hired a good lawyer.

Lol
 
Ignatius_Reilly said:
Yes, that's correct. I take into account that the number of disputes is small in relation to the amount of transactions that take place daily. Additionally, I must say that the moderators give the impression that disputes are taken seriously. However, I believe that the resolution system is somewhat imprecise and should be fine-tuned a bit more, since the only tool moderators/admins have is to ban the infringer, but unfortunately, that does not cover the losses of the claimant.

Personally, something that would give me more confidence would be for sellers to be required to deposit a small bond in addition to the cost associated with jr.vip, to cover possible refunds/complaints.
This bond could be a fixed price or adjustable according to the prices of the services offered by the seller.
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I agree, sellers should be required to deposit some type of "guarantee fee" to deter scammers. The amount of fee paid is then shown under the username of the seller, showing his credence to everyone thinking of buying his product. I have seen this implemented in another forum and it works very well.
 
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