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With recent debacles, Dan's reached new levels of douchebaggery. How much of a douche is he?

He's a good guy, but...
- 17 (23%)
Amuse-douche http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Amuse-douche
- 11 (14.9%)
Moderately douchey
- 22 (29.7%)
Supremely douchey
- 9 (12.2%)
King Jude... err King Douche
- 15 (20.3%)

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MrSpeakers/Dan douchebaggery poll
« on: August 18, 2015, 05:53:00 PM »

Poll time  :boom:
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Re: MrSpeakers/Dan douchebaggery poll
« Reply #1 on: August 18, 2015, 06:41:49 PM »

Can someone write up what he did? For the sake of the poll?
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Re: MrSpeakers/Dan douchebaggery poll
« Reply #2 on: August 18, 2015, 06:48:43 PM »

Wow, we're back in 7th grade, huh?

How many of you guys have spent time with the guy?

Face to face, sit down over a beer and talk?

He's a nice guy and very helpful/supportive in my experience. 
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Re: MrSpeakers/Dan douchebaggery poll
« Reply #3 on: August 18, 2015, 06:56:30 PM »

To be fair, I don't think it was really Dan's fault, but rather one of his employees who posted them. And yes, it was a stupid thing to do, but he apparently didn't do it intentionally to steal their thunder and was quite apologetic and shameful about the mishap.

Unless there has been other recent incidents of actual douchebaggery committed by Dan that I'm not aware of?
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Re: MrSpeakers/Dan douchebaggery poll
« Reply #4 on: August 18, 2015, 07:00:48 PM »

Wow, we're back in 7th grade, huh?

Well, Ravi did start the thread so....;)

How many of you guys have spent time with the guy?

Face to face, sit down over a beer and talk?

Just curious though. How many people have done those things with someone only to be screwed over, taken advantage of or punked by that same person? Just thought I'd put that out in a very generic way.
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Re: MrSpeakers/Dan douchebaggery poll
« Reply #5 on: August 18, 2015, 07:03:32 PM »

You should ask some other guys in the business how Dan has treated them or what he may have said to/about them. :)  (Good, neutral, or negative...not trying to imply one way or the other.)

From a customer standpoint, though, very nice guy and helpful. I have only had positive experiences with him myself in that regard. He was nice to me over the phone as well for an issue I had with my Alpha Dog.
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Re: MrSpeakers/Dan douchebaggery poll
« Reply #6 on: August 18, 2015, 07:05:06 PM »

Can someone write up what he did? For the sake of the poll?

In summary, blowing schiit's product announcement and co-opting the schiit show with his own new product release, as discussed here: http://www.changstar.com/index.php/topic,2703.msg77876.html#msg77876
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Re: MrSpeakers/Dan douchebaggery poll
« Reply #7 on: August 18, 2015, 07:07:08 PM »

hello,

then there's this:

http://www.changstar.com/index.php/topic,2105.0.html

and i remember a shoutbox post that indicated Dan refused to provide a "corrected" pair of AD's for this tour.

i have no respect for his business practices and his lack of transparency.
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Re: MrSpeakers/Dan douchebaggery poll
« Reply #8 on: August 18, 2015, 07:19:45 PM »

I've met him a few times and he always seemed like a perfectly nice guy.
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Re: MrSpeakers/Dan douchebaggery poll
« Reply #9 on: August 18, 2015, 07:25:54 PM »

I've met him a few times and he always seemed like a perfectly nice guy.

I've met him a few times too and it ranged from him being sugary sweet to him whining about how he should have won a contest to guess the frequency of a singing bowl. I've also seem him act like an awkward dick to Luis.

I am not judging him on his words, I'm judging him on his actions. Between the bullshit he pulled with measurements and Marv, the weird shit with Luis, and Jude is calling up people on this board and directly telling them that Dan asked to have me banned from his thread when I brought up my own Alpha Prime and it's less than stellar measurements, I'm going to go ahead and judge him as a whiney douche.
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