“Typically, most entities which interface with the public do not provide callers and emailers the complete or accurate identities of their responders, neither do we, so please do not ask for the identity of any person you are communicating with. This is because GPS trackings of phone calls and ISP trackings of emails occur and pose high security risks to our personnel if they divulge exactly who they are and/or where they are or will be located on any day or time.”
“NOTE: John Williams never buys, sells, trades, gives away or distributes customer information about any of his good customers (i.e. "good customers" are Buyers who pay for Items in full within 30 days of sale, and who don't try to steal from, extort, scam, threaten or harass Williams or anyone else) (about 95% of all of Williams's Online auction site customers are good customers).”
(nothing said about the other 5%, haha)
“WHAT WE DO, ESPECIALLY RELEVANT TO MIND CONTROL, ELECTRONIC ATTACK AND ENERGY R&D, IS CONTROVERSIAL, SO WE MUST TAKE EXTRA STEPS TO PROTECT OURSELVES AND OUR CLIENTS.”
“Whether or not related to Consumertronics business, any visit to our facilities which is not with our clear, written, prior permission, or so permitted by us based on a fraudulent, erroneous or deceptive representation by the visitor, is an unauthorized visit which automatically results in a non-refundable Unauthorized Visitor Fee (UVF) for each visitor and for each visit for which the visitor assumes total personal liability for paying. The amounts of the UVFs are set by us based on our perception of the real and potential injury to us caused by the visitor and visit, as well as the amount of our time and inconvenience for the unauthorized visit. The UVF amounts may vary between $0 and $1,000,000+ per visitor per visit. UVF fees are independent and separate from all other fees, charges and costs the unauthorized visitor may be required to pay.”
Fascinatingly, the proprietor, John Williams, had a career in military electronics, and claims to have worked on some "black projects", including mind control [0,1]:
> NIMH, Lexington, KY. First official mind control and electronic attack research, design, development. Some Black Projects.
“The ULTIMO SHIELDED PET SANCTUARY: If you are a TI, any loving pet that you have may be suffering from the same electronic attack that is devastating your life. They, too, need robust shielding protection. Some animals are more sensitive than people - especially when it comes to ultrasonic attacks - so may suffer even more than you. Similar to our popular USHSH (see above), we now offer the USPS as the solution! It is shaped like a small dog house.”
Just sharing because the blast from the past site design (that probably hasn't changed much from whenever it was first made) and wingnutty tech rants and general ethos of the site seemed like they were somewhat congruous with the spirit of HN
There used to be a lot of sites like this, which I would call “paranoid” or “schizophrenic”, in the late 90s. Many had a conspiracist theme and were generally entertaining - but it was shocking how many folks took them and their ilk seriously. Especially those who authored books - like David Ike and William Cooper.
Wow, apparently he's not wrong about the original eBay site being about ebola? He's wrong about the weird conspiratorial/xenophobic stuff of course, but it seems like the original eBay site probably had similar energy to this one:
"The eccentric engineer was obsessed with t he public-health system's inability to cope with large-scale health crises, particularly ebola It was around the time of the movie "Outbreak," so the idea of a pandemic was in a lot of people's minds.
After purchasing the domain ebay.com he filled the site with pages of ebola-related content.
So "e" stood for 'ebola,' and 'Bay' for 'Bay Area.'"
Just be mindful of the "Unauthorized Visitor Fee" --
“Whether or not related to Consumertronics business, any visit to our facilities which is not with our clear, written, prior permission, or so permitted by us based on a fraudulent, erroneous or deceptive representation by the visitor, is an unauthorized visit which automatically results in a non-refundable Unauthorized Visitor Fee (UVF) for each visitor and for each visit for which the visitor assumes total personal liability for paying. The amounts of the UVFs are set by us based on our perception of the real and potential injury to us caused by the visitor and visit, as well as the amount of our time and inconvenience for the unauthorized visit. The UVF amounts may vary between $0 and $1,000,000+ per visitor per visit. UVF fees are independent and separate from all other fees, charges and costs the unauthorized visitor may be required to pay.”
Amusingly I take sites that look like this more seriously now, I assume it's a guy who really cares about electronics instead of a marketing guy dropshipping and spending his budget on a 17mb wordpress page and theme.
“Typically, most entities which interface with the public do not provide callers and emailers the complete or accurate identities of their responders, neither do we, so please do not ask for the identity of any person you are communicating with. This is because GPS trackings of phone calls and ISP trackings of emails occur and pose high security risks to our personnel if they divulge exactly who they are and/or where they are or will be located on any day or time.”
“NOTE: John Williams never buys, sells, trades, gives away or distributes customer information about any of his good customers (i.e. "good customers" are Buyers who pay for Items in full within 30 days of sale, and who don't try to steal from, extort, scam, threaten or harass Williams or anyone else) (about 95% of all of Williams's Online auction site customers are good customers).”
(nothing said about the other 5%, haha)
“WHAT WE DO, ESPECIALLY RELEVANT TO MIND CONTROL, ELECTRONIC ATTACK AND ENERGY R&D, IS CONTROVERSIAL, SO WE MUST TAKE EXTRA STEPS TO PROTECT OURSELVES AND OUR CLIENTS.”
“Whether or not related to Consumertronics business, any visit to our facilities which is not with our clear, written, prior permission, or so permitted by us based on a fraudulent, erroneous or deceptive representation by the visitor, is an unauthorized visit which automatically results in a non-refundable Unauthorized Visitor Fee (UVF) for each visitor and for each visit for which the visitor assumes total personal liability for paying. The amounts of the UVFs are set by us based on our perception of the real and potential injury to us caused by the visitor and visit, as well as the amount of our time and inconvenience for the unauthorized visit. The UVF amounts may vary between $0 and $1,000,000+ per visitor per visit. UVF fees are independent and separate from all other fees, charges and costs the unauthorized visitor may be required to pay.”