Gene Steinberg's Financial Shenanigans @ Paracast forums

Standingstones

Celestial
If your vehicle was a main source of work income, wouldn’t you try to maintain it?? Steinberg and his wife received a $2400 rebate check from the government. Didn’t he use that to fix his broken car? His whole explanation reeks of BS lies.

Also, why would anyone looking to do online gambling go to a website called “Tech Night Owl Live?” Steinberg’s so-called logic escapes me.
 

GiantsBain

Honorable
Changes are afoot.

After nearly two decades, I've sold the technightowl.com domain and site.

But it doesn't mean that I'm giving up writing about technology.

Or retiring for the matter. I continue to host and produce my paranormal radio show, The Paracast, and I"ll continue to focus on other businesses.

Including this forum.

Now other than getting an occasional offer or two over the years, I've long considered giving up on technightowl.com. For one thing, just telling support people my email address, with that domain, has been surprisingly difficult. After spelling it out, three simple words, over and over again, I often end up giving out my mac.com or Gmail addresses instead.

Going forward, I've moved the forum and nearly a decade of episodes of The Tech Night Owl LIVE to a new site -- macradio.net. There's a story about that too, since I first bought this domain in 2002 when I actually hosted a radio show at Mac Radio. The ".com" domain is out there, but the owner is doing nothing but hoping to sell it, and I'm not buying.

So I will continue the tech newsletter as "Gene Steinberg's Mac Radio Newsletter." Once emailed, issues will be posted in this forum. Shows will remain available for download from such sites as iTunes, Blubrry and Stitcher. Although I stopping making new episodes last year for the GCN network, there's always the possibility that I'll record a new episode from time to time.

I've lots to write about, such as the increasing rumors that Apple plans to move Macs to its own ARM design from Intel, that Apple is now a $1.5 trillion company. Well you get the picture.

In the meantime, I have always treasured your support. If you want to show your appreciation, fell free to send a donation to fund my ongoing work.

To send a donation, point your browser to:
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Peace,
Gene Steinberg
Host/Editor/Curator, Mac Radio
How did I miss this? Word: No way Steinberg has ever received "occasional" offers to buy his worthless site. I wonder if he thinks the rest of us are wrapped up in pipe dreams, get rich quick schemes and general hooey just like him.
 

Standingstones

Celestial
At one point many years ago, yahoos like Steinberg could write glowing reviews of Apple products. Those writers would get accommodations or freebies on Apple merchandise. Those days are long gone. Apple doesn’t need praise from Gene Steinberg.

I wonder why he feels it is necessary to have a reviews website. The same goes for the Paracast. Steinberg ran that website into the ground. He somehow thinks he can change the physical look of the website and people will come flocking back. He has conveniently forgotten that he banned many of the members for criticizing him.

As they say, he made his own bed and now he has to lie in it.
 

GiantsBain

Honorable
Steinberg, like many a geezer, live in the past. The heyday of websites with forums is long past. And how are you gonna get traction for active membership for one that has mostly posts from two nutter hosts and a small, ever changing menagerie of people who take three steps down the path before even they realize it's littered with poop. There are few tech review sites left. And that's because tech is no longer changing at a fast rate for consumers: Nobody really cares any more. New PCs and such are no longer driving the culture.

I'd imagine he is terrified of doing something potentially effective--establishing a serious social media initiative. The idea with those is that you're communicating with your audience on the real side. Meanwhile, Steinberg's real side ain't so very marketable. Plus, he's likely blocked hundreds or thousands from his existing accounts.
 

Standingstones

Celestial
Besides banning many of his long time members, he also hit up his guests for money handouts. I imagine that would make many of them wish to return to chat, right!! Any stupid thing he could do to dynamite his websites, that was what Steinberg did. Yet he loves to blame “trolls” for sabotaging his efforts.

Once you tumble down the mountain, it is hard to get back up to the top.
 

nivek

As Above So Below
There's a forum who's done something Gene Steinberg never thought of to grift monies from its members...The site owners limit the amount of conversations a member can write unless they pay a fee...Interesting enough, the forum has been dead anyway, with very little activity, so I don't understand the logic in implementing such a pay to post policy but putting that aside it's very pathetic to do such a thing...

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nivek

As Above So Below
I guess I also gave GS a new idea?...lol

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Standingstones

Celestial
I do recall Steinberg was trying to drum up revenue by coming up with Paracast Plus. The problem was this extra program was just chit chat between the hosts. There wasn’t anything new being offered. Steinberg and co-host used this to rag on the guest of the week. No need to hear that.

He had to drop the cost of joining the Plus in order to get anyone to join.
 

nivek

As Above So Below
Is this his 'pandemic special'...:Whistle:

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nivek

As Above So Below
I’d rather pay to watch the film that to give Steinberg a dime of my money.

So you get five years of subscription bills to save twenty bucks for the movie lol...In all fairness I guess if someone likes his podcasts and doesn't mind paying five years of fees then the movie would be a bonus...

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GiantsBain

Honorable
So you get five years of subscription bills to save twenty bucks for the movie lol...In all fairness I guess if someone likes his podcasts and doesn't mind paying five years of fees then the movie would be a bonus...

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I daresay the kind of person who would swallow that hook is someone for whom the flawed math and dubious expectations of actually getting the five years are the least of their problems. Also, imagine giving your credit card info to an outfit associated with Steinberg. Well, that's just icky.
 

The shadow

The shadow knows!
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A reminder he is still out there looking for an opportunity to make a buck without an honest days work..
 

The shadow

The shadow knows!
Gene and Randall go off the deep end.
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The shadow

The shadow knows!
Screenshot_20201216-215034.png We are called out by Gene. Note the my way or the highway attitude
And Constance was one of the best members they had left.
Truly shameful
 

August

Metanoia
So like this has all been going on for over 10 years ? I have seen some of it but have not been an ardent follower or admirer of Gene's antics nor of Silly Saucers Billy Meier , who Gene reminds me of for some bizarre reason. I think Gene is in real need of some professional psychological evaluation.
 

The shadow

The shadow knows!
This attitude drove almost every one away. An iron fist. One does not get banned or deleted just for disagreement. This is flat out wrong .
No wonder the place is a graveyard.
 
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