Gene Steinberg's Financial Shenanigans @ Paracast forums

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Standingstones

Celestial
It’s very difficult to listen to Don Ecker these days. He tends to blow up at every little thing. He loves to interject his name into whatever subject is being discussed. Perhaps worst of all, he is only interested in people and cases from the past. Anything recent and he couldn’t care less.

I wonder why he still appears on the Paracast. He has to know what Steinberg is all about. Ecker prides himself on being a detective in his past life, yet he buries his head in the sand when it comes to Steinberg’s antics. Go figure.
 
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The shadow

The shadow knows!
10:11AM
folks..we have 11 members online now.
paracast.. ZERO.
I kept track yesterday. we had tops 15
online.
low point was 6.
paracast went from zero to 3.
Gene was on for a bit And Randall.
As for Andres and his magic bullet what are they planing?
I know we may go to 2.0 but there are just so much bells and whistles you can add. For his efforts the forum looks the same as when I left.
I can only speculate what he will add. maybe the rocktiod woman...
 

GhostofBiedny

Celestial
Looks like Gene is back from the casino and needs more money for his next trip:

Mid-September Update!

Hi,

I’m still here.

I’m still struggling, but making progress. The new Paracast site is in the “staging” area and we’re giving it the final checks before it goes live.

The motel is paid through Friday, and I have until 11 AM that day to pay to extend our stay.

Otherwise we are out the door. It nearly got that way a couple of times at the other place.

Even though we technically don’t have a home, bills are due and have to be paid.

In the meantime, are you able to help me survive for a few more days?


I welcome your subscription to our premium packages for my two radio shows, The Paracast+ and The Tech Night Owl+.

Or, you can send me a donation, please go to: Send Money, Pay Online or Set Up a Merchant Account - PayPal, login and use the Send to friends and family option. Enter my email address, gene@technightowl.com, and click or tap Next to continue the transaction.

I can also accept donations through Facebook Messenger and Apple Pay Cash via the Messages app.

If you’re not able to send a donation, feel free to forward this message to someone who might assist.

If you have any questions about my living situation, please let me know.

To receive regular updates, please sign up here: https://www.theparacast.com/lists/mail.cgi/list/gene/

Peace,
Gene
 

GhostofBiedny

Celestial
As if that wasn't enough for one day here is the now obligatory second email to all the forum members (which is mostly the same people but Gene doesn't understand that or care):

Mid-September Update From Gene Steinberg
Dear GOB,

I realize some of you would rather not receive personal mailings from the forum. If that’s the case, feel free to ignore this message, or you may easily remove yourself from the mailing list. The instructions are at the bottom of this letter.

Again, I’d like to thank those of you who responded to my plea. I’m grateful for your support.

Barbara and I are still stuck in a motel — actually the second one — living day-by-day, while trying to save enough money for a new apartment.

I have to pay the motel by 11 AM Friday to continue to stay here.

I’d like to remind you, again, that despite everything, I have produced The Paracast and the After The Paracast podcast every single week without exception. We have a terrific show scheduled this week featuring paranormal investigator Bryan Bonner.

The new Paracast site is in “staging” mode as we make the final adjustments before it goes live.

Are you able to help me survive for a few more days?


I welcome your subscription to our premium packages for the two radio shows, The Paracast+ and The Tech Night Owl+.

Or, you can send me a donation, please go to: Send Money, Pay Online or Set Up a Merchant Account - PayPal, login and use the Send to friends and family option. Enter my email address, gene@technightowl.com, and click or tap Next to continue the transaction.

I can also accept donations through Facebook Messenger and Apple Pay Cash via the Messages app.

If you’re not able to send a donation, feel free to forward this message to someone who might assist.

If you have any questions about my living situation, please let me know.

To receive regular updates, please sign up here: Available Mailing Lists

Peace,
Gene Steinberg

P.S.: I don’t want to send messages to you if you don’t want to receive them. To stop receiving emails from The Paracast Community Forums, please change your "Receive site mailings" setting from here: http://www.theparacast.com/forum/account/contact-details
 

GhostofBiedny

Celestial
I realize some of you would rather not receive personal mailings from the forum. If that’s the case, feel free to ignore this message, or you may easily remove yourself from the mailing list. The instructions are at the bottom of this letter.

This is funny because a number of people including myself have tried getting ourselves removed from his lists. It seems to work for a little while but the next time Gene has a crisis the messages start again.

That is not an accident. Gene does not care if people want to receive these messages or not, he just puts that on the messages to give him a way to explain away why he is spamming people. If people complain he will just say it is an error or a bug and keep sending out the messages.

Further if he was honest and above board people should not have to opt out of lists that they didn't join in the first place. We signed up for the forum and newsletter, nowhere did we agree to receive continuous begging messages.

It is not up to us to opt out, if he had any ethics at all he would understand that.

He did have a "begging only" list (which I've noticed he no longer mentions) - I suspect nobody signed up for it, beyond people who were just curious to follow his shenanigans, so he went back to forcing everyone to put up with his begging.
 

nivek

As Above So Below
Steinberg says:

I’d like to remind you, again, that despite everything, I have produced The Paracast and the After The Paracast podcast every single week without exception.

Which shows me he doesn't need the money he begs for...

The flip side of that, its called priorities, if I was in my 70s and needed money and a home I certainly would not be putting out expenses and time for a podcast, I would be trying to stabilize my life, if and that's a big IF he is really destitute...

...
 

Standingstones

Celestial
Steinberg only knows one way to live his life. He’s never cared to hold down a real job. He can use his websites as a conduit to ask others to support him. It’s worked so well in the past. Only now, everyone is catching on to his scam and the money is not flowing in as in the past. He has to pull out every sob story statement in order to play at the casino.

“Hey! What’s wrong with you people? The economy is good these days. I am trying to save up for an apartment as well. Open up up those purses and wallets. I could stand to get a new toupee as well!”
 
So I flipped today and responded to the forum message because I've unsubscribed three times but still get his begging. I cussed at him, called him worthless, and told him he's an embarrassment to his entire family.

He wrote back and told me he had 3 jobs and that he was going to give my abusive email the the authorities. What. A. Joke.

I admit it was a bit harsh but honestly Uber/Lyft= 1 job and Podcasting= Hobby. He's such a waste of space and deserves all the misery that befalls him.
 

Standingstones

Celestial
By the way, just how much taxes has this yokel avoided paying over the past 15 years or so? I am betting it would amount to tens of thousands of dollars. I am sure the IRS would have a field day investigating Steinberg.
 
It’s very difficult to listen to Don Ecker these days. He tends to blow up at every little thing. He loves to interject his name into whatever subject is being discussed. Perhaps worst of all, he is only interested in people and cases from the past. Anything recent and he couldn’t care less.

I wonder why he still appears on the Paracast. He has to know what Steinberg is all about. Ecker prides himself on being a detective in his past life, yet he buries his head in the sand when it comes to Steinberg’s antics. Go figure.
Don is also a fanatical right winger who adores Donald Trump. Talk about a lack of discernment.
 

The shadow

The shadow knows!
"other bills due and must be paid "
on SGRG a poster asked this question.
I ask here.
What other bills?
 

goblin

Noble
"other bills due and must be paid "
on SGRG a poster asked this question.
I ask here.
What other bills?

My guess is: mobile phone bill(s), car insurance, possibly minimum payments on medical bills, maybe bills for streaming services (Netflix / Hulu / What have you - maybe not tho since they are in a motel now...), then possibly any charges for the Paracast / Tech Night Owl and their online presences. 'Payday loans' to repay maybe?

I agree he shouldn't really be paying for utilities since he is in a motel, unless he has some back log bill to work off but, frankly, hard to imagine him making any payments he doesn't absolutely have to.
 

goblin

Noble
Steinberg only knows one way to live his life. He’s never cared to hold down a real job. He can use his websites as a conduit to ask others to support him. It’s worked so well in the past. Only now, everyone is catching on to his scam and the money is not flowing in as in the past. He has to pull out every sob story statement in order to play at the casino.

“Hey! What’s wrong with you people? The economy is good these days. I am trying to save up for an apartment as well. Open up up those purses and wallets. I could stand to get a new toupee as well!”

This exactly - he has a bag of (mostly slimy) tricks and that's all he's willing to use.

He has bet it all on the Paracast and he can't be nudged off that position.

Reality will catch up with him someday; his survival strategies already have landed him in a motel for three months and counting.

I'm sure his circumstances could be worse but, it's past time he realizes what he is doing is not working.

Of course if you try to tell him this, you're public enemy #1. But he'll still ask you for donations.
 
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