About five and a half months ago, I was invited to join Shep's social group. I ended up attending two socials and got to know many cool hobbyists and providers associated with the group. After being in the group for about two months, LolaBrea01 was invited to join. I was happy with this, because I had seen her BCD and thought she was a really fun person who would fit in perfectly in the group. I'm speculating here, but I don't think Shep was too keen initially on the idea of bringing Lola into the group. But ultimately, he acquiesced after several of his hobby/provider friends pushed for her to be added. After joining the group, Lola attended a social and met Shep for the first time. They seemed to get along just fine.
At this particular social, an incident happened involving myself, a couple of hobbyists and a couple of providers. The circumstances of the incident were relatively minor, but the result of it was that I got kicked out of the group. The details of what happened are not germane to this discussion, but needless to say, if you knew what happened, you would laugh out loud that such a stupid thing could cause such drama. Anyway, in the days after, the powers that be apparently realized that the situation had been overreacted to and my expulsion from the group turned into a thirty day suspension.
Originally Posted by SirRonMexico
Ron, I think you are an honest guy. Anyone who thinks that the two no reviews on Lola are real ought to have their head examined. Lola's response was inappropriate and immature, but at least it was genuine. Shep's smear campaign is the kind of deception championed in that God awful book , "the game."
I first became aware of "the group" when Lola and another provider voiced their unhappiness with Shep.
People have shown me with these threads that they are so fucking delusional that they don't realize that the hobby is illegal. When you have a group engaged in promoting an illegal activity, you should deny that it exists. The first rule of fight club is that you don't talk about fight club.
Anyone looking to crush hobbyists and providers for political and financial gain now has a road map of whom to hit. You'd have to be a fool not to know who is in "the group" now. A 30 day suspension proves that this is an organized group with rules. Why not just invite divorce lawyers, the police, the IRS, and new mayors looking to clean up the city to come do you all up the ass?
So Lola Brea is a threat to the community? No, she was a threat to Shep, and Shep is so full of himself he thinks what is bad for him is bad for the community.
Anybody on the sidelines with a brain watching this debacle knows now that Shep's group does reviews in a certain format. IMO that means five yes reviews from Shep's posse counts at most as one in my mind.
Thing about the first hit piece on Lola was that it was too good. That poster had one other post, and he writes a perfect hit piece? The person who wrote that was no amateur. He was a seasoned pro who knows exactly what his fellow hobbyists like and don't, a skilled promoter which is just what Shep is.
Just the other day, I saw a dancer as a sugar baby prospect. I am $40 short of what I agreed to pay her. I told her that I would pay her next time, and she freaked. So I said fine, I will keep my word and we went to the ATM, and I paid her the money. I told her that any woman so distrustful of me that thinks I wouldn't repay them $40 is not someone I want as a SB. SBs who have been with me for 3 or 4 years have gotten 10s of thousands of dollars off me, and this girl pissed that chance away over $40. This is the ultimate in stupidity to me: when people take short term actions that fuck themselves over in the long term.
And Shep has been just as dumb lately as that girl. By lining people up to take his side or Lola's, by bringing attention to the group, and by showing people like myself on the sidelines that his group's reviews are more promotional than informative, the guy has shot himself and his group in the foot. You guys don't need to defend yourselves anymore. And you don't need to try to hurt Shep's reputation. He has already done that job for you.