MMTT drama: can someone fill me in?

nicole0719 · August 2011

I missed all the fun since I live in EST. Please fill me in Smile

bethandjoe09 · August 2011

Based on what I read on the FB page (I wasn't around for the fun), it looks like MMTT had an auction for a semi-custom diaper. Someone with the same name as is listed on her Flickr account bid the price up. People started asking questions on her FB page. Questions disappeared - this was blamed on "a FB glitch" (and it was a "weird coincidence" that her Flickr name was bidding on her auction). Questions escalated, screencaps were taken (there are some linked on the FB page), and ultimately her HC store and FB page both were taken down.

Someone who was actually there - please feel free to correct anything I misstated and/or add more detail! (Especially the add more detail part.)

Mrs.B6302007 · August 2011

Oh wow! Wasn't there some other recent drama with MMTT? Was it not fulfilling custom orders so she could go to the police academy or something?

LadyExtravaganza · August 2011

Whoa! That's big drama!

pixy_stix · August 2011

There was something with the email addresses matching. She'd entered a blog contest and gave the email address that was associated with the name that was bidding up the diaper. (That part wasn't screen-capped.)

I'd like one of the ladies that outed her to come here and fill us in.

josie12367 · August 2011

Wow....talk about not being ethical....holy crap....that's no way to run a business, I'm glad it's shut down then

bethandjoe09 · August 2011

pixy_stix:
There was something with the email addresses matching. She'd entered a blog contest and gave the email address that was associated with the name that was bidding up the diaper. (That part wasn't screen-capped.)
I'd like one of the ladies that outed her to come here and fill us in.

You mean, Taina's "Other Tribe"?

Every time that comes up I feel like we should have team colors, or a gang sign, or something.

Nikki1007 · August 2011

Shady shady shady

and I love that there are "Others" which reminds me I need to finish the last season of Lost.

ruthymusney · August 2011

Nikki1007:
Shady shady shady
and I love that there are "Others" which reminds me I need to finish the last season of Lost.

Don't bother, it's crap. I watched all seasons in amazement only to be completely disappointed in the end.

jteneback · August 2011

Damn...I know hew business practices have been questioned before but bidding up your own auction...wow! That's a whole 'nother level. I like the dipe I have from her (Kenny the Giraffe/Giraffe Menagerie) but if she opens her store back up I won't be there.

ejgballerina · August 2011

Holy crap! I missed all of this! I can't say I'm surprised at any of it, though.

josie12367 · August 2011

Did she just make herself a dual snap presser??? That sucks....lol.....

dcnm · August 2011

WOW that does not sound good. Of course all of this goes down the one night I decide to go to bed early...

veruca5839 · August 2011

Crazy!

jonesn111 · August 2011

Wow. I don't like the fact that her FB page is down considering she has a fabric I've been holding onto for awhile to have a custom made for my DH. Now I can't check on it? Kinda makes me on edge :-/

jteneback · August 2011

josie12367:
Did she just make herself a dual snap presser??? That sucks....lol.....

Lol!

maysawhite · August 2011

If you guys want all the evidence It is within this photobucket account.

https://s1129.photobucket.com/home/mayyoue/index

https://s1129.photobucket.c?om/albums/m501/mayyoue/?ac?tion=view&current=mamatutu?search3.jpg&newest=1

https://s1129.photobucket.c?om/albums/m501/mayyoue/?ac?tion=view&current=mamatutu?liar.jpg&newest=1

https://s1129.photobucket.com/albums/m501/mayyoue/?action=view&current=mamatutu3.jpg&newest=1

Here is the proof that that actual user making those posts are her

https://s1129.photobucket.c?om/albums/m501/mayyoue/?ac?tion=view&current=mamatutu?2.jpg&newest=1

Actual links to all of those screen shots. hit ctrl + F and search for tanya:

https://iheartfluff.blogspo?t.com/2010/09/closed-husba?nd-project-giveaway.html

https://clothchronicles.blo?gspot.com/2010/09/husband-?project-giveaway.html

https://katydibs.blogspot.c?om/2010/09/ruby-moon-natur?al-laundry-wash-giveaway.h?tml

And the blogger profile and blog belonging to her talking about their total money makeover:

https://www.blogger.com/pro?file/14377988984562964696

pixy_stix · August 2011

Maysa - so what tipped it off? (and thanks! We only caught the middle/tail end of everything)

maysawhite · August 2011

She initially tried to claim that tgone80 wasn't her. Then when confronted with a link to a blogpost in which she comments on it to enter a contest and says that her email address is tgone80@gmail.com (not to mention, her photobucket account from where she links all her pictures uses the handle tgone80) she panicked, deleted every single comment on the mamatutu facebook page, then goes and deactivates the mamatutu facebook page and her personal facebook account. She also goes and deactivates her hyenacart (although not before actually deleting all the auctions in question). She reactivates her personal facebook page an hour or so later and has removed anyone who is mutual friends with the original accusers.

a.bartholomew · August 2011

maysawhite:
If you guys want all the evidence It is within this photobucket account.

https://s1129.photobucket.com/home/mayyoue/index

https://s1129.photobucket.c?om/albums/m501/mayyoue/?ac?tion=view&current=mamatutu?search3.jpg&newest=1

https://s1129.photobucket.c?om/albums/m501/mayyoue/?ac?tion=view&current=mamatutu?liar.jpg&newest=1

https://s1129.photobucket.com/albums/m501/mayyoue/?action=view&current=mamatutu3.jpg&newest=1

Here is the proof that that actual user making those posts are her

https://s1129.photobucket.c?om/albums/m501/mayyoue/?ac?tion=view&current=mamatutu?2.jpg&newest=1

Actual links to all of those screen shots. hit ctrl + F and search for tanya:

https://iheartfluff.blogspo?t.com/2010/09/closed-husba?nd-project-giveaway.html

https://clothchronicles.blo?gspot.com/2010/09/husband-?project-giveaway.html

https://katydibs.blogspot.c?om/2010/09/ruby-moon-natur?al-laundry-wash-giveaway.h?tml

And the blogger profile and blog belonging to her talking about their total money makeover:

https://www.blogger.com/pro?file/14377988984562964696

Shiit-now I am not going to get ANYTHING done. Thanks though! Wheeeee!

laxchick60 · August 2011

maysawhite:
She initially tried to claim that tgone80 wasn't her. Then when confronted with a link to a blogpost in which she comments on it to enter a contest and says that her email address is tgone80@gmail.com (not to mention, her photobucket account from where she links all her pictures uses the handle tgone80) she panicked, deleted every single comment on the mamatutu facebook page, then goes and deactivates the mamatutu facebook page and her personal facebook account. She also goes and deactivates her hyenacart (although not before actually deleting all the auctions in question). She reactivates her personal facebook page an hour or so later and has removed anyone who is mutual friends with the original accusers.

She's (MMTT) not shady or anything, geeze....

pixy_stix · August 2011

maysawhite:
She reactivates her personal facebook page an hour or so later and has removed anyone who is mutual friends with the original accusers.

No, she didn't delete them. It's a facebook glitch.

:oD

hairpasta · August 2011

please god let her never become a cop.

esipp000 · August 2011

pixy_stix:
maysawhite:
She reactivates her personal facebook page an hour or so later and has removed anyone who is mutual friends with the original accusers.
No, she didn't delete them. It's a facebook glitch.

:oD

lol

So is she going to close shop or just pretend this never happened?

yodasmistress · August 2011

I am starting to secretly love the Others. Yes

LadyExtravaganza · August 2011

pixy_stix:
maysawhite:
She reactivates her personal facebook page an hour or so later and has removed anyone who is mutual friends with the original accusers.
No, she didn't delete them. It's a facebook glitch.

:oD

maysawhite · August 2011

Those of us that did a couple co-ops with her are in a cloth diapering group on facebook. One of the people in the group posted a link to the auctions and said "umm isn't tgone80 her own account? I could have sworn she emailed me from tgone80 at some point". So I googled tgone80 and found all the evidence that the username was one she commonly used, and in fact all of the search results are somehow linked to her so it doesn't appear that anyone else uses (its uncommon, unlike the mamatutu username which multiple other people have used). Then we all noticed that tgone80 had bid up every single auction currently running.

Not only is auction shilling illegal, but it is also strictly against hyenacart's terms of service. One could also consider it to be immoral and fraudulent. Not only that but its not like she was bidding these auctions up so they'd sell for at least what her other diapers normally sell at. She continued to bid them up to amounts that would be considered price gouging (in fact, she herself has repeatedly bashed goodmama for selling diapers at less than the amount the auctions were at).

a.bartholomew · August 2011

maysawhite:
Those of us that did a couple co-ops with her are in a cloth diapering group on facebook. One of the people in the group posted a link to the auctions and said "umm isn't tgone80 her own account? I could have sworn she emailed me from tgone80 at some point". So I googled tgone80 and found all the evidence that the username was one she commonly used, and in fact all of the search results are somehow linked to her so it doesn't appear that anyone else uses (its uncommon, unlike the mamatutu username which multiple other people have used). Then we all noticed that tgone80 had bid up every single auction currently running.

Not only is auction shilling illegal, but it is also strictly against hyenacart's terms of service. One could also consider it to be immoral and fraudulent. Not only that but its not like she was bidding these auctions up so they'd sell for at least what her other diapers normally sell at. She continued to bid them up to amounts that would be considered price gouging (in fact, she herself has repeatedly bashed goodmama for selling diapers at less than the amount the auctions were at).

Wow, I can not imagine she will recover from this

ananas19 · August 2011

maysawhite:
in fact, she herself has repeatedly bashed goodmama for selling diapers at less than the amount the auctions were

Yes, this happens to be considered suuuper crappy business practice in my book. Thanks for posting the details, it's nice to know there's some good people to expose bad situations to fellow CDers. Now we'll have to figure out all her aliases to avoid her!

pixy_stix · August 2011

a.bartholomew:
Wow, I can not imagine she will recover from this

She managed to recover from the coop scandal. If she has enough of a core group willing to buy her diapers (or back her up) then she could come back from anything. All she needs to do is wait a while since the cd community moves so fast.

MyBdayPresent · August 2011

hairpasta:
please god let her never become a cop.

Everytime MMTT drama comes up, this is EXACTLY what runs through my head.

amberry · August 2011

pixy_stix:
a.bartholomew:

Wow, I can not imagine she will recover from this

She managed to recover from the coop scandal. If she has enough of a core group willing to buy her diapers (or back her up) then she could come back from anything. All she needs to do is wait a while since the cd community moves so fast.

Pixy, I kinda disagree. I don't think she truly did recover from the coop scandal. Things have started to sit in her store for awhile. Custom slots didn't, but a lot of other things did. I know it was never as hard to score a MMTT as it is a DD, TT, etc, but her things used to go much faster.

pixy_stix · August 2011

MyBdayPresent:
hairpasta:
please god let her never become a cop.
Everytime MMTT drama comes up, this is EXACTLY what runs through my head.

So I asked the other day, but whatever happened with this?

pixy_stix · August 2011

amberry:
pixy_stix:
a.bartholomew:

Wow, I can not imagine she will recover from this

She managed to recover from the coop scandal. If she has enough of a core group willing to buy her diapers (or back her up) then she could come back from anything. All she needs to do is wait a while since the cd community moves so fast.

Pixy, I kinda disagree. I don't think she truly did recover from the coop scandal. Things have started to sit in her store for awhile. Custom slots didn't, but a lot of other things did. I know it was never as hard to score a MMTT as it is a DD, TT, etc, but her things used to go much faster.

True, but there was an uptick on the board recently, asking about her diapers so I think she was starting to recover.

ColieJ · August 2011

Wow

a.bartholomew · August 2011

The co-op was pretty harmless though-I think she weasled her way out of it by claiming she didn't know, etc. she never said, etc. right? I don't know because I wasn't in it. This, however; is blatant unethical business practices and it seems like it is probably even bigger for the other tribe. Honestly? I was all anti-MMTT until I saw some of the co-op ladies from here buying from her so I figured I could go buy (just my own moral dilema, now because of what others would think). I definitely wouldn't buy after this and I would be disappointed to see others buy.

jenny1980 · August 2011

Maysa: did you guys report any/all of this to HC?

Copernicus08 · August 2011

yodasmistress:
I am starting to secretly love the Others.

Yes Yes

maysawhite · August 2011

Our co-op was ready to drop the co-op, even after she had been paid, because she outright lied to us. But then we tried to give her the benefit of the doubt. A few of us believed that maybe deep down she was a good person, but she had gotten in over her head and didn't know how to tell people no because she wanted to make everyone happy. We even agreed to let her complete the co-op from here first (even though ours was scheduled long before yours and was supposed to have been done in May, and at this point we were already in June). Once again it took her longer than what she originally quoted. She did offer to drop ship diapers as they were made since she was taking so long and we took her up on that. Then I finally received my diapers and the quality was subpar. My daughter is pretty small for a 13 month old, but these diapers are absolutely ginormous. I was really disappointed in the pattern change (or lack of pattern used because even between both of my diapers the size difference is quite noticeable). But I wasn't going to publicly call her out on it. I just decided that I personally wouldn't be purchasing from her anymore due to the inconsistencies in her quality and her inability to stay organized. But bidding up her own auctions? That's just low. I can't stay quiet about someone who resorts to such sleezy business practices. It also makes me feel like we shouldn't have given her the benefit of the doubt in the past because I'm not so sure she's an innocent and harmless and we wanted to believe.

bethandjoe09 · August 2011

yodasmistress:
I am starting to secretly love the Others.

Yes Yes Yes

Also, I agree with Hairpasta. Anyone who thinks they should be able to get away with illegal/unethical things like this should NOT be given that kind of authority.

maysawhite · August 2011

Yes, a couple of us reported it to hyenacart and have open tickets.

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