Tom
I am a FH squatter
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No, not from here. I got banned from a Living TV forum. Basically, a mate of mine worked on this series a couple of years back, the company were a right bunch of arses, and for the second series, they used an entirely different crew. Thats about 7 people who they fell out with, including one of the main presenters!
Anyway, this series has a big cult following, and my mate still has his branded fleece, which you can't buy. So, he puts it up on Ebay, with a £300 reserve. It meets the reserve within 24 hours, a bidder with a very good feedback profile. Great, he thinks, thats my Christmas shopping paid for. Lots of consternation on the forum, comments regarding authenticity, until I register and give him my backup.
1 day before the auction ends, a new user bids £10 above the price. Guess what? He doesn't pay. False phone number. Game over. Anyway, my mate looks at the email addresses for both high bidders, and notes that they have the same initials. Those initials coincide with the initials of one of the staff that works for the company who my mate pissed off while filming, and who didn't ask him back for that 2nd series.
So, it looks like a member of this company's staff bid for the item, with no intention of paying, and then to protect his account, someone from a different computer registers a new account, and bids falsely. Bugger.
Well, so what you might think. Who cares? Certainly not my mate, he couldnt give a stuff. We both had a laugh about it. Now this living tv forum is full of ghost nutters, who can't get enough of Most Haunted. They love it. They love Yvette Fielding (the blue peter presenter), the psychics, everything. Never mind the fact that my mate knows its all fake (and explained some of the tricks to me), they still fall for it hook line and sinker.
So, we start posting some 'veiled warnings' on there. Things like 'If only you guys knew what really happens', and 'perhaps we should tell you what happened in this episode to produce that effect'. Nothing too conspicuous, just hints really. A few threads get deleted. I email the mods, and find that the address is not working. The mods are ruthless on this forum BTW.
Great. Anyway, we continue, a bit of a discussion starts, and then WHAM! Both accounts suspended. All our posts deleted (don't show up even in the search). So, now we're thinking about some kind of petty revenge scheme. Something along the lines of registering www.yvettefieldingisanevilschemingbitch.tv and hosting some basic html page about what they're really like to work for, and the scams they use to trick the viewers (like the main psychic being caught on night vision camera rocking a cradle with his foot, and claiming it moved itself).
I also gave serious thought to registering a few new accounts from various places, and posting the odd message here and there about this kind of stuff. Anyway, I ramble on.
You know the best bit about all of this? My mate owns the copyright to all of the photographs from the first series, because he took them all, with his camera, and didn't get paid for that bit. Hes just noticed that the production company behind the series have constructed their website around those photos.
Oh dear. Oh deary me.![Wink ;) ;)](data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7)
/edit: here is the original auction
No, not from here. I got banned from a Living TV forum. Basically, a mate of mine worked on this series a couple of years back, the company were a right bunch of arses, and for the second series, they used an entirely different crew. Thats about 7 people who they fell out with, including one of the main presenters!
Anyway, this series has a big cult following, and my mate still has his branded fleece, which you can't buy. So, he puts it up on Ebay, with a £300 reserve. It meets the reserve within 24 hours, a bidder with a very good feedback profile. Great, he thinks, thats my Christmas shopping paid for. Lots of consternation on the forum, comments regarding authenticity, until I register and give him my backup.
1 day before the auction ends, a new user bids £10 above the price. Guess what? He doesn't pay. False phone number. Game over. Anyway, my mate looks at the email addresses for both high bidders, and notes that they have the same initials. Those initials coincide with the initials of one of the staff that works for the company who my mate pissed off while filming, and who didn't ask him back for that 2nd series.
So, it looks like a member of this company's staff bid for the item, with no intention of paying, and then to protect his account, someone from a different computer registers a new account, and bids falsely. Bugger.
Well, so what you might think. Who cares? Certainly not my mate, he couldnt give a stuff. We both had a laugh about it. Now this living tv forum is full of ghost nutters, who can't get enough of Most Haunted. They love it. They love Yvette Fielding (the blue peter presenter), the psychics, everything. Never mind the fact that my mate knows its all fake (and explained some of the tricks to me), they still fall for it hook line and sinker.
So, we start posting some 'veiled warnings' on there. Things like 'If only you guys knew what really happens', and 'perhaps we should tell you what happened in this episode to produce that effect'. Nothing too conspicuous, just hints really. A few threads get deleted. I email the mods, and find that the address is not working. The mods are ruthless on this forum BTW.
Great. Anyway, we continue, a bit of a discussion starts, and then WHAM! Both accounts suspended. All our posts deleted (don't show up even in the search). So, now we're thinking about some kind of petty revenge scheme. Something along the lines of registering www.yvettefieldingisanevilschemingbitch.tv and hosting some basic html page about what they're really like to work for, and the scams they use to trick the viewers (like the main psychic being caught on night vision camera rocking a cradle with his foot, and claiming it moved itself).
I also gave serious thought to registering a few new accounts from various places, and posting the odd message here and there about this kind of stuff. Anyway, I ramble on.
You know the best bit about all of this? My mate owns the copyright to all of the photographs from the first series, because he took them all, with his camera, and didn't get paid for that bit. Hes just noticed that the production company behind the series have constructed their website around those photos.
Oh dear. Oh deary me.
/edit: here is the original auction