We can't help feeling a tiny bit sorry for Michael Tonello and Donna Lehtonen.
How sad must it be to see the world as they do.
That it's full of dishonest people. That everyone lies and scams and cheats. That no one can be trusted. That they are the only ones who have some special truth.
It's a lonely, paranoid, awfully constrained outlook to have. If they didn't project these qualities onto innocent people, we might even feel sorry for them. Almost.
Wednesday, June 29, 2011
Saturday, June 25, 2011
Lies, lies, damned lies
Michael Tonello, stating the obvious that he is two, continues to present a hilarious bunch of contradictions, as does his sidekick Donna Lehtonen.
To recap ... he is not an advocate for anything other than promoting himself. His objective is not, as he says, to save people from losing money or buying fakes (because if they've bought what he's selling, they've bought the biggest fake of all). His objective, which he has yet to admit to, is to harass and stalk people, to intimidate them into not posting on several forums where he has set up his bully pulpits, and to strike back at a PURSE forum where he was banned. That's it, folks. That's always been the only motivation behind his blog. If he tells you anything else, he's lying, plain and simple. Substitute Donna's name for Michael anywhere in the above paragraph, because she's equally guilty.
And they're quite comical about turning the truth when it suits them. Couldn't help noticing that Donna, the shrillest of the shrill when it comes to stating that nothing can be authenticated from photos, is now the star authenticator over at EffenHaute.
And we'd sure like to know if Michael Tonello was reporting all that income from his purse reselling days. Didn't he write in his book that the reason he got into reselling was because he didn't have the papers to work legally in Spain? Hmmmm. It does make one wonder. And didn't Donna have bags shipped from her Florida store outside the state to retrieve them elsewhere .... gee, wonder why she would have done that? Another case of pot, kettle, you've got to be kidding us.
Michael Tonello takes great delight in making things up and then not realizing he is describing .... well, himself. He's the one who's been booted from Ebay and various forums, he's the one who sold dubious mechandise to people, he's the one who stalks and harasses people on his blog. With his trusty sidekick Donna Lehtonen, of course, no slouch in the bullying department herself.
Hey Michael and Donna ... if you're so concerned about "exposing" scams and liars, a) take a look in the mirror and b) maybe put your time to some actual good use. Volunteer. Help someone. Maybe make a positive difference in the world instead of spewing the crap you do.
Years of that is nothing to be proud of. But hey, it's no surprise that you two are.
To recap ... he is not an advocate for anything other than promoting himself. His objective is not, as he says, to save people from losing money or buying fakes (because if they've bought what he's selling, they've bought the biggest fake of all). His objective, which he has yet to admit to, is to harass and stalk people, to intimidate them into not posting on several forums where he has set up his bully pulpits, and to strike back at a PURSE forum where he was banned. That's it, folks. That's always been the only motivation behind his blog. If he tells you anything else, he's lying, plain and simple. Substitute Donna's name for Michael anywhere in the above paragraph, because she's equally guilty.
And they're quite comical about turning the truth when it suits them. Couldn't help noticing that Donna, the shrillest of the shrill when it comes to stating that nothing can be authenticated from photos, is now the star authenticator over at EffenHaute.
And we'd sure like to know if Michael Tonello was reporting all that income from his purse reselling days. Didn't he write in his book that the reason he got into reselling was because he didn't have the papers to work legally in Spain? Hmmmm. It does make one wonder. And didn't Donna have bags shipped from her Florida store outside the state to retrieve them elsewhere .... gee, wonder why she would have done that? Another case of pot, kettle, you've got to be kidding us.
Michael Tonello takes great delight in making things up and then not realizing he is describing .... well, himself. He's the one who's been booted from Ebay and various forums, he's the one who sold dubious mechandise to people, he's the one who stalks and harasses people on his blog. With his trusty sidekick Donna Lehtonen, of course, no slouch in the bullying department herself.
Hey Michael and Donna ... if you're so concerned about "exposing" scams and liars, a) take a look in the mirror and b) maybe put your time to some actual good use. Volunteer. Help someone. Maybe make a positive difference in the world instead of spewing the crap you do.
Years of that is nothing to be proud of. But hey, it's no surprise that you two are.
Wednesday, June 22, 2011
Do you...
Let's play a game.
You break the rules on a forum or an auction web site and you are banned.
Do you ... take your business/comments to another venue?
Or do you ... target every poster/person you feel wronged you for years, stalking their threads, their responses, their home addresses, their online footprint, and then publish derogatory comments about them?
You lie about being behind a blog created to essentially harass people (see above) and deny, deny, deny being the person responsible and deny, deny, deny your motives (yes, see above ... notice a pattern here)?
Do you ... blythely ignore your previous denials because you figure your readership is too stupid to notice?
Or do you do the adult, dare we say grown up thing, and move on. Find something productive to do with your time. Perhaps actually contribute something positive to the world.
But no. There are little scarf booklets to be sold (a guy's gotta pay rent and buy those used Thom Browne suits SOMEHOW, after all) and people must pay.
We continue to be amazed (though we really shouldn't be) that PFA still goes on (and on and on and on) about long buried threads, and petty grievances about bags. Why, PFAs owner is spending more time on PF than anyone else, it seems. A curious case of obsession with something he can't stop howling is sooooo awful.
Do you think it's quite right?
No, neither do we.
You break the rules on a forum or an auction web site and you are banned.
Do you ... take your business/comments to another venue?
Or do you ... target every poster/person you feel wronged you for years, stalking their threads, their responses, their home addresses, their online footprint, and then publish derogatory comments about them?
You lie about being behind a blog created to essentially harass people (see above) and deny, deny, deny being the person responsible and deny, deny, deny your motives (yes, see above ... notice a pattern here)?
Do you ... blythely ignore your previous denials because you figure your readership is too stupid to notice?
Or do you do the adult, dare we say grown up thing, and move on. Find something productive to do with your time. Perhaps actually contribute something positive to the world.
But no. There are little scarf booklets to be sold (a guy's gotta pay rent and buy those used Thom Browne suits SOMEHOW, after all) and people must pay.
We continue to be amazed (though we really shouldn't be) that PFA still goes on (and on and on and on) about long buried threads, and petty grievances about bags. Why, PFAs owner is spending more time on PF than anyone else, it seems. A curious case of obsession with something he can't stop howling is sooooo awful.
Do you think it's quite right?
No, neither do we.
Saturday, June 18, 2011
The Wizard of Nothing
Mr. Tonello denied being the owner of PFA for the longest time. He posted as Michael J. Tonello threatening to sue the "owner" of PFA, if you'll recall.
He blustered and was most indignant. He kept saying it wasn't important who was behind PFA. Well, before he revealed himself as the owner, that is.
Remember the end of The Wizard of Oz? When the seemingly powerful wizard was revealed as a little man with big pretensions? Sounds awfully familiar.
Now that we know who is behind PFA, he's been revealed as yet another little man who sustained his position with tricks and lies. And you know the saying, lie big, lie little.
If he had no problem lying for years about being behind PFA, what else is he lying about?
He blustered and was most indignant. He kept saying it wasn't important who was behind PFA. Well, before he revealed himself as the owner, that is.
Remember the end of The Wizard of Oz? When the seemingly powerful wizard was revealed as a little man with big pretensions? Sounds awfully familiar.
Now that we know who is behind PFA, he's been revealed as yet another little man who sustained his position with tricks and lies. And you know the saying, lie big, lie little.
If he had no problem lying for years about being behind PFA, what else is he lying about?
Wednesday, June 15, 2011
Guess who spends more time on PF than anyone else?
We're feeling generous - the first two guesses don't count.
If you said Michael Tonello and Donna Lehtonen, you win! For two people who have nothing but disparaging things to say, they sure do spend a lot of time there. Rummaging through old threads. Being nasty about people (strangers, we would like to reiterate yet again). Busy, busy, busy. On PF and then rummaging around for rubbish photos and creating rubbish posts on their blog.
We think it's kind of funny. They keep saying they hate PF. It's an awful place, they say, over and over. They hate the people there. And yet ... they can't stay away. Adding to the hit count for the owners, and adding to the ad dollars, too. Nice work, Donna and Michael!
Is it that you haven't yet convinced yourselves that you don't like the site and its denizens? Do you need to sneak back every day under multiple IDs (also increasing the membership, we might add, and we know that bigger member numbers mean bigger ad dollars, so keep those fake memberships going, all of you bitter banned PFers!) just to convince yourselves how awful it is?
Imagine the scenario this way: You eat at a restaurant that makes you ill, or whose food you don't like. But you go back every day, for multiple meals - just to make really sure the food is as bad as you thought on first taste.
A bit dim, aren't you, Michael and Donna? Unless, of course, you really, really do like PF and just can't stay away.
If you said Michael Tonello and Donna Lehtonen, you win! For two people who have nothing but disparaging things to say, they sure do spend a lot of time there. Rummaging through old threads. Being nasty about people (strangers, we would like to reiterate yet again). Busy, busy, busy. On PF and then rummaging around for rubbish photos and creating rubbish posts on their blog.
We think it's kind of funny. They keep saying they hate PF. It's an awful place, they say, over and over. They hate the people there. And yet ... they can't stay away. Adding to the hit count for the owners, and adding to the ad dollars, too. Nice work, Donna and Michael!
Is it that you haven't yet convinced yourselves that you don't like the site and its denizens? Do you need to sneak back every day under multiple IDs (also increasing the membership, we might add, and we know that bigger member numbers mean bigger ad dollars, so keep those fake memberships going, all of you bitter banned PFers!) just to convince yourselves how awful it is?
Imagine the scenario this way: You eat at a restaurant that makes you ill, or whose food you don't like. But you go back every day, for multiple meals - just to make really sure the food is as bad as you thought on first taste.
A bit dim, aren't you, Michael and Donna? Unless, of course, you really, really do like PF and just can't stay away.
Saturday, June 11, 2011
Logic fails Michael and Donna
So the fact that someone said they didn't receive two items bought from Michael Tonello means, in their twisted logic that:
a) they were lying about feedback left on Ebay (no way to show that this wasn't for a completely different transaction, now was it? And not everyone left negatives for sellers because of the fear of retaliatory feedback - that's why the system changed a few years ago, folks.)
b) this person lied about everything! Because that's just how it works with TonelloLogic. But again, if you apply it right back to him, shouldn't it mean the same thing?
c) this proves to Donna Lehtonen that she didn't go after this person on PF. Um .... how? Still her word, and if you apply TonelloLogic, well ... you see the problem, we think.
Again, worth pointing out: two presumable adults, obsessed with an Ebay transaction nearly a decade old, and being banned from a place to talk about purses. This apparently gives them licence to have their internet tantrums.
Grow up.
a) they were lying about feedback left on Ebay (no way to show that this wasn't for a completely different transaction, now was it? And not everyone left negatives for sellers because of the fear of retaliatory feedback - that's why the system changed a few years ago, folks.)
b) this person lied about everything! Because that's just how it works with TonelloLogic. But again, if you apply it right back to him, shouldn't it mean the same thing?
c) this proves to Donna Lehtonen that she didn't go after this person on PF. Um .... how? Still her word, and if you apply TonelloLogic, well ... you see the problem, we think.
Again, worth pointing out: two presumable adults, obsessed with an Ebay transaction nearly a decade old, and being banned from a place to talk about purses. This apparently gives them licence to have their internet tantrums.
Grow up.
Tuesday, June 7, 2011
Getting warmer
Getting to the heart of why Michael Tonello started his hate blog is like lancing a boil. A lot of pus has to come out before the entire mess can start to heal.
So Mr. Tonello's screeds against various resellers and Ebay transactions from the stone age is rather enlightening, we believe. The man cannot let go. I mean, we ask you, is this normal? Do you even remember your Ebay transactions from 2003, good or bad?
What grown man spends his days burrowing through years old Ebay feedback, publishing the personal information of people he is presumably busy Googling, and stamping his little feet over being banned from a PURSE forum? We suspect he's in a category all his own.
We know this hurts, Mr. Tonello, but the boil really must go. And you'll feel ever so much better when you focus on more positive things.
Take two paracetamol and DON'T call us in the morning.
So Mr. Tonello's screeds against various resellers and Ebay transactions from the stone age is rather enlightening, we believe. The man cannot let go. I mean, we ask you, is this normal? Do you even remember your Ebay transactions from 2003, good or bad?
What grown man spends his days burrowing through years old Ebay feedback, publishing the personal information of people he is presumably busy Googling, and stamping his little feet over being banned from a PURSE forum? We suspect he's in a category all his own.
We know this hurts, Mr. Tonello, but the boil really must go. And you'll feel ever so much better when you focus on more positive things.
Take two paracetamol and DON'T call us in the morning.
Sunday, June 5, 2011
Thank you, anonymous
We like this comment. Thought it bears highlighting...
Does he have anyone else to talk to? Besides Donna, his dimwitted billfold beard?
I saw the guy on YouTube videos as larambla17 (ouch. painful to watch) and as himself hawking his book. The thing that struck me is what a boring little man this is. I couldn't make it halfway before clicking him off.
Can you imagine being so boring that you are a supporting character in your life story? Can you imagine being less interesting than an inanimate object, a handbag? He acknowledges his role as secondary to the bag with his own book title. The Birkin gets full cover, big font. The My Life in Pursuit gets a toss-away spot on the cover and tiny font. Even his editors and publishers knew he was more boring than a handbag.
A man that boring is forced to talk to himself if he wants to talk at all. I'm sure even his dimwitted wallet finds him tedious beyond words unless he's preaching about her favorite obsession: How other rich people aren't quite as good as she is and how every other bag out there is fake.
Does he have anyone else to talk to? Besides Donna, his dimwitted billfold beard?
I saw the guy on YouTube videos as larambla17 (ouch. painful to watch) and as himself hawking his book. The thing that struck me is what a boring little man this is. I couldn't make it halfway before clicking him off.
Can you imagine being so boring that you are a supporting character in your life story? Can you imagine being less interesting than an inanimate object, a handbag? He acknowledges his role as secondary to the bag with his own book title. The Birkin gets full cover, big font. The My Life in Pursuit gets a toss-away spot on the cover and tiny font. Even his editors and publishers knew he was more boring than a handbag.
A man that boring is forced to talk to himself if he wants to talk at all. I'm sure even his dimwitted wallet finds him tedious beyond words unless he's preaching about her favorite obsession: How other rich people aren't quite as good as she is and how every other bag out there is fake.
Friday, June 3, 2011
True nature
Think about this for a moment.
Michael Tonello is a 52 year old man who has bitter vendetta against a purse forum. And is now taking public shots at woman he has never met ... because she happens to be wealthy and have a large collection of luxury items.
If this was a kid, you might expect this kind of frankly childish behaviour. But from a grown man?
We wouldn't expect any less from you, Michael. And you've shown that we certainly shouldn't expect more.
Do the words "grow up" mean anything to you? Try it. You just might come to like it.
Michael Tonello is a 52 year old man who has bitter vendetta against a purse forum. And is now taking public shots at woman he has never met ... because she happens to be wealthy and have a large collection of luxury items.
If this was a kid, you might expect this kind of frankly childish behaviour. But from a grown man?
We wouldn't expect any less from you, Michael. And you've shown that we certainly shouldn't expect more.
Do the words "grow up" mean anything to you? Try it. You just might come to like it.
Wednesday, June 1, 2011
Through a mirror, darkly
PFA and Michael Tonello are just full of contradictions. To the point that this post should probably be called "what I hate, I love".
Hates resellers? Check!
Is one? Check!
Hates PF? Check!
Can't stay away from it? Check!
Is gay? Check!
Publishes comments that are derogatory to homosexuals? Check!
Says you can't authenticate anything from photos? Check!
Calls out bags as fake from photos? Check!
Takes down his personal information and that belonging to Donna Lehtonen? Check!
Allows anyone else's on his blog? Check!
Says he isn't behind PFA? Check!
Says he is behind PFA? Check!
Claims to be out after scammers? Check!
Posts as other people all over the internet? Check!
Claims that everyone at PF is a bad and dishonest? Check!
Is no longer a registered user on Ebay? Check!
Really, we just don't understand how Michael Tonello remembers who is he is from one day to the next. Well, here's a helpful offer. If he forgets, as he seems prone to do, he can just clip this out and put it where he can see it. It will save him the trouble of making all the visits he pays to us, though as ever, we do appreciate the traffic.
Hates resellers? Check!
Is one? Check!
Hates PF? Check!
Can't stay away from it? Check!
Is gay? Check!
Publishes comments that are derogatory to homosexuals? Check!
Says you can't authenticate anything from photos? Check!
Calls out bags as fake from photos? Check!
Takes down his personal information and that belonging to Donna Lehtonen? Check!
Allows anyone else's on his blog? Check!
Says he isn't behind PFA? Check!
Says he is behind PFA? Check!
Claims to be out after scammers? Check!
Posts as other people all over the internet? Check!
Claims that everyone at PF is a bad and dishonest? Check!
Is no longer a registered user on Ebay? Check!
Really, we just don't understand how Michael Tonello remembers who is he is from one day to the next. Well, here's a helpful offer. If he forgets, as he seems prone to do, he can just clip this out and put it where he can see it. It will save him the trouble of making all the visits he pays to us, though as ever, we do appreciate the traffic.
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