SirStevesGuide Goes Belly Up

[Clone Commander]

He was a scalper, no big loss. 

[CHEWIE]

I never really went there too much... I guess for a while I did, but that was many years ago.  I first started on the online thing with Star Wars with Yakface.com and just never got hooked on SSG.  Sad to see a change of hands there though.

 

[SilverZ]

I'm proud to say that I never once made SSG my home.  I've checked it out a few times over the years, sure, but to me, the guy was, is, and always will be a scumbag, and I've never wanted anything to do with him or his site. 

Ditto.

He had a scumbag attitude and behavior back in the newsgroups as well. I'd poke into the site as a last resort for images. I'm proud to have otherwise avoided it.

[Matt_Fury]

I have a similar story as many of the "Old Schoolers" around here.  SSG was one of the first sites I found on the web about SW other than the official site.  I looked in there for various images and news on the hobby, but didn't really start posting until I found CSW.  CSW was swallowed up by RS and I stuck it out there until I couldn't take it anymore and moved to here.

I know the whole scalping deal left a lot of people with a bad taste in their mouth, myself included.  However, it's still a shame that one of the original collecting sites looks like it's going away.

[Diddly]

I visited SSG once. I was unimpressed and never went back.

[turbowars]

I have been a memeber at SSG for years and I certainly wasn't there for Steve. I liked many of the members and the LA just found thread  was the best on the net. I have posted  on all the sites thought the years, not much here because I didn't know about it.

  Yeah the scalping issue wasn't good, but he wasn't the only one.  I remember someone scoring a bunch of R2 and 3PO X-mas sets for around 5 bucks at WM and then selling them for about 20-25 to people on the site.

Hope the new site does well.As for the decline of SW, I don't believe that for a second. Nothing sits on the pegs and the line is doing very well. I think it has a good future.