Hi, you can choose not to respond to this if you'd like, I'd just like to clear something up.
I am the person who answered the question about 99 cent jewelry in a rude way. There's a reason for that.
This woman has been asking the same or similar questions on the site for almost a year now. She started sending questions to my inbox and every time I answered she'd ask me even more questions, then she started sending me emails. While I was sick for 3 days and couldn't answer my email, she sent me 7 emails, all increasingly nasty. When I responded (politely, I may add) she called me a bitch, stupid, and many other things I don't care to repeat. I ignored it and answered her question through email, then I find her posting it on the site (although she changed several things about the situation). That's why I went off.
She has been banned several times. There's something really wrong with this woman, and reassuring her doesn't solve a thing. You have no idea how many times I have tried to convince her to care less about little things people say. I know that she's 50, lives with her mom, has obsessive compulsive disorder, and can be very vicious. If she sends you an inbox question, I highly recommend not answering it. She has done this to several other columnists.
I have tried to help her over and over again. I have talked to other columnists and they have tried too. Answering her kindly doesn't work.
Yes, the first two things I said were very rude. I'm sorry for that, I'd had a hell of a bad day. But I did technically answer her question after that, I just didn't sugarcoat it.
Sometimes giving people the right answer doesn't mean giving them the answer they said. She wanted us to say that her sister's stupid, that the jewelry looks real. I doubt it does.
Thanks for reading this, I'm sorry it's so long, just wanted to clear things up. I didn't want you to think I'm one of those rude columnists, I just went off.
And in the future, it's probably best to just ignore rude answers, no matter how bad they are. It can turn the site into a huge catfight.
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