can I suggest a great book - How to Make Friends and Influence People? LOL!!
Certianly, I suspect you 'influence' experiment went a whole lot further than you think. I wasn't logged on today but still heard about the 'VCR to $4 rumour'.
Perhaps the factor here is that there are posters and there are posters - some have reputations and some do not and yours is good I would have thought (though some will now perhaps argue that.
Damages - well who would really buy on an anonymous tip. especially since they would probably need to prove you benifited from the action.
None the less....
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