First of all, I'd like to thank anyone and everyone who has gotten me here, and this will be text only, so sorry if I leave any profile links out.
Ah, I remember it like it was yesterday. June 11th of last year I was hanging out with my friends in an Xbox Live party, and one of them (Cloudy) told the other (Espeon) that he should do GFX for the site, as he thought that the GFX makers on HF weren't really too good.
I immediately asked what the site was and they told me. At first I thought it was a very small community because, just as a lot of members I had just come from TTG, which has an outstanding amount of staff and members.
I thought I could have basically any username I wanted, but it wasn't really like that. I tried my first name, a lot of general usernames, then my Gamertag, Ninetales.
Some of you may remember me for that name, some may not, but when I first joined all I really did was try to sell Gamertags, which I did a lot over the summer, but now I try my best to stay out of that section.
Finally, on an early July-ish night, I sold the Gamertag "Emolga" to a member for $15. I really wanted to buy l33t, but I didn't have enough money, I was just around $3 away.
I made a thread in the Lounge asking for $3, unaware of the fact that this was forbidden, but it never got taken down.
A few members promised me money but I didn't get anything after a while, but then came my Knight in Shining Armor, Wolves.
He sent $3 to my PayPal, but the problem was, was that I couldn't purchase the upgrade, so Wolves so very kindly took my money and bought it for me.
It took just a little bit over 48 hours to upgrade, but it was obviously worth the wait. I remember the day clear as the sky, I randomly posted on a thread and I while scrolling up, I saw the "delete post" X and then my yellow username.
The date was 7/11, just a month after my sign up date.
I went about my normal business, giving people my first reps who influenced me greatly throughout my one month career.
Now, as you see, earlier in the month I had won the giveaway for a tag I really liked, Soulmate. I just put it away and didn't really want to sell it because I really liked the name. I'm not sure of the user who gave it to me to date, but I think his name is now something like "LOST".
The day I got l33t, Cute and I swapped usernames and I had some fun with my new features. The next day I decided I would change my alias to something I am known as today, the name Soulmate.
A week or so later, I went to Wisconsin with my friend and was away from HF for about 10 days but couldn't wait to get back.
When I got back I had about 30 IMs and 15 PMs or so, which I was very excited to reply to.
Later in August before school started, I decided to sell both the Gamertags Soulmate, and Ninetales. I sold Soulmate for around $150, and Ninetales for $65, I believe.
I instantly regretted both decisions.
This was when my sales were really booming, I had a shit load of tags and sold them all, then the news came to me that someone "turboed" the Gamertag Soulmate from my customer, and was willing to sell it to me. I bought it for $80 and I still have it, I just don't play on it much.
The rest of the year went normally and nothing big really happened, and I was posting a lot throughout the year, 60 times per day I believe, but I felt it was an obligation and soon stopped, and after that The Lounge became my favorite section of the site. This was around the time that post count in The Lounge was enabled.
In 2012 nothing big happened for a while until the very end of February and the very beginning of March, I joined my first group after Haunter Gang, which was Respawn.
I messaged Ingite, and he told me he would get Astonish to PM me, and I donated and got into one of the groups I am still in now.
I went to Cancun, Mexico for a week exactly, then came back and stated all groups which have not been purchased, were about to be closed unless the leader would step up buy it for the rest of HF's life for a one time $500 donation, or purchase if you will.
I was only in Respawn and TechSperts at the time and I believe that Respawn was already paid off and I didn't want to see one of the first groups I have joined, and am in now to go.
I donated $250 to the group, TheVortex came up with $90, and a few other members paid it off as well, TechSperts is now here to stay.
Other than that, I don't really have anything to share as the rest of my experiences didn't really revolve around HF as a whole, but I might add some content later, I don't think many members will read this completely, but thank you for reading anyway.
Ah, I remember it like it was yesterday. June 11th of last year I was hanging out with my friends in an Xbox Live party, and one of them (Cloudy) told the other (Espeon) that he should do GFX for the site, as he thought that the GFX makers on HF weren't really too good.
I immediately asked what the site was and they told me. At first I thought it was a very small community because, just as a lot of members I had just come from TTG, which has an outstanding amount of staff and members.
I thought I could have basically any username I wanted, but it wasn't really like that. I tried my first name, a lot of general usernames, then my Gamertag, Ninetales.
Some of you may remember me for that name, some may not, but when I first joined all I really did was try to sell Gamertags, which I did a lot over the summer, but now I try my best to stay out of that section.
Finally, on an early July-ish night, I sold the Gamertag "Emolga" to a member for $15. I really wanted to buy l33t, but I didn't have enough money, I was just around $3 away.
I made a thread in the Lounge asking for $3, unaware of the fact that this was forbidden, but it never got taken down.
A few members promised me money but I didn't get anything after a while, but then came my Knight in Shining Armor, Wolves.
He sent $3 to my PayPal, but the problem was, was that I couldn't purchase the upgrade, so Wolves so very kindly took my money and bought it for me.
It took just a little bit over 48 hours to upgrade, but it was obviously worth the wait. I remember the day clear as the sky, I randomly posted on a thread and I while scrolling up, I saw the "delete post" X and then my yellow username.
The date was 7/11, just a month after my sign up date.
I went about my normal business, giving people my first reps who influenced me greatly throughout my one month career.
Now, as you see, earlier in the month I had won the giveaway for a tag I really liked, Soulmate. I just put it away and didn't really want to sell it because I really liked the name. I'm not sure of the user who gave it to me to date, but I think his name is now something like "LOST".
The day I got l33t, Cute and I swapped usernames and I had some fun with my new features. The next day I decided I would change my alias to something I am known as today, the name Soulmate.
A week or so later, I went to Wisconsin with my friend and was away from HF for about 10 days but couldn't wait to get back.
When I got back I had about 30 IMs and 15 PMs or so, which I was very excited to reply to.
Later in August before school started, I decided to sell both the Gamertags Soulmate, and Ninetales. I sold Soulmate for around $150, and Ninetales for $65, I believe.
I instantly regretted both decisions.
This was when my sales were really booming, I had a shit load of tags and sold them all, then the news came to me that someone "turboed" the Gamertag Soulmate from my customer, and was willing to sell it to me. I bought it for $80 and I still have it, I just don't play on it much.
The rest of the year went normally and nothing big really happened, and I was posting a lot throughout the year, 60 times per day I believe, but I felt it was an obligation and soon stopped, and after that The Lounge became my favorite section of the site. This was around the time that post count in The Lounge was enabled.
In 2012 nothing big happened for a while until the very end of February and the very beginning of March, I joined my first group after Haunter Gang, which was Respawn.
I messaged Ingite, and he told me he would get Astonish to PM me, and I donated and got into one of the groups I am still in now.
I went to Cancun, Mexico for a week exactly, then came back and stated all groups which have not been purchased, were about to be closed unless the leader would step up buy it for the rest of HF's life for a one time $500 donation, or purchase if you will.
I was only in Respawn and TechSperts at the time and I believe that Respawn was already paid off and I didn't want to see one of the first groups I have joined, and am in now to go.
I donated $250 to the group, TheVortex came up with $90, and a few other members paid it off as well, TechSperts is now here to stay.
Other than that, I don't really have anything to share as the rest of my experiences didn't really revolve around HF as a whole, but I might add some content later, I don't think many members will read this completely, but thank you for reading anyway.
