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Originally Posted by McLovin
Here's $1500 of advice, for free.
Stop what you're doing.
What's in it for you? You are a maker of guitar parts, not law enforcement. Let law enforcement, or others, handle him.
What are the possibilities? He can sue you. Even if your statements aren't false, he can still sue you. And then you get to pay a lawyer to prove that your statements aren't false, and if a jury agrees with you, you're lawyer is $50K richer and you've been proven right. If the jury finds that not all of what you said is really true, or there is some nuance that makes it untrue, or they are out to lunch like the OJ jury, then you lose.
Is it worth your money to prove you're right? And take the risk that even if you are right, an unpredictable judge or jury finds you wrong anyways? Why in the world would you want to put yourself in that position, for no reason?
This is a no brainer. It's not your job to save the world from this guy.
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A couple years ago, there was a small company called WB Pickups. He did a similar thing, greased the palms of some forum admins to get angry threads pulled, gave away some stuff to some name players and claimed them as endorsers, and then scammed a lot of people out of a lot of money. We're talking around 1000 people by my count, perhaps more. Out of a few hundred bucks each. Sometimes up to $500+. Skipepd town, never to be heard from again, taking some people's guitars with him as well.
It hurt the niche industry pretty bad, and scared away a lot of players from smaller independent guys like myself.
My business insurance should cover any legal costs, should he decide to sue me...according to them. As well as my friend's insurance should cover his.
Some of what we have shared can be validated through the former ADA for the RICO conviction, recent arrest information, and parole officer. Slider's Ball incident been confirmed by former members of the Allman Brothers band and and other people who played that show.
We can verify that he has imported stuff from China and represented them as both "boutique made in USA" and "made by the guy who did Duane's" to various people.
In essence, we're helping to assemble the current case against him, by locating people he's ripped of recently, and in the past into one cohesive movement. If law enforcement doesn't know how to contact or how many, then there's no case, right? The only thing they knew about recently was the sign company fraud....
Somehow, even if I
were left covering legal expenses, as long as he's put away with the information we put together, it's worth it to me that nobody else gets scammed..
PS: Havign recently gotten out of prison, I'm pretty sure the guy is flat broke anyways and can't afford to take it to court....