CBS/Paramount sues to stop Axanar
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Can we PLEASE keep politics out of this? Pretty please?
We podcasted today - main connection was talking about some attorney changes. Blog post is up; YouTube to follow.
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Blog post:
http://www.gandtshow.com/g-t-show-245-amish-white/
Many thanks for your support.
Blog post:
http://www.gandtshow.com/g-t-show-245-amish-white/
Thank you!We podcasted today - main connection was talking about some attorney changes. Blog post is up; YouTube to follow.
Many thanks for your support.
Blog post:
http://www.gandtshow.com/g-t-show-245-amish-white/
Also, as I recall correctly; AP formed a shipping company to ship all of the items from Propworx that charged MUCH more than every other company. When confronted about how expensive the shipping charges were; he said the shipping company was the best around, etc and it wasn't until later that it was found out that HE owned the shipping company and thus was not only ripping people off during the auctions (by shill bidding) but also by over-charging for shipping.
This guy is a real class act!
Fixed that for ya.
Adam was talking about Propworx bidding on these items in Alec's words "because they have a fiduciary responsibility to the owner". So in the cases Adam was citing, Propworx was bidding for the owner on a no reserve item. This would not be the same as proxy bidding for non-owners, the case you raise.
Terry got pissed off with axacritters who were calling him a fraud. He released some communications with Alec and threatened to release more. Search Terry and browse backwards.
Don't forget that Alec was collecting a fee from the owner as well. So in effect he had two subsidies on any item he wanted. And if after driving the price up into his subsidized range he still lost, he collected larger buyers and sellers premiums, so win-win from his POV.
And there are even more issues. For example, a collector of a theme may have indicated to the auction house that they would pay large cash up front for certain items (the auction house should search for them). If the house gets the item into the auction and then bids on behalf of the owner up to some (fictional) reserve level, knowing the 'for sure' buying level of the collector, it puts the collector in an unfair position. The bids could even be calculated to push the item above the for sure level. The collector would not know their confidence was exploited, and they would not be bidding against a real competitor.
Reserves are minimums. It is not honest to redefine their implementation so as to provide a window of deniability and a mechanism behind which fake competition can occur.
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I'd say you should apologies to the entire Amish community, but of course they don't get the internet and would never hear it. And do apologize to the rest of us for the mental-images you put in our heads.
Ah, right. That's a totally different animal. How strange. Why not just set a reserve? Because otherwise it looks exactly like shill bidding.
Because Alec felt it was better (IWE he'd get more bidding participants) if he claimed there was no reserve up front. Some bidders will shy away from bidding on an item with a reserve.
Some choice quotes from Alec four years ago, before he was swimming in his ill-spent Kickstarter millions, and when he was pontificating to everyone else over at TrekBBS and essentially revealing that he had done his damnedest to rat out Star Trek Continues to CBS:
Here's where the little shit essentially admits IN THAT SAME THREAD, like the overgrown petulant man-child he is, he tattled on Continues:
Here's where the little shit essentially admits IN THAT SAME THREAD, like the overgrown petulant man-child he is, he tattled on Continues:
Sure, reserves can thin out the bidders a bit. But ask "how many major auction houses therefore bid for the owner in a no reserve auction?" Answer: none. It is not done. Period.
Correct me if I am remembering wrong but when STC first started up 3 or 4 STC Facebook pages came into being, one or two were not putting very favorible information out about STC I also assumed STC used the word Official relating to official Star Trek Continues postings.
Oh, isn't that rich? Why the blazes did he not heed his own advice?
Wait, what? He talked with CBS about fan films? But didn't he say in the court documents that they refused to talk with him (or anyone) about fan films, forcing everyone to fly blind? And if he had already talked with CBS, why was he posting here on Trek-BBS begging for guidance and rules?
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