In the interest of the recently banned Will's ability to defend himself, here's his follow up post in its entirety:
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Let me fill you in on other information you seem to have ignored. I have all but one case of your pots still. That’s it, I sent you the sale log and short of 4 pots that have yet to be shipped, that’s all that has been sold. So I’m sitting on all but one case of your pots that can’t be sold, thanks to you. I also had to spend my own money at first to get them through customs/freight, yes, I also have money and time invested in this. Not to mention that for the prizes you donated, I have to pay the shipping out of my own pocket as well.
People talk about ALL THIS MONEY I have of yours, no, what I have is a lot of unsold pots, what has been sold doesn’t cover my expenses yet.
Answer me this Robert, how am I supposed to sell 90% of these pots I still have when you’re running around calling me a thief? How exactly do you expect to get your money for these pots? Do you think I’m going to pay you up front and be stuck with all these pots after you yourself have made it next to impossible to sell them?
I handled vaughn banting’s auction as well as many other events on-line and never had a problem, I can’t and won’t apologize for having to be with my mother, sorry, had I’d known, I wouldn’t have agreed to HELP you sell your pots and make a profit.
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As always, I’m not one to whine and cry over things, anyone can identify the problem, but real men can identify the solution….here’s mine….
What needs to be done, in my opinion, is….
We need to stop the on-line crap, it isn’t helping sales, what needs to be said is that everything is worked out, things were not as they seemed (THERE IS NO THEFT), and that the pots are available for purchase once again.
We set up a page or two where people can once again order pots and then you need to promote them, as I will and you need to endorse them, to counteract all you have said in the past.
To assure trust, we make the paypal address where they can pay yours. This means that all payments will go direct into your paypal account, but it also means that you get the shipping information….so you’ll have to email me the shipping information so I can ship the pot out and you’ll also need then to paypal me the shipping money (which is added into the price by paypal) for example, they pay 35 for the pot and 11 for shipping you get 35 and paypal me 11.
In addition, I will bypass our original agreement letting AoB keep anything over what you wanted for the pots and let you keep 100% of the sale price. All I want is the shipping cost.
Considering that I have 90% of the pots just sitting in my basement collecting dust that are basically un-sellable now, I think this is a good solution that will resolve the issue, allowing us to sell the pots while earning you even more than you anticipated.
To recap, for this to work…We will put up a couple places where they can order the pots, with funds going to your paypal account. I can even put them up on bonsai literati which gets a lot of visitors now, I can announce it at AoB, and also send out notices to every bonsai club in America, and I think I can get bonsai bark to announce it as well. When they sell, you keep 100% of the price and simply paypal me the shipping charge and email me the shipping info, I will ship as soon as I get it.
This allows us to sell all these pots, it gives you much more money then you originally wanted…Fair?”
In the email above, sent a couple weeks ago, I outlined a plan to Robert which was a win/win for him, he gets $11.00 more for each pot, and all proceeds go to him. This would allow me to finally get rid of these pots and it would allow robert to finally have them sold, while making a larger profit than planned.
Robert passed on this offer for unknown reasons, but one is lead to believe that Robert really doesn’t want to sell these pots or make his money on them.
More to come…..