Re: Strands (was : Latest version of !Draw)

In message <4f44a14448john@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
John Cartmell <john@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

In article <474235c2$0$8422$db0fefd9@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Rob Kendrick <nntp@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Tue, 20 Nov 2007 00:25:55 +0000, John Cartmell wrote:

In article <456569444f.druck@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
druck <news@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
episode was a complete fraud

Whilst it was stupid to ask for full (or large) deposits up front - and
much more - your claims assume that the whole episode was conducted
without any intention to supply.

I think misleading customers about likely availability in order to obtain
deposits counts as fraud, regardless of the intention to actually supply.

I'd support your feeling on the matter (especially if you had put your money
down) - and still object to druck's "*complete* fraud". RH continued to
believe that the project was viable long after others had given up - and it
was his optimism (and his own money that went with that optimism) that had
earlier kept the market alive with the original project.
The market would be a lot more alive today if the bugger had paid my
bl**dy deposits back. So as far as I can see it was and remains a
*complete* fraud. It was done quite nicely with a 'proof of concept'
Windows portable running an emulator.

Desk and/or RH-CTA-RS-whatever-they-call-themselves, still owe me
deposits to the value of around two years Select or half an A9.

Had no joy getting the monies out of Frank Kraai at Desk, he claimed I
had to go to RS, even though I had never dealt directly with RS. There
is sadly no small claims court system here and the costs of using a debt
collection agency work out at the same as the debt itself.

Shame I have had to learn the hard way but no way am I interested in
paying monies in advance for products that are not yet available (that
goes for Select style schemes as well).


Regards
Stan

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