Hi Stan,stanrichardson wrote:The simple way I see is there will be the following outcomes after all the parties have taken legal advice and been told they can comment on it in a public forum.
1 GA take legal action against the usa based company
2 GA explains its self to the usa based company and issues a retraction
3 GA says nothing
If point 1 happens and the mods take action against GA that makes a very clear statment about the mods here.
Point 2 this does not have to be public this is a matter between to two companies, we do not have a right to be included in that discussion/settlement.
If point 3 happens as a community we should have a say on how the community feels about this companies actions.
I feel at the moment the mods have taken the stance of they have a right to demand and expect a answer from GA. Regardles that this matter is in the hands of lawyers. Thats just ego on some peoples part.
I'm trying to stay out of this discussion as it is a decision the other Mods had to make as I'm too close ... but for the record ... Gaspez is already at #3.
Gaspez has informed Impact! all of the following:
1 - yes it was our company they were talking about in their post
2 - they are not filing suit nor are willing to explain their actions to us
3 - have requested that we never email them again to discuss the matter (or any other matter)
The other Mods made this decision from a point of knowing that the situation was at your #3 by seeing the actual emails between to the two companies (not my representation to them of the discussion). The emails were provided based on Moderators' request to be advised as the situation developed ... so there was no ego on the Mods behalf as you have suggested.
Finally ... we would like to point out ... that we're placing orders this week with Greebo, Black Scorpion, Neomics and Willy. We wish very much that we were also ordering from Gaspez as they have some great looking figures that we would like to help them sell. But included in my point #3 above was Gaspez telling us that they would never sell to us again (and we still don't know the real reason why and it appears never will).
Tom