An interesting read. Was this meant to go to the entire MOPO list?
On Thu, Apr 5, 2012 at 8:10 PM, Geraldine Kudaka <gkud...@rocketmail.com>wrote: > > ----- Forwarded Message ----- > *From:* Geraldine Kudaka <gkud...@rocketmail.com> > *To:* Bruce Hershenson <brucehershen...@gmail.com> > *Sent:* Tuesday, April 3, 2012 11:45 AM > *Subject:* Re: [MOPO] An auction house to avoid > > Your favorite auction house, Bruce -- Heritage. > > My husband, Charley, was a Hollywood executive. When we first did a > Heritage consignment through Rudy Franchi, everything went fine. So fine, > we sent a 2nd batch using my UPS account & return label which had my name > on it. I use my maiden name, so I guess Heritage thought it was a cold > submission from nobody. > > Thought we'd hear from them -- nada. We are pretty busy here and knew from > our first consignment that Heritage plans their auction schedule months in > advance. When I finally called Heritage to see when the posters were > going to be auctioned. Carter told they had received the posters, and > wanted to know if we wanted to put them in the weekly auction as there was > nothing of value in the lot. I said, "What? What about the Get Carter and > Lennon posters? Or the Fillmore posters?" Heritage claimed they had not > received these posters in the lot we sent. > > I had mentioned this event on this newsgroup before. You responded with a > derogatory comment about Rudy, then Grey threatened us with lawyers and I > posted a comment here batting for Rudy. > > At that time this was going on, I did not want to deal with Heritage > because we were building a house and had a high weekly payroll to meet. The > headache of dealing with this Heritage problem was small potatoes compared > to being the General Contractor on a house. > > After Grey threatened me with lawyers and I batted for Rudy, Rudy > contacted me. He had spoken with Grey and the upshot was we were offered a > deal for future submissions.. > > That was months ago. > > I've come to the conclusion I don't want to do future business with > Heritage. It's one thing to have a consignment set up by Rudy for my > husband, Charley Lippincott, who had hired John Van Hammersveld to do the > Get Carter poster and has the largest, most complete collection of John's > work -- even more than John -- and another thing when little wifey using > her UPS business account sends the 2nd consignment batch. As nobody me, if > posters disappeared from my lot, who is to say that this doesn't happen to > other people? On principle, I don't want to do business with Heritage. > > Life is too short, Charley's collection too huge, and it's just not worth > my time. > > If Grey wants to have his lawyers come after me, fine. > > ------------------------------ > *From:* Bruce Hershenson <brucehershen...@gmail.com> > *To:* Geraldine Kudaka <gkud...@rocketmail.com> > *Sent:* Saturday, March 31, 2012 6:21 PM > *Subject:* Re: [MOPO] An auction house to avoid > > Which auction was it? > > On Sat, Mar 31, 2012 at 8:54 AM, Geraldine Kudaka > <gkud...@rocketmail.com>wrote: > > I sent things to a US auction house who, 6 months later, claimed they > never got the high value posters.... and threatened me with a lawyer. > > ------------------------------ > *From:* Bruce Hershenson <brucehershen...@gmail.com> > *To:* <MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU>MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU > *Sent:* Friday, March 30, 2012 10:45 PM > *Subject:* [MOPO] An auction house to avoid > > * > http://www.newburytoday.co.uk/2012/west-berkshire-auction-house-cameo-refutes-customers-payment-claims > * > Customers claim West Berkshire auction house owes them cash > -- > Bruce Hershenson and the other 24 members of the eMoviePoster.com team > P.O. 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