My goodness, of course it was meant for the entire list. Just look at the time stamps. There's a two-day spread between the original note "Geraldine Kudaka" sent to Bruce - and when the note was FORWARDED to the entire MoPo group from Geraldine herself. She is obviously a MoPo member. There is no other way an e-mail like that could be posted to the group without first enrolling as a member. Unfairly or not, I interpreted the note as an attack on Heritage, an attempt to force a public or private response from group members - or from Grey himself. In PR and news, there's a rule we follow: In the business world, there is no such thing as a true "surprise." Most disputes broil beneath the surface for weeks or months - before they finally explode into the public eye. They are usually the penultimate step before the "course of last resort," e.g., taking grievances to the media for widespread dissemination to audiences outside the core group most interested in the outcome. It is at that point that a client is at risk losing control of a story and is forever put on defense until a counterattack or well-understood response is mapped out and executed. Successful response case histories: Tylenol poisonings, beef percentages questioned in Taco Bell products, antenna issues with the iPhone. Unsuccessful or "too late" response case histories: Pink slime, Bank of America's $5 debit fee proposal, and the Komen Foundation's "180" with Planned Parenthood. -d.
Date: Fri, 6 Apr 2012 17:44:25 -0400 From: pcontar...@triad.rr.com Subject: Re: Fw: [MOPO] An auction house to avoid To: MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU Was wondering that myself. Peter From: MoPo List [mailto:mopo-l@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU] On Behalf Of lovenoir2 Sent: Friday, April 06, 2012 2:00 PM To: MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU Subject: Re: [MOPO] Fw: [MOPO] An auction house to avoid 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 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-claimsCustomers claim West Berkshire auction house owes them cash-- Bruce Hershenson and the other 24 members of the eMoviePoster.com team P.O. Box 874 West Plains, MO 65775 Phone: 417-256-9616 (hours: Mon-Fri 9 to 5 except from 12 to 1 when we take lunch) our site our auctions Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com___________________________________________________________________How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing ListSend a message addressed to: listserv@listserv.american.eduIn the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-LThe author of this message is solely responsible for its content. -- Bruce Hershenson and the other 24 members of the eMoviePoster.com team P.O. Box 874 West Plains, MO 65775 Phone: 417-256-9616 (hours: Mon-Fri 9 to 5 except from 12 to 1 when we take lunch) our site our auctions Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com___________________________________________________________________How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing ListSend a message addressed to: listserv@listserv.american.eduIn the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-LThe author of this message is solely responsible for its content. Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com___________________________________________________________________How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing ListSend a message addressed to: listserv@listserv.american.eduIn the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-LThe author of this message is solely responsible for its content. 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