Geraldine
the United States did land man on the Moon in 1969
anything else is a silly conspiracy theory
Rich
At 04:16 PM 6/4/2012, Geraldine Kudaka wrote:
Ahh... but here's the kicker I didn't add before....
Heritge claims they have sent back all our posters.
On our consignment sheet from Feb 2010, there's
unsold poster which wasn't returned this past month.
Black and white, on Heritage paper, it states it wasn't sold.
Now have you ever had Heritage claim they
returned everything, yet you have PROOF not everything was returned.
From: "Walton, Jeffrey" <jeffrey.wal...@fisglobal.com>
To: MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU
Sent: Monday, June 4, 2012 3:51 PM
Subject: Re: [MOPO] Rudy Franchi, Heritage, no Inventory
I concur wholeheartedly
.you just canât ship a
bunch of posters and claim fooul when no
inventory on your part was done no matter if you
trust that identity or not. When shipping a
bunch of poster I always make an inventory and
send along a copy of the inventory as well. So
when Grey or Bruce compares the list and there
is a discrepancy there is at least a
record. What would have happened if the parcel
was lost in the mail, then try to stake a claim with the insurance?
The X-files said it best âTrust no one.â
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Sent: Monday, June 04, 2012 3:31 PM
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Subject: Re: [MOPO] Rudy Franchi, Heritage, no Inventory
Geraldine
reading your posts as a outsider makes me wonder
about some of the things you mention in your emails.
Are you trying to get a resolution, or are you
just trying to disparage Rudy Franchi and Heritage?
Also, do you or do you not think that your own
actions are a partial contributor to your angst??
Don't get me wrong.. I'm not attempting to
disparage or attack you. I understand you have a
dispute, it was not to date settled in your favor and that makes you angry.
But some thing that you wrote puzzles me. Your
own lack of an inventory specifically.
2 weeks ago, I consigned a large collection of
my own to Profiles in History for their July
auction. I have a book collection or hardcover
Photoplay editions in dust jackets dating from
1913 to the 1940s with additional items up to the 1990s.
I have known Joe Maddalena for a reasonably long
time and we have done deals on both a personal
level and via his auction house. However,
regardless of my relationship with Joe, when I
consigned this collection to them of 800 books
and related items, there is no way I would have
let these items leave my possession without an inventory.
For 2 weeks prior to them leaving my warehouse,
I photographed each and every item in this
collection. Yes it was done in part so I could
have file images of these items for my image
archive, but it was also done so that in case of
any disputes, I could prove to Profiles what I
gave them. This is not for the protection of
myself and for the protection of Profiles. How
could I dispute any issues without having such an inventory in my hands??
Did I do this time consuming job for my own pleasure??
No Ma'am
I had plenty of other work to do, and such a
task only added to my weekly work schedule right
at a time when I was actually busier than I had
been in months, and anyone who knows me knows
that my work schedule is always completely full
and that I haven't been having lots of playtime
in my wonderful city of Las Vegas. It actually
left me with just one day to get ready for
Cinevent, and that one day wasn't nearly enough.
Joe may be my good friend and I trust him 100%,
but I do not leave it up to other people to
protect my own interests, as much as I would
like to when I don't have any time. If I leave
it up to someone else to protect my interests, I
really don't feel I can blame the other party no
matter how many assurances I have that I can.
Furthermore, if such a situation were to land me
in a lawsuit attempting to claim some sort of
duress, what portion of such duress is my own fault for not protecting myself??
I do remember the days when a handshake deal was
a bond, but I have also felt the betrayal of a
handshake deal not being honored, making me wish
I had done what was necessary to protect myself
before any issues arose. Not completing such an
action is no one's fault but my own.
So the question becomes, "IF" your claims are
true, what responsibility do you think you have
in not having done what was necessary to protect
yourself? Do you think this was a failure on
your behalf, or do you think that you have any responsibility at all?
If you were to sue Heritage, what proof would
you use to prove your case? Admittedly, you made
no inventory, Charlie is 82 and you are also at
an age where things become less clear to the
mind - through no fault of your own.. It just
happens as people get older. It will happen to me as well probably.
I have thought at times that something is
missing and believed I had given it to someone,
only to later find said item in my inventory,
generally somewhere that it doesn't belong, at
which point I was forced to apologize to that person who I thought screwed me.
You did not do what was necessary to protect
yourself, how can that be the fault of Heritage?
Rich
At 06:15 AM 6/4/2012, Geraldine Kudaka wrote:
Rudy, this list is not just for dealers.
There are a lot of people who lurk here who are
interested in movie posters. They are not
professional dealers in the business. Some may
be non-poster business people interested in
selling off collections acquired from either a
lifetime of working in the industry, or inherited them from dad, who passed on.
This is also a public list which non-subscribers
go to for archived information on how to sell their posters..
As a noted movie poster expert, these uninformed
sellers need to know that you will encourage
them to send their collections "post vite" to Heritage.
You will not tell them that they need to protect
themselves by doing a photographic inventory and
log of their posters before sending to Heritage.
You will not warn them that Heritage's inventory
process is suspect and their software probably
some home-user Access-like database program.
(Here, I'm referring to security differences
between programs like Quicken and true business
accounting software which do not allow you to
change entries without leaving a trail.)
You will not tell them that heritage will not return posters they do not sell.
You will simply funnel them to Heritage -- for your commission.
For this reason - among others - an esteemed
seller on this list posted a wish that you were dead...
Need I remind you I defended you? This was
before I sat down and went though our Heritage
file and discovered what was really going on.
This was before I went online and found that
Heritage has been accused by others for stealing
items submitted for consignment.
Last -- if you think you have spent "a huge
amount of time" on this issue, get real.
Suggesting we comply with Heritage's offer of
selling without commission fees is certainly not
an email that takes a lot of time to write.
After Grey threatened us with legal action, we
have spent far more money on attorney's fees
than you have... That's a hard financial cost on
top of the value of posters sent to Heritage.
While I appreciate your suggestion we go
bankrupt "sueing everybody involved", I will decline your advice.
In the start, I said this list is not just for
dealers. My emails are for the lurking public, now and in the future.
From: rudy franchi <<mailto:r...@nostalgia.com>r...@nostalgia.com>
To: <mailto:MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU>MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU
Sent: Friday, June 1, 2012 10:41 AM
Subject: [MOPO] Reply To Geraldine
It seems that I can't post to MOPO without Geraldine popping out like
a cuckoo bird on a spring. This has gone beyond rational discussion.
I've spent a huge amount of time on this problem and Grey has
spent the equivalent of days in hour after hour of trying to reach a
satisfactory conclusion. Perhaps Geraldine should just sue everyone
involved. After she loses, she can appeal it all the way to the
Supreme Court where it will go down in judicial history as "When I've Got A
Hammer vs. Everything's A Nail." Meanwhile, I will continue to
occasionally post here and just put up with the tirades. On some of
the stock market discussion boards I visit, one can put a particularly
annoying person on "ignore" so that their posts won't show up in your
message box. Would that we could do that here.
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