Well, another question is if anyone ON THIS LIST would order a River Raisin U.S.R.A. 0-6-0 except that they have a deposit with Cryer Grey? Or if a series of posts here will cause John Botten to suddenly return people's deposits.
I very much want to see the RR 0-6-0, have no use for the Cryer Grey version. It's not clear to me that this hashing over the latter project is helpful to the former. Pieter E. Roos --- On Mon, 10/18/10, Scale S Only <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Ed -- > > I have no way of knowing the truthfullness of our > conversations (John and > myself), but according to him, Boo Rim got a huge package > of materials in > preparation for the project. I know John > spent a LOT of money getting the > plans package together (I helped a bit) and it apparently > overwhelmed Boo > Rim who didn't want to make an exact model, but a useful > one. John > indicated that Boo Rim got many thousand dollars for the > preliminary work. > If that is so, he was probably in the red from the > beginning. > > In the past I looked into sponsoring a run of brass cars > with Overland > Models. Tom Marsh and I had some lengthy > converstations about this, and > the bottom line is that BIG money is involved that I didn't > care to risk. > I think John got himself into the same predicament many > entrepreneurs do -- > not enough capital at the start to guarantee moving past > the early stages > and through the tough times. I am also > sure that other factors are > involved, but they are more of a personality situation and > don't merit > speculation. > > I doubt that deposit monies were ever placed in escrow > (mistake #1). I am > fairly > sure it was spent (mistake #2). > > Do you have first hand knowledge there was NO contract (or > contact)? Could > it be that negotiations never were concluded or that John's > part of the > contract was unfullfilled? > > For Ron S. -- > > I have been unable to make contact with John for over a > year. Have you had > any communications? > > I am sure that Jim Kindraka, Dan Navarre and Jettie Padjett > can write a book > about this... > > Have fun! > Bill Winans > Prescott Valley, AZ ------------------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/S-Scale/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/S-Scale/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: [email protected] [email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
