youngblood10 said:Otto, you're business savvy enough to know you're being ridiculous right now. If you're not I have lots of painted rocks, I mean gold nuggets I'd like to sell you.
I am business savvy enough to know when someone is just out for a payday. I fail to see how the plaintiff is entitled to $60,000. Unless it's for court costs.
Suppose for a second the Knights win this lawsuit. Is it unresonable for me to then suggest they counter sue for damage to their reputation and further ban this "fan" from all future games and team related events. If he is a STH then give him his money back and tell him to pound salt there are plenty of people on the waiting list. I am not a collector i have a hard time wrapping my head around paying 3500 for a hockey sweater. As someone who doesn't understand the hobby this appears to me like a crackpot speculator who is not a fan but is into potential profit. Judging from his lawyers association with the CHLPA suggests that for the lawyer this is probably about something else and there likely won't be any legal costs. Again just my uneducated point of view
You can be a collector and a fan at the same time, they aren't mutually exclusive. The amount seems high but at the same time there needs to be financial punishment or what's to stop it.
You can be a collector and a fan at the same time, they aren't mutually exclusive. The amount seems high but at the same time there needs to be financial punishment or what's to stop it.
nelli27 said:Rumour has it that the first 500 fans to attend camp will receive a game-worn Marner jersey.
If 60 grand is the price tag to expose someone actions as fraud...so be it.
And if $1,000,000 is the price to expose Tim Hortons coffee for being too hot.. so be it?
I agree with the "superfan" comment above... if the Knights are found guilty so be it.. but the asking price is ridiculous and it would have been better to be settled before reaching this point. Our court system is tied up enough as it is.
If 60 grand is the price tag to expose someone actions as fraud...so be it.
On top of all the time spent having to prove that the jersey was a fake. The time having to communicate with the Knights. That run around. The time aquiring legal counsel, those fees, court costs. etc... These are all damages due to the Knights organization fraudulent action.
That's the only thing that rubs me a little. Personally I would have been more apt as a "superfan" of the Knights to have found a solution behind closed doors. One that would have satisfied my immediate needs (full refund or accepted the HHOF jersey) and also ensured that down the road this doesn't occur again. But there are two sides who knows perhaps he tried this route?
I saw a guy offered 250 bucks for a Gretzky rookie card on the Pawn Master show just the other day. It was in great shape. rated at a 7 I believe. Said the retail value was 500 bucks. Marner has already out shone that by the bucket full going by what his jersey is worth now and he hasn't played a game in the NHL. Good for Marner. Great kid.
After them trying to make it right realizing they mde a mistake getting the sweater out of the Hall and that wasn't good enough I hope the guy loses. I am certain somebody made a mistake but at the end of the day a mistake is only a mistake until it is corrected. This guy wouldn't let that happen and I hope the guy loses. THE Mem Cup winning MVP jersey wasn't enough ? Screw him.
So ...I go online and find a car dealership is auctioning a 2007 Honda Accord LX. Blue, 50,000 km. Guaranteed pre-owned by a recently retired school teacher and driven to work and home each day for 8 years.
I bid $3500 and win the auction. My online payment clears -- the dealership has my money. I love Hondas and am thrilled. Maybe I collect Hondas (takes all kinds).
I contact the dealership to arrange pickup/delivery. They don't reply. Weeks pass and finally they tell me that the car I purchased online is in the Honda Museum now but I'll get it really soon. I warn them to give me what I bought ASAP or I'll sue them.
More weeks pass and someone from the dealership emails me to say the car I bought isn't in the Honda Museum at all and they have it ready for me to pickup.
I travel to the dealership and discover a green 2006 Honda Accord EX with 150,000 km on it. I say, "WTF? I didn't buy this! And who put on the bumper sticker that says, "Grandma's Do it Best"?
The dealer smiles and says, "This is the car you bought. Take it or well give you back your $3500, your choice. But whichever option you choose, you must sign this confidentiality agreement and never disclose what occurred."
Would you take back your money? Accept the car you didn't buy? Sign a confidentiality agreement?
Or would you tell them to stick it and pursue an alternative remedy?
I know what I'd do.
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Couple of points.. you neglected to say that you had a vested connection with the company perhaps a shareholder (season ticket holder) And that Honda said that they have obtained the car from the museum for you.
After them trying to make it right realizing they mde a mistake getting the sweater out of the Hall and that wasn't good enough I hope the guy loses. I am certain somebody made a mistake but at the end of the day a mistake is only a mistake until it is corrected. This guy wouldn't let that happen and I hope the guy loses. THE Mem Cup winning MVP jersey wasn't enough ? Screw him.