Dear Chris,
Dedy is not me. Will you and others please get that straight? If any of you want to bet super ****ing high I will post his address on here and you can have any number of other AZ'ers go find him and take a damn picture of him standing there with his ID.
Dear Dedy,
Thank you for standing up for me. Please stop as it only makes things worse. Also this isn't about protection. Chris, like others, did not get good service from me. Two things are required for successful business, good service and good product. And actually you can get by with good service and a lousy product. I have a good product and lousy service. People will forgo a good product if they don't feel good about the service. I understand that.
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For the rest of you,
I am retired. No more custom orders until I get this shop situated.
Leave me alone. My wife Karen Barton can answer your questions and talk to you about your orders. I didn't get in this business so that I could become a slave to everyone else's desires. That is what I have become.
I am really jealous of Rex Goulet and Marc Turcasso. They take an order and run with whatever suits their own ideas and the customer eats it up no matter what is served.
Eventually that is how it will be with me. If you want to place orders that are made to your specs then my shop will be happy to do it. Just don't talk to me. If I am needed then I will step in and take care of it. Otherwise I am out.
Frankly I am very hurt by Ralf's reaction here. When I do get around to making a case then I really pour my heart and energy into it to insure that every detail is right. You all don't see all the cases that I destroyed because some small detail wasn't right. You give me money but you have no idea what happens for that money. You don't see the things we do, the revisions, the ****-ups, the experiments, the arguments etc....
Some of you tell me that our prices are too low for what we deliver, some of you are assholes who tell me I am too expensive because I am in China, others want to call me a murderer and say I am destroying America.
I have had to fade hypocrites, and liars, and stalkers, and every sort of VILE and EVIL nasty comments about me, my family, my life choices etc....
And now I get shit because I dared to build another version of a case I designed?
I don't need this shit. I can make purses or any number of other mass-production items and sell them by the container load and take my self off of your grid.
In another month or so you will see JB Cases being revamped completely with a pretty strict method of ordering that takes me out of the process. At one point in my life I thought I would enjoy making custom cases. I don't enjoy it anymore.
I like making what pleases myself and if someone wants to buy that then great and if not then it stays in my private collection.
Lastly, in the future if a customer wants to have a particular design reserved for them for eternity then they will pay the eternity price. With so many people on the planet it is not fair to expect an artist to refuse others who want something similar unless that artist got life-changing money for the first piece.
Because THAT is what it all comes down to no matter who you are. If you want to indulge your fantasies and only make one of anything then you have to be living securely somehow where money doesn't matter. Otherwise you are hustling to stay ahead of the bills and you have to accept commissions as they come. So if you want a case that is exclusive to you only in every aspect then the price starts at $50,000 per case.
That said, IF you design the case. That is YOU do all the work and send me something that is ready to go then that is YOUR design and I won't do it for anyone else.
Like this one:
Corey sent me the designs already done for the space on the pockets and back and all we did is redraw them so that they were symmetrical and fit properly in the space.
I will never do this design for another person. It belongs to Corey and we only applied it to the case.
If someone else comes along and wants one then I will either find some other design to put in or we will draw a new design or I will ask them to submit a design that is sufficiently different.
Anyway, this is MY LAST POST on AZB. No matter what I personally am done with this forum. It's great and there are so many great people here but I personally am too thin-skinned to hang out here because I focus on the negative too much.
My wife Karen and our assistants will be posting under this account whenever there is a need. It will take a while for all of you to understand that but it will be understood that JB Cases is not John Barton any longer after a while. It's time for me to join the ranks of a lot of other people in this industry and stay out of the spotlight.
Thank you to everyone who has bought our cases and who has provided support through the dramas. Thank you to the opponents who had enough character to have private discussions with me and resolve our differences. To the liars and hypocrites I feel sorry for you and hope sincerely that someday you come to realization of how much your lies and hypocrisy have hurt me and others.
Lastly, again, to Ralf, I am really sorry that you were pissed off. That was never my intention. I thought it was a good thing to get an order based on your case and worked really hard to make a unique version of it for the customer. I feel very sad and depressed about it now when I think I should feel good. So, sorry I ****ed up your day. Mine is ****ed up now too so we're even.
Adios.
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