Dear Edwin,
Believe me, I can see how you find the original post offensive. Even I had problem understanding Adonisy's original post especially the part regarding "blanks," and I am sure most readers here are just as confused as I am.
It is obvious that he cannot express himself well in English.
That initial post stating " I appraise 10-20 cue blanks" turned that post into blackmail and so malicious. Adonisy admitted that he's the Linds Club Manager and known in this forum as an aspiring cuemaker. Those facts thus opened up the possibility that he may have gotten greedy being aware of the quantity of business that Linds has in Taiwan. To compound this angle, he can't even NAME the person he dealt with even though this person is also a Taiwan National.
Although I am not from Taiwan, I have the pleasure of knowing some players from Taiwan and I have heard of this incident from them. I felt the need to explain to my best ability what I have been told so hopefully, you and Linds will have a better idea of what has happened. I am sure you will try your best to help, as you always have.
Thank you Richard. As evidenced by contents of our succeeding post and even if they cannot help by going though proper avenues, steps to resolve has been positively taken from this end.
I personally believe Linds is probably a victim just like the rest of the Taiwanese here. I do not think a cue maker would scam a few hundred dollars to ruin his reputation.
Exactly, but they are not helping any if they can't even call and give Linds detail of their initial agreement. Who's Linds suppose to go after. This can even be considered maliscious actions since pertinent data can't be provided.
However, you need to understand how this dealer may have the appearent authority to represent Linds Cue in Taiwan, and therefore, Linds may find himself liable for the dealer's action whether he is awared of it or not. I am sure you will agree that it is therefore to Linds best interest that he is made awared of the situation.
Richard, without pertinent data about the initial agreement how can worthwile steps be taken? It is evidenced in the posts that steps are being taken even though the validity of the issue is still questionnable. What was the name of the person that they dealt with. Supplying thus to Linds not only verifies the validity of the issue but also give s Linds a direction to pursue. Making Linds "aware" could have been done through the proper channels.
About this "dealer," this is what I have been told and I hope this information is helpful.
The dealer in question is the person who has been operating the web site
www.lindscues.com and have had control of the email address
info@lindscues.com.
www.lindscues.com is the web address of Linds Cue's Taiwanese dealer according to Linds web site (
www.lindscues.com.ph ).
I believe all they are asking is to have the current phone number, and address of this dealer. Do you think you can help them with that?
Let's put it this way. Somebody comes to one associate of yours with a story and asks for "RICHARDS" personnal info, will you appreciate it had your associate given out the info without ascertaining that the story can be validated with facts? Linds is currently in contact with his dealer now and confirming the details of the transaction. That I think is the proper way and I'm sure you'll appreciate if you, or anybody for that matter, were involved. Granted that they just trusted the person behind the info@lindscues.com, they and Linds still need to work with this person for the recipients to get their cues. I mentioned in an earlier post that this supposed dealer still needs to send the mailing labels written in Chinese. For this mailing label to get to Linds a confirmation of the completion of transaction needs to be reached. Right now, no one has provided any pertinent data of said transaction! No name, no product description, no monetary consideration details,...ypu tell me..What will you do, considering the above facts and all the missing data?
Obviously, all the contact info of this dealer has been cut off, even the web site has been down.
I already mentioned the discovered reason for that but still do need data from our Taiwanese friends, like PRODUCT DESCRIPTION to verify ownership. How is it they they post here in english and confident that they can be understood yet they don't want to do the suggested route, PHONE CALL, and supply details to go from. I don't understand why when it comes to the "phone call" they hide behind the "Communication gap" fence!
Edwin, I really do not want to see this go any futher than it already has. It is sad that this post was even started in the first place. I really hope that this will be put to an end as soon as possible.
I have no agenda here. If the original poster could explained himself a bit better in English, I would not have posted any of this at all.
It really is not my style to put my nose into someone else's business. I hope you can all resolved this as soon as possible.
I, too, from my 1st post (#2 of this thread) conveyed not wanting escalation of this problem by providing alternate and direct channels of communication.
My involvement here have been questioned but had people really tried to look at the issue from both ends they will appreciate the "friendship" displayed. This issue is still of maliscious nature until the data that can verify the transaction has been submitted. And even though these weren't and the suggested proper channel hasn't been taken, Linds still is trying his best to verify and resolve if all data and transaction requirements are met.
Best wishes to your cue business.
Thank you.
Richard
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