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Topic: Deadbeats in the industry (see page 7 for current info on Ron Purtee)
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Matt Zeiner
Expert Film Handler
Posts: 146
From: Windsor, CT USA
Registered: Sep 2003
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posted 04-02-2007 12:02 PM
Hi folks. I got one for ya. Ali Davis from Manchester, CT. I installed a bunch of used gear from a closed Showcase in East Hartford. This was the most aweful, half-assed installation I have ever seen. He actually bought the old screens and cut and stapled them to rickety 2X4 frames he had his marginally qualified crew build for him. He "shot in " the seats with nails because it was too much money for him to actually put them in safely. The theatre seating is dangerous. (he is a real estate big-guy in the area) I don't know how the building department let this stuff pass. Several pieces required repair, including one of Louis' automations that required component level work on site to the input module (no time for re-ex), a CP-500 PSU and VCA card replaced from my own stock, and 2 bad power amps. His hack crew forgot to retrieve some important pieces, so I fabricated and installed new parts as needed to patch him together and get him open. I burned the candle at both ends, bent over backwards to meet his ridiculous deadline. After the installation was completed, he actually told my boss that I had slacked off to the tune of 4 hours of lounging per day, produced several "witnesses" who corroborated his fantasy land story, balked at paying travel time, saying that it was innapropriate to charge for such a thing, even though that was aprt of our written aggreement from the get-go. We even produced contracts from other service companies proving that this was a normal and accepted practice in the industry for time-and-materials-type jobs. At the risk of not getting any money at all from this jerk, my boss had no choice but to take considerably less money (the guy went so far as to suggest he should only have to pay $.50 on the dollar!). Obviously, had I slacked off for 4 hours a day, he would not have opened at all, and luckily my boss knew better. He provided us with fake billing addresses (luckily our attorney sniffed that one out), paid the amount he felt he should, and refused to pay interest when his payments were more than 90 days late. Watch out for this guy. He's a real snake, and full of shit.
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