Yes, bad things have happened, but the bad things I've seen have not in any way reflected badly (in my opinion) on the character of people like Fleecy, Ray, Bill McEwen, Gary Peake. They are flawed human beings, just like you and I, but all these guys have *earned* my trust by their actions and dealings with me.
I am continually amazed by people posting this, Bill McEwen went to Amiwest last year, after being locked out of his offices, after not paying his employees, and told everyone that everything was just great at Amiga Inc, that the rumors about lockouts, layoffs and debts were all drivel spread by anti amigans. Months after the lockout Fleecy was still saying it didnt happen, and that it was all a lie spread by H&P (remember before Genesei was the great Evil spreading lies, that position was held by H&P). I don't know how people continually lying to you about their company cannot reflect badly on their character. Doesnt it bother you that the great T-Shirt/Coupon scam didnt exist until they lost their office??
They aren't paying their employees, Ray and "Fleecy" have constantly twisted that fact.
I have not read every posting these guys have made, but my impression is that their answers have been along the lines of "that's none of your business" in regards to questions like that. I agree with them. You may not, but that's ok.
Actually they have pretty much confessed to not being paid now, and frankly it is Bolten's business, since Mr McEwen said they were not even paying salaries to his employees as one of the reasons they couldnt pay Bolten his settlement. If McEwen is lying about paying Fleecy, Ray etc, thats information the creditors have the right to know. If they didn't want to share that info, they shouldnt have defaulted on the judgements against them.
They terminated the medical insurance of employees without even telling them about it.
I take it you are referring to Bolton's case? I'm not convinced that all the facts on this issue are out yet, but that's just one thing we'll have to wait and see about. To me, this is a minor issue compared ot other issues I am aware of, so it doesn't factor in to my "trust factor".
If Bill McEwen had done this in my state, he would be the girlfriend of big guy named Bubba right now, its a felony here, so I'm not sure how you can say committing what many states consider a felony against a number of your employees (Bolten is not the only person this was done to, hes not even the only employee thats sued them about it) doesnt affect your trust of the person.
They were evicted almost A YEAR AGO and continually lied about it. They continue to twist the undeniable facts even today.
Again, there is more to the story, and because Amiga has chosen not to reveal that side of the story, what little they have said has been very easy to take out of context and assume it is their entire "defence" regarding the issue.
Since they moved into their offices in March of 2000, the owner of the property had to take them to court twice over them not paying their rent (thats in the public record, check it out). The first case they show up with a big check and got out of it, for the last year they have been locked out and havent been able to come up with the amount owed to the lender, despite scamming 65K from the Amiga Community during that same time, yesterday all of Amiga Incs possessions at the office were auctioned off to pay down that debt. There isnt alot of other stuff to tell, its like it is at your house, if you dont pay the rent/mortgage, eventually they kick you out and sell your stuff.
-Tig
