A public relations representative contacted my office today and claimed to have a written retraction by Robert Danoff.\u00a0 Since I have never seen Bob’s signature, I cannot verify if it is actually his or not.\u00a0 I am happy to post the letter if I can verify from Bob himself that he did willingly sign this letter and the conditions in which he is signing it.<\/p>\n
The letter is direct and plain.\u00a0 Having spoken to Bob in the past, it appears to be inconsistent with his writing style.\u00a0 It looks like someone wrote a letter and, at best, told him to sign it.<\/p>\n
After all the time and energy Bob has given, why a retraction now?\u00a0 From my understanding, neither party is allowed to discuss it.<\/p>\n
Having dealt with the court system myself as a plaintiff, it sounds like a settlement was reached.\u00a0 The “only” thing Bob has to do is agree to sign to the contents of the letter which says he was a disgruntled employee and other descriptions and Incredible Discoveries would drop all lawsuits against him.\u00a0 That is only an educated guess on my part and I had thought this might eventually happen.<\/p>\n
Having learned a little bit about his personal situation over the past few months, I suppose it was inevitable this would happen.\u00a0 After all, why would he want to continue to fight this?\u00a0 He had very little to gain monetarily.\u00a0 It is way easier to simply stop fighting.\u00a0 And if that is the case, so be it.<\/p>\n
To be clear, I have no dog in this fight at all.\u00a0 What I dislike is having my time wasted and having someone or some company solicit my business and asking $75,000 from me with little more than an attractive website.\u00a0 Are you kidding me?\u00a0 It takes nerve to do so.\u00a0 I also find it very suspicious that I have seen in Florida public records a variety of lawsuits filed against or by the parent company of Incredible Discoveries vs. various individuals.\u00a0 Basically, I tend to think “where there is smoke, there is fire”.<\/p>\n
Having spoken to an employee within a direct response publication, a fellow entrepreneur friend who was also approached by Incredible Discoveries, and a couple of other entrepreneurs whom I do not know that complained, other people clearly share a similar distrust and suspicion of the Incredible Discoveries operation.<\/p>\n
In the interest of fairness, from my singular perspective, this is mostly my opinion.\u00a0 However, it is not entirely unfounded.\u00a0 I have found enough information in the Florida public records that would make me say to people “let the buyer beware” or “go find another company and listen to their pitch”.\u00a0 I have also kept all the communications of those who have complained or communicated with me regarding Incredible Discoveries.<\/p>\n
It also does not help when I ask the public relations person about whether other people were unhappy, she was in denial of it.\u00a0 Clearly, she did not want to talk about it and basically I could care less because I don’t want to waste time digging.\u00a0 So I let it go.\u00a0 My antenna is up and my gut instincts screams loudly regarding them.<\/p>\n
I have no interest whatsoever to dig or find any more information within the public records.\u00a0 There is no reason for me to do so.\u00a0 I did find the public relations woman I spoke to to be relatively professional, polite, pleasant, and respectful.\u00a0 Good thing because I was expecting some ugliness.\u00a0 I was happy I was wrong.\u00a0 I must admit I did ask her, “Are you going to threaten to sue me now?”\u00a0 I told her I half expected it.\u00a0 She said they were not that way.<\/p>\n
And so, I hope I do not have to write any more about Incredible Discoveries.\u00a0 I know those folks have communicated to me that they would be quite happy for me to delete all postings relating to them.\u00a0 But, they did contact me first even when I told them I wasn’t interested.\u00a0 And I do document interesting business interactions.\u00a0 They certainly qualify.<\/p>\n
I may eventually remove my opinions of Incredible Discoveries and their disputes with others if things stay quiet long enough.<\/p>\n
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