Joe Laughlin posts on GFY: If you want full story feel free to ICQ me and Ill supply neccessary prooof.. I am sick of people telling me stories about what happened to them that it also happened to me. When I was unaware and brand new in this buisness of dvd retail..Arnold Stein from Arizona, approached me and gave me this great speech about distributing my dvds. Well to make a long story short, He had us ship 600 dvds out to his customers and we invoiced them , after we were paid we was to cut Arnold an agreed 25%. Problem is he was invoicing customers also saying a mistake was made and they were to pay him, not me. As months went by and I was asking about payment , he said its normal to wait up to 180 days to be paid..WHEN IN FACT , he was laready paid for mu product. I found this out from the rash of paid checks the people sent me saying they paid OPD. He even went as far as saying that HE in fact produced these dvds and were his.. listed on his website as his.
Then we meet up at LA Erotica last June. I made him a deal that id sell him 3 titles.. 1000 of each one. at a price of $6 ea for 2 of the titles and $5ea for 1 of them with the agreement Im paid withing 30 days. Well at 30 days he then proceeds to tell my employeee that I agreed to a minimum of 90 days thinking I would play dumb. When I called his bluff , he then said well, im just gonna return a bunch, which he returned alot. Now I needed the money then but in all reality the deal and price was based on 1000 piece order per title. I then had to make payment arrangements with him which of course were broken many times before finally being resolved.
This guy is a piece of human shit and thrives on new people in this end of the biz who do not know any better. So stay clear of his bullshit. More to come im sure.
Many of the retailers I deal with now say they refuse to deal with him.
