Thursday was just suppose to be Ventura Flea Market day, we set up got comfortable and just doing our thing. Linda usually goes of and connects with others. Sandy and Stan were there so we were back and forth. Linda came rushing back after awhile and said we need to talk to this dealer she met. I went over and the beans were spilled on Nipomo. A gal from Lompoc essentially said that why haven't we picked up our belongings yet?
I went back sat down and started researching "Dan the Man". Well he filed for bankruptcy on the 12th and apparently he had filed before but under him not his daughter. So things started to come to light. But this became a big distraction for us and we weren't on our game.
Decisions were made, we were going to Nipomo , but not without a funky call from Dan. He called with a lowball offer of 550 for the 925 tables. I didn't take it but I was fearful he would sell them and I wouldn't see the dinero. I assured him we would be there on our work day on Monday. I was shaking, what I really wanted to do was slam the phone on a counter, well not my phone. We finished our gig with great distraction and went home and unloaded.
Thursday morning had to pick up a photo cube and deliver to Amy Labrecque in Castaic and then we were off to Santa Maria to pick up a UHaul and drive to Nipomo. We get there and Bill and I are ready to load. Linda on hte other hand had the worst job dealing with Dan at the main store.
One of the first things Bill and I notice is that we were one of three dealers still left at the 8000 sq feet shop. We chatted about it and acted like nothing happened. Linda returned and said that Dan wasn't ready to see her. We gave her the run down on who is left. She returned to deal with the Grifter we know as Dan. Bill and I continued.
Halfway through Peter, owners 17 year old son, came over to Bill and I because his dad wants to know why we were moving out. Perplexed and knowing Linda is over there waiting, I told him that his dad should try to talk to Linda who is WAITING. Peter conveyed and then we were back to packing.
Linda did return and Dan was just full of jargon and bs. We are supposedly making a mistake, blah, blah, blah. She needed a break from the asshole. He wouldn't come from behind the counter and wanted to show her some jewelry he had purchased, probably stolen. We told her to return and Bill and I were almost done. While with us a gal in the shop had a call from Dan that her phone was over there still and that the nude pictures of Bill.....yadda, yadda, yadda. Weird.
Bill and I finished and she returned to dealing with him. but this time about money. His deal, no 30 day notice no deposit. Plus he said that he cut our rents in half- so what there is nobody left and rent is paid forward it doesn't even matter. And oh, I Barbara owe him money but that is ok it doesn't matter-whatever.
I looked at the books and there hasn't been hardly any sales and one day was one item a $3 pool ball from me-wow!! While he is over telling Linda that we have had $3000 days in the Mary street store-not! Linda had a check and cashed it to pay a layaway that he threatened to put back in stock but no receipts.
When we were done we drover to Panera in Arroya and had a bite to eat and reminisced. Sad but very relieved we had made the push to get out. Exhausted we caravaned home through the 166. We are dumbfounded.
So we returned home unloaded, took some pictures of the amoire and went home. This was followed by knowing that Chris and I would have to pick up the moving truck and move the credenza into Paulas in Lebec again. So we did but this was a joyous day, Ian and Stefh were getting married in San Bernardina in at Hall off Records.
Tired, emotionally beaten Wesley, Linda, Bill and I saddled up and drove out. But while Linda and I sat in the back we made numerous calls. One I pretented that I was interested in the property at Mary street so I talked to the lead commercial broker, john Rossetti of Rossetti. He said it will be available October 1st and Linda called the other broker through the Chamber of Commerce and he had a ton to say.
Mary street 6 months behind in rent, Tefft main store 4 months behind, Old Town Tefft not only had trouble with historical society and thumbed his nose at them he was evicted for no rent as well. And one of the rmaining dealers at Mary Street was blocked from getting her belongings and had to have a police escort and Dan tried to run the brokers wife over in a parking lot.
You couldn't make these stories up they are too weird. Well I created a site for people to go to in case they do not know all the facts which is basically a place where links are given to official sites. Just the facts babe. Well someone notified me that he was arrested on the 23rd at the shop for petty theft but this is the first of many things that is to come. Another is a reporter who wants to do a story on him and his downfall also contacted. What I did find out is that the dba is in his daughters name who is 24 since he had a bankruptcy in 2012. He also hides behind his faith, LDS, his children, his adoption of them and his service mutt. Of coarse.
I would have loved to see him arrested! But people who are out money and Nipomo as a community are out a great deal more then most.
My next entry will be about the amazing wedding. Which was fun, emotional and beautiful. I so missed out by Chris and Steph not doing anything that the family could come to. Plus his brother really wanted him to be present.
Don't get me started!!!
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