Porn Valley- I spoke to Ed from Dane Productions. Ed has closed shop, is looking for a buyer for the company but wanted to set the record straight about a few things. Particularly his firing of Bob Blisten and Dana his bookkeeper. www.adultfyi.com/read.php?ID=25041.
According to Ed, it was his former VP Blisten who shut the company down, noting that key sales lists went missing after Blisten left.
“They were my lists- not anything that he brought in,” claims Ed. “But the reason that Bob and Dana got fired is Bob violated company procedures. Both of them did. Procedures state every Monday, sales persons get a new receivable list. You do not sell anybody that owes you money. You’re supposed to look at the list, call the people on the phone and say I can’t ship the next order out until I get paid.”
“Most of the time the person will say send it out COD and I’ll add the other one on to it, or here’s my credit card. Something. He wasn’t doing that- just selling. He was selling people that owed us money. A case in point- there was an order sitting here for almost $4500- for about ten days. I refused to let it go out because the company owed me from another order and they were sixty days late with that.
“I wasn’t here one day, and Bob went in and told Eddie the warehouse guy that it was okay to ship it out. That I said that. Eddie said to him are you sure. Bob said I spoke to him [Ed the owner], no problem. What do you think? The order went out so he could get his commission. He was on commission only. And now the guy’s into me for $9300- the person we shipped to. He didn’t pay for the first order, now he’s not paying for the second one.”
“Dana’s job as someone who runs the computer and creates invoices, was the last check as far as determining who we ship or don’t ship to,” Ed continues. “The ball was dropped. That’s the reason why both of them are gone.”
According to Ed, the situation wasn’t going on that long.
“But long enough that I found out about it,” Ed states. “I confronted Bob and asked why are we selling these people? Then he over rode me on an order and used my name when he never spoke to me about it. That’s when I fired him.”
On another occasion prior to that firing, Bob and Ed had words.
“Bob walked out, worked for somebody then came back two days later,” explains Ed. “I laid the ground rules when he came back. Then I started looking at his receivables and they kept going up and getting longer and longer in age. He wasn’t caring.”
Ed said it didn’t help, either, when Bob began putting out stories stating that the company was hurting.
“People weren’t paying,” says Ed. “And we had a decent business. I was going into another avenue with somebody- a big time player- and Bob knew he wasn’t being included. They didn’t want to have him. So after all these years, this is what he did to me.”
Blisten had been employed by Ed for 4 1/2 years.
The status of Dane is that it’s closed, says Ed.
“How can I keep running when no money’s coming in?” he asks. “I paid a lot of bills off before this. I didn’t owe a replicator a money. I didn’t owe a lot of people a penny. Now I’m trying to sell the company. We made good product. We’ve got the website. We’ve got a lot of titles from other people. We had a lot of good things happening and I would have been in fabulous shape. If I held out long enough everything would have been fine. But things happen for the best.”
[Interested parties can call Ed @ 949-636-6280.]