Legal Files: Gallery of Fine Cars threatens to sue beyond.ca

[rage2]

I've decided since I'm spending so much money on lawyers every year, that I might as well post up the things we get.

I just checked our beyond emails, and got this today.

From: Justin Klee
Sent: Tuesday, June 17, 2008 5:27 PM
Subject: The Gallery of fine cars/legal action against beyond.ca

To whom this may concern,

Over the past 2 or so years we have received some very negitive publicity from your website www.beyond.ca. We neither have the time or patience anymore to respond to these very untrue, biased blogs on your website and will be filing a class action suit against www.beyond.ca and any of its owners if The Gallery of fine cars is further mentioned hereforth in its website. We would also like any prior posts, blogs or mentions deleted from your system asap. We have set an appropriate deadline of June 23/2008 for someone to either respond or the above actions to be resolved otherwise we will be dealing with this in a legal manner. Thank you.

Justin Klee/Adriano Aprile
Owners
The Gallery of Fine Cars Inc.
1305 33rd Street NE
Calgary, AB T2E 6S8

I replied with this:

Hi Justin.

As you are probably aware, there are nearly 2.5 million posts on beyond, and the moderation team can not and does not read every post on the forums, nor can we authenticate the accuracy of every post. The content of each post lies with the users that write them, as clearly stated in our Terms of Use. We do not remove threads or posts because someone simply asks us to, this has been and always will be our style of moderation to allow our users a right to express their opinion, good or bad, even for sponsors of our site. We usually get requests after a reply like this to release information of users posting unfavorable opinions of you and/or your business, so I would like to inform you in advance that unless we are required to by a court order, such information will not be disclosed, again, as stated in our Terms of Use.

If you have specific posts that you feel are untrue, feel free to forward them to me and I will inform the user in question to modify or delete their post (each user has such a right). I personally recommend you use our Private Message system to communicate with the users directly, as it’s much faster than to have us perform the task.

If you still wish to proceed through a legal path (honestly, we get about 10 of these a year and you’ll be just wasting your money), you can forward your claim to our legal counsel for such matters at Bennett Jones.

Thanks.

Just a quick warning to those that have posted about Gallery of Fine Cars, if what you posted is the truth or opinion, there is nothing they can do legally to beyond.ca or to you. Hell, we even get money back when we counter sue for wasting our time.

If, however, what you posted is not the truth, then they can have a court order to have us remove the post, release your information, and they can sue you directly.

[rage2]

Oh ya, I forgot to mention, they should really check to see what a class action lawsuit is.

[Toma]

You rule! lol

[SCHIDER23]

not another lawsuit, lets hope everything turns out on beyond favor

[kenny]

Originally posted by SCHIDER23
not another lawsuit, lets hope everything turns out on beyond favor

There is no lawsuit unless we mention The Gallery of Fine Cars again on beyond... Oh wait. I just mentioned them.

[Mibz]

Originally posted by rage2
Oh ya, I forgot to mention, they should really check to see what a class action lawsuit is.

I was gonna say.... That's hilarious.

[Boosted_TL]

Rage 1 - Gallery 0

Round 2 "ding ding ding"

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[rmk]

Man, it would take a full day to delete all the negative comments about them! Run your business professionally and you won't have all these problems.

(honestly, we get about 10 of these a year and you’ll be just wasting your money)

[avishal26]

Last time I checked, this was still a free country and we're entitled to our opinions. Same goes for sharing our opinions with our friends...

[KuruptEX]

A lawsuit brought by one or more plaintiffs on behalf of a large group of others who have a common interest.

lol

[teg_boya]

ya that shows how shitty of a company they are if they make a bad reputation for themselves then try and clean it up by sueing the people that they treated like shit...

[benyl]

Originally posted by rage2
Oh ya, I forgot to mention, they should really check to see what a class action lawsuit is.

Haha, that was the first thing I noticed.

[Destinova403]

see... and thats what i love about rage... he protects us and our right to an honest oppinion/free speach

[schocker]

So I guess a good example of a class action suit would be their prior customers stuck with their fine cars

[a social dsease]

Gallery of Fine Cars SUCKS!!

oh shit!!!

I'm gonna get sued!

[Donmega]

man, such cry babies

+1 for beyond

[Eleanor]

[alloroc]

Wow Gallery of Fine Cars is sueing beyond, I didn't know that.

Amazing that Gallery of Fine Cars would do that, I guess the Gallery of Fine Cars has to do what they have to do but a member's opinion is just that, an opinion.

I take it there are some members of beyond.ca that think less of the Gallery of Fine Cars. Could you say that user opinions of the Gallery of Fine Cars is less than favorable?

I didn't know exactly what "Gallery" meant so I looked it up. Did you know that a group of people watching a tennis match are called a gallery?
I also discovered that People go to a Gallery to look at art. I suppose fine cars could be considered art. So if there were fine cars in the Gallery of Fine Cars they could be called a gallery.

[Hakkola]

Originally posted by rage2
Oh ya, I forgot to mention, they should really check to see what a class action lawsuit is.

I really hope that wasn't written by a lawyer, hahaha.

I like their tactics though, who needs negative publicity from Beyond forum members, when you can just make some yourself!

Originally posted by Destinova403
he protects us and our right to an honest oppinion/free speach

Sorry, you only get free speech on beyond if you spell properly.

Thanks for posting this Rage.

[8Ball]

Originally posted by teg_boya
ya that shows how shitty of a company they are if they make a bad reputation for themselves then try and clean it up by sueing the people that they treated like shit...

+10!