Mar 11 2007

Dillsmack Gets Threatened With Lawsuit

By Jeremy Schoemaker 34 comments

When we were about to leave St. Louis late weds night Dillsmack got a call from some folks who evidently did not like his opinion of phoenix imaging. It also is the first time that Dills has been threatened with a suit. I remember the first time someone threatened to sue me (about 6 years ago) … I was pretty scared.

Anyway you can read about dillsmack’s adventure here.

jim said on March 11th, 2007 at 11:44 am

They don’t have a leg to stand on because it’s the truth, the onus is on them to prove that his account didn’t happen that way. Plus, in that post, besides the title being Phoenix Imaging Sucks, has hardly any disparaging comments about the company, just an account of what happened (which would lead the reader to understand why it is that Phoenix Imaging Sucks).

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Theo said on March 11th, 2007 at 11:52 am

They should have sued their web designer.

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Jeremy said on March 11th, 2007 at 11:57 am

Slander: a malicious, false, and defamatory statement or report.

Doesn’t seem to me like his post meets this definition. More power to dillsmack for reporting the truth. The claim won’t stand up in court if it even goes that far.

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mad4 said on March 11th, 2007 at 12:19 pm

Whats the best way to get loads of negative publicity? Sue a blogger.

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ToddW said on March 11th, 2007 at 1:04 pm

He has nothing to worry about!

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Dee said on March 11th, 2007 at 1:04 pm

Yes its true it wont go that far in court at all even if things do get critical.

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Maki said on March 11th, 2007 at 1:44 pm

Phoenix doesn’t have a legit reason for sueing Dill. The whole thing is silly. A company putting force on a client that shush up just because they don’t want others to know about their shoddy customer service.

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soul-healer said on March 11th, 2007 at 2:02 pm

for me it isnt a strong law suit. Nothing to worry about.

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ToddW said on March 11th, 2007 at 2:57 pm

Lots of webhosting companies sue forums for the same thing, and most lose.

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Dastar said on March 11th, 2007 at 3:17 pm

Thank god. I use web hosting talk for feedback on potential hosts (among other forums).

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CPA Affiliates said on March 11th, 2007 at 3:17 pm

WOW thats crazy! never a good thing but it happens. I am sure he will ask ya for some advice!

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Tyler Banfield said on March 11th, 2007 at 3:22 pm

Agreed, it’s an honest account, and all a lawsuit would do is make them look worse than they already do. It would be fun to get Dillsmack’s story to #1 for Phoenix Imaging (it’s already at #10).

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Purplepeeps said on March 11th, 2007 at 3:30 pm

Sounds like they lost your part to me - hoping that you’d forget about it if they stopped contacting you long enough.

What friggin idiot…some people shouldn’t be in business. You should counter sue for your part back in the People’s Court! dunt..dunt…dunt

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State Of Brain said on March 11th, 2007 at 3:36 pm

So did Dil ever get his part? How was the quality of it? Looks like they just raised hell on their own company by blowing things up.

If they wouldn’t have sued then maybe only a few people would read Dil’s page from 2005. Now that people are blogging about it a whole bunch more people no about it.

Way to go Keith from Phoenix Imaging! XD

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Nathan Hannig said on March 11th, 2007 at 3:58 pm

wow that is scary, i hope they cant sue him

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geegel said on March 11th, 2007 at 4:17 pm

They will probably not sue. Seems like a scare tactic and as long as the author made it clear to be his personal opinion, his defense is unsinkable.

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geegel said on March 11th, 2007 at 4:20 pm

bloggers unite? I will post on my blog with “Phoenix Imaging” in the anchor text linking to Dillsmack’s story. Perhaps we can start a movement here

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Ahmad Uzair said on March 11th, 2007 at 7:21 pm

howdy!dill never get his part and then he about to be sued.That is scary dude.

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fivecentnickel.com said on March 11th, 2007 at 7:26 pm

If I had a nickel for every time someone threatened me with a lawsuit, well… I’d be broke.

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natekapi said on March 11th, 2007 at 7:29 pm

Jeezum, people will sue for just about anything these days.

I read the story on Dillsmacks site, but I was a little disappointed that he didn’t finish it completely. He never mentioned if he got the thing back in a week or what.

It really sounds like that company sucks though and he documented everything pretty good.

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fivecentnickel.com said on March 11th, 2007 at 8:57 pm

Or is the story still ongoing? I couldn’t tell.

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Stuart Hannig said on March 11th, 2007 at 10:59 pm

Yeah, I’d hate to be sued.

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ToddW said on March 11th, 2007 at 11:42 pm

Get your own server

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ToddW said on March 11th, 2007 at 11:42 pm

How did the dash come out? Maybe update with that info ?

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wildbluff_matt said on March 12th, 2007 at 6:04 am

good point. I’d never heard of them until this moment.

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jim said on March 12th, 2007 at 1:57 pm

And you get negative publicity fed directly to the market you service. Incredible!

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Dastar said on March 12th, 2007 at 2:03 pm

You still need to read feedback for that too though!

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Dastar said on March 12th, 2007 at 2:04 pm

Shoe, who was threatening to sue you?

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wildbluff_matt said on March 15th, 2007 at 1:47 pm

Any updates on this out there?

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Ken Savage said on April 6th, 2007 at 9:01 pm

Make a video man of you burnin the papers and throw that up on youtube

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coop said on April 13th, 2007 at 3:24 pm

getting sued sucks… when i was 16 me and my parents were sued because i was in a car wreck that wasn’t my fault! a suit for 100,000 bucks never was resolved though, they finally dropped it because of witness testimony against them lol

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Wealth Junkie said on April 14th, 2007 at 5:35 pm

Lawsuits can definitely be intimidating.. I remember getting my first C&D like it was yesterday..

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dillsmack said on March 11th, 2007 at 1:59 pm

Funny you should mention that. I couldn’t agree more.

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dillsmack said on March 11th, 2007 at 9:08 pm

The thing I wrote is 2 years old. I did get the dash back a couple weeks after I wrote that, but never updated it. The phone call on Weds brought this all back up.

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