A few of you might know what has been going on behind the scenes this last week, but I owe and apology to 2 friends of mine here on LRG, Plasticsoul and my business partner Ironmask.
First off, I highly respect Plasticsoul and everything he has done. I had the honor of first casting up his critter figure quite a while ago. Off and on since then I had asked Plasticsoul if it would be ok to sell some on different occasions, but recently I made a bad mistake (which is a big mistake in the toy making community) and sold some without permission. I made the mistake of assuming it would be ok, and that was completely wrong. I hurt Plasticsoul and angered him with my actions and I am truly sorry for this. I have worked out a deal to fix this mistake, and I hope we will be able to move past this and put it behind us. Plasticsoul, bud, I am truly sorry I made this mistake and I hope you can forgive me.
Secondly; Jimmy, you are not someone I ever intentionally meant to hurt, and I am really sorry any of this came to be. I have expressed my negligence with my bad business ability/mentality and lax way of handling all our affairs. Unknowingly and non-purposely I haven’t compensated Jimmy enough over our endeavor of making toys together. We had a deal to set money aside for a specific fund, and I took advantage of this fund for my personal use. I had a problem of not handling this responsibility in a responsible matter and I am sorry for this. I truly consider you a friend and it hurts me to thing I messed up our partnership. I hope the agreement we have come to will be enough to amend this mistake and will allow the ability to move past this gracefully. I am sorry my friend and no matter what happens I want to know I respect you greatly as a person and an artist, and I would like to thank you for being a driving forcing in getting me off my butt to release my own mini figures.
These mistakes have opened my eyes to how bad I have been running my business on many levels. I never was one to take anything too seriously and took everything with a nonchalant attitude, and was way too laid back in my dealings. I never wrote anything down, I never took the time to double think my actions, I just got an idea and went with it. This isn’t the way anyone should run anything business, and like these examples prove it will eventually bite you in the butt. I will take what I learned here and push forward in a positive way and change my mistakes.
I apologize to all others on the board too for causing any drama and to anyone disappointed in my actions or who have lost faith in me. I hope no one double thinks any dealings I have had with them, of believes I did anything on purpose to take advantage of a situation or rip anyone off. I believe I have been a stand-up guy in any and all transactions and dealings on this forum, and try on most occasions to hook-up many of you. I hope my future actions and business practices will speak for themselves and prove I’m not a bad guy, I just made a mistake.
To help pay my friends back I will be re-releasing most previous UoV figures (with the exception of Deadface or Hell Turtle, those will not be for sale). All sales with go through my store to keep track of the order in which these all come in. Before when I also took orders through PMs, it slowed me down and confused me when to fit them in between my store sales, so to make it easier on me we’ll just keep in the store. The two figures voted in to be re-released last week (Brute and Cedargeif) will also get a special release as well in a gold set with a special header. I will be using sales from my last UoV figure as well which I will be releasing shortly, along with all of these.
I will be getting a suspension for these misdeeds, I believe which starts right away. All current deals I have with anyone will have to go through my email, nothing should change and no one should worry about that. Email me at anytime to work anything out, I always have my phone on me and can usually reply within a few minutes if i am free. [Enilla1979@yahoo.com]
Thank you for taking the time read this, LRG for life.
--Ericnilla