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Imegre Marketing, Lake Isabella, California Complaints & Reviews - Violation of Client Trust, Posted Unapproved content to Failblog |
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Violation of Client Trust, Posted Unapproved content to Failblog
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Company information:
Imegre Marketing
5112 Lake Isabella Blvd.
Lake Isabella, California
United States
Phone: (760) 536-8080
imegre.com
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Imegre Marketing/James Taylor took a rough draft of artwork for publication in a small paper that was to be distributed for a non-profit organization and mangled it, then took a photo of his screen and posted it to failblog.org. His actions have led to numerous harassing telephone calls and emails as well as the internet trolls have come out of the woodwork to find any reference of my business and harass me.
James Taylor has contacted me and initially denied the allegations when in fact he had the only copy of the artwork that was posted. He then claims "some mysterious friend" took the photo and sent it to someone else who then posted it. Either way, Mr. Taylor and Imegre is 100% responsible for the posting as he had the artwork which was not yet proofed (which by the way he distorted it for the final print job). Even though the job for the nonprofit was a freebie he was doing he exercised less than professional ethics in this matter and violated the trust of both the nonprofit and well me. I never trusted him to begin with.
He is a competitor of mine and rather than just be good at what he does, this is not the first time he has sought to harass me. He has also tried logging onto one of my websites to post inflammatory comments against my business. I have let all that go until now. In this particular incident he also made an extra effort to contact one of my clients and trash talk me for no reason other than to cause malice.
If you are a business partner, client or prospective client of James Taylor/Imegre Marketing of Lake Isabella, CA who also hails from Fresno, please beware that your data is not safe as in this incident he has either personally used my data to harass me or allowed malicious 3rd parties to do so.
I had published a complaint on my own website addressing the issue at which point James Taylor personally contacted me. I offered for him to issue a public apology on company letterhead accepting responsibility for the issue to replace the statements I made. He has refused as he is immature and doesn't see how he is at fault. I am now removing the remarks from my website to use complaints board instead.
The harassment I received as a result of James Taylors unprofessional behavior and childish antics has led to a disruption of my business due to the numerous telephone calls from internet morons and the harassing emails.
If this behavior continues I will be sure to post further damages. |
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UPDATE - 3/21/2011 24 hours after my report, Mr. James Taylor has contacted me by telephone indicating I should remove this "alleged" libelous report and he won't comment further on this.
I indicated to him that since my statements are true, and since he personally indicated on failblog that the post originated from artwork on his computer, there is no libel. There is never libel in the truth.
I do not seek financial damages in this case, I seek a written apology on company letterhead from Taylor. When this was told to Taylor, he indicated he would not comment on this. With this letter the situation can be remedied quickly however Taylor refuses to accept responsibility for his actions. |
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| So, you think I a simple minded web browser is a moron kvwired. Well it seems you have lost all respect from me. I did not even care to read the complaint, too stupid to I guess. |
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| I just checked out the site, www.imegre.com the site looks pretty cool, called the guy he seems alright imegre marketing is alright in my book. |
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| I saw the original image of the failblog site and nowhere on there is any James Taylor post at all, alls I see is a fight with words going on between "Dude" and "Dude is a whiner." And I have been on both sites and the only person who seems to be lashing out is Shawn Gilber, not James Taylor. |
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I have used Imegre for multiple projects and artwork. I have found that James Taylor is a professional graphics artist and a fun businessman to talk to and pitch ideas with.
I am starting to believe that Shawn Gilbert is a bit of a whiner and can't take it that his artwork doesn't meet par. I will say that I plan to continue to contract Imegre for any future work that I am going to contract out.
I have been a professional web software developer for over 7 years now and have enjoyed the unique artistic style Imegre has and would never even consider Imegre to do such a lowly act of posting a competitors artwork on failblog.
Also if you are a competitor Shawn, why did you have Imegre "Fix" your art? Could it be that you know Imegre is good? |
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For those who cannot read, this is not a "competition" for who is the best graphics artist. For the "record" James did not "fix" the art, he distorted it. Furthermore the guy who goes by web moron, cannot read as James Taylors post is there clear as day on failblog as it appears in the screen shot with my original complaint.
This is a question of James Taylor's business and professional ethics, he was delegated by a nonprofit to publish a newsletter I was advertising in and he used this opportunity for his personal folly and exploitation. Whether you consider Imegre to do such a lowly act, believe it he chose the low road and did EXACTLY that, or has he states, one of his buddies did. Either way he had full knowledge of the act and was in full control of any art of mine which he ultimately distorted (on purpose) before sending to the printer.
All I have asked for was the courtesy of a professional apology on his letterhead, apparently he is too immature for that, and would rather instead waste his time creating fake personas and invite his buddies to post fake (positive) statements about him.
James it will take you 15 minutes and a piece of paper to put this to rest. It will be the best thing you can do to restore your integrity rather than keep this going. If you honestly knew you had no liability on this issue you would step up and either defend yourself personally, rather than continue on the low road you have chosen.
The longer you hesitate, the worse you look. |
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I would like to point out that I am a Web Developer that has contracted Imegre in the past and that you keep saying that this was done on purpose but you have no actual evidence or any means to secure evidence that this was in fact done intentionally. I have had a professional relationship with Imegre from its start and have never been disappointed.
I do not plan to insult you there is no point in a counter attack as I understand that you are just trying to justify yourself by trying to find fault in another. this is a common reaction when one realizes that their skill is inferior to another's. I must admit I have done what you have in the past Shawn, I have insulted the more talented than myself. But eventually you will realize that it is all okay if someone is better than you.
I believe the comments should stop here as you have no reason to further your insults. If you are so talented then why stoop to the low level you have! (that is rhetorical "means I don't expect an answer") |
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Look, he had the only copy of the artwork on his computer. The computer he controls in his private office, not at some internet cafe or public library. How is he not ENTIRELY responsible for what happened?
He knew his friend took the photo and posted it to failblog several days before the internet trolls came out of the woodwork. He admitted that on the telephone to me. If he was professional and this was an actual "oops" he could have contacted me immediately with a heads up, and issued an apology, but NO, he thought he was a funnyman, and he took no action to retract the post he was directly responsible for or to make amends for the damages. His original comment was the posting occurred on failblog "organically" as if the artwork photographed itself and posted itself there.
I guaranteed a mutual apology to James if he issued a letter, he OBVIOUSLY is not mature enough to do so.
This is not a low road I am taking. James Taylor has taken the low road by being completely unprofessional from the start. As I stated before he has also tried attacking me through the comment system of another website I own, and he has done other things recently which I won't go into here in addition to this.
I offered for James to write a letter of apology 4 days before writing my report. With that letter I guaranteed to drop the subject. You would think in that 4 days he would have exhausted his resources to remove the post from failblog, or he would have written the letter. I think my extending the offer of writing the letter to be rather gracious considering what he is responsible for.
Whether or not you have had a professional relationship with Taylor is not in question here gasdeveloper. The fact is he is responsible for the actions taken against me. Nothing in your relationship with Taylor can negate what he did so if you are his friend, you will stop defending him and suggest he writes the letter. |
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It seems that you take things more personal that others. Taylor does own Imegre however I prefer to refer to it as Imegre as we are talking about a company here, otherwise the complaint post would be for James Taylor not Imegre Marketing.
So lets keep things more professional than to start low balling. The references here should remain aimed at Imegre. I am guilty of this at first in my posts by referring to him personally. However I would expect that you do the kindness to keep this matter professional and refer to his company and him.
On another note you say that he should have removed the post from failblog? If in fact he isn't the Original Poster then he has absolutely no control over that. And the Tom guy will have to do that.
I am sure you understand this. And to ask for a letter of apology also? Why, did he directly insult you? I do believe it was someone else that did. That fact that he is the medium that the person used to come into contact with your artwork is not his fault. I am sure as soon as you have posted this artwork on one of your sites it would have happened too. |
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Why an apology letter from James Taylor/Imegre.
Once again he had complete control of the only copy of the artwork.
It would be foolish to believe that when the photo of James's computer screen was done, that James did not personally know of it or what it was going to be used for. My artwork really isn't that interesting.
James Taylor personally tried to submit the art with a changed pink background, I don't care about the cmyk/rgb argument I submit art to printers all the time and all they say is "Send me a file, any file and I will make it work". Whe is it that he could not do this if he is a competent graphic artist (which I admit, he is) unless he was being malicious.
On the final submit to the printing company, he purposely stretched the ad even though he did not have to to make it work in the space given. Another malicious act.
So, you look at 2 obvious malicious acts he directly had his hands on why wouldn't he have had something to do with the 3rd? If his office was in an internet cafe or public place this would have been an entirely different situation and even believable. If the artwork was a photo of the ad in actual print or a sign somewhere it would be at least tolerable and not the blame of James. The fact is he used the art maliciously and had the only copy so he is directly responsible for what was posted.
That is not the case. James's computer is in his private office. I don't know about you but as a professional I pretty much don't even let my family have access to my work computer in my office.
James knows who "Tom" is, he could have contacted Tom and begged. He could have found out how to contact the owner of failblog and pleaded with them. He did not. He thought he was smart and funny.
If James did not know Tom, or did not have direct contact with "Tom", then how did James know the art was on failblog 1-2 days before me, or immediately after it was posted?
He has no defense. This argument of him not being responsible is that of a 2 year old home alone who is questioned that has red paint on his shirt and hands and there are red childrens handprints on the wall. Did you have something to do with that little Joey? Nooo.. someone else did it. Bullcrap.
James Taylor is 100% responsible in this issue. He should grow up and accept responsibility for it. |
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"calls from internet morons and the harassing emails." - kvwired
"So, you think I a simple minded web browser is a moron kvwired. Well it seems you have lost all respect from me. I did not even care to read the complaint, too stupid to I guess." - Web Moron
I may be a simple minded local, but web moron does have a point, however you look at this, your post is condesending and insulting to the reader, no offense intended.
"Furthermore the guy who goes by web moron, cannot read as James Taylors post is there clear as day on failblog as it appears in the screen shot with my original complaint." - Kvwired
Furthermore proves the point..., also I know of failblog, it isn't hard to post in someone's name, that is a very unreliable a source for evidence.
"He knew his friend took the photo and posted it to failblog several days before the internet trolls came out of the woodwork. He admitted that on the telephone to me. If he was professional and this was an actual "oops" he could have contacted me immediately with a heads up, and issued an apology, but NO, he thought he was a funnyman, and he took no action to retract the post he was directly responsible for or to make amends for the damages. His original comment was the posting occurred on failblog "organically" as if the artwork photographed itself and posted itself there." - kvwired
Also if this is true whay you are targeting this James, and Imegre company it sounds like this "friend" is the real problem, attacking an individual and company when you are not even 100% sure they are the responsible party is simply irresponsible. I certinately hope this issue gets resolved, but your approach seems unnecessarily harrassing and sounds more like trying to bully the competition out. Just my two cents, I certainly hope I don't get my head bitten off... |
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RikkyG - Will not bite your head off. This is the 2nd of 3 personal/professional attack by James Taylor/Imegre against me. Not going into the 3rd. There has been other behavior that follows suit as well but we are leaving this out.
Look at a hypothetical situation:
Say I personally don't like you, and I have a gun. Say I invite a friend over and give him the gun, telling him I don't like you and want to do something to you. Say that friend then gives the gun to yet another person, who pulls the trigger and shoots you. Yes, the trigger man is responsible, yes the friend who gave the trigger man the gun and told him you were the target is responsible, but WHO would ultimately be the originator of the crime? Me, if I handed off the gun in the first place, making statements that I wanted something bad to happen. I could claim "I did not know what was going to happen", I could claim "I am innocent", but we all know better than that don't we?
This is EXACTLY what happened in this situation, and only a 2 year old would think that he is truly innocent of the crime, such as the way James Taylor/Imegre is acting now.
The other 2 guys are just James Taylors "tools" and I do mean that in the most derogatory way.
I don't care if you know or do business with James and he has been A-OK 100 times with you or anyone else. He has personally attacked me 3 times without provocation, has now been caught publicly with his hand in the cookie jar, fails to accept personal/professional responsibility for his behavior and that speaks VOLUMES of his character, ethics and personality. That is the purpose of my post, and no argument from you or anyone else can negate what he has done or is doing, nor can any argument "let him off the hook" on this one.
The only redemption James Taylor/Imegre has is to issue a public apology as prescribed, which at this point is a little late in the game and pretty much would be worthless as it would lack any sincerity on his behalf. At this point I, or anyone else should consider him a potential wildcard, unpredictable, and potentially hostile. I, definitely am hostile towards him, professionally at this point but only as a result of the circumstance created by him. James Taylor/Imegre Marketing has poked the stick into the hornets nest one too many times. |
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Correction... I am giving James Taylor/Imegre the benefit of the doubt.
When I said that's exactly what happened, I mean that if in fact James did not personally post it himself pretending to be a guy named Tom.
As stated, either way Mr. Taylor is 100% responsible either directly or indirectly. |
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On Wed. 3/23/2011 I was contacted by James Taylor/Imegre. He apparently went through some email correspondence from the past stating he remembers when things were "civil" between us. To be honest I think he is referring to the time where he would ask me questions about my business and then use my information against me. In his email, he said he would like to put this all behind us. I stated CLEARLY in my response that I would be happy to, providing he supplies me a professional letter with his apology owning up to his poor behavior on this issue.
I even took the first step, to send him a draft of what my apology in kind would read if he sent his. I also offered to make reconciliary remarks on this and other complaints websites if he issued the letter.
You would think that 48 hours later he would have written his letter based on this and called me to pick it up.
He wants this situation to go away, sure, but he doesn't want to accept his responsibility in the circumstances that created it.
Is this the man you want working for you? |
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| Given the level of Imegre's work produced, I would say heck yes. I want Imegre to design all of my artwork. |
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I would have to say gas developer is most likely Imegre shilling his own argument.
That's the maturity level of Mr. James Taylor of Imegre Marketing.
You don't see him posting here to defend himself. Where is he going to be when the job he's working on for you goes wrong?
Hiding most likely and pointing the finger at somebody else.
As stated numerous times, there is no question of Taylor's quality of work, just his ethics and professionalism.
There is no excuse for his behavior.
Charlie Sheen was the highest paid and a very popular actor in Hollywood, look at him now. He might still be able to act, he might still have money, but nobody trusts him because professionally he is a jacka$$. Sound like Taylor? |
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Well, if you must know I don't hide. My name is Donald Duvall, I work in bakersfield as a Software Engineer for an Automation Systems communication hardware developer. I also run a blog that I just started. www.justramble.com
So there, you false accusation of me being James is wrong. You so quickly came to an assumption based on your own bias. I think this has been blown out of proportion and you me dear sir, are the one in debt of the apology. |
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Not so Mr. Duvall.
You are too close to James to look at the situation objectively.
For instance if a church hired James to do their flier, and took paid sponsor ads as many do, what if one of the church advertisers had a funny graphic and James did the same thing to them? Wouldn't that be entirely unprofessional and unethical and an act of bad faith towards the church and ultimately the guy trying to place his ad in their flier?
That is what happened here, and any way you look at it James Taylor/Imegre is in the wrong. The circumstances are a little different here, as the non-profit publication was a local organization, and the ad he abused was mine, what he perceives as competition.
He and probably you would like to think otherwise because somehow James Taylor is threatened by me, and you are his buddy, not necessarily a normal client of his.
James has tried to attack me via the comment system on one of my sites before as well, another unsolicited act of aggression. And then he tried contacting one of my clients to try and start his nonsense.
I think James Taylor should really just pay attention to his own business instead of constantly attacking mine.
It is unfortunate for James that as stated before he poked the hornets nest one too many times so now he can live with this report of how he is unprofessional and how LIKE A CHILD he refuses to make it right by ANY professional standard.
Nothing has been blown out of proportion sir, the only thing out of proportion is the fact that James Taylor/Imegre finds the need to attack me at every opportunity, and surely whatever psychological issue he has causing the need to attack me, bleeds over into other areas of his business.
Why Mr. Duvall can't he address his own issue here? Why does he need to hide? Is it perhaps because he knows he is in the wrong?
Likewise, for the price of a stamp, and a piece of paper he can make it end instead of wasting your time defending the defenseless. |
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I am doing this because I have more time and as stated I have used his services before, and I would hate to see someone not use his services because of this. and if as you said failblog got you a contract then why the heck are you so upset about this?
I am not to close to the situation as I said, I work for a different company and in the past owned my own business. I have contracted james to design some art, and I also have passed work his way and none of my software clients have ever been disappointed with Imegre.
Alright, I am done here. As you said this is taking a bunch of time and I think people can already see your childish whining. |
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Whatever dude, does not matter if I got a contact, I also received 200 crank telephone calls, a number of crappy messages and he did purposely distort the ad he sent to the printer WHICH if he is competent as we both agree he is, is a deliberate act of malice.
You obviously are too close, anyone can see in the example given what he did was deliberate and wrong.
I hope he loses a lot of business over this. He should not be trusted by any present or future client because you can't predict whether he will respect the ultimate client, whether it be the company that hired him direct, or the person paying the company that hired him.
DO NOT TRUST JAMES TAYLOR OR IMEGRE MARKETING. |
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