Voodoo Priestess curses yacht and broker! (Really)
 

http://youtube.com/watch?v=Xnn7_0t6eo0


Chuck Gould wrote:
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
CONTACT: Michael Caputo
TEL: 786-385-6644
EMAIL:
WEB: www.StuartYachtSleaze.com

FLORIDA BOATER TURNS TO VOODOO IN BROKER DISPUTE
Frustrated by sleazy broker's tactics, jilted buyer backs a Voodoo
curse

(September 13, 2006 - STUART, FL) A Miami boater announced today that
he and a New Orleans Voodoo princess have cast a curse on a South
Florida boat broker, his brokerage and a boat caught up in a sleazy
sale.

The burned boater also announced a Web site to warn boat buyers of the
unethical broker and his company. (www.StuartYachtSleaze.com) There,
the story is told and the curse is brought to life in a short
animation.

Miami-based writer Michael Caputo searched for months to find a right
boat. With the help of an honest broker, he located FINALE of Key West,
a Pilgrim 40 now docked and for sale in Stuart, Florida. Assured by
Woody Dyall of Stuart Yacht Sales that the boat would go to the first
full-price bid, Caputo and his broker took a full day off from work to
travel up and see her.

Minutes after a successful visit with FINALE, Caputo put in a
full-price bid. Dyall then took that offer to another buyer before
showing it to the owner and the second buyer outbid Caputo by a few
percent. Accordingly, Dyall could make the sale without sharing half
the broker commission with Caputo's representative.

Frustrated, Caputo turned to Bill Watson, owner of Stuart Yacht Sales.
Wilson refused to stop Dyall's sleazy end-run, and the second offer was
accepted. Now defrauded, Caputo contacted the Stuart Better Business
Bureau to no avail. A call to the owner went unreturned.

Later, Caputo learned that Dyall offered his own broker some cash to
ease the deal. Dyall was surprised when Caputo's ethical representative
refused to play along.

With nowhere else to turn, Caputo - who travels frequently to New
Orleans to enjoy live music - contacted an old friend in the Crescent
City who practices Voodoo. As required by all serious Voodoo
practitioners, her confidentiality is a condition of the curse.

According to Mama [X], a renown Voodoo princess, "Stuart Yacht Sales
and dirty broker Woody Dyall will suffer financial and personal
hardships for five years. And prospective buyers of Finale must know
they will face nothing but rough seas on her travels if the deal is cut
in bad faith by the buyer, seller or brokerage."

Interested? Contact Michael Caputo at 786-385-6644 or Stuart Yacht
Sales at 772-283-9400 and www.StuartYachtSleaze.com.

END

Voodoo Priestess curses yacht and broker! (Really)
 

"Shortwave Sportfishing" wrote in message
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On 14 Sep 2006 15:41:46 -0700, wrote:

According to Mama [X], a renown Voodoo princess, "Stuart Yacht Sales
and dirty broker Woody Dyall will suffer financial and personal
hardships for five years. And prospective buyers of Finale must know
they will face nothing but rough seas on her travels if the deal is cut
in bad faith by the buyer, seller or brokerage."

Hey - at least he kept his sense of humor. :)

That animation is pretty funny.

Too many uptight people getting uptight over nothing.

Too many uptight people complaining about uptight people.

I am not including you in this group Tom..............just an observatation
on how this NG is now behaving.

Chill out folks. There is more to life than OT posts in this
NG.................;-)

Voodoo Priestess curses yacht and broker! (Really)
 

Gene wrote:


Yacht brokers
don't sell a boat- the seller sells the boat. Yacht brokers simply
provide the service of bringing buyer and seller together.

And..... my point is.... do so without any requisite regulation,
licensing, oversight, etc.....

Possibly true in your state, certainly not in WA.

Yacht brokers are subject to the same licensing requirements as
automobile dealers and are supervised by the Department of Licensing.

To open a yacht brokerage you must:

1) Apply to the state for a license. Getting the license is far more
complicated than simply paying a fee at a counter. You must submit a
large quantity of personal information, provide references, pass a
rigorous background check, post a surety bond,
etc. Convicted felons will be denied a license, as will anybody with a
previous history of misdealing in auto, real estate, insurance, or
yacht brokerage sales.

2) Open a permanent business location, keep regular business hours, and
put up a sign.

3) Maintain a trust account for all monies collected during a
transaction. This account is subject to audit at any time, and failing
to maintain the absolute integrity of the trust is grounds for license
revocation.

4) Pass a series of regular and occasional random inspections by state
licensing agents to ensure compliance with the rules.

Individual brokers working in a brokerage do not have to meet all the
above requirements, but the owner of the brokerage can lose his license
if an associated broker violates the state laws so in cases where there
are multiple brokers working under one license, the broker of record
will be overseeing and supervising the others.


If only 2% of the brokers in your state are certified, that doesn't
mean that 98% of the brokers are shysters. What is more likely means is
that you don't have a strong regional brokers' association like we do
in the Pacific NW, like they do in California, and like they do in
Florida. It also means the the word needs to get out to your boat
buying and selling public. A non-certified broker only has to hear,
"Sorry, but we decided to list our boat with Broker X instead of you
because she is certified and you are not..." a handful of times and
your certification rate will go way up.

CPYB is a way for the brokerage industry to do some self policing, just
like other professions do. I'd think that in this era when most people
complain about government being too large and too expensive more folks
would applaud any industry taking steps to weed out the worst of its
own batch, rather than rely on the taxpayers to fund another branch of
government to do the same task.

Voodoo Priestess curses yacht and broker! (Really)
 

"Harry Krause" wrote in message
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On 9/14/2006 12:35 PM, Chuck Gould wrote:
Gene wrote:
On Thu, 14 Sep 2006 10:43:20 -0400, Harry Krause
wrote:


Ahhh...brokers.
Good point, but that begs the *real* point.... that one becomes a boat
broker by simply declaring that they are .....

Thus, the truth of the matter is, that "poof" we have created a person
masquerading as a company selling wares that he doesn't own nor,
likely, even have in his possession.... he isn't licensed (except,
perhaps, a business license).... he isn't regulated.... he must meet
no standards of honesty, training, experience, knowledge......


Whoa. The difference between a yacht broker and an real estate


Real estate brokers here have background checks, have to have a certain
number of years of experience, have to study for and pass exam, et cetera.

"Yacht Brokers" have to...what? Fog a mirror?

I'd like Chuck to point out the experience, training, licensing, moral and
ethical differences between a Yacht Salesman and a Buy Here-Pay Here used
car salesmen. I don't know why he chose to compare yacht sales and real
estate sales.
Jim

Voodoo Priestess curses yacht and broker! (Really)
 

Jim wrote:


I'd like Chuck to point out the experience, training, licensing, moral and
ethical differences between a Yacht Salesman and a Buy Here-Pay Here used
car salesmen. I don't know why he chose to compare yacht sales and real
estate sales.
Jim


I'd love to help you out with this, but I have never encountered any
profession where moral and ethical characteristics can be automatically
presumed. Certainly wouldn't be
in government or corporate leadership, the entertainment industry, the
press, talk show hosts, educators, religious practitioners, stock and
bond traders, real estate salespeople, new or used car salespeople or
new or used boat salespeople. Have you?

As far as I've been able to determine in all these years of
observation, people have morals and eithcs but professions don't. Maybe
you can enlighten me a bit concerning which professions are staffed
entirely with folks automatically deserving complete trust and which
are staffed only with people who are dishonest jerks.

Example: In the news this AM here in Seattle- Three people have been
arrested for operating a steal-to-order crime ring said to have stolen
hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of merchandise from local stores
and individuals. One of those arrested was the owner of a pawn
shop.....(insert "I told you so!" at this point).....one was his
daughter......and the third was the daughter's husband who was
allegedly disposing of the stuff by selling it all on E-bay. Oh,
yeah...when the daughter's husband wasn't selling stolen property over
the internet he (Dr. Calvo) practiced his profession as a dentist in
West Seattle.

I guess we should all watch out for those dentists, right NOYB? :-)