This is kind of Terse and an angry vent.
I have never recovered finacially from what happened in New York. I must apologize for what happened there. ML has really ruined my name. Larry Tedder and Thomas A Edison national Park all had not so good results either in dealings with ML. I should of known something was fishy when he contacted me and sounded like a used car salesman or a Hollywood scout. He told me he was a record producer and had connections with record companies ect, it was partiallly true, he did know some record companies, and we did go to Edison Historic site ect, and I was excited about all this. Things did go fine for the first 4 months of "Borri Records, as he called it. Borri Records was more his making than mine, what orders he actually brought into me, I made. I never wanted to really call it that anyway. The shaver in question, ML has, he also has the Edisonia reproducer, and one of my shavers, and 500 wax cylinders that I moulded and recorded and a few hundered new cylinder storage b oxes. I own only 1 shaver and it is a 1905 Edison one. From what I have seen those live cylinders, when I caught 2 of them for sale, on ebay and they went from 200.00-400.00 each they were 2 moe. recording session ones M L sold about 2 years ago. He made a vidio of those and I posted them on my website, more as evidence than anything else. If the 500 or so live experimental records are worth 100.00 each then just the cylinders taken from me are worth $50,000.00. So Shawn Borri is the biggest victim of Borri Records, pretty ironic, and the whole thing still makes me sick to this day. Today I only sell what I make no matter how much anybody pleads. When I was in upstate New York, working for ML, I worked most of the 9 months in New York from 6am one day to 2am the next day, making blanks, and 5 days a week. The cylinders paid for rent and food, I never even got to see the bills or even how many cylinders were sold or anything, the email account password and ebay passwo rd were changed. By the time I caught wind of what he was doing, it was too late, I was livid. I put my tail between my legs for being nieve and headed back home. I think total during the whole venture I had $40.00 of spending money, the rest I never saw. To know that I have put in thousands of hours, actually moulded around 10,000 blanks , and probably 20,000 or more if you consider experiments and ones that went back in the pot. since the year 2,000.00 makes me sick how much New york ruined my research. There is only 2 of us in the world who has put this much time and effort in the study of blank cylinder records, Paul Morris and myself. My greatest wish in the world is to work in a museum as a full time as curator of sound recordings, making cylinder records, and teaching about acoustic record making. I work for DHS now and basically have enough money for rent bills and diapers. I do make cylinders but I really am not able to afford the upkeep on the equipment, or have as much time. I now make 2 dozen blanks a month if I am lucky. I do consider the blanks I make now, the best of the best, I am a perfectionist so still over half the ones I mould go back in the pot, and when you consider all the steps from wax to ship ping 1-2 hours a blank is a low estimate. Cylinders can only be made in the fall early spring and winter, or in an air conditioned environment in the summer with a de humidifier. http://members.tripod.com/edison_1/id24.html Is my latest batch of blanks. All this resarch and the 78L crowd when I talked about cylinder composition, gave me jeers and called me a lier. I read all of Aylsworths notes, i have read all the Columbia formulas as well, and made models of these. Sincerely Shawn Borri > So I guess I really should not hold it against him. > > ---- Steven Medved <[email protected]> wrote: > > The guy was selling the records for Shawn, he never paid Shawn and just > > took the money and never sent the records. Shawn did give me a record when > > I contacted him. Shawn was happy to make the records and was not involved > > with the selling. Did you ever contact him? > > > > Steve > > > > > > > > > Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2008 09:01:07 -0500> From: [email protected]> To: > > > [email protected]> Subject: Re: [Phono-L] should I get Pay Pal?> > I > > > had the same problem with Shawn Borri and it still rankles. I even > > > > defended him to strangers because he had a good reputation. No apology, > > > > no refund. I understand his partner screwed him over and he had severe > > > > financial problems, which he may not yet have recovered from; and there > > > > are people who speak well of him.> > [email protected] wrote:> > YES > > > ! ! !> > > > I actually will bid way higher with a seller using PayPal > > > and I have gotten > > some phonographic bargains from sellers who > > > demanded only money orders. Once > > the ease and security change your > > > mindset you cannot go back to the old system > > relying on snail mail to > > > deliver payment. I like the very idea that I can pay > > for an item > > > within minutes of the auction close and do so without getting out > > of > > > my chair. If the seller is on the ball my item arrives oft en > j > > ust days > > after the close.> > > > I have only been stung on eBay once by > > a guy selling "Borri Wax Cylinders" as > > he would not take PayPal but > > could cash the postal money order without > > delivering the goods. eBay > > pulled his account but I never got a cent or a cylinder. > > I figure that > > anyone who qualifies for PayPal has passed some scrutiny to > > begin > > with.> > > > Regards to all,> > > > Al> > > >> >> >> > > > **************Looking for simple solutions to your real-life financial > > > > challenges? Check out WalletPop for the latest news and information, tips > > and > > calculators. 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