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TSLPI 7. Down vs Bartercard

5 September, 2020 by dennis Leave a Comment

Wellington-based businessman, Nicholas Down is the quintessential “horse-trader from hell” – a guy with Autism whose creative, flexible mind can tackle the toughest trade imaginable!

Give him something to trade or sell, and he’ll do a deal somewhere, somehow to solve your problem. He is of course a skilled auctioneer – that’s his business, and he’s good at it.

But Nic will bend and stretch the rules, until they break, and then some and he did this with Bartercard. His take is that he just stretched them. Theirs was that he broke them.

Getting offside with a manager who ‘got his dander up’ resulted in a lengthy litigation that frustrated Nic’s business opportunities, negatively affected his financial situation and had a serious long-term impact upon his family situation.

He was facing bankruptcy over the dispute.

Nic approached me knowing from my blogging that I was ‘onto’ the crooks he was fighting. He hoped that I could help him. Indeed, I did. I became his McKenzie Friend in his court battle, helping him to secure a defended hearing (as opposed to a summary judgement) then to commence a counterclaim and we generally make life very uncomfortable for the entity that had done the same to him for the preceding three or four years.

TIP 6:

Entering into litigation is an easy decision for a business skilled in utilising the legal system for their pecuniary gain. This advantage though can be reversed with exposure. Negative press is something that all crooks are desperate to avoid.

Bartercard sought to prevent exposure of the case, however their attempts to close down my blogging backfired as it only generated more negative press. From my perspective, I used Nic’s case to develop my claim that Bartercard could not legitimately claim that their currency wasn’t grossly debased. Evidence from Australia that Bartercard management had been buying their own currency at only 20c in the dollar proved that fraud was afoot.

Bartercard’s claims that their dodgy currency was on a par with the local currency were just lunacy (as everybody knew its true value) and they were arguably criminal. My blogging had shown that they had expertise at hiding debt, quoting a senior business manager!

The fraud was eventually exposed, the heat going on sufficiently that the Chairman advised the entire global industry that litigation had begun against me – and in multiple jurisdictions. It was a totally false claim [duh!] as no crook wants their dirty laundry aired in public, and proven to be so in due course with, sadly for me, not even the smell of court!

I exposed their scam when ‘going public’ in realtime and showed not only that their IPO was a nonsense, but I also showed the world how the fraud was perpetuated by those in the industry with vested interests.

Bartercard eventually settled with Nic and surprise-surprise, Nic received some cash. A nice result when he’d been facing bankruptcy at their hands previously!

The Secret Life of a Private Investigator Book

  • TSLPI
  • TSLPI 2. Introduction
  • TSLPI 3. Lawyers Lie; We All Do!
  • TSLPI 4. Samoa Observer
  • TSLPI 5. A $3.1 Billion BS Story
  • TSLPI 6. Bartercard Secrets
  • TSLPI 7. Down vs Bartercard
  • TSLPI 8. International Reciprocal Justice
  • TSLPI 9. Hon Robert Fisher
  • TSLPI 10. The Dutch International Qoin Con
  • TSLPI 11. Qoin Bankruptcy
  • TSLPI 12. Aussie BBX Bravado
  • TSLPI 13. Christian Businessmen
  • TSLPI 14. Flat Earth, Moon Landing & more
  • TSLPI 15. Uncharitable Charities
  • TSLPI 16. Talamua Cover-up
  • TSLPI 17. It's All in a Name
  • TSLPI 18. Linda Dzaferic, IRD
  • TSLPI 19. ‘Defamatory’ Naming & Shaming
  • TSLPI 20. Dennis A. Smith
  • TSLPI 21. Failing to Bust
  • TSLPI 22. Bert Potter, Centrepoint
  • TSLPI 23. Publishing Evidence Prior
  • TSLPI 24. Taumarunui Museum Trust
  • TSLPI 25. Paying the Price
  • TSLPI 26. Olinda Woodroffe
  • TSLPI 27. Getting Factual With Fiction
  • TSLPI 28. Samoa Ventures
  • TSLPI 29. Engaging Emotions
  • TSLPI 30. The Truth of The Path of Truth
  • TSLPI 31. Possible Positivity
  • TSLPI 32. Evolution vs Godly Logic
  • TSLPI 33. Sharing by Teaching
  • TSLPI 34. Dennis A. Smith Headshot
  • TSLPI 35. Showing Sensitivity
  • TSLPI 36. NZ Initiatives
  • TSLPI 37. He's Good For It – Not!
  • TSLPI 38. Writing the Wrong
  • TSLPI 39. Taking it to Them
  • TSLPI 40. Det. Inspector Bruce Hutton
  • TSLPI 41. Conceptually Challenging
  • TSLPI 42. Buying A Fight
  • TSLPI 43. Unforgettable People
  • TSLPI 44. Creating Value From Others
  • TSLPI 45. The Power of Story
  • TSLPI 46. DNC
  • TSLPI 47. Backing Yourself
  • TSLPI 48. Whale Oil
  • TSLPI 49. Creating Commercial Value
  • TSLPI 50. Force, A Cultural Conflict
  • TSLPI 51. Tuila’epa.com Porn
  • TSLPI 52. Holocaustianity
  • TSLPI 53. About the Author
  • TSLPI The Whole Book in PDF Format
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