KRAKEN OPUS: Welcome back Karl Fowler

It's a new year and I want to take this opportunity to welcome back an old (cough) friend to my blog....

Karl Fowler.

Yep.  The one and only.

Seems he had some time yesterday to pay us a visit.  Perhaps his time would be better utilized by ensuring his customers receive the items in which they paid for instead of taking time to read my blog.

Here's a few projects that should be on his "To Do" list:

The following are in date order by project:

1.  Reimburse Frank Parker the outstanding monies owed him for the order you placed for custom made Opus Bookstands.  If this went to court, I suspect you would be in breach of contract and also subject to penalties or damages.

2.  Reimburse approximately 100 customers (or more) the $2,100.oo each they paid for the Prince 21 Nights Opus which begain April 2009.  I suspect if this went to court, Karl would also owe these customers interest on their money back to April 2009.  Perhaps even penalties or damages.

3.  Arrange with Sony or MJ's Estate the delivery of the outstanding The Official Michael Jackson Opus that were purchased beginning in August 2009 since your site is showing "Sold Out" stock.  Your committment to me was in March 2010 to have all deliveries resolved in 10-14 days.  Clearly, that committment (while reduced from outstanding Opus numbers in March) has not been met.

3b.  Facilitate the precendence your company set for all MJ Opus customers who purchased the MJ Opus through Ticketmaster or Kraken Opus and will never receive the falsely advertised Opus Augmented Reality technology, by making a $20 donation for EACH customer to either a charity of their chosing OR to the same original organization, SaveJapanDolphins.org Using pre-order figures of 20,000 sold by early December 2009, this would be a minimum of $400,000.oo USD.  Both issues of 3 and 3b, if they were to proceed in court, would leave the customer possibly due interest, damages, and fines/penalties lodged against Kraken Media Group (aka Kraken Opus, Opus Media Group, et al). 

4.  Promptly audit and address the outstanding MLB Opus deliveries which are outstanding.  To date one customer has attempted to contact Kraken Opus via email AND phone, with silence returned on both accounts.  They have now received a more direct means of communication with your company from me and we are all awaiting to hear the outcome.  Of course, as a backup, I have provided them with additional contact information for assistance from the Major League Baseball (MLB) head offices.  In the meantime I will be searching for other MLB customer who still have not received their PRE-ordered MLB Opus. 

The new MLB Opus in New York Times

Very interesting article.  Read more about it here. 

There are 2 versions:  One for $3,000 and the second for $295.

See previous post for MLB here.   Other press:  LA MLB Opus Warming Party

By the way, those purchasing the MLB Opus, you can get quality customized bookstands to hold your MLB Opus from Bookstand World, who was commissioned by Kraken Opus for another Opus Series.


Hey Karl Fowler,

How about finishing:
1.  The Prince: 21 Nights Opus or refunding the customers $2,100.00 EACH who paid you LAST APRIL (2009) for their orders. 
2.  The deliveries of The Official Michael Jackson Opus from orders made beginning LAST AUGUST (2009) and replacements for the ones that arrived damaged, as promised! 
3. The payment to Mr. Frank Parker for the order you placed with him for CUSTOM BOOK STANDS and then stiffed him!

It seems it would benefit you to complete the outstanding business deals you have before you take on new ones.

MLB and Kraken Opus UPDATED

An interesting visitor to my blog this week-- Major League Baseball.  I can only guess they were interested in looking into other Opus' that have been published in the past, since it appears there is a deal either on the table or in the works based on this page on Kraken Opus' site. 

All I can say is... Good Luck MLB.  You just might need it!

Heartfelt condolences to the entire Yankee and MLB family and fans on the passing of Mr. George Steinbrenner.

July 16, 2010 New York Times and others report on MLB OPUS here

See all MJ fan experiences (enter OPUS into Search/upper Left)
UPDATED Examples of:
Complaints
My communications with Karl Fowler
Global Delivery Status Updates (beginning December 18, 2009)
2009 MJ Opus ordered: Delivered July 2010
June update on outstanding deliveries
Photos of Damaged Opus - still not replaced (since April 26, 2010)

Coming next will be the announcement of the 'We Are The World-Report'. Stay tuned.