Noel Lee feels he's been screwed

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this is just too rich:

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2015-06-22/beatrayed-by-dre-

Lee has been screwing over consumers for years and finally it seems to have circled back. Remember his $75-100 DVI or HDMI cables that were sold to unsuspecting folks for $200-300 DVD players at Best Buy? or his 12 guage wire on a spindle that he charged like 5x the going rate for?

what other great Monster stories are out there?
 
It's what he gets for letting his idiot (and that's the nice word for it) son handle the contract negotiations with Dre. The idiot didn't even bother having his own lawyers with him, and agreed to the contract that ultimately screwed Monster over.

In my view, the whole situation is karma at work.
 
Hard to feel sorry for either side of this. I don't know how someone can be a business genius as he was called and yet sign this:

"The revised contract’s most consequential provision stated that a “change of control” of Beats Electronics would result in Monster losing all rights to manufacture, sell, and promote the brand. New owners, in other words, wouldn’t be obliged to continue to do business with Monster.

“We didn’t think that much about it,” Lee says of the change-of-control provision. “We saw ourselves as in business with Dre and Jimmy for the long term.”"

He made millions of dollars making and selling the headphones and acts like he got nothing. The other two are of course worse crooks with the HTC stunt, and ripping Apple off for $2.4 billion.

Clever of Lee to ask for jury trial hoping to get emotion to rule rather than simple contract law.
 
Its typical..make money off lawsuits and screw the products..
 
MylesBAstor said:
Karma is a boomerang?
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Isn't it? I thought the whole premise of Karma is that you get back what you put out-even if it's not in this lifetime.
 
Karma to the man that once said, "I solved a problem that doesn't even exist".
 
Hi-FiGuy said:
Karma to the man that once said, "I solved a problem that doesn't even exist".
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The world is full of solutions in search of a problem. Just look at the pharma industry and ask your doctor if xyz is right for you.
 
I love it. I've been watching this train wreck for some time. I do believe in Karma and this is like proof!
 
mep said:
Isn't it? I thought the whole premise of Karma is that you get back what you put out-even if it's not in this lifetime.
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It's the universal rule of cause and effect. The specifics of how this works gets into an amazing amount of detail but the common analogy is that a karmic action plants a seed and the seed will grow given the right circumstances. The results can change depending on awareness... if a seed is never given water it'll die eventually. Accumulated karma does indeed dictate the circumstances of rebirth, according to Buddhists, and this karma is not "wiped clean" between lifetimes, which makes events that happen in this life difficult to understand sometimes.

Anyway, the concept of karma does seem to apply in this situation. ;)

Monster is definitely known for suing people...

"Over the years, it has gone after purveyors of monster-branded auto transmissions, slot machines, glue, carpet-cleaning machines and an energy drink, as well as a woman who sells "Junk Food Monster" kids' T-shirts that promote good eating habits. It sued Monster.com over the job-hunting Web site's name and Walt Disney Co. over products tied to the film "Monsters Inc." It opposed the Boston Red Sox trademark applications for seats and hot dogs named for the Green Monster, the legendary left-field wall in Fenway Park. All in all, Monster Cable says it has fought about 190 monster battles at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and filed around 30 monster lawsuits in federal courts."

http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB123869022704882969
 
I stand corrected but the casual meaning of Karma (to me) is you reap what you sow.
 
In view of Noel's relentless aggressive legal action against anyone who dared to use the word Monster, I can't feel any sympathy toward him. Yes, you reap what you sow, karma comes around, and so on. Amir, your point about Lee asking for a jury trial hoping to get emotion to rule rather than simple contract law is spot on. It's the only chance Lee has of getting anything. Here's hoping it's a short trial with the outcome we anticipate.
 
Not to mention the Monster Mini Golf he nearly put out of business with legal fees. He lost and had to pay Monster Mini Golfs legal fees.

At least he didn't sue the government for his disabilities, give me a break. Would have been his only case with merit.

This guy has irritated the shiz out of me for years and gives me a slight amount of joy seeing it come full circle.

Any one remember his RCA cables that were so tight that they ripped the jacks off the equipment they were hooked up too.
 
NorthStar said:
I feel very sad for Mr. Noel Lee and many other audio industrialists.
I hope he/they get what's truly his/theirs tenfold over, amen.
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No sympathy here for the scumbag. Every negative aspect of his litigious history, (particularly the suing of Mom&Pop small businesses for daring, even in a small way, to use the word Monster, as if he owned it) is true. I was introduced to him 30 years ago at CES. About 10 years ago, I wrote him what I thought of his disgusting actions. I closed the letter by saying "May your bad Karma come back to bite you in the ass!" I think it did, and I certainly do not feel sorry for him- cosmic justice!
 
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