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Wagyu lost at US Customs; "We filed a lawsuit.". "they just call up Google and have the reviews erased".
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And then before that, just the week before that, we lost the $20,000 plus worth of Wagu US Customs and that company always forwarding just let it rot. We filed a lawsuit.
A first-person confirmation of a filing, tied to a named counterparty and a described loss. "Always forwarding" is the captions' rendering of All-Ways Forwarding; the name as captioned matches no tracked party and only resolves once the word is split.
Watch at 01:35 — youtube.com ↗And these scumbags are probably just ripping off other small businesses. They don't do what they're supposed to do. They literally let $20,000 worth of my product rot in the port. And then when we leave Google reviews for how they treat their clients, they just call up Google and have the reviews erased.
states the underlying grievance in the wagyu matter (product left to rot in the port) and adds a second, separate allegation — that the counterparty had his Google reviews removed. Review suppression is the subject matter of a separate tracked dispute group.
Watch at 01:49 — youtube.com ↗This doctor should have just compensated me for ruining my face for the rest of my life and I shouldn't have to work anymore.
the eye-surgery grievance stated as the reason he is still running the business at all. Compensation is framed as owed and unpaid.
Watch at 03:21 — youtube.com ↗And that relates back to the first HVAC guy that worked on this building. He stole all the refrigerant out of the machine that used to cool this room. So, not only did he steal $15,000 worth of refrigerant and steal $20,000 of the bank loan, I had to spend like $15,000 on equipment and labor to get this room cooled again. Should have added that to the lawsuit.
refers to an existing suit against a contractor and to a claim he now says he should have pleaded in it — the shape of an amendment or a further action on the same grievance, though he announces neither. Also attaches specific dollar figures ($15,000 refrigerant, $20,000 of a bank loan, $15,000 remediation) to an allegation of theft against a named-by-role, unnamed-by-name contractor.
Watch at 08:42 — youtube.com ↗A case link records a researched connection between the video and a docket record. It is not a finding that the video caused, or was caused by, any filing.
The 12 most recently published of 30 other indexed videos grouped under All-Ways / wagyu shipment.