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I'm thisclose to not ever trading again as I'm sick and tired of the antics of one tape trader. I use the term "trader" loosely as our relationship has been primarily one-sided with me sending the lion's share of tapes and getting little but grief in return. The person I'm talking about is Antonio Gragnaniello and he seems to think that everyone and his grandmother looks at this page so he'll be sure to get offended when I give him a big "FUCK YOU" right here. He's threatening some kind of legal action against me. The charges? I have no idea. Libel on the internet is about impossible to prove and, plus, I'm not saying anything slick to a can of oil. So, go ahead Antonio and do your worst. Call your contacts at INTERPOL and your "New York lawyer" friends and those folks at the "financial police". Let he who is deluded enough to think that he's without sin cast that stone. Your threats are as empty as your head and your promises.
Antonio, whatever you do, please make good on your promise to never write me again. I'm so tired of your dumb ass. You've been promising to not write me since December 3, 2003. It's getting a little old, isn't it?
Antonio pisses me off because...
- Having a trade list that is sloppy and just about impossible to read. It's hand printed on graph paper and has been photocopied until it's about white on white. You can email but you can't print up a fucking list?
- Having a trade list that is mislabelled. When you list what movies you have to Trade you shouldn't list movies that you're unwilling to give up! These are Antonio's so-called "Protected" titles. According to him, he's signed "legal documents" preventing him from giving out copies. Are the documents written on graph paper? Regardless, get them off your list! And, hey, if you know how to go about getting in touch with these nefarious organizations, maybe it'd be nice to share that information?
- Promising to send titles and then "reconsidering" and sending other titles instead. Antonio likes to tell you that he can send you everything that you'd ever want -- even THE DAY THE CLOWN CRIED -- but for some reason he never does. See Promised Films below.
- Bitching about the movies that he receives. "The quality is poor," "I know there's a longer version," "I found out that that's available at SomethingWeird Video," and blah blah blah. The last one is particularly funny to me. Apparently Antonio is too busy flaunting his "protected" titles that he doesn't have time to do his own research and find out which of the movies he wants are commercially available.
- Sending movies that I already have. Antonio avidly reads my video list but yet he can't seem to figure out when I have new titles that I don't want piss poor copies from him of the same thing. Yet, he counts these as though he were sending me something exciting and new.
- Asking if I can find movies and then refusing to trade for them once I've acquired them. I've wasted countless dollars and hundreds of manhours searching out the obscure (and not so obscure) titles that Antonio claimed he sought. Once I had them in hand he either didn't want them anymore or begrudgingly took them. He was always looking at those movies I have yet to get in and bugging me for them. He's often delay trades for months in the hope of getting something that I had yet to get in, forget the dozens of other titles he was once wanting. A typical trade would take 3-6 months.
- Calling me a liar. Antonio called me a liar point blank when he found movies that he sent me on other peoples' lists, accusing me of sending his movies to other traders. After some investication I found that these tapes were not related at all to Antonio's. In fact, they were better copies. I had to turn around and spend money to upgrade several of the things I got from Antonio when I found that better quality copies were available. Why suffer through his lousy copies of BLACK LOVE, FEMININE CARNIVORES, THE HOTTEST SHOW IN TOWN, NURSES FOR SALE, et cetera, when better copies are available?
- Not sharing contacts. Tired of the above, I took the old saying about teaching a man to fish to heart. I must have put Antonio in contact with a half dozen other traders, knowing that they could help Antonio out. I apologize to these poor souls -- Sorry Louis, Bill, Shawn, Felix, Jose, Jeff, and everyone else who's had the unforunate luck to encounter this person. Most of them have written me, angry at Antonio's antics. Rather than acting as the middle man and collecting a bunch of movies I didn't want, I let Antonio know who had what he sought. He never returned this favor.
- Not sending me a want list. Heaven forbid that I know what movies Antonio was seeking! I might actually find them! Antonio kept his "want list" as hidden as a state secret. Apparently, Antonio's tapes and his wanted tapes are to remain hidden from view. Only he can know about and possess these movies.
- Being a general nuisance. I've never had the problems negotiating with any of the dozens of other traders I've contacted or who have contacted me. We exchange lists, ask some questions, agree on some numbers, maybe discuss tapes/DVDs, and... voila! The ease of trading with other people has facillitated me finding many of the tapes Antonio has "protected" and loves to lord over me.
The above is completely true.
Promised Titles marked (*) if I had to get them from another source... otherwise I'm still waiting
- Robinson No Niwa / Robinson's Garden (Masashi Yamamoto, 1987)*
Schmutz / Dirtiness (Paulus Manker, 1985, Germany)*
- Sérail / Surreal Estate (Eduardo De Gregorio, 1976, France)*
- 1000 Roses (Teu Boerman, Netherlands, 1994)*
- Abelard / La Castracion / Die Entmannung (Franz Seitz, 1975, Germany)*
- Amoureuse, L' / Verliefd (Christian Mesnil, 1972)
- Bambina / Le Farò Da Padre (Alberto Lattuada, 1974)*
- Zoo Zero (Alain Fleischer, France, 1979) *
- Whirlpool / She Died With Her Boots On / Perversion Flash (José Ramón Larraz 1970)
- Midi Minuit (Pierre Lestringuez, 1970, France)*
- Das Gespent / The Ghost*
- Jailbreakers, The (Alexander Grasshoff, USA, 1960)*
- Big Grey-Blue Bird, A / Bottom, ein großer graublauer Vogel / Grosso >uccello grigio azzurro, Un (Thomas Schamoni, 1971, West Germany)
- Ovoce Stromu Rajskych Jime / Fruit Of Paradise (Vera Chytilová, 1969)*
- Dorotheas Rache (Dorothea; Dorothea's Revenge, Pomsta Dorothey, Peter Fleischmann, French/German) 1973*
- Amoureuse, L' / Verliefd (Christian Mesnil, 1972)
- Birds In Peru / Birds Come To Die In Peru/ Les Oiseaux Vont Mourir Au Perou (Romain Gary, 1968)
The ironic thing is that after I got a lot of these films that Antonio promised, he turned around and asked me for them (as if he never had them in the first place).
(39) 3489240769 / arrabal70@hotmail.com
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