Étiquette : brad stupidson

I really tangled with myself re going to see David in Manchester. In the end I decided no. I have been a fan of his since the early 90s and have never met him. My problem is his music manager. I’ve not received my cd and lyric book and I really doubting I ever will. I was actually in tears earlier watching the tickets disappearing for Manchester. I could not have afford meet and greet but could have got a gig ticket. That would have been great. I refuse to give his manager my cash. Sad as I am.

I just sent an anon re Manchester.I also have noticed THAT fan group are coming to the UK, no doubt taking over. I couldnt bear seeing all of them either, so I am staying away.

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I’m sure it’s a tough decision to make but I support you, anon. I totally understand your struggle but if you go there and it’s against your principles you might regret it. So you do you, and hopefully you’ll get the chance to meet him later, in better conditions, with a different manager once he has finally opened his eyes on this one and without loud, obnoxious and embarrassing fans around!

Do you think the outrageous ticket prices are because of Brad stealing a portion of the money or David hurting for money?

sunshinetoday:

Hello, Anon. I’m sorry in advance but this is a f*cking long post. Here is my two penny’s worth: 

Venues can invite the bands to play at theirs,
or bands can call the places, in search of some place where they’d like to play.
😊 The
manager already has a set price for their bands so when they get come to agreement
with a venue, they quote this. Prices are set, considering: Location + capacity
+ the popularity & prestige of the band + profit. Like if a band agrees to
play in a University event, they won’t ask for the same money as they’d for a
professional, profit-orientated place tickets are cheaper.  …It
is a very common approach. Let’s say you are running a venue and hired a band. Your costs
are:  

  • Band:
    420.000Ft (1300EUR)
  • Other
    costs: 80.000 (245EUR) – food, drinks, maybe accommodation of the band + the extreme
    wishes. 

The cost for this event is 500.000Ft (1545EUR). So
far you have 1545EUR credit in your budget. You need to earn this back + set %
of profit. How to earn this back? Admission tickets. You’ll set the prices
of the event considering all the above. So, yes, in the end, venue sets the ticket
prices, but it’s highly influenced by how much the band costs. The venue’s income is their box office sales.

In Budapest: ~2000 people can fit the
venue and the average ticket price is 21.600Ft. If it’s sold out – which they
aim for – the generated income from tickets: 43,200,000.00Ft. Let’s say 10%
could purchase M&G. + 13,600,000.00Ft = 56,800,000.00Ft (175.265GBP) That’s the total income. Now, you must minus the tax, the payable royalties, the %
for the ticket provider, the fee to pay the band – I won’t mention the bills
and such because that is usually different budget, so irrelevant in this topic
– and the rest is your profit. You pay the band, you’re done. If the cooperation goes well, 

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Wait! Brad was supposed to give 50% of his salary to a charity? Wtf is that?

Not really, Brad said a couple times that 50% of the merch income from Pledge would go to Target zero + 50% of David, Brad and the band’s salary (🤷🏽‍♀️).

Now, even if people haven’t received what they ordered yet, the “campaign” is over as the Pledge website is closed and you can’t buy anything anymore. Which means that all the money we’ve paid is sleeping on Ging Management (Brad’s company) bank account.

I have no idea how much Items has been sold but if I remember correctly, there was a $5000 recording session that has been bought, and a $30000 private concert that happened earlier this year and maybe a second one, I’m not sure, plus some quite expensive guitars and other items. So I’d say, at the very least, Target Zero should receive something like $25000, probably way more with everyone’s salary and the second private concert if it happened.

Where’s the money?

But you know, he was supposed to do that to last year with David’s Vancouver gig. Brad said he would give all the money to the victims of the hurricane. Do you think it happened? I don’t think so…

HELP how do we let people know NOT to buy the meet and greet with David because that is a straight up SCAM 4-5 times more expensive than the missing CDs?? Brad will accept your money then FLY AWAY to another country people, search the complaints online!!!

OH wait… DELETE MY ASK!!!! SORRY…. you can meet David but whether or not you get your pic of him later is up in the air. But its all run by Brad Davidson so just be careful everyone. Ok sorry! I just got scared with so many people talking about buying a VIP and was like NOOO!!!!

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There’s indeed quite a few complaints about this from his previous tour in Europe

https://www.complaintsboard.com/complaints/brad-davidson-fraudulent-activity-with-david-duchovny-fans-c836237.html

To be fair, I was at his concert in Paris and I got the digital picture, not the physical one but I’m not sure I was supposed to get it anyways.
But yeah, if you decide to go to a meet and greet, make sure you read all the conditions and the small texts before you give your money to Brad. It’s not to be proven anymore that he’s a scam so be careful!

Does the prices for tour tickets usually differs in the different countries depending on the local average income? And since when are meet and greets for everyone? They are always f@@@ing expensive, aren’t they? Still fighting with myself whether I’ll go or not. Since I live in Berlin it’s hard not to go, but I’m with you, actually don’t want to support him at the moment.

David has always had the same price everywhere he went, but he’s never been touring is such poor countries before and his management (Brad) who makes the price for these events should make it fair for everyone. How can you brag about giving half of your income to an animal charity (which is probably a lie because we’ll never see the receipts of said donation) and on the other hand have no problem asking for half of people’s monthly salary to go to a meet and greet in a country where the population is already starving? This is disgusting. Besides Brad and Monique, it just gives me one more reason to keep not giving David any money.

Anonymous submission: Hey, so this is a little long which is why I used submit instead of sending you an ask, but it’s pretty good and proves what you are saying about Brad is true.

I am the kind of person that doesn’t take anything at face value. I saw your posts about Brad Davidson and his propensity to scam people, so I looked up the law suit you were mentioning: http://lawyd.com/brad-davidson-and-thinksay-records-sued-for-fraud/

I read the entire thing, and there are some pretty serious accusations. David was mentioned in it, as well as Colin Lee (one of David’s band members). Basically, for those who didn’t read it, it said that Brad and Thinksay Records knowingly and willfully comitted fraud against one of their clients. Brad strung him and a bunch of others along in order to collect money with no intention of doing anything other than taking it. They still have not paid the man back.

I did some more digging because something like that follows a pattern, as Mulder would say. People just don’t wake up one day and decide to do big scams, they start small. Turns out my gut was right.

I googled “scam Brad Davidson” and on the second page, I saw something interesting that hadn’t been mentioned before. A guy on a forum posted about a Brad Davidson who was connected to a payola scam (where music execs bribe DJs to play a song essentially).

I thought it was a funny coincidence since the OP says that they went to UMASS which is in the same state Brad lives in. Not only that, but he mentions that Brad had worked with Sony, and before that at a radio station… I thought, wow that is too many connections to music for it not to be the same guy.

First, I confirmed the poster was telling the truth. The Wikipedia page for WMUA the station they worked at lists Brad as the general manager, same years the guy listed. He even proved links for his story, so I decided to see if this was the same Brad.

I googled “ “brad davidson” + UMASS “ and got this: https://books.google.com/books?id=LdiX4wMa9aoC

If you go to page 57, you’ll find a clear as day picture of Brad. So same guy.

It’s not really relevant but I thought it was interesting. If I find anything else, I’ll let you know.

“Mulder, when a shark stops swimming, it will die. Don’t stop swimming.”

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Thank you for this submission anon. I didn’t know about that. I guess it’s not to be proven anymore that he’s a scam.

David thanks his literary people at the back of his book and there’s no Brad anywhere there. He thanked the same set of people with BFD and HC. I think Brad was just helping out David’s book tour. David had that Jonathan Galassi person there with him all book tour.

Yes, Jonathan Galassi is David’s editor and I think Brad will be involved in whatever David is promoting but not so much about the project itself, except for music. That is still way too much involvement anyway!

Who else read Brad’s court documents? The fact that David is being used by the plaintiff as proof of the ponzi album scheme is outta this world! Also, do you think DD is giving Brad a job since he’s bankrupt? Is this why he’s been managing more of DD’s stuff?

I read them too, these documents are very instructive and David is mentioned quite a lot in them. Everyone should definitely read them.
As to why he gives made him his manager, that’s beyond my comprehension.