Whats the deal with "CRAWL" Mag.?

Soft 8 · 02-26-2009, 12:41 PM

I subscribed some time early last year (08), I paid for a 2 year subscription. I think I have received 4 issues. I have contacted them several times and have gotten a excuses why. I recently have had trouble with my local mail showing up 2 weeks late, in one instance went for a couple of days with out any mail at all. I went to the post office and they told me that they had been informed that that address was vacant....

I got it all straightened out. But my local book store still has the issue of Crawl on there shelf from months ago.

Anyone know anything about Crawl Mag?

**paulzwieg** · 02-26-2009, 12:49 PM

I wish I knew, paid for my script months ago never received one. Did a search for there website, click on page and comes up with an error.

Soft 8 · 02-26-2009, 12:54 PM

Real Cute:

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Sunday, February 08, 2009
Official press release
With ownership and management changes in our front office, we put CRAWL Magazine on the jack stands to do a major overhaul.

Just like our rigs, there are breaks and upgrades that cause us to start cutting out and replacing parts to ensure we're stronger and more capable than ever before.

We're working as diligently as we can to get CRAWL back on all fours, with every piston firing in perfect time and the new internals putting down some serious power.

Stay tuned.

Brandon Foster
Secretary Atticus Publishing/CRAWL Magazine

I want my freaking money back!

Quoted from :

http://blogs.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendId=54396456&blogId=469493590

**paulzwieg** · 02-26-2009, 01:30 PM

Nice you can place a responce but it will only be posted if they approve it. I want my money back too!!!

Soft 8 · 02-26-2009, 01:44 PM

I am going to see if I can track down their phone # and see what they say.

I will let you know what I find out.

WillysEdition04 · 02-26-2009, 01:49 PM

Quote:

Sunday, February 08, 2009
Official press release
With ownership and management changes in our front office, we put CRAWL Magazine on the jack stands to do a major overhaul.

Just like our rigs, there are breaks and upgrades that cause us to start cutting out and replacing parts to ensure we're stronger and more capable than ever before.

We're working as diligently as we can to get CRAWL back on all fours, with every piston firing in perfect time and the new internals putting down some serious power.

Stay tuned.

Brandon Foster
Secretary Atticus Publishing/CRAWL Magazine

That is the cheeziest cornball of a press release ever. "Durr, our magazine is like a badass trail rig, hehe! Vroom!"

WillysEdition04 · 02-26-2009, 02:39 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Soft 8

Quoted from :

http://blogs.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendId=54396456&blogId=469493590

Wait a minute... He sent out his press release via... MYSPACE!?

I'd be demanding a refund for sure. What a joke.

They even made an appearance on Complaints.com: http://www.complaints.com/2008/march/13/CRAWL_MAGAZINE_163891.htm

Soft 8 · 02-26-2009, 03:24 PM

Check this out:
http://www.pirate4x4.com/forum/showthread.php?t=764159&highlight=crawl+magazine

WillysEdition04 · 02-26-2009, 04:33 PM

Pirate4x4 is just plain hard to read with those meat heads doing nothing but yelling at each other and throwing up the middle-finger smileys.

wj1999 · 03-05-2009, 02:21 PM

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Originally Posted by Soft 8

I am going to see if I can track down their phone # and see what they say.

I will let you know what I find out.

I have tried their #, disconnected, tried emailing the myspace account demanding a refund, emailed 2 different addresses, all without a single response!! Haven't received a single issue, paid for 2 years I am pissed!!!!

**Tom95YJ** · 03-05-2009, 02:30 PM

I paid for a 2yr subscription about a year and a half ago,
I've received 3 magazines and the most recent one was about 8-9 months ago.

Soft 8 · 03-05-2009, 10:49 PM

Yep, looks like they have experience ripping people off too. Sounds like the new owner did the same thing with a previous magazine. Started it up, produced a few copies, got some people to subscribe and ran off with there money. Its amazing how low and how much scum some people are.

silvergoat · 03-06-2009, 07:33 PM

What it sounds like is they may have hit hard times like alot of companys in the off road business. I've wheeled with the guys from Crawl magazine and found them to be a great group of people, willing to give you the shirts off there backs to help you when your broke out on the trail. So next time your having a hard time while out wheeling or not being able to pay a bill on time accuse yourself of ripping people off. And Soft 8 to call them low and scum really takes alot of balls to do on the web, lets see what other companys you guys can bad mouth with out knowing all the facts.

fromme · 03-06-2009, 11:12 PM

It's not that hard to find the answers to this stuff people. This gist of it is that Tim Piele appears to be a thief and a ******bag. If this is true:

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Originally Posted by powdr7

I want to let everyone know what happened and what is happening with CRAWL. I believe there are parts tthat are property of CRAWL Magazine that are being sold by a party that has no right to sell them. PLEASE READ BELOW, I know it's long, but it's worth it.

Since Tim Piele and Nicole Roseman want to play this way, I'll go ahead and let the cat out of the bag. I think the Wenzell incident should be a drop in the bucket compared to this...
Tim quit CRAWL MAgazine, and said he walked away, but he didn't.

Before Tim quit, CRAWL hired John Herrick to come in and take over the finances and things were going great. Until John found a bank account that was said to be closed by Tim Piele, yet he kept it open.

Tim then used that account as his personal slush fund, taking money out whenever he saw fit and buying gas, food, and even a camera on CRAWL's dime, and our subscribers and advertiser's dime. We then found out that as many as 5 Paypal accounts were going into that account and recognized that as many as 130 subscriptions weren't being filled because Tim decided he wanted the money for himself so the subs never got turned in, until John found out.

Tim then thought taking a personal loan and having his girlfriend bookkeeper put it into the company account (that's a BIG no-no boys and girls!) and then right away took a nice little chunk of cash out, and thought that was OK to do as well. There are NO signed papers for this loan to Tim, on behalf of CRAWL, because no one agreed to it. So when Tim said he wanted CRAWL to pay it back and he was told no he quit. Personal funds do not mix into a company bank account, never.

But that's not the end of it, he then got back into the office, deleting everything off of the company imac, and took all kinds of legal paperwork out of the safe and a laptop. Then he went in and stole a couple of websites that were paid for by CRAWL Magazine off of the server since he also stole and took to his and Nicole's home all the passwords to our server. Yes in fact Tim's little sandbox, Timbercrawler.com was paid for with Atticus/CRAWL Magazine funds, yet he thought he'd just break into our server after he "simply quit" as he puts it and steal that, delete databases and files, articles and pictures for Issue 18.

So then we find, in an empty safe because everything else was cleaned out of it, a contract stating Tim gave his shares to his girlfriend Nicole. Well funny thing is, they're not married, so there are a few legal things that must be done first.

As a share holder I get the right of First Refusal, and as Secretary I have to sign off any anything of this sort. Nicole claims she owns 50% of the company, yet cannot produce a valid contract, so what do they do?

Of course fire John Herrick since he uncovered their, what appears to us as, embezzlement. Once John confronted Nicole about the fact she is the bookkeeper and there were thousands of dollars of inconsistency's in one account, monthly, and the fact that her boyfriend Tim Piele was stealing money out of another account, she changed the locks on the doors ultimately locking John and myself out. She also thought having her personal car loan coming out of the CRAWL magazine operating account was an OK thing to do to. Can you say against the law?

Problem is, Tim is the one that called the landlord stating he changed the locks, but he has nothing to do with CRAWL. So now Im locked out of my own office, trying to work out the details of who owns what stock, the legal way, and Nicole and her attorney decide not to reply to my request for documents stating she is a share holder, and where I signed off on that.

On top of that, Nicole has been paying herself on time every month, yet I haven't received a check in 4 months, nor has John, an employee. Can anyone see the theme here...?

And that is only PART of what happened in the last few weeks, and as I have come to find out, years. I have been working my *** off to get issue 18 out, and it's 90% done, but short of coming up with a ton of money to get an attorney, all I can do is tell people what in fact is happening and who is doing what. Well what Tim Piele and his girlfriend Nicole Roseman are doing.

So the parts are basically stolen property, and the parties selling them have no legal right to sell them. Please pass the word on!

If I could do anything, like get into my own office, I bet they've already been stolen from there as well.

It really sucks and I'm out a few $. But at least I got a few issues out of it. I've wasted more money on other things before, so no use in worrying about it. Next time I will check if this Piele guy and/or XOM is involved before I buy another mag subscription though.

seatownYJ · 05-05-2009, 11:19 PM

Their current number is 425-503-4595, guys name is Mark. It sounds like Brandon was trying to get things off the ground again but lost steam. I don't think he has a lick of business sense though, thus the press release via myspace. And don't be so quick to accuse Tim of anything, there's no proof and after 5 calls to the police they told Brandon to drop it because nothing was ever stolen etc. The judge threw Brandon's lawsuit out because it didn't have merit and all of the money and stuff turned up in a storage unit one of the layers was in possession of. Made Brandon lok like a moron thus his posts all over the internet stopped.

Just an FYI, I know all parties and wish them luck. CRAWL was awesomeness.

05-05-2009, 11:19 PM	#15
seatownYJ Registered User Join Date: May 2009 Location: Seattle, WA Posts: 0 Profile Gallery Classifieds My Jeeps	Their current number is 425-503-4595, guys name is Mark. It sounds like Brandon was trying to get things off the ground again but lost steam. I don't think he has a lick of business sense though, thus the press release via myspace. And don't be so quick to accuse Tim of anything, there's no proof and after 5 calls to the police they told Brandon to drop it because nothing was ever stolen etc. The judge threw Brandon's lawsuit out because it didn't have merit and all of the money and stuff turned up in a storage unit one of the layers was in possession of. Made Brandon lok like a moron thus his posts all over the internet stopped. Just an FYI, I know all parties and wish them luck. CRAWL was awesomeness.