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  1. RadioActiveRich - You must be a genius of Einstein caliber. How did you know? So very right on. I'm the founder of Skullduggery, Inc. so I know. If Marcus had taken over, I'm sure I would have been paid by now 30+ years later!!! It's now summer, 2017. Skullduggery, Inc. management still owes me $784,000.00 plus interest and increasing by $500.00 a week. Their mounting debt to me was never mentioned in the show. I did all the work and took all the risk. The Koehl "buisness (sic) geniuses" trashed my product line of fossil skull replicas and allowed others to take over the market The Koehls have still never paid me!!!! They have siphoned off profits as bonuses to family members and one sided dividends to daddy only, leaving me out entirely. I nearly starved to death homeless and no income during the years I waited patiently for daddy to keep his promises to pay me, "very soon". It was the handout food at the Salem Oregon Rescue Mission that saved my life. No thanks to the Koehl family. I have only contempt for the Koehl family and their ilk. https://www.facebook.com/Skullduggery-Inc-1527359324236475/
  2. Skullduggery of course. No question about it. Marcus caught on to their scam to take his millions and then pay themselves bonuses and exorbitant salaries until the money was gone, hoping to hit him up again for more money after that first 1.3 million was pocketed. Marcus is no fool. The Koehls are failed businessmen with delusions of grandeur, and they don't seem to realize it. I'm so glad Marcus put them in their place with his "blow up" ---- "You want me to give you millions, have no control, and go stand in the corner?" I believe his language was more 'flowery' than what I quoted here.
  3. Yes, I believe that "possessed" objects can transmit a demonic spirit. Also, if you have a resident ghost, you can provoke it into action by fighting in the house, screaming at each other, disturbing the peace, etc. Have you read my other posting on this forum?
  4. So annoying The ID channel's promotion of the Missing Women program that begins tonight. A "lady of the night" with pink hair and piercings shocked that someone is "Killing people with LOVE"!!! They are NOT killing them with love, you idiot. They are killing with hatred.
  5. I want to see some resolution in a TV program. These Disappeared programs always leave us hanging. Never any resolution.
  6. I am the 50% owner of Skullduggery, Inc., the California corporation. The founder and owner who was never mentioned in the show, Steven Gagnon. I am the screwed owner who is owed $700,000 and will never see a cent of it!! http://www.4pka.com I only survived by walking the 40+ mile round trip to eat the free handout food at the Salem Oregon Rescue Mission once a week. The Salem Oregon Rescue Mission saved my life with the free food, no doubt. There was a time before I learned of the Rescue Mission where I had nothing to eat for a long time when I was so weak I couldn't stand up. I managed to crawl to some blackberry bushes to eat the few remaining berries that the birds and animals left behind. I was not going to tell this, because of the satisfaction it will give to the Koehls. But I survived, so I'm telling all. If you question my naiveté, as I often do, I suppose it’s relevant that I am the son of an American officer who settled in Japan after World War II. I was raised from an infant in Japan by two Japanese ladies provided by the Japanese government. My real parents were rarely around, so Japanese was my first language. I was raised with the Japanese principles of how to behave in a society. To serve others with honor and respect, above all, self-sacrifice for the greater good. These two Japanese ladies were my only role models until I was almost 5 years old. I adopted all the Japanese ingrained attitudes as my own and hoped to apply them to American life. I made the laughable mistake of trying to apply the spirit of self-sacrifice for the benefit of the group to American business! Marcus has said that it’s human nature and understandable to take unfair advantage, and by implication that it’s OK. I disagree that it's OK. It's not OK, and it's not forgiveable. ( I may have mis-understood Marcus, but he is the go-zillionaire, and I am one who is broke.) In my opinion their back-stabbing me must have been because their family is German and they are resentful about their defeat in World War II at the hand of the Americans, just as Hitler was resentful and filled with rage about the German loss in World War I. The Koehls took delight in hurting me, a 100% disabled American veteran, from an American military family, any way they could. There was a time when the Koehls complained about, among many other simplistic things, not being able to learn the mold-making process. So, being the generous and compliant sort, I proposed to fill an entire room with about 100 molds at once to teach the whole family how to produce many production molds and replicas efficiently. That is a huge undertaking. Full time, it would take one skilled person about three to four months to complete that project working 40 hour weeks. But working long hours, I completed it in less than two months. Once the mold making project was well underway, nobody would show up to learn! I completed the entire room of new molds, at least 100 molds, all by myself. The Koehls failed to comprehend the basic concept, which is understandable since nobody came to the classes. So then it was time for the outer jackets of the molds, or “back-up molds” to be made. Not one person showed up for the classes, ever. Even so, I completed the 100 molds and jackets for them so that at least they would be able to produce many casts from those new molds, about 10,000 casts. Nobody learned anything. This was about the time of the assault mentioned in one of my earlier Skullduggery forum posts. It was about this time I left them on their own, to their own toxic devices. I always got the endless run-around treatment on every project they would give to me. Still, I completed their projects despite all the obstacles placed in my path deliberately by them. The most significant obstacle was an obstinate refusal to put up the money to complete critical infrastructure projects to make us more efficient and productive. This was another "tell", and should have raised red flags to me, but I still never imagined the Koehls would discontinue the fossil replicas. So I put up MY OWN MONEY to complete some of these projects! Even when I went forward with my projects I would come in the shop to find my materials were taken away and missing!!! Peter would point the finger at Stephen. Stephen would point the finger at Corny. A week later when I managed to run down Corny, she would point the finger at mommy, Emmy. Emmy, another week later, would point the finger at daddy. And daddy denied knowing anything about the missing materials and point the finger back at peter junior. Around and around ad nauseum, giggling among themselves behind my back. Then, despite all the obstacles, when the projects were complete, Peter III, the daddy refused to pay me back for the materials. So eventually, I was forced to leave them to their own toxic devices.. The Koehls would always find fault with everything I did for them. My time could have been better spent, but they just had me make these molds, and other projects to get me out of their hair – to stop bothering them. “Steve, you failed” was the mantra, uttered mainly by Emmy, that still runs repeatedly through my mind. Once in an unguarded moment, I asked peter Junior why he fought me and undermined my efforts at every turn? He said that he was raised to “challenge authority”. But I was just enabling them to earn money for us all. As Marcus implies in his three P's, toxic people, toxic results no matter what else you have going on. Stephen "the boss" and Peter junior showing up at the Nascar meeting without ties, is another “tell”. The Boss was so eager to attack Steve Phelps, the very person they were brought to ask permission for licensing at Nascar. Stephen was chomping at the bit to have a shot at Steve Phelps and shoot down Marcus' idea. . For the first several years after we incorporated together, during the time my pay was being deferred, the entire crew would take FOUR paid frozen yogurt breaks a day in addition to the hour lunch. These paid “frozen yogurt breaks” were half an hour long each! The ENTIRE production crew of 10 -14 employees would drop everything and drive to the frozen yogurt shop and be gone for half an hour! Then after this had been going on for months, I learned that the frozen yogurt bill was paid by the company. I wouldn't mind, but my pay was being deferred and the Koehls never saw anything wrong with this picture. In fact, by objecting and trying to put a stop to this, I became the bad guy, the buzz killer. The frozen yogurt breaks continued anyway. It was pretty obvious that their showroom was prepared just for Marcus. It was a façade just for the show. They don’t do any retail business there. They rarely have walk-in customers. I’m willing to bet the few who do come in there don’t buy anything once they see the products in person. They are in an industrial park, not a retail space. I don’t know why Marcus would bother with the putting money into decorating the retail showroom when it would rarely result in any sales anyway. The fork lift was just for show. Peter IV never does anything with it, but drive it around like an addled schoolboy. If you go back unannounced you may see that the forklift was borrowed from the neighbor. Over the years, I have caught Peter Senior stalking me several times. Pete is a terrible stalker. One time he almost crashed into the rear end of my old truck as he was speeding in his brand new Jaguar. I saw his face clearly in my rear view mirror. He had to stand on the brakes and skid to a stop to avoid hitting me! This was on a backed up freeway off-ramp, so he immediately jumped back on the freeway and took off at 120 mph. Another time, again in his new Jaguar, I caught him outside my workshop parked about 50 feet up the road facing my workshop in the night. But the funniest blown "stalking" event was the time in Palm Springs when I was visiting my father. Pete had someone riding shotgun and two people in the back seat. It was about 9 pm and dark when I was standing outside the house but in the shadow of some bushes so he didn't see me. He coasted in neutral as he approached the house. Then as he slowly approached the house, I recognized his vehicle. I stepped out of the shadow, he saw me, panicked and punched the accelerator. It was still in neutral!!! Idiot. It almost blew the engine. Then he realized it was in neutral and jammed it into gear with the engine still revved high. It was grinding badly and wouldn't go in gear! With the accelerator still revving high, he ground the gears down to a nub before he finally managed to grind it into gear when he let off the accelerator.. After the Koehls had run me off from Skullduggery, I had much time on my hands with nothing to do but watch the trees grow. So I spent much time in the Salem Oregon library researching. I found that there was a bank account recently opened in Ohio under the same name, Skullduggery, but without the Inc. I believe it was Toledo, Ohio, the nearest large city south of Detroit! The Koehls and their extended family are from the south side of Detroit, Michigan! Toledo, Ohio is not very far at all from their extended family and friends. They only moved to California in the mid 1980’s, just a year or two before I met pete koehl senior. It’s my opinion that the Koehls had a friend or family member open a bank account under the name of Skullduggery in Toledo, Ohio, to throw anybody off who was looking for a Skullduggery in Michigan. That way, when any check would arrive without the Inc. designation as the payee, they would bundle up those checks payable to Skullduggery and send them to the friend or family member in Ohio so that that money doesn’t show up in the Skullduggery Inc. California bank account! That way they could claim fewer sales and get away with not paying me If you or someone you know ever ordered a fossil replica or anything from Skullduggery Inc. from 1987 on, please see if you can find the cancelled check. If the back of the check was endorsed through a bank in Ohio, or any other state than California, then I can prove this. I know it’s a longshot, especially so many years later, but you never know, it’s worth a try. I can’t do it without your help. Please help if you can. My e-mail address is hopefortomorrow@hughes.net . That’s the only contact I dare give out for now. There is no statute of limitation for fraud. Since pete still won't pay me, I would love to see the Koehls get their well-deserved comeuppance. Pete, I want my money. I’ve been patiently waiting for you to pay me for 28 years now, and I’m still waiting. I’ve waited long enough! PAY UP NOW. $700,000 is very little to demand after all this time. I'm not even charging you interest, or COLA increases, you idiot! I've left you alone to make all the money you can so that you will be able to pay me what you owe. Pay up and I will pardon you. I never dragged you into court on a lawsuit, where all the money would be eaten up with attorney fees, so give it up! I'm sure you've put aside my cash over the years, so pay me. In the unlikely event you must mortgage your house, that's OK, interest rates are cheap right now. It's obvious that you have some mental hang-up about paying me personally. So I will make it easy on you. Simply donate the $700,000 to my favorite non-profit charity and I will pardon you. The non-profit is Hope For Tomorrow Cat Sanctuary in Oklahoma. Their website is http://www.valleyanatomical.com, but certainly not you. So sell some more infantile cast and paint kits, toys and puzzles to unsuspecting customers. Steven Gagnon - https://www.facebook.com/search/top/?q=valencia%201966%20Gagnon My linked in profile - https://www.linkedin.com/in/steven-gagnon-414701109?trk=hp-identity-headline
  7. Second comment by me. I own 50% of Skullduggery, I'm mortified to admit. What a bunch of infantile toy products. I can’t believe Marcus would want any part of this business. After finally buying the second season DVD’s from NBC and viewing this episode, it's obvious to me that the Koehl’s never had any intention of selling any interest to Marcus. They couldn’t have sold any part of Skullduggery, Inc. without my approval. They just played him to get what they could out of him. I understand that Marcus is only interested in a NASCAR licensed line of toys. Then Stephen Koehl was so eager to insult Steve Phelps at Nascar. What was Steve Phelps supposed to say to the jabs Stephen Koehl so maliciously thrust at him? Steve Phelps was such a gentleman. I know I would not have been so gracious to an asshole like Stephen Koehl. Marcus' ability to salvage that situation and evidently give the Koehls a chance to come up with a product to be licensed, illustrates why Marcus is such a prophet in business. Yet Stephen Koehl, "the boss", did not even try to come up with a product. Does it really take a rocket scientist to come up with a toy idea for NASCAR? Gee, I wonder, could it have been a RACECAR of some kind? Duh. If the Koehls are making so much a year with those lame TOYS, then that's fine with me, just give me my money too. I don’t care what they make or sell, just pay me. I'm sure they never will pay me unless ordered by a court. The father wants to pay himself $600,000.00 a year, OK, that's great, but where is my portion of that money? I'm still waiting. The Koehl's pretend to be a business family, but they have ripped me off. After 28+ years, I haven't received anything. Yes, I'm clearly exasperated with them and hated to see the Koehls get away with playing Marcus. I hope that people will stop buying their toys. This family trashed my product line of fossil skull replicas deliberately and completely. I still can't understand why the Koehl's would "buy" into a company that makes only fossil skull replicas, then trash that product line. At this late date, the market for excellent skull replicas has been taken over by Bone Clones. Kronen Osteo, the parent company of Bone Clones has done an excellent job. http://www.boneclones.com David Kronen and I have been good friends for 38 years. David and I discussed what needed to be done to profit from the skull replica market back in the 1970's. David Kronen executed everything I advised, as I'm sure he would agree. I agree with Marcus that the Skullduggery skull line should be discontinued. They reason the skulls are not moving is because they don't even look real anymore. Just look at those fake looking high priced skulls in this episode. When I was running the company, we made every effort to produce REALISTIC skull replicas. Those they are selling now don't look real at all. Another illustration of the Koehl's feeble-mindedness, as if we haven’t seen enough illustrations already - if you want to be a toy maker exclusively, then WHY would they even keep the Skullduggery, Inc. corporation alive, so that the ripped off owner and the lazy father can claim a stake in the newly developed products? My main reason for “selling” back in 1987 was so that I could be free to make more molds at no cost to the company other than the mold making materials. I was very generous and only wanted the company to succeed. I had intended to have a complete line of interesting fossil dinosaur skull replicas, molded directly from original fossils, showing all the intricate details. I had already been working with the Chinese when China first became capitalistic in the late 1980’s. Mr. Qiren Fong, of the Chongqing Museum of Natural History and I were about to close the deal where I would make molds of all their most interesting dinosaur skulls. The Chinese were really looking forward to having me there to show them how mold making is done. The Chinese have some of the most unique looking dinosaur skulls I’ve ever seen. Peter IV, refused to allow the deal. I wouldn’t have charged Skullduggery, Inc. anything at all for my mold making skills. It would be included in the $25,000 a year they were already “obligated” to pay me. I was to travel to Chongqing. The Chinese would have provided the manpower to make the molds. I was really looking forward to marketing those skull replicas. We could have made millions from them I’m sure. Immediately after the Koehl’s took over my company, they refused to allow me to go out and make new molds of museum fossil specimens from any museum. That was my stated goal to have a complete line of interesting fossil skulls and skeletons, molded from original fossils. Peter IV, the daddy, said NO. My main skill was in mold making without any damage to the original. So they refused to acquire anything more but instead made their versions of clay sculptures of skulls. Who would “buy” a company that makes nothing but fossil skull replicas, molded directly from original fossils and then discontinue the replica line? Their so-called "hominid line" of clay homind skull sculptures were made by an artist with no anthropological experience whatsoever. The finished oil based clay skull sculptures were put in the empty mold room in the middle of a hot summer. Months later, when they finally got around to making the molds from those originals, it was discovered they had melted and were useless. But they simply pushed them back into shape as best they could and made the molds anyway. They don't care, just give up the money. They have claimed losses for 28 years straight. Not the three years of losses they said in the program. I have the financial statements they have sent me over the years, and they have never shown a profit, certainly never a dividend of any kind. The profits are eaten up with high salaries and bonuses to Koehl family members, just as Marcus predicted would happen if he paid off their debt and gave them the million in operating cash. Part of the reason for the debt is they have paid $50,000 bonuses every year to each of the five family members (while deferring my $25,000 a year for 28+ years now) There is a PBS documentary (aired in 1998) about Skullduggery, Inc. on the topic of MARKETING where Cornelia Koehl, the sister of the two bozos and an aspiring actress, went on camera to pontificate on her family marketing wisdom in the case of Skullduggery, Inc. She did her best to run me down and promote the Koehl marketing strategy (whatever that is, it was never clarified) as the new wave of the future. As if they could do no wrong. In 1987 Emmeline Koehl (the mother of the two bozos) bought one mail order marketing course and never even completed the course. Daddy made mommy the Director of Marketing, over my objections. In the marketing documentary there were pregnant pauses after Corny's tirades against “the previous owner”, in which I could read her expression. Knowing Corny as I do, she was wondering “Are they really buying this?” Evidently the producers bought it because they aired it. I saw this broadcast just as I was struggling to awake from anesthesia from one of my many service-connected surgeries at the V.A. Hospital in Los Angeles. I tried to remember the producers so I could buy a copy of this documentary. I couldn't move at the time and had no access to a pen or paper to write on, so I had to rely on my memory, which failed me. If anybody knows how I can buy a copy of this PBS documentary, please let me know how to buy it. I am Steven Gagnon. e-mail - hopefortomorrow@hughes.net . Sales continued to decline until present when now sales of fossil replicas are insignificant in Peter IV and Stephen’s feeble minds. It WAS a million a year in sales of fossil skull replicas when I left in 1988 or so. All I ever asked for was the $25,000 a year, or $500 a week. Daddy talked me into partially deferred pay for a while. For the benefit of the company, I agreed. As soon as I was settled into my forest in Oregon, 1000 miles away, daddy cut my partially deferred pay back to NOTHING. Being 100% disabled veteran, now with nothing at all, what could I do? I guarantee that Stephen and Peter don’t even know how to make molds anyway. They refused to learn when I tried to teach them. They were stiff-necked over learning anything at all from me. Anybody can make a basic mold easily but I had learned the intricacies of mold making. The company lost out when the Koehls ran me off. In my opinion, the Koehl's are pons asinorum schoolboys, all three of them. I was amazed that Peter III the father showed his face on the program. It was only the dangling carrot of the money that brought the daddy out of the background. It's my opinion that daddy has good reason for hiding out from public view. In my opinion he has tried to scam many others out of their businesses over the years. I think, and fervently hope, that I'm the only one he successfully scammed. Daddy owns http://www.4pka.com, Peter Koehl ASSociates. That site has not been updated in many many years. The reviews of his work on 4pka.com are bullshit. On that site, he says the skulls are making more than a million a year. On The Profit, Peter IV, the son said that skulls account for less than 10% of the total sales of 1.6 million (which later in the program he admitted it's 1.3 million only, a figure I don't believe, it's lower) So sales of skulls is less than $130,000. Besides those jokers, I am the only one who knows that they pay bonuses of 50 thousand to every family member, every year. I have no idea what their salaries are, but they must be substantial since every one of them own homes in Newport Beach area of Southern California. They knew I was homeless in the forest of Oregon for 8 years waiting for my money with no electricity, no water, no phone, only a camper shell for shelter. There are five family members and I know that NONE of them (except daddy) have ever worked anywhere before they came to Skullduggery, Inc. Also, in their financial statements I’m sure they’re not including the $700,000.00 they owe to me in deferred pay. Those financial statements they showed Marcus were prepared just for the show, as they admitted when they brought them out for Marcus. Peter IV is the older of the two bozos and was the original manager when daddy turned management over to him. He did a fine job of running the fossil replicas into the ground by filling orders with defective casts and bad looking so-called "replicas" before he left the country in the 1990's. By the way, the marketing geniuses "lost" my entire mailing list of previous customers from before incorporation and never even mailed to them. Peter tried to make it in Japan for a decade before crawling home to beg for his old job back. In my opinion they ran Peter out of Japan for being a dick. Nobody else will employ Peter IV, so Skullduggery, Inc. took him back out of pity, but with the demotion. If I may be so bold, I would like to post my reviews of the comments made already; Clod and Kellie Wood - Yes, their debt is a permanent part of the plan. According to the financial statements they’ve sent me over the past 28+ years, they’ve always shown a loss. That way they never have to pay me anything in dividends. In 28 + years they have always claimed losses. Ketzel Your assessment was right on. They never intended to make a deal to sell. How could they? I am the owner and never was even told this episode was being made. RadoActiveRich I’m amazed at your insight. You are so right on. qtpye So right on Caligirl50 So very right on! How could you have known the two bozos are into high-fiving each other. Nobodyyoucare Yes, you are also right on. ClareWalks Peter III the daddy would never show his face on Dr. Phil. Greg247 Yes, I wish somebody could help me out pro bono. It would be well deserved comeuppance. Actually it wouldn't have to be pro bono, but on contingency would be fine with me
  8. I am 50% owner of Skullduggery, Inc. I'm embarrassed to admit. What low-life people I've enabled to "Play" a generous and well-meaning man like Marcus. These jokers, the Koehl's, ripped me off almost 30 years ago. They say their father Peter III "bought" the company from me. Their father is NOT a majority shareholder. It's 50/50. Those two pathetic "boys", who call themselves "the boss" don't own any shares at all. The truth is the Koehl's played me too. They never paid me anything at all for my years of hard work. They still owe me $700,000.00 in deferred pay, which I'm sure I'll never see. Much more lost profit and opportunities. They refused to do anything I had laid out in the written plan. They ran the fossil replica business straight into the ground. They failed to mention what's owed to me to Marcus in their "negotiation". They could never have sold part of the company to Marcus without my approval. So you see, they never had any intention of letting Marcus buy in. I am service-connected 100% disabled Vietnam combat veteran. I was told at one of our board meetings that they felt justified in not paying me anything at all because they accused me of being a "baby killer". I was a medic with the 101st Airborne. At the time I was looking for someone to sell 1/2 the company to, our line of fossil skull replicas dominated the market. Sales were nearly 1 million a year when I allowed the Koehl's in, to my everlasting regret. In 1987, after 9 years of building the company from nothing, making valuable museum contacts and license agreements, I got very sick and barely able to continue on. In retrospect I now realize it was the effects of Agent Orange that made me collapse. I was sleeping nearly 20 hours a day. So I was desperate for someone to help out. Peter III represented himself to me as a C.P.A. who goes around doing exactly what Marcus does. Peter, the father promised I could trust him, and that he never enters agreements except in friendship. What a joke. He is not a C.P.A. He promised a full crew of employees would come in once I signed. Once I signed, he brought out his family. Instead of a crew of employees, I got this family of prima dona's. Spoiled little brats, Steven, Peter IV, and Corny Koehl. Steven has a high school edumacation (sic), Peter has a degree in psychology (which he uses to PLAY us). From the start, Peter IV refused to learn the business. He refused to do anything I said. He just didn't care, yet he was the new "manager". He began filling orders with defective casts and terrible looking replicas, not caring what the customers think once we got the money from them. Over my protests, I was told to "shove it up my ass". To make a long sad story shorter, Bone Clones came along in 1995 and took over the market, to their everlasting credit. David Kronen, the owner of Bone Clones did everything right and deserves to dominate the fossil replica market, which they do to this day. I would be delighted if Skullduggery, Inc. would get out of the skull replica market. Their skull replica products really are bad. I haven't seen any of the Koehl's since 1993 when, at our last meeting I found a gun in Peter III's desk drawer. I was immediately assaulted and thrown backward over a desk, and surrounded by Peter III and the two sons with cocked fists. I withdrew to my property in Oregon to await the $500 a week Peter III promised me. I'm still waiting. I nearly starved to death in those years. I have nothing but contempt for the Koehls. Their toys and cast and paint products are so infantile, it's embarrassing to be associated with them. I have much more to say about these Koehls. To quote John Lennon, "Time wounds all heels". This program The Profit, which the Koehls used to PLAY Marcus, has blown up in their stoopid looking faces. I must say, those "boys" and their father have not aged well at all. My e-mail address is hopefortomorrow@hughes.net for anybody wanting more information. My name is Steven Gagnon. I am willing and eager to speak to anybody interested about Skullduggery, Inc. and the Koehls. I haven't even seen the entire program yet, I just watched the extended preview so far. I'm sure I'll have more to post here later, after I've seen the program.
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