West Alton Marina Experience

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Nightwing wrote:

You are also missing the part where the boat in question was stored on a trailer, not racked under cover. Racking is more expensive than lot storage. Obviously, WAM did not make the same income that they would have with racking and two season service.

One other point is that we are only hearing half the story.

It is my understanding that the complaint is WAM refused to renew his lease because he didn't have service performed on the boat at WAM, not because he did not pay extra for rack storage.

Now two folks that did/do business with WAM say that there is no mention of service being required to be performed at WAM as a condition to lease space at WAM.

Skip wrote:

One important element that is necessary in a libel suit is evidence that a person's statement caused harm to the defendant. You, as a third party, have now publicly stated that you would avoid doing business with an entity due in part to public claims made by an alleged former customer.

A very slippery road to be on! And frankly I am surprised that someone with such an extensive media background as you profess would take such a profound public position without giving both sides the appropriate airing of their greivance.

If I were doing a story about this certainly I would investigate both sides and beyond as well as demand to see a copy of the signed contract and contracts with other boaters. However, since many things on this forum are stated as fact I have no reason to believe that AMekler is doing anything beyond giving folks on the forum a heads up to the way WAM conducts business.

If you go back and review the posts, you will see that before stating my opinion and decision, I asked whether or not AMekler's contract contained any language regarding service on his boat being a condition of leasing space at WAM. His answer was that no such language existed in his contract. Again, I have no reason to believe he was lying about it.

I will take his advice and I stated my decision. If you choose not to take his advice to heart, that is your choice
and now given that fpartri497 outlined the highlights of the contract with WAM it reenforces AMekler's complaint and my decision.

As for me being sued for stating my opinion and decision, good luck to them!

(edited to add paragraph suggesting you go back and read a prior post, and to clean up extra wordage)