New post from Wayne on his Facebook page.
https://www.facebook.com/revivebatteries/REVIVE BATTERIES – A Credible and Honest Business that Sells Batteries.
I am writing this post as a matter of record to clearly explain my interest and involvement with the Batteroo Company and their Product so there can be no further doubt or speculation.
In July 2015 I pledged to buy some Batteroos (previously called Batteriser) from the crowd funding site, Indiegogo. After that, I researched the product and the people behind it extensively (including the large amounts of negativity on some select internet blogs). I thought it may have some potential, so I contacted them via email. I got a response in May this year and that led to some further emails where they agreed that I could become a reseller in my own state of the Northern Territory, Australia. There were no firm commitments by either side and it depended on the simple fact that the Batteroo was actually a viable and saleable product. In October, I happened to be in California on a holiday and was driving past the Batteroo offices so I arranged to stop in. My wife and I had a brief tour of the offices and met with a couple of the Batteroo Managers. It was just a meet and greet but we did discuss me being a stockist.
On November23, I finally received my order of Batteroos. I went onto the Indiegogo site and left a simple comment to say I had received mine and that they did in fact increase the voltage of a couple of batteries that I had quickly tested.
From that simple comment, things turned crazy. I received numerous phone calls, emails and comments on blogs. I had read a couple of blogs before but have never actually been on one before. My integrity was questioned, my honesty was questioned, my credibility was questioned, a Google street view of my house was publically posted, I was publically ridiculed, my involvement with Batteroo was speculated about and it just went on and on and is still happening now.
Quite frankly, a lot of it is defamatory to both myself and my Business and I hope it doesn’t damage my reputation. (I wonder if the administrator of a blog can be held accountable for defamatory statements of its registered members?)
Having said all this I do admit that I did not behave appropriately at all times either. The owner of the EEVblog had the nerve to email me and offer to buy my Batteroos at an inflated price when at exactly the same time he knew I was being publically questioned ridiculed by some members of his blog. They did not expect that I had read them. My email response was angry, rude and to the point and I guess I could have toned it down a bit. I also collectively called the members on the blog tossers. I also baited them by posting questionable Batteroo tests on the site.
I will publish a selection of their blog comments at the end of this post so you are able to make up your own minds.
In the meantime, I have continued to be in contact with Batteroo via email. I have asked them numerous questions about the product and how it functions. I have also raised a lot of the issues that appear on these blogs. My number one priority still remains, is it a viable product and is it something that I want to stock and sell? At this time, I still have no commitment one way or the other.
Yesterday, I had a long conference call with the entire Senior Management team of Batteroo. This was the first time I had the opportunity to meet and talk to most of them and it was a very productive call. I was impressed by their enthusiasm and energy in trying to get this product to market. They explained a lot to me and I saw some information and also some videos of tests with the Batteroo in operation. It makes a lot more sense to me now. They were also quite open and up front in recognising that in hindsight there were a lot of things they could have done better. I furnished them with a number of questions and concerns, some of them taken directly from the EEVBlog site. Most of them were covered off to my satisfaction and there are a couple of points that they are going to look into and get back to me.
I stress again, there are no commitments or deals between Revive Batteries and Batteroo at this stage. That’s not to say there won’t be in the future if I can feel confident in selling their product and they actually want to supply it to me.
Patience is the key here, this is a start up business and things don’t always go smoothly in the early days. I think all the detractors will be back peddling or going to ground in the near future if things transpire the way I think they will.
Thanks for your time,
Wayne.
Revive Batteries.
Some random comments from the EEVblog:
(The Bob referred to below is the CEO of Batteroo – I had never met him or spoken to him until yesterday’s conference call)
“Wayne doesn't strike me as an EEVBLOG reader but...
...he knew exactly who Dave was. He new that Dave had been badmouthing” “Batteriser. That Dave was The Enemy. How does that work if you're just a random person who received some Batterisers in the post?
And the conclusion he got from Dave's videos was that Dave is a "Complete Tosser"? Nah, I reckon he was primed to think that by somebody.”
“I enjoyed driving by his house via Google.”
“Has anyone considered that Wayne might have a NDA with Bob.”
“Can't say I blame Wayne. Some of the crap that was dumped on him was personal and derived completely from speculation.”
“Is Wayne complicit in any of the Batteroo debacle...? Personally, I don't think so. His responses so far are entirely consistent with someone who has seen a product and wants to give it a go - and is getting pissed off at people who want to give him a hard time about it.”
“At this point, I can see a lot of the negative comments against Wayne as being a simple case of jealousy and sour grapes.... "He has a Batteroo sleeve and I don't!!". I don't blame him for his response - the guy is getting bombarded.”
“And in my opinion, it is time for you and the rest to stop hassling Wayne and psychoanalyzing him without a license or even his permission.”
“If anything, I'd say *he's* the one that's been antagonistic, from the start in fact.”
“I don't know if Wayne is complicit or a dupe, it's impossible to judge.
I do know there's no way in hell Wayne was chosen randomly to receive the only-known box of Batterisers. Bob chose him specifically.”
“His latest comment on IGG reads more like something Bob would say rather than the robust-talking Wayne we are so familiar with on this forum.”
“Looks like Wayne is still helping to protect Bob's reputation on IGG”
“Wayne has posted more nonsensical ramblings on IGG and Facebook.....”
“It's confirmed. Wayne is firmly in the Batteroo camp.”
“I don't know, this doesn't sound like something Wayne would write. Maybe Bob wrote it for him?”
“It's all fancy English, not a single Aussie curse word or mention of 'beer' in the entire thing. He also says "flashlight" instead of "torch", etc.”
“But I have little doubt that all revivebatteries accounts, on facebook, on IGG an here really do belong to Wayne. But it's clear he works together with Batteroo now (just as others stated)”
“100% not his words, his write-up, or his evaluation... All his other references were to it being a "torch" cos that's what it is....”
“I told you so! Wayne has his nose so far up Bob's ass that when Bob wipes his butt, Wayne's mouth goes dry.”
“Wayne is definitely doing some sort of PR or damage control for Butterooter. Like I theorized before, he is definitely involved with Butterooter. “
“Very suspect...”
“Wow... So, Wayne turned out to have an agenda? I'm shocked. Shocked.”
“Not sure if I'd call it an agenda, but he does have a vested interest - something which he has declared.”
“I really think that everybody bagging Wayne have lost touch with reality.”
“Calm down. Stop the mob mentality. Stop attacking individuals just because they want to support Batteroo. Stop investigating and publicizing the details of people just because they received a Batteriser. Stop the wild speculation.”
“As for Batteroo lawyers launching any kind of defamation suit against anyone on this forum, good luck with that. They would have almost no hope in subpoenaing any identifying information on anyone on this forum (except for those who live in the USA). I'm sure Dave could just as quickly hit the 'delete' button on the log file containing people's IP addresses (or replacing them with false ones).”
“He didn't ask to be attacked in this forum, and he probably does want to be a distributor.”
“If a lawyer sniffs a 10 million dollar fee, there is a lot they can do. They might be recording every post in the forum so they can try and track people down. They can directly go to Dave's hosting site with a court order rather then Dave. I think Dave's site is in the US. If Dave wipes the forum, they will already have everything they want recorded. I don't mean possibly - I mean they will definitely have the posts recorded.”
And so on it goes.........................