In early June, my company was approached by Sam Logan, Director of Loss Prevention for Island Hospitality to provide consulting services intended to measure levels of customer service provided and evaluate service delivery at 2 hotels the company manages. It was stated to be an "emergency" need that would open up a long-term relationship relative to the over 100 hotels managed by Island Hospitality. We delivered those requested services, in spite of rude and aggressive behavior on the part of Mr. Logan, and forwarded our invoices in accordance with the agreement. Mr. Logan was unresponsive. When we finally were able to successfully make contact, Mr. Logan indicated her was out of town with a family emergency and would attend to the matter when he returned in a week. Upon his return, he requested that all pertinent information including invoices be resent. We immediately complied. After 24 hours, Mr. Logan informed me that the company had taken Chapter 11 Bankruptcy on 7/19 and referred me to a website to file a claim. This business was not solicited in good faith. Mr. Logan was certainly aware of the failing status of the company when he demanded services. He has now repeatedly stated that in spite of "nasty and bitter" correspondences from me, the outcome will remain the same - they have no intention of paying for services performed up until the date Bankruptcy was declared. This company is unethical and downright dishonest. Save yourself the frustration and DO NOT DO BUSINESS with this company.

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“I fully retract and withdraw all of my previous postings on this site concerning Motel 6 and manager Lee Judson”.

Dick Colbeth

Bart, Kim, Keel, Stacey, Cory, Striderq, Margaret, Duane, Tom, & Robert. Who are these people and what do they all have in common? With no vested interest in me or my dispute with Accor's Seaside, Oregon, Motel 6, they have all attacked me personally, repeatedly, made disparaging comments and made pejorative remarks about me on RipOffReport.com.

This is by definition, Cyberbullying. Cyberbullying is willful and involves recurring or repeated harm inflicted through the medium of electronic text. Bullying intends to cause emotional distress and has no legitimate purpose to the choice of communications. But why would all these people conspire to go to that site and attack me? What or who would make them do that? Someone with a vested interest in the dispute I have with Accor/Motel 6 would, that's who.

Cyberbullying can constitute a computer crime. For example, in the United States it is a federal crime to anonymously "annoy, abuse, threaten, or harass any person" via the internet or telecommunication system, punishable by a fine and/or up to two years imprisonment.

I've got a couple of AccorNazis, one regular, the other new, sniping at me on RipOffReport, this is my most recent reply:

You guys are totally missing the point here, if you don't mind my saying so. The Seaside, Oregon Motel 6 and the room aren't the issue - never were.

I'm not expecting you to understand all of this, but when you become a Senior Citizen and probably disabled, time being the enemy of us all, and all of a sudden you find your life style has changed dramatically, pensions and Social Security not being all they're cracked up to be, you'll start clipping coupons and bargain shopping too. I went into a Goodwill store for the first time in my life recently, to give you an idea.

That doesn't make us AARPers bad people, it's just a factoid. So. After a while we become attuned to something, anything that will make the bills run out before the money does, know what I'm sayin'?

Room 127 at that motel is under the stairs - if it hasn't washed away in the recent floodings - and is half sized, half amenities, of the other rooms we had been assigned the ten years we stayed there.

At first we were upset, but then we thought of the serendipity thing - maybe this is a mixed blessing and instead of thinking lemons, we thought lemonade.

So I asked for a discount - shoot me. A lot of managers in a many similar consumer situations would give their long-term, regular customers a break and if this one would have, I could have afforded to buy my bride dessert with her dinner that night. You know what kills me? Accor gives their Franchisees complimentary passes to hand out. It wouldn't have cost him a dime. This manager would rather fight than be friendly; I can't wait to meet him, he must be quite a guy.

Trust me, I never in my wildest imagination ever expected to get kicked out for the innocent request; I mean, what manager does that? If I would have had even the slightest inclination that he would have gone off the deep end like that, I'd have forgotten about it and gone without the extra calories.

So anyway, there it is- one of life's little glitches that got blown all out of proportion - a $100,000 lawsuit for asking for 10 bucks off a deal? Wow - bizarro land. If that catches on, a lot of my AARP buddies are going to wind up in court too.

If you want to help with our legal defense, please write to: Dick and Sandy Colbeth P.O. Box 821201, Vancouver, WA 98682