Comments and Talking

At first I thought I might be the only one on the planet that wants to bash Reynolds. Then I started looking at the hits and the private emails that have been sent to me. I started looking thru the comments and noticed they are completely empty and wondered are people too afraid to talk?

Keep in mind no one knows who you are. Heck my IP address keeps changing every 15 minutes or so. If you want to bash Reynolds or tell Brockman how much you hate him. This is a perfect forum for that. I find dealers seem to be the people that check this blog the most.

American Greed

On TV there is a show called "American Greed". I am thinking of sending the producers of the show a story about the automotive industry and the DMS companies that control the entire industry.

If you have never seen the program I think it airs on CNBC or something. The show is all about people in America that steal and cheat their way to the top. Of course Bernie Madoff was on there because he took so much money from innocent people.

I was thinking about the automotive industry and how they get screwed on a daily basis. Take Reynolds & Reynolds for example. Maybe they do not steal, however their tatics are very questionable.

Example:
Create RCI so only companies that are approved can access their system. On the surface this does not sound that bad, but dig under the hood. Let's look at this closer.

Well what if Reynolds does not want the company applying for RCI to exist? Well Reynolds can do lots of things. Such as not respond to application. They can respond, but the set the price for certification unreasonable. (greedy?)

What if Reynolds determines it is not in their best interest to have a company RCI. Well they can kick them out of the RCI program or no reason with a 30 day notice. (better kiss my ass correctly - greedy?).

American greed. Wonder why America has so many issues? Could it be there are people that are so power hungry and agressive they must control/dominate an entire industry? If anyone gets out of line sue them to the point they will no longer exist.

At the end of the day RCI is nothing but American Greed with the legal system backing it.

Freedom of speech

Well the Freedom of Speech was challenged by Bob Brockman and his legal team at Universal Computers which owns Reynolds and Reynolds. The best part is the Freedom of Speech won. Bob wasted a lot of time and money trying to throw out what our forefathers fought so hard for. He lost.

The best part is Bob Brockman hates losing. He goes nuts when he loses.

Also a side note, Bob Brockman read every comment and post about him on the old blog site. He did not like being called names and said it hurt his image.

Bob went to court to figure out who an anonymous blogger could be. The best part about this blog is the IP address is posted on the right side of the screen. That way Bob does not have to spend time and money looking to see who might be talking about him.

Anyone that talks about what Brockman does or what his business is doing will find a legal letter on their doorstep. Damn if he could only control the internet... Only if he could control freedom of speech... Oh man would he be powerful or what? In the past Bob could threaten and go after anyone not following his letter of law.

Damn computers they allow people to stay anonymous... Only if he could shutdown TOR network. Oh well too bad.

Here is an idea - sue Google for name, address, and ip address location. That is money well spent. Dumbass Bobo

Whistleblower protection

One of the reasons I chose the name Whistleblower is that I am protected by under certain laws. Of course not worth taking the chance on everything that is why I stay behind TOR.

TOR changes my IP address several times during the course of my connection. On top of that when I created my account with Blogger, I used TOR which said I was in Egypt or something. I did not really pay attention.

You can connect to this blog and post comments. Nothing on the blog is tracked.

One thing I know for sure is Bob Brockman scours the internet looking for anything that could be said about him or his company. At that point he releases the dogs (aka legal) to attack. That is one of the reasons I started this blog. I want to make his day shitty, just like he does to dealers, 3rd parties, OEMs, and his employees.

Crook and Thief - seriously?!?

Brockman went after The Trooper for calling him a crook and a thief. What a joke.

Hey when the shoe fits... According to The Trooper, Brockman did not like being referred to as Bernie Madoff either. Brockman claimed it damaged his image. Just typing that is way too funny.

Of course the court was really sad that Brockman felt he was attacked. Awww too bad did someone on the playground get hurt? Maybe a booboo.


Well one thing Bob did not mind was being called Bobo. I say we should stick with that tradition. Bobo the clown.

Greatest Company until Bob Brockman took over

I love it. I did a google search for Reynolds and Bob Brockman. I find a weblink to Great Growing Company until Bob Brockman took over.

That is a great read. I will re-post in case some people can not get to the website.

Where do I start ... After hours "desk inspections" by management, no raises for years and years, The CEO would call "all hands meetings" to tell us who to vote for in local and national elections, upper management wears badges that say "EXECUTIVE" on their shirt so employees can show appropriate respect, no hard drives - everything is stored on common drives so it can be "reviewed" in case someone decides to do some…

Obviously this was written by a Bob Brockman fan. Someone that really looks up to the dude. Give me a break. They monitor websites and if your resume is on it, you are terminated. No fear there. Way to treat people with respect. I have tons of horror stories about the inside of Reynolds which I will share in future posts.

DealerRefresh Thread

It is quite an interesting read on DealerRefresh.com. You can go to the thread and read it yourself, but the basics is Reynolds is screwing the dealer.

Do you see a common theme? I do.

Basically the dealership wants to automate tasks on a daily/hourly basis. You know run a business more efficiently. That is not what Reynolds wants. Reynolds wants to control everything about the dealerships. Meaning if they do not pay they can not run things automatically. What is really funny is they used to be able to run software and services automatically until Reynolds went into lockdown.

Oh wait... Lockdown... "Security" They made the dealerships more secure, forget the fact they are making a ton of money. How convenient. Thank god for Reynolds watching over the dealerships to make them more "Secure". Makes me sleep better at night knowing the dealerships are completely protected because Reynolds says so.

Reynolds controls when/what/who has access to dealership data. That makes them more secure. No one could possibly hack that system.

Oh wait there is more... everyone must pay. I forgot that little bit. Payment fixes all the security issues.

More worthless lawsuits

Do you see a theme to Bob Brockman and how he operates?

If you curious how many lawsuits over the years, go to www.findacase.com. In the search type things like "universal computer". Not all are his, but 99% of them in Texas are. Anyway you get the idea.

Now why would a guy so brillant do so many lawsuits? Might it be that he makes money from them. Maybe a lot of money from them, so he can finance the next lawsuit. I think we might have found an answer to how Mr. Brockman was able to get so much money. Oh wait he also screwed the dealers out of a ton of money, so between the two he is now unstoppable.

I love all the Ford lawsuits in the list, because Ford is the one company that created this nightmare. Ford was able to give Brockman 100% control over all their dealers. Once in control he screwed them out of so much money it was sick. Then with the money to started to buy companies and put others out of business. Once he acquired enough he bought Reynolds and the rest is history. The dealership market will never be the same again. Oh well.

How to control the automotive industry

How to control the automotive industry (step by step)

1. Get a legal team and spare no expense

2. Send out letters to the dealerships and the world that Reynolds is helping with "Security" because "Security" is such a scary thing nowdays. Lots of grey area in the legal system over "Security", so if someone wants to fight they are going to pay. Just mention "Security" gets half of the automotive industry on your side.

3. Create RCI (Reynolds Certified Interface) and tell everyone in the world that anyone that is *NOT* RCI then they are the bad guy. They can not be trusted, even though many of the companies have been working with Reynolds dealers for years. Threaten the dealer and tell them if they choose a non-RCI company they are in jeorpardy of losing all their data and information. Maybe resulting in legal action from Reynolds (that usually does the trick).

4. Then with all competitors paying or out of business - 100% control is within Bob's grasp. Not done yet, however. Change the ERAccess / Ignite system to a system that can not be used by anyone but a human. This further instils fear in the dealership. Do things my way or die at the hands of evil Reynolds (automatic lockouts, removal of reports, removal of scripts... etc).

5 Force the dealers into long term contracts, without even thinking of leaving. If they try and leave sue them, their neighbor, and the baby sitter for even thinking about leaving. I think we call that **CONTROL**.

That ladies and gentlemen is how you take control over automotive dealerships.

Stomp out competion using legal

Bob is the master of using the legal system to get what he wants. He has been doing the exact same thing before he owned UCS. I will reveal some of the tricks Bob uses to destroy competition and gain control.

The first thing is he files tons of patents with the USPTO office. Even if these patents are junk or there is prior art he gets his approved. The USPTO office is so overwhelmed by applications they approve like 10,000 new applications each year. The patent system is busted, but no one seems like they can fix it, including Obama. We do not have that many new ideas every year. 99% of the new stuff created is from someone's prior art just rehashed with a new theme.

If you go to Patent Search and type Brockman. Click go, and you will see a ton of patents. Not every patent is owned by him, but many in the list are his. That is step one get a patent.

Step 2 - wait for someone to step into the patent trap. Also considered a "patent troll". Once someone does something close to one of his patents, time to call out the big legal guns. Let the beat down begin. Destroy the person that is in the trap with every legal means at your disposal. If the person fights back, just keep filing until they run out of money or time or both.

Step 3 - Victory... Clean up and take everything that person owns. Everything that person thought they might own. Take their dog, house, car, grandmother's pillow, everything. Destroy them and make it so they can not tell anyone about the trap. So the next person can step into it, and go back to Step 2.

Not that Bob has actually invented anything or done anything useful for the automotive industry. Make no mistake he controls it thru legal enforcement.

Controlled market

You know the automotive market is really controlled, when you go to an open Forum like DealerRefresh and the last time anyone has said anything about Reynolds was in July.

Sure there might not be a lot to talk about, or maybe it is really controlled. I love all the posts in DealerRefresh because all they talk about is how shitty Reynolds is to their customers. I am sure if Bob could legally close down DealerRefresh he would. I am sure his team of legal hippies have looked into how they can get people to not talk.

I can help them. One word: Communism. Bob would like to be like China and control what people see, talk, listen, smell, everything. The more I think about it, that is exactly how Reynolds is run now. Bob controls "Automotive News" because he is the largest advertiser. Anyone that writes a bad article about him or his crappy company, is sued to the point of no return.

See Bob does not sue people because he is right, he sues people because he can overpower them with legal bills. That is how Bob wins in lawsuits. I will have to make another blog post about that, because it is a very interesting topic.

That is how he was able to beat KeyRegister out of business. He continued to sue the owner, until the owner ran out of money and then Bob took the company over. Not because the owner of KeyRegister did anything wrong, but because Bob had more money than him. After he wins, no one in the world can talk about it because he will sue them as well.

Great man at the heart - NOT!

Check this out - who donates $250 million dollars and then backs out because the deal is not good enough?

One answer. Mr. Robert T. Brockman

250 million pledge evaporates
250-million-gift-to-centre-college

Wow what an upstanding man. I mean if you give $250 million to a college you must be great. Oh wait, he backed out on the deal. Umm..... I guess that makes you less great.

Let me get this straight. The only reason to give the money is not to help other people, but what can Brockman get in return? Multibillion-dollar plan to recapitalize Reynolds & Reynolds. Nice... upstanding citizen. Way to further the education of thousands of individuals. Way to make a mark on the world by improving it. Oh wait he backed out... Sorry kids maybe next time when the multibillion dollar deal actually goes thru.

centre-college loses huge donation

I love the national attention it received, and then oh wait... deal is broken.

CDK sale interesting topic

Someone sent me an email saying that it is impossible for Bob Brockman to buy CDK/ADP. In the email they explained that the DOJ would never allow that sale to go thru, because Reynolds and ADP would own like 80% of the dealership business.

I want to talk about that. I do not put a lot of faith in the DOJ on this. Here is my reasoning behind this. First of all the DOJ would have to determine if there are any competitors in the DMS space. Which we know there are a lot. (Dealertrack, Auto/Mate, Autosoft, etc... etc...) Probably like 10 to 15 DMS companies (roughly).

That allows competition, so that is the first thing DOJ looks at. Then the next question, is the competitors growing or shrinking? Well with Bob running Reynolds into the ground, all the dealers have left and went to any DMS who would take their business. So yes the competitors are growing and are continuing to grow. That makes the DMS seem less like a monopoly in the eyes of the DOJ.

I am not saying a merger is going to happen. I have no insight on this. The last blog post was a what if scenario. What I am saying is the possibility is there, and it would not be good for the automotive dealerships. Although combining UCS and Reynolds was not good for the automotive dealers either and it was still allow to proceed.

Like everything we will have to wait and see

Let me know your thoughts in the comments. You can stay anonymous.

The most hated man in the Automotive Field

He seriously is trying to get every single person to hate him. Lets create a list and see if we can find a pattern

Hate List:
1. OEM(s) / MFG(s)
2. Dealers and Owners
3. IT and dealership personnel that have to use his crappy updates
4. 3rd Parties
5. Legal system for crappy lawsuits
6. Employees (of course 99.999% won't tell him)
7. Son - who he fired when he worked for him at UCS
that pretty much sums it up...

Like List:
1. Himself
2. Top management - only about .001% of those that kiss his ass

Qualitiy list. Well at least he likes himself. When he looks back on his life he will know he was a proud father, great business man, and all around good guy.  *NOT*

CDK is up for sale - What If

Well it looks like CDK is on the block to be sold.
CDK for sale

Wouldn't it be interesting if Bob Brockman and Reynolds bought CDK/ADP?

Tell me that would be a serious kick to the nuts of the dealerships. All the dealers that jumped ship from Reynolds would be back under the control of Bob. We all know how much he likes control. He would be a demon possessed.

I am not saying he is going to buy CDK, I am just saying it sure would be interesting to watch.

Brockman still wins - unbelievable

I am amazed Reynolds is still alive and kicking. I knew it would take a long time to piss off the dealerships, but I figured once the flood gates opened it would not be long before the great boat has sank.

I guess Bob has a few tricks still up his sleeves.

Long term contracts - stop the dealers from moving an inch. He screws them by locking them into deals they can not get out of. I guess the only thing the dealers can do is try and wait out Mr. Brockman. He might die evenually and the long term deals might go away... Only time will tell.

I was talking to a dealership the other day and they told me they would never do business again with Bob Brockman. I looked at the phone system they were using, and it was Who's Calling. I looked around at the showroom and saw KeyTrak. I laughed and told the dealership you are still doing business with Bob Brockman. Sure you are an ADP dealership, but running those 2 products are owned by Brockman. They could not believe it. I bet if I looked deeper they might be using other products that are owned by him as well.

Bob reminds me of Mr. Burns from the Simpsons. Bob is in his home rubbing his two hands together and laughing. Scary part is Mr. Burns kindof looks like Bob.

Donations

If you have a minute and care to read about it. The donations Bob and Reynolds makes is amazing. To me it looks like they try and hide the donations. They use PO Boxes etc and Robert T Brockman gave $7500 on April 24. That was over the legal limit so $2500 had to be returned to him. Very interesting.

They have multiple corporations that gave money as well. Fairbanks Properties and Waterbury Properties.

Interesting read
whos-behind-1-million-corporate-donations-romney-aligned-superpac?
the-superpac-super-donors

Notice at the end of the list is "Unknown" Dayton Ohio. Each one is a different company. Interesting, I guess Brockman does not want to be tracked, even though he is.

Bob Brockmans House

If you care and you want to see pics of his house and where he lives.

 Bob's Brockman house
 http://alturl.com/gmaq

You can use street view to look at it. Rumor has it when The Trooper put the house on the website Bob became mad. He went after The Trooper, the difference is he can come after me. No big deal. I can shut the blog down and make another blog.

See I am behind the TOR network, so my internet IP changes every few minutes. Unless Bobo has someone who works for the NSA, I think I am safe.

Another rumor is Bob also requested all these sites to remove links to his house. If you try and search for it in Google Maps it comes up and says can not display. I still have the orginal links which is what I posted above. If you have others, email me and I will update this blog.

Keep in mind this country was founded on Freedom of Speech.

Security - DMS issue

For all the talk the DMS's do about security what a joke. Why do they charge for the additional security? Shouldn't security be part of the core DMS system? I do not remember Apple/Google/Microsoft charging companies to write software for their systems having to pay an extra fee?

Why does the Automotive industry think these 3rd party companys need to be charged for the "extra" security? By the way - even though a 3rd party pays the money to Brockman and this team of junkies, what stops the 3rd party from selling or using the data? Do you think 90 year old Brockman is sharp enough to know what every 3rd party is doing with the data? Wrong... Actually Brockman does not give a crap about what the 3rd parties do with the access, as long as they pay. See the theme?

Security is a such a joke.
How is popping a captcha image making the dealership any more secure? Oh wait I know the answer "Money". That will make the dealership more secure for sure

TAC is worthless

TAC (for non-reynolds) Techinical Assistance Center - they have their hands tied so much I am suprised they pick up the phone.

What can they do when a dealer calls in and says - "Stop screwing with my system, everytime you do you take me down for days" TAC hangs up and says - "Another satified customer"  Reynolds has removed so capabilities from the hands of TAC. If a dealership calls in and wants features turned on/off depending on what they are. Especially the security features, the best TAC can do is tell them they will have to check with their supervisors. "Someone from Reynolds will have to call you back" The most favorite line of TAC.

Don't get me wrong I am not throwing mud at TAC. What can they do when they are sitting at a desk getting paid to help, and the best they can tell the dealer is "Someone will have to call you back"?

It is like going to a gas station and looking at the price of gas. Then going in and yelling at the min wage person working there. Like that person has anything to do the price of the gas at the pump. You might as well yell at the wall. TAC is just a pawn, so Brockman himself does not have to take the nasty phone calls from the pissed off dealers.

I really feel bad for TAC because all they want to do is help and keep the current ERA system up and running. Of course when you have dumbass developers trying to do everything possible to screw up the dealers business it is a tall order.

TAC is a buffer between the customer and the people that really make the decisions. Keep that in mind dealers when you call the TAC and unload on them.

Of course from a dealer standpoint - unloading on someone makes you feel better because you know you are getting screwed everyday by Brockman and his team of Jerry Springer developers.