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*