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Higbee Associates Letter & Lawsuits Forum / Re: Higbee Emails for supposed Stockfood America Image

« on: June 10, 2018, 01:58:13 PM »

His letters also have him playing good cop/bad cop at the same time and that can create the impression to the recipient that he is giving them advice when he is their adversary. That confusion can be a perceived conflict of interest and another avenue of violation that an overseer would want him to clarify with the 'speak to an attorney' line.

Here's my theory, it could be to add some authenticity to the letter so people don't just discard it as a scam and throw it away and ignore.  No response is probably the worst outcome for Higbee as it means much more work for them to find out any information.

Also, maybe Higbee figured out most people will start to panic when they see the word "attorney" and will cause people to think the case is extremely serious.  Most people would then think about the high cost of hiring an attorney and assume its cheaper to just negotiate and settle with them and get it over with.  The "you might want to hire an attorney" may cause some people to go crazy as most perceive that as a serious threat or that they are in really hot water.  Let's be honest, most of the people getting these letters may not be the fighting type so it will freak out a lot of people.

They must have done some statistics on which letters bring in money and which ones don't.  A lot of them seem to have some similarities and they probably have template letters people modify and metrics on what works the best for certain people.  I'm sure that Higbee has a data analyst he hired as a summer intern, etc doing some studies on which letters bring in the most money and is maybe providing some guidance to these "client resolution specialists" who are drafting the letters. 

It's like Higbee wants to be the Amazon Inc. of  copyright trolling with his fancy pay online portal and having low paid workers with no real qualifications.  If he could figure out how to make his "client resolution specialists" have just a first name and last initial like Cheryl H. like Amazon does, he'd be right on par.  I'm sure other lawyers in the industry would poke fun at the types of people he has working for him if they looked up who these "client resolution specialists" are.  However if he had these people use just a first name and last initial to keep them anonymous on the letters/emails sent out, people might perceive them as scams. 

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Higbee Associates Letter & Lawsuits Forum / Re: Higbee Emails for supposed Stockfood America Image

« on: June 10, 2018, 01:50:43 PM »

If you have a license for the images, please provide me information and accept my apology for the intrusion.

I wanted to comment on something I saw in your first post in item number 3.  The person is basically saying you are guilty and owe a lot for damages but if for some unforeseen reason you just happen to have a license for the image please provide it and accept their apology? 

What kind of amateurs does Higbee have working for them that they are willing to throw out rather serious allegations without being 100% sure said person does not have a license for the images?  That's like insulting a female coworkers husband at work without ever having met him and not knowing if he's a 6'3 250 lbs UFC fighter ready to pound your a$$ 6 feet under only later to apologize later because you didn't know he was a UFC fighter.

This makes me believe they are trying hard over and over again with their letters to get some type of response from you by an amateur "client resolution specialist".  They are probably trained to write the letters such that the chance of a received response is greater.  I imagine no response from the get go is the worst as they have to put a lot more resources to find out if they even have a case, and how could they be 100% sure this person does not have a license?  Higbee probably hires a bunch of lower paid employees with no real experience in the legal field and does a quick training and let's them draft these letters.  I bet his upper management reviews their performance over a few months to see how effective they are in getting people to fork over money and maybe even pay them commision based.  He probably doesn't even review these letters himself and doesn't get involved until a case is recommended for filing.  Let me also comment that I looked up the name of one of these "client resolution specialists" working at his firm and it looked like this person had a lot of non-legal experience in industry doing admin stuff prior to joining the Higbee racket.  Higbee probably wants to maximize ROI vs. paying a more expensive paralegal.  Anyone else think this is possible?

This brings me to my next point.  What if someone purchases a license using their DBA (doing business as name), but their company is actually called or registered under something different?  Are there any regulations that would cause that license to be invalid if hosted on that website by a sole proprietor?  This is where their approach could really backfire on them if they haven't done their due diligence to find out who really owns the website and how that license was purchased.  This is maybe why they try so hard to get some type of response by drafting the letters the way they do.  No response maybe gives them to much risk for suing a company or person with little info that can be easily obtained.

For people who can dig deeper and learn mind tricks people play, to me it seems that letter just revealed a flaw in their approach that most people wouldn't catch.