RazorGator has instructed its legal team to review the possibility of countersuing Texas ticket broker Andrew Hentrich, and his firm Austin Ticket Company, which last month sued RazorGator for alleged breach of contract over payments for Olympic ticket orders.
RazorGator did not disclose a time frame for the company might file its lawsuit against Hentrich, nor did the company offer details on the grounds for which it might sue. But, judging from its statement, the company does not believe Hentrich fulfilled his part of the deal concerning tickets to the Beijing Olympics in August.
“RazorGator has been partnering with independent ticket vendors across the country for many years. We only maintain relationships with partners who share our commitment to providing our customers with a 100 percent guarantee for any products purchased from RazorGator,” company CEO Jeff Lapin said in a statement.
“Mr. Hentrich has not lived up to that commitment in his relationship with RazorGator. We intend to both pursue our case against Mr. Hentrich and vigorously defend against Mr. Hentrich’s claims,” he added.
Based on his lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court in Austin, TX, Hentrich claims RazorGator was going to pay him “50% of all net revenues received by the Company arising out of the Company’s [RazorGator’s] sales of Tickets to the 2008 Summer Olympics in China and reimburse plaintiff for all reasonable expenses incurred in connection with his performance.” The lawsuit goes on to say that Hentrich “performed its contractual obligations,” but RazorGator “has not performed its contractual obligations” by not reimbursing him for what he considered reasonable expenses.
When reached by TicketNews today, November 4, Hentrich said it was “unfortunate they would take that route” of possibly countersuing him, but added that RazorGator had threatened to sue him while he and his lawyer were negotiating with the company for a possible settlement. The two sides have been talking on and off since the end of August after the Olympics concluded, he said. Hentrich declined to offer details on how many Olympic tickets he sold for RazorGator, but his lawsuit is seeking damages and other costs in excess of $230,000.
“I would like to see us come up with some kind of amicable resolution over this,” he said. “I simply want to recover the money I laid out of pocket for this. There’s no profit in this for me.”
Due to tight controls imposed by the Chinese government over tickets to the Beijing Olympics, brokers had a tough time obtaining, reselling and delivering tickets to some fans, which led to other lawsuits. In addition, there were several alleged scams that bilked fans out of thousands of dollars.
Last Updated on November 5, 2008
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Seriously, someone thinks razorGator is a decent site? Everyone I know hates it. This must have been written by a RazorGator employee (although it was written in english). RazorGator is at best the 5th best secondary site out there. They have horrible business practices and worse customer service.
without the help of hentrich in china, razor gator would have busted all their orders and not filled one customer. razor gator has no business taking orders for these kinds of events in the first place, as the only way they can fill the tickets they need is to hire someone outside since their entire staff has left them. if someone needs a ticket anywhere but the united states they shouldn’t bother using this company unless they want to pay through the nose only to get the ticket from someone like hentrich.
Razoargator has always been the envy of ticket brokers for a long time! They have the tickets and the customers…
As a relatively small Canadian based broker, we’ve been extremely disappointed in Austin Ticket Co.’s failure to remedy an unpaid invoice situation stemming from an Olympic ticket order that we filled for them in North America. Repeated attempts to garner payment from Andrew Hentrich have not come to fruition, despite numerous promises to do so. We fail to see how a dispute between some larger players in the industry is relevant to us, the small guy, who filled an order well in advance, as pledged. Obviously we now question the credibility of this company and Mr. Hentrich, and we will continue to do so until he fulfills his commitment to us.
You wish you were 5th, your probably not even in the top 1000. Your opinion like yourself does not matter. I’ll see you on the corner one day and maybe I’ll flip you a nickle tip after you shine my shoes. Maybe I’ll let you stand in line and try and get a ticket release so you can post them up on their site since I’m sure you don’t have one.
Our company also sold tickets to Austin Ticket company and to date have not been paid.
We gave them to him, not Razor Gator. He’s claiming they stiffed him yet they paid us for all the tickets they bought from our company. He’s a riff raff strret hustler who will probably hide behind his corporation when he gets served. Our Lawyers are getting ready to serve him now.
hentrich has no money because razor gator has him tied up for all his cash, if u have a problem call razor gator because if they pay him u can get paid. he sold them all the tickets and now cant get paid. if the guy who keeps mentioning shoe shines i would love one for a nickel.
there isnt a soul today who is envious of these guys, they are yesterdays news and will be sold to the highest bidder who has 100 bucks in their pocket.
DAMN, I HAVE $100 AND I WANT GATOR’S ORDER VOLUME. SIGN ME UP.
they should pay andrew his money.Jeff lapin is going to go down.Once everyone finds out.
razorgator has a better site than most. They have flash maps, reviews, photos and forums. i just saw that they have digital delivery for tickets now. who’s got them beat? ticketsnow with those cartoon characters?
i’ll be at wolfie cohen’s in Hollywwod florida this weekend for the big race. Come
see me and polish you shoe’s with your face.
I here Andrew Hentrich is teaming up with AnyEvent.com in Austin, Texas.
Many who know Andrew know him to be a hustler and not very respectable. In the opinion of many that know him he is a liar, thief, and con artist. He allegedly has many former partners/investors that he has basically scammed over nominal periods of time.
Like these trips he makes going around the country or world promising to fill orders. I wouldn’t doubt that he has an investor paying for it all and then coming up with just enough to keep that investor thinking “he did all he could”, “we’ll make it up next time”. All the while Hentrich is stockpiling a nice little bank account no one knows about.
That’s his game. And he is good enough to fool those that he gets to trust him.
But he’ll know one day – “karma is a foul *****”.
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