Video research update

[bigblock73]

For those of you who have been involved in the video research , please read on.

First off, let me start by saying sorry it has been so long between updates. Allied Vaughn (AV - the company that has the videos), has been dragging their feet on this process, and terrible at getting back to me by the times they told me they would. Sick of waiting, I called them again today to find out what progress has been made, and heard some bad news.

I mentioned in my previous thread that once AV has conducted their research, they would then burn a time code VHS to send to GM, GM would then have to give approval on the videos and if they should be given to me. At that time, AV mentioned that GM does not release videos with songs and people in them, for copywrite reasons and such, but she (the lady I am dealing with at AV) felt we should get something out of it. Well after talking to AV today, GM approved NONE of the commercials AV had on file and would not release any to me. Fortunately, AV only did one hour of research (and came up with 15 commercials) because they didn't want to charge me for the full three hours only to get turned down by GM and wipe me/us out of $150. I was pissed!

The lady I was talking to then told me she could perform a "search" by running a report and look for any "truck" related "action" videos as she called them. From the way it sounds, these would be like dealership only info-mercials (for lack of a better term) and would show the trucks driving, explaining new features, and such. There will be no charge for this report, and she said she could E-mail me the report sometime tomorrow and I could then decide if I wanted to have them dig those up. Of course, once the tape goes in, we get charged the $50 per hour.

This is where I need input from those who have participated. Do you guys want to pursue this path, or would you like to back out? If you want to keep on going, I will post the info she gives me on the board for you all to see before any decisions are made on my end as far as continuing or stopping this transaction.

Please let me know your thoughts on this. I want to be fair, and I don't want you guys to feel ripped off.