The E-Sylum:  Volume 8, Number 20, May 15, 2005, Article 6

PLANET COLLECTOR PUBLISHER IN LEGAL BATTLES

In our April 24, 2005 issue (v8n17) I mentioned receiving
copies of a magazine called Planet Collector, a glossy
publication showcasing many different collectible fields.
The latest issue of the Maine Antique Digest has an article
about lawsuits the publisher is involved in.

"Last December, Sotheby#39;s filed a lawsuit against Jordan
Wright, publisher of Planet Collector, a collecting magazine
started in June 2004, over a confidential list of 21,000 clients
that Sotheby#39;s claims Wright sold to Heritage Galleries and
Auctioneers, the Dallas coin and collectibles auction house."

"In a counterclaim filed May 10, Wright offered an explanation
for how he came by the list and countersued Sotheby#39;s for
making false and defamatory statements about Wright and his
magazine. Wright claims his possession of the list is a result of
the consignment to Sotheby#39;s of a $200,000 Batman collection."

To read the full story, see: Full Story

A web search turned up
another reference to the lawsuits in The New York Post.
Full Story

[The first article states that Heritage has subsequently purged
the disputed mailing list. The whole affair sounds pretty batty,
but does begin to explain how the magazine began showing up
unsolicited in collector mailboxes, although I don't think I'm on
any Sotheby's list. Perhaps other lists were used as well. It
might be a fun exercise to use different names and initials for
every publication and membership in order to be able to track
subsequent uses of a mailing address, but I've never been so
curious as to bother. Have any of our readers tried that?
Have any of you gotten an unsolicited Planet Collector mailing?
-Editor]

  Wayne Homren, Editor

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