We’re shocked and disgusted at what Connor just did.
To shift blame, this report was blamed on an ex-employee named Mike. Connor trashed him at length across the internet. We answered the attack with: TL;DR. Here’s why: it had nothing to do with us. Non-sequitur. Irrelevant. Not Applicable.
Rich Johnston at Bleeding Cool – You’re a hero for standing up to cover this. But never trust Connor Cochran.
“Full Refunds Offered Over Last Unicorn Lateness, Connor Cochran To Sue Mike Bolger” – (Article now edited. We’re independently verifying ID with Rich.)
Connor’s friend- beware of white-knighting for frauds:
“Connor Cochran rebuts ex-employee’s allegations over Conlan Press product delays.”
Hey Connor: You’ve been called out for 10 years of stealing. You responded by trashing an uninvolved bystander. What you wrote is very bad for you:
Everyone,
We’re Not Mike
It’s news retraction time. Our brief delay in letting you know was required for consulting lawyers. (Cochran has now been forced to heavily edit and remove his defamation against Mike- but we have it all screenshot.)
We never pretended to be Mike. We never mentioned his name or hinted it. We’re not trolling or doing a “thing”. He simply had nothing to do with this exposé of fraud. The leap to conclusions was 100% on the part of Connor, and his outrageously overwrought backlash about being called out.
We’d never known Mike, until Connor smeared his name all over the internet, all of his own accord. (Sometimes outing people’s bad behavior happens as a last resort… it’s all one can do when a bully silences victims. But when Cochran smears people, that’s just the bully thing he does.)
Thank you, Connor, for revealing that there is more corroborating evidence about the fraud you do.
Thanks for revealing that you caused MORE people to suffer bad experiences, besides ones we already knew.
Thanks for validating complaints.
Thanks for showing how you act to get your way. You don’t hesitate to throw innocent people under the bus, like you don’t hesitate to hurt loyal fans. This story struck a nerve so much that you lashed out at an innocent target who hasn’t even spoken to you for years (according to your friend’s post). He likely would have done anything to avoid this mess you made.
Again, we never pretended to be Mike. We never mentioned his name or hinted it. We didn’t know him. We couldn’t read Connor’s mind about him. We have nothing to do with Connor’s lashing out at him. (Sorry he went through that.)
Now this bystander was turned into collateral damage, against his will and ours – but this is revealing. It goes to show what kind of bully Connor is, and what he does… and what we do to back our mission of fairness.
What Connor did is inexcusable.
If he chooses to bring a lawsuit, we’re putting money behind the countersuit.
We back our mission so sincerely, that we’ll pay for other victims of Connor Cochran to get fairness.
Everyone else who’s been abused, please share, and let’s be friends.
There’s a way out, Connor. We’re not sue-happy. People are just WRONGED.
Let’s have honest, transparent accounting about every fan you’ve hurt, and prove that it will never happen again. Time to come clean.
We ARE about fairness. We’ll drop the issue if that happens, and stop publicizing it.
People can change – but until now, all we’ve seen is rationalizing, excuses, and blame-shifting for Cochran’s bad behavior. Same old, same old.
Just to finish the topic – we did learn things from “unreliable narrator” Cochran’s INCREDIBLY DUBIOUS and TRANSPARENTLY SELF-SERVING recounting of stories. (Funny, how so many things supposedly quoted from others build super-convenient excuses. As if the quotes come from Cochran.)
Previously, we’d shared the Conlan Press attrition process, where a long chain of fake excuses helped push customer claims into limbo. Many excuses blamed other people.
In Post #1, we talked about the “Smokescreen of employee abuse” – here it is.
Did Peter Beagle hear about this? Now we get to a sad thing at the bottom of Cochran’s bag of tricks. That’s for the coming post of “what you’re really hearing when you hear denial about this from Conlan Press.”