“Your Honor, the board voted to pay this guy a salary of nearly that amount - per day. If it would please the court, fuck this guy and the board and please make them pay their bills.”
Server dealer keeps hitting at Elon Musk for $61 million bill — Wiwynn sues X for unpaid IT infrastructure products
Submitted 4 weeks ago by Xatolos@reddthat.com to technology@lemmy.world
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Hobbes_Dent@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
mycodesucks@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
“Your honor, rather than pay his outstanding debts, this shiftless f***wit used 75 million dollars to fund a SuperPAC to bother people at their homes in for the benefit of the Trump campaign.”
AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Different board. That was Tesla, not Twitter.
Baggins@feddit.uk 4 weeks ago
That’s how his Department Of Government Efficiency will save billions.
interurbain1er@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
Seems aligned with Trump habit of shafting his sub-contractors.
shinratdr@lemmy.ca 4 weeks ago
Which is what Trump wants, as he also publicly admits he just doesn’t pay bills if he doesn’t feel like it.
Looking forward to all the lawsuits between the two should he lose.
_core@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
Turn off the servers
corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 4 weeks ago
legally, you can’t. It’s actually worse.
GhostFaceSkrilla@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Shutting down a service that hasn’t been paid for seems as simple as getting the power turned off for not paying your electric bill. Why is it worse than not paying for services?
rsuri@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
X/Twitter has its own data centers, this is for physical equipment under X’s control. They need to get a judgment (which the article indicates they’re working on) before they can do anything. Presumably after months to years of litigation they can then repossess the servers, but then X would probably at the last minute pay the bill.
Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de 4 weeks ago
They ship servers to customers, don’t think they have access anymore.
blazeknave@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Repo
fubarx@lemmy.ml 4 weeks ago
AlphaOmega@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Didn’t he just donate 75 mil towards fascism? But can’t pay his bills…
LillyPip@lemmy.ca 4 weeks ago
Paying bills is for poor people. Rich people don’t need to do that. How would they stay rich?
5paceThunder@lemmy.ca 4 weeks ago
Lol, Elon is the new Trump, what a mooch. Take away message, Never do business with these types, you will never get paid.
NeoNachtwaechter@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
They should seize and sell his private jet.
ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
You misspelled “harvest” and “organs”.
swab148@lemm.ee 4 weeks ago
Harvest his private organs? No one wants those.
Gammelfisch@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Strip “Leon” of his US citizenship, use a court order to take the money from his account and ship his Dork MAGA ass off to Moscow or Johannesburg.
Tire@lemmy.ml 4 weeks ago
Could you imagine how upset Republicans would be if some random Mexican immigrant used $61m of resources and didn’t pay? But if it’s a rich white guy that owes that much they are fine with it.
Gammelfisch@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
LOL! +1!!!
uis@lemm.ee 4 weeks ago
off to Moscow
Only if China or America are willing to receive Pu’s ass.
11111one11111@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Soooo noone here even read the article? Just see Elon and start shitting everywhere? The company suing X was dealing with Twitter before Elon. There was no purchasing contract in place when the suing company placed the $20 million dollar order they are claiming is all custom made and cant be recouped, “the social media platform had not made any firm purchase order when the server dealer went ahead with its purchases and deliveries.”
How about we read an article before we start spewing shit everywhere?
Xatolos@reddthat.com 4 weeks ago
When you read the article, it also points to another article that goes further into this case.
…in 2014 it contracted with Twitter to provide “unique, custom-designed IT infrastructure products including rack solutions.”…
Seems it was already approved in 2014 for such a long-term relationship in writing. It seems that Elon just didn’t want to pay for it even though Twitter was contractual bound to pay.
11111one11111@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Which is the whole point. If they had 1 email, 1 PO, 1 documented proof of agreement, this would never be a fuckin court case. What is more likely, that X is risking liability for the $20M + legal costs in court trying to renege $20M down to $18M? All this suing company has to do, as I stated above, is show one acknowledgment and confirmation between the two parties and its an open and close case.
There was a judge (I’m going off memory from hearing it on the radio a year or so ago) in Canada who held a farmer liable for responding to a text with a thumbs up to a contractor asking if he got the contract he sent the farmer. Farmer went into court with the defense he was acknowledging that he received the text but it wasn’t enough to convince beyond reasonable doubt there wasn’t an understanding between the two.
If Twitter and Elon were trying to weasel out of paying this company, THEY WOULD BE SUING THEM for some made up breech of contract BS like they’re doing to advertisers.
exasperation@lemm.ee 4 weeks ago
There was no purchasing contract in place when the suing company placed the $20 million dollar order they are claiming is all custom made and cant be recouped, “the social media platform had not made any firm purchase order when the server dealer went ahead with its purchases and deliveries.”
You’re leaving out that the paragraph you’re summarizing starts off with “X claims that.”
One side says there was a contract. The other side says it wasn’t firmed up yet into a binding contract. Neither side has come forward with their evidence.
Also, Wiwynn is also suing for negligent misrepresentation and promissory estoppel, which don’t require a contract.
11111one11111@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
So read my other comment and cited quote pulled right from the fuckin court documents and reported on by MSN. Fuckint hell. It’s in every fucking article I’ve searched. The suing company isn’t going off anything but fucking assumptions.
dan@upvote.au 4 weeks ago
How about we read an article before we start spewing shit everywhere?
Good luck lol. The top comments are almost always people that didn’t actually read the article, just the headline. I see it on practically all social media sites, not just Lemmy.
11111one11111@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
If you’ve been in IT since '98 you ought to know this isn’t a social media site lol. It’s a social forum for communities of users with like minded interests. Most daily social media users get weeded by any UI that isn’t 1-3 giant app buttons to sign you into everything on every device you ever did and will own.
Lol plus not many people here are absolute fucking psychos like you with your Lemmy profile pic hahaha fuck you are a madman lol.
uis@lemm.ee 4 weeks ago
Wtf “cant be recouped” means for servers?
CgH10N4Co2@lemmy.cafe 4 weeks ago
Do the world a favor and repossess that shit.
lemmus@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
This is the efficiency of the market at work.
helenslunch@feddit.nl 4 weeks ago
Move fast and don’t pay your bills
shalafi@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Look, I hate Musk as well, but I’m not seeing their side of the story here. That’s what courts are for.
corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 4 weeks ago
You keep your “voice of reason” out of my indignant rage, thank you very much ;-)
just_another_person@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Never give these rich assholes credit unless there is an airtight contract for payment.
Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
There is no such thing as an airtight contract when dealing with Musk. He simply ignores it until you sue.
billiam0202@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Same thing as Trump.
Doesn’t matter how perfect your contract is, as long as they can afford to fight the lawsuit longer than you you’re gonna lose.
You’d think people would learn to not contract with these assholes at all.
helenslunch@feddit.nl 4 weeks ago
Or you just…stop providing the service?
JoMiran@lemmy.ml 4 weeks ago
pandapoo@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
Cash on delivery is extremely rare in the business world. Well I have no doubt many of Twitter’s vendors have switched to COD, that is not the norm.
These types of relationships typically work on anywhere from 30 to 90 day terms, depending on the vendor, client, and their history.
mipadaitu@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Payment up front, in non negotiable bearer bonds.