Now The FedEx Furniture Guy Speaks

More from Jose Avila.  We asked him 3Q’s:

Q:  What did you hope to gain by putting up the site?

The reason I wanted to put up the site was to go out to the world and say "It’s OK to be ghetto! When you are in a bind, and feeling down, you can be creative." I figured that maybe at least one person would see the site that was in a bad  situation, get a laugh out of it, and think to them selves "Hey at least I’m not that guy!"

Q:  Do you think you would have reacted differently had you been approached differently?

I was only approached by FedEx’s legal department. Had I been approached differently I probably would have reacted differently. Had they asked me to change the domain name, change the colors etc. I would have  more than considered changing those things. When this  whole thing started I did not have legal representation, and had I been approached in a less threating manner, and not told that there were no other options, would not have even started looking for a lawyer.

Q:  Where does this go from here?  Why don’t you just take the site down and avoid the hassle?

It goes where it goes… At what point do you stand down and give up your rights? When do you let in. Ever since my lawyers have advised me that there is nothing legally wrong with what I am doing, I feel that if i take down the site and avoid the hassle, it will give the message "It’s OK to push around the guy smaller than you".  I don’t believe that it is OK to do that, just as it is was not OK to bully around the kids in lower grades in school.


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