Tuesday, August 03, 2004

welcome to my site

This is the first edition of Kings Cross Times online

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

It is nice to see that while marketing your first edition, you break the law. Are you familiar with the laws about Bill Posters and Graffiti?

When someone tells you not to stick something to their shopfront, they mean it. After all, it is PRIVATE PROPERTY!

I think you know who I am so feel free to come and discuss this problem with me seeing you were so aggressive and argumentative with one of my workers. I may even still pursue this through legal channels so I hope you have allowed a budget for legal issues. At this rate, you will be broke before your second issue comes out.

I have to say, I read some of the crap in your newsletter and find it to be the most boring and poorly written piece of toilet paper I have ever had the displeasure of coming into contact with.

No wonder you do not provide your real name, an address or some legitimate contact details so people can contact you.

Keep your crap off my shopfront! When YOU pay the rent, only then can you do as you wish.

Goodbye.

The Editor said...

Thanks for your polite feedback. It was your 'employee' who was aggressive. I asked him to read the poster before he took it off but he wanted it the other way around. I said I was happy with that.

Sorry if having a poster on your shopfront offends you. It was newspapered-over and looked unused. All you had to do was take it off.

I did point out to your friend that what we are doing is in your interest as a shopfront business -- the council's signage policy restricts you to a maximum 1170 x 200mm sign which must include your street number. You are not allowed to have it animated, or use flourescent colours, or use any additional lighting, or display third-party product names, and fascia signage is limited to 50% of your shopfront width.
Furthermore, every shop sign in Kings Cross is supposed to look exactly the same.
We think this will make the Cross really dull and your passing trade will drop as a result.
Hence we are trying to pressure Council to relax the signage DCP for Kings Cross and allow you to advertise your business as you see fit, including the use of neons to enhance the bright-light image traditional in the Cross.

Again, sorry for offending, and I trust you will take on board the issue and understand we are just trying to give the local community a voice.

Happy to discuss -- regards, Michael

Anonymous said...

I reckon that all buskers should be banned from the Cross. They only show that some artists need money to survive.