Reeds cancels Rosebowl's book signing

[JDog13]

They are selling his book. Steve gets his money. End of story. And now the spirit has opened themselves up to potential litigation because Reed's was bullied in to cancelling. Starting a boycott thread was stupid. Reopening a closed boycott thread was well, not my decision. Further, messing with Reed's does not solve the problem. Is started another thread with a more tactical strategy to combat spirit boycott.

I don't feel starting the thread was stupid. I wanted to show that ole miss fans were acting like idiots as usual, and I wanted some pushback to let other vendors know it goes both ways. You cave to one school, you're gonna piss the other off. I feel like supporting Steve against their childish antics is warranted.


Edit: Not directed at you, just explaining to the board my reasoning.

[Jack Lambert]

They are selling his book. Steve gets his money. End of story. And now the spirit has opened themselves up to potential litigation because Reed's was bullied in to cancelling. Starting a boycott thread was stupid. Reopening a closed boycott thread was well, not my decision. Further, messing with Reed's does not solve the problem. Is started another thread with a more tactical strategy to combat spirit boycott.

Here is another way of looking at it. If the wanted a signed book now they are going somewhere else to buy that book.

[Dawg61]

Reed's is an awesome store with great shirts and always has some smoke pieces working there (at least when I went in). Don't boycott Reed's boycott the Clarion Ledger instead. Oh and Oxford. Never ever spend a dime in Oxford. If you go to a game in Oxford never ever spend a dime in Oxford. Pack a lunch and buy gas outside the town. Have a great day Bulldogs. Eat shit shitbirds.

[LC Dawg]

If I owned Reed's and that bunch of crazies called and said they were boycotting if we didn't cancel the book signing I would have replied "We don't negotiate with terrorists".

[AFDawg]

as of now I will not do business with any business that I know is own by ole miss people or has ole miss crap hanging on the wall.

Reed's is owned by Vanderbilt graduates in a 50/50 State/Ole Miss town. They sell State and Ole Miss gear.

Plus, they do a ton of good in the community. You want to show them what State fans are like? Instead of acting like Spirit posters, go buy their State stuff and show them who is more valuable. Overcome evil with good.

[Lord McBuckethead]

Reed's is an awesome store with great shirts and always has some smoke pieces working there (at least when I went in). Don't boycott Reed's boycott the Clarion Ledger instead. Oh and Oxford. Never ever spend a dime in Oxford. If you go to a game in Oxford never ever spend a dime in Oxford. Pack a lunch and buy gas outside the town. Have a great day Bulldogs. Eat shit shitbirds.

I am glad you pointed this out. CL is what we should be against. Reeds is a business trying to make the right decision for all their customers. Steve's book is a polarizing and the decision to host a signing wasn't the best way to keep your store neutral. When they caved, they have now angered our fanbase. The lesson to learn, if you cannot back up the decision to host the signing, don't bring your business into that situation to begin with.

I will not boycott Reeds, even though I believe actions have consequences and it is justified. Reeds is doing the best thing they could given the crazy UM fans pressure.

Um only successfully brought us into their hatred and spitefulness. Although my initial snowflake self thought a boycott was the obvious choice. It only hurts that business who is trying to straddle two fanbases. Trust me, I know what that is like and I thank Beastman for reminding me.

[Reason2succeed]

This thing has become TOXIC!!! Hahahahaha!

[Lord McBuckethead]

Reed's is owned by Vanderbilt graduates in a 50/50 State/Ole Miss town. They sell State and Ole Miss gear.

Plus, they do a ton of good in the community. You want to show them what State fans are like? Instead of acting like Spirit posters, go buy their State stuff and show them who is more valuable. Overcome evil with good.

Agreed.

[Lord McBuckethead]

Yes-I'm sure that Starkville store will do really well now!

Starkville store is owned by a different guy than Tupelo. Just FYI. May want to keep them out of it.

[RocketDawg]

What is Reed's anyway? Is it a bookstore that also sells tee shirts and the like, or a larger store that sells books in addition to a lot of other things?

[Coursesuper]

If this is how they are behaving now how bad is it going to get after the sanctions come down? Some of those whack jobs are going to lose it for sure.

[Mimi's Babies]

I am glad you pointed this out. CL is what we should be against. Reeds is a business trying to make the right decision for all their customers. Steve's book is a polarizing and the decision to host a signing wasn't the best way to keep your store neutral. When they caved, they have now angered our fanbase. The lesson to learn, if you cannot back up the decision to host the signing, don't bring your business into that situation to begin with.

I will not boycott Reeds, even though I believe actions have consequences and it is justified. Reeds is doing the best thing they could given the crazy UM fans pressure.

Um only successfully brought us into their hatred and spitefulness. Although my initial snowflake self thought a boycott was the obvious choice. It only hurts that business who is trying to straddle two fanbases. Trust me, I know what that is like and I thank Beastman for reminding me.

Wonder if they received death threats like the COI Committee did? Like Steve did?

[BeastMan]

Reed's is owned by Vanderbilt graduates in a 50/50 State/Ole Miss town. They sell State and Ole Miss gear.

Plus, they do a ton of good in the community. You want to show them what State fans are like? Instead of acting like Spirit posters, go buy their State stuff and show them who is more valuable. Overcome evil with good.

This guy gets it

[shannondawg]

Mistake they made was having it in the first place. They should have known it was going to piss off half their customers for holding it or canceling it.

[Saltydog]

stores in Columbus and Starkville. It's extremely over priced merchandise. Maybe if Beast calls them and lets them know he's going to continue doing biz w/them he'll get a 25% discount, at which point they'll still be the most over priced store in town.

[msbulldog]

Shit people are you serious, I only read the first 10 post and I'm like WTF?
Please everybody take a step back, take a deep breath.

Think about what you are doing?

[Pollodawg]

That entire fanbase is one enormous cult.

[Martianlander]

Starkville store is owned by a different guy than Tupelo. Just FYI. May want to keep them out of it.

The Reed's do have ownership in the Starkville store. The Columbus guy is their partner there. I would definitely boycott it. Sorry but that's my feelings and I know Jack Reed fairly well. Nice Vandy guy but this has been totally mis-handled.

[msbulldog]

Folks are we going to get on their level? Please show that we are better than Old Mississippi's tactics.
Let Reed's know we are glad their carrying the book. C'mon Dawgs, we don't lower ourselves to their level!

[Mutt the Hoople]

Bear fans, on the Spirit, are having a boycott drive against stores that have Rosie signings. They called Reed's in Tupelo and threatened to not buy from there again if they had the signing. Reed's showed no backbone in caving to people calling, that didn't even know it existed before the spirit post.

So, if you're in the Tupelo area, let them know you won't be buying anything from them since they caved to the snow flakes. Boycott's are dumb, but it just amazes me a company lets a bunch of weirdo's dictate how they do business.

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