Castle Boutique Chain Owes Big Bucks
The Castle Boutique chain out of Phoenix, owned by Dexter Sales and run by Taylor Coleman, owes numerous people tens of thousands of dollars. The chain has built about ten superstores in the last two years. The latest one opened in Kennewick, Washington state, November, 1998.
Taylor appears in the 9/8/98 Time magazine article about porn going mainstream: "By getting rid of peep shows and strippers, the Castle stores have been able to attract a clientele that is nearly 50% couples, much higher than the 20% most stores get. "People want to have a retail-shopping experience," says Castle CEO Taylor Coleman, "but they end up having to go to some scummy section of town. The 'I'm O.K., this place is O.K.' issue is very important to us."
The Castle CEO also appears in a 1/3/99 Arizona Republic article on smog clean-up. "There are faint signs of progress. Castle Boutique, a chain of adult bookstores, converted its truck to also run on compressed natural gas.
''I live here, too,'' said Taylor Coleman, president and CEO of the Castle Superstore Corp. ''I know having a vehicle that puts out less emissions is very important.''
Among the many civil suits filed against this chain is: "Case number: CV98-10844 in Phoenix, Arizona. The plaintiff is Insight Direct Inc. Defendant: Dexter Sales Corp. Nature of complaint: Unpaid open account. Attorney for plaintiff: Kurt A. Johnson."
XXX writes 6/22/01: I read about the IFC/ Castle Deal. What a joke! We sold those guys, Dexter Sales ( Castle Superstores), for a long time. In the 3 years that we sold them, they changer buyers like 5 times. Totally flakey company. THEY OWE EVERYONE! They are notorious for buying a bunch of shit from XXX and then as that sold in the stores, they would pay rent, cars, etc.....and stiff the vendor for 120 to 150 days. Then while on credit hold..they're begging for shit from other distributors. It always looked like a game of "other peoples money". They bought direct until they maxed out credit lines and then they backdoored the product through smaller distributors like ourselves. The owner, Taylor Coleman, basically a nazi, he devised a pretty nifty scheme of raising venture capital and risk/profit sharing. I guess when your selling them 5000 to 10000 pieces at a time , it may be worth it to wait on the payment. But the lying, check bouncing, bullshitting and escuse fabricating that flowed from that office like shit from a donkey......a total disrespect and slap in the face of any ethical people that are in this business. I believe that VCA was the first company where someone said " look you piece of shit deadbeat. I'll write off your debt, don't even bother paying us now. We're done with you, don't call us, we wont call you". Then they called us for VCA product. I know that Vivid has had a love /hate thing going....owing them up to 50 grand at a pop ....forever late......but they keep shipping him their slop. I hope the companies that don't NEED the business will tell those guys to f--- off, therefore making it a waste for then to have bought or stolen IFC anyway.
