Ripped off by A-Bodies member!!!!
Well first things first... yep... this guy sounds like he is ripping people off.
Now lets look into something.
When someone gets "ripped off" on this site people start calling in the owner/admins/mods to see if they can help out. Which we do sometimes. However, there really is limited things we can do. We did not initiate, deal, or have anything to do with YOUR transactions. The site has nothing to do with a transaction between the members. Also there is two sides to every story so if we just go an ban someone off one side of the story?? I would go and look at Marks340 feedback... only 4 feedbacks. Yet your comfortable to stroke a check to someone you never met for a large sum of money ?? DONT get too comfortable on the internet people !! You basically stroked a check to a person on the street on their good word ?? Ok so lets also look at this... Marks340 has 4 GOOD transactions marked on his feedback..... yet... someone else has been ripped off by him ?? Why hasnt someone else posted that as a negative feedback ??? The owner/admins/mods have in place a tool to help show what kind of feedback a person has. Its up to YOU to make the system work... and it does. I am living proof of it. The Feedback program on here is quick, efficient and easy to use. You just have to DO IT.
Over and over again we see where someone ripped off someone else... yet the feedback stays the same. Would you really buy something from ebay with someone that has a 60% rating and poor comments ?? Each person has to take responsibility for your own transactions. Start using the tools provided and research the person you intend to spend big dollars with. Use appropriate ways to pay someone so that you have some way to back yourself up if a transaction goes bad. CASH deals and CHECKS only mean you are waiting for disaster...as this one has. There are people who will take advantage of others as they are creeps....its the responsibilty of the rest of us to use the tools provided and to use our heads to pinpoint and not deal with these people.
-RPM
My point of the whole thread is a warning to others. I did not make a negative feedback post to his profile because the deal was made outside of FABO. I certainly did not make the decision to buy from him because of a feed back rating of 4 on here, he had 170 positive feedbacks at 100% on ebay. I found him after the fact as a member on here, and was happy to see he had some positive rating to back up the ebay.
He IS a crook plain and simple...I was told my parts would be sent the next week after paying. He had excuses after excuses, then 2 months later I couldn't reach him for a week, said he was out hunting,,,,well isn't that nice, happy I could pay for your hunting trip while I still have jack ****.
The stuff I got was NOT as described and I'm still minus an intake. I'm not debating with anyone who had a good transaction with him, glad you did and consider yourself lucky.
I don't even care if he is banned or not, my warning is made and its too bad that the message had to be put out there.
And like efriedrich mentioned,,,thats how Bacterial Meningitis works, kills you dead quick. Or if caught in time you can bounce back,,,and fairly quick too, I did some reading on it after he said that. Strokercamp, if he "had" meningitis and was well enough to reply and say he had it then he would be well enough to send out these parts he had forsale by now. He told me when I first started interacting with him that him and his son were a 2 man operation, then his meningitis response said he was only a one man.
No more internet deals for me, at least beyond a couple hundred $$$, I still consider myself very lucky here compared to illcuda65 and another fella who's from overseas and got took for $4800, both guys have received nada.
Theres is NO 2 sides to this story. Only ONE about some honest hard working guys who got shafted out of their money. This friggin waste of skin and good air has had days to plead his case, many people have emailed him, phoned him and messaged him with not a single response. Tell you what, if I was accused like this and innocent, I would be going crazy trying to prove it...NOT ducking out and changing my username on eBay.
'Nuff said
Actually not, just as I was about to hit send I got a call from my machine shop who just went thru my heads I got from marks340. One bent exhaust valve by .013" and port work that has ruined the valve job at 4 valves. Guide clearance is not even close, valves are not ferrera like stated the would be, and the open spring pressure is 450, no where close to what is needed for my roller cam. There was some other stuff, but technical and lost on me. So an example of even though I received the heads,,,I'm still ripped off. He's going to do up a estimate on cost to fix everything and get back to me, I will post up the amount later.
This definately has made me decide not to put those used rockers on my motor, so there is another $1000 I need to spend.