How do you feel about scamming me?

Glenn, So true, I recently had a $1200 check (not car related) made out payable to a bank for a credit card payment. It was stolen from my home mailbox and cashed by an individual not affiliated with the bank. I found out this can easily be done using an I-phone as the signature wasn't checked even though my check was made payable to the bank, not an individual.
The bank refunded my $$. The mail person also told me there are people who follow mail trucks and then steal mail hoping to find money.
 
I have the tools, a bar as well as a press for valves. If you wast to pay postage both ways, I will send them to use, have a cheaper version will sell for you to put it back together.
 
Thanks for all the support and offers to get me the tool. You guys are right, its not so much the 50.00. Its being taken, especially, from someone who is in our "group".

I am not much for paypal, I am old school. but read below:

Jeff sent me this PM and suggested i post it. "I know it's to late for you, but you should have used PayPal and this wouldn't have happened
that 3.5% they charge protects you and the seller."

I guess i should start with PAYPAL

26 Lakes has offered, in a pm, to send it for free. As well as Rodrelic has offered me to borrow them. Thanks guys. I dont want free. i will pay whats fair. Not free.

Let me see if 26 Lakes sees my PM back to him before i reach out to Rodrelic.

I will contact the bank.

The seller is from SD. once i communicate with Ryan, i will post some info.
 
Ben, the good people are far more than the people who take advantage and steal from you…..I hope you have good luck with your engine project…….Mark
 
40 + years in the hot rod chassis and parts business and never had many problems. I think of the 1000's of customers who sent large sums of money to a total stranger when all they knew about me was what they read or when they met me vending at a show. The large majority of them I never met. Last week for the first time I had a customer place an order and refuse to pay until he had the parts. I thought about it a little while then thought what the hell it's only about a $1K. I sent the parts and after he saw the tracking number and checked that it was shipped he sent the check. I do not plan on making this an everyday practice. Sometimes you just gotta have faith in your fellow man.
 
I just got scammed off E Bay for a Skat Blasting cabinet $1,800.00. I even had spoken to the seller on the phone for over a hour. This is against E Bay's rules. We had agreed on me paying his asking price and payment was made that day .I would arrange the transportation at my cost . He was to wrap the cabinet with cardboard beings it was still on its original shipping pallet. He was also to place and secure the vacuum on another pallet. When it was time for the carrier to pick up the freight, the seller claims that I was a scammer and refuses to release the cabinet nor refund my money. The seller has a 100% feed back rating . E Bay has been contacted and will see where this goes.
I just do not understand people.
Vic
 
Typically, I mail everything (keys cut to code, rebuilt cylinders, locking handles etc.) out before I get paid. Once in a while I get a bad vibe after speaking to someone, so I wait for payment before I ship.
I've only been skunked by one guy. He called in a panic; he locked the only keys he had in the trunk of his 64 T Bird. I stopped my dinner cut the key and made the Post Office before it closed. I finished my now cold dinner and called him to tell him the keys were on the way. He told me he got into the trunk, so he doesn't need my key after all.
I responded with the obvious, but he refused to pay. He wouldn't even tell me if he got the key or if it worked (I used a new cutter so I was concerned on the calibration)
I won't out him on here, it was a long time ago back when I was charging $5 per key. Everyone would be shocked to find out who it was.
I hope he enjoyed the $6.72 he cheated me out of.
After at least 20 years of doing this, I can honestly say 99.9999 percent of the folks I deal with are honest. Thank You all.
 
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There are some really hard core scam artists out there. Over 10 years ago, as my buddy and I were doing our 40 deluxe woodies together, a barn member who still very occasionally posts here did a really horrible thing to a really nice guy. This guy I won't mention said he was working on 2 40 woodies and because the tops were off wanted some really tight measurements from a landmark on the floor pan to one on the top of the cowl above the windshields. Of course I sent him the measurement. Then he asked me about patterns like he was going to have someone mill the parts and asked about a specific curved piece that is the "jamb" under the rear doors. Tom (my wood artist buddy) had made all the parts for both of our cars at this point. The pattern in question was no longer needed for us but I was saving it incase someone with all original wood needed it. So after long phone discussions about all kinds of minutia regarding the woodie body I sent this to him with the understanding he would send it back. After many contacts with him stating he wasn't done with it yet I just forgot about it. This person in our always 1 hour calls asked me if I knew anyone making 40 wood. I told him about a guy I always talked to at Hershey named Russell who always had a booth up near the golf course near the National woodie club booth who did very nice work. Each year I would chat with Russell as I went to Hershey 20 years in a row. One of the last conversations I had with Russell, he told me of this person from th OHIO area that had ordered 2 complete bodies from him. Russell said he cut out the parts, DELIVERED them something like 6 hours away and still was waiting for payment. Shortly after this conversation I read where Russell had passed away. The last time I saw him in person at Hershey he was telling me he was having heart issues and was sitting down a lot. To this day it angers me that someone with no morals at all would do this to someone as trusting as Russell. I know from my own experience we spent $7500 each just for clear maple to make our bodies. I quit trying to contact the scammer who stiffed Russell as he quit responding to any inquiry. Like others here have said 99+ % of those here are good honest people, but we all need to be wary of that 1 %
 
A handshake between men of good character is a strong contract.
A carefully composed document by a contract lawyer is not.
 
ford38v8 said:
A handshake between men of good character is a strong contract.
A carefully composed document by a contract lawyer is not.
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I agree with you Alan. I have encountered many, many good stand-up guys in the old car journey of mine. I have also encountered a few scum bags.
I still prefer the proverbial handshake method of doing business.
Sadly, that doesn't mean too much to too many these days.
 
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