Name (Ebay names in quotes) Reason
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"Grldy" - This guy is such a mega nut job I've had to include the ------------------------
"internetauctionplanet"/Trenton, MI- They do not care about packing and tell you to file a claim after ignoring you from feedback I see. I asked them to follow my pack faq and they said "Don't bid".
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"Honkkongsuperseller"-Here is a clip from sdiy on "Honkkongsuperseller" on ebay
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Yes, goodbuy711 is the same as HKSS. I once ordered switches from both at the same time and they swapped the packaging by mistake The goodbuy711 order came in HKSS packaging and vice versa.
---previous letter being replied to:
Hi Steve, thanks for that, did a quick check and he does have them on his site,
same batch no as HKSS 0012 and I think actually is HKSS!
Item number: 220147479509
These did not work in my mini
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Several others replied who had had various problems. It appears these guys have some legit stuff and possibly get some remarks or something. Beware!
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Daddy's Junky Music- These people sell me an Akai AX73 which is represented 'as is'. However they carefully cropped out a smashed end piece in the photos so as to deliberately misrepresent it. You can see the bent metal barely from the front photo if you look closely. Total denial from the lady in charge of that department. She claimed everything is checked by two people blah blah blah. BUT THE PACKING WAS SUPERB! THere is no way this thing that appeared to be inflicted by a 4 iron driving the back. WOuldn't pay the claim and paypal smooths it over by sending me 50 bucks since they are a big dealer. Buyer beware. I didn't wind up getting my extra labor time quite out of that piece of deceit.
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Joon Kyoung of "Test Equipment Surplus"- He goes under various ebay names. He's in Anaheim, CA and has a large room of surplus test gear etc. that he sells on ebay. He usually has marginal feeback (low 90's) or really horrible because he's very clever in putting people off and dragging things out til they can't leave any. He overtly ripped off my friend of 300 and some dollars. Never shipped his item because my friend called to question the absurd shipping charges. He sent the shipping money finally then the clown just ignored him. We went in to talk to them when we went through and the jerk avoided us and some fast talking guy try to rationalize and claimed it was all the fault of someone they had fired etc. But never paid him his MONEY!
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Rain Soft RainSoft Water Treatment Systems
These people... call the tech line. 40 minutes or so being told 'your call is *very* important to us'. Then they tell me they can't even come up with the value of a bizarre SMT zener diode that blew up on a customer's board that got wrong voltage. The board is over 700 dollars I was told though it's about a 20 or 30 dollar board in cost probably. This is not a reputable company. I never got a call back from the local distributor in several days and I see there are already many complaints about them on various issues on the net.
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Misc. deadbeats local to my business in Montana
Chris Alexander/Bozeman, MT- Excuses excuses. Steals a rhodes cable from me I paid $47 for him. I have this one in here more for comedy relief. This guy...winds up in line right in front of me at the weird Al concert here. I say "Chris..Is that you?" when I see him side view and he looks the other wayish and says to the ticket lady "Uhh just..uhh heard Weird Al was in town and thought I should go see him..uh huhhh..." It's sad that people sink to this level but I pray the God who died for us all to testify of his love for us will reach this guy and convict him. In the meantime..avoid any dealings with obviously.
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Re-compute Computers
Sorry..something does not compute with these people. THey tell me point blank that if a monitor works they will pay me money for it. I haul in a 21" Hitachi beast. They knew full well what it was. They said 'we'll have to test it'. I said "I know, fine". No call. I come in a few days later and they said "Oh yeah it works..but we can't give you anything for that". With the guy who point blank told me they'd give me money for it standing in the background humming away. I thew my hands up and walked out and left them with it. Five dollars. That's all it would have taken to save their reputation. What's wrong with these people?
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John Johnson / Great Falls, MT- Repair Crown amp that had multiple nested problems. Fully informed him along the way and all he could say was 'thanks for taking care of that for me' as the bill accrued. Then on completion he said "So I owe you 100 dollars then?". I re-informed him that 108 was the initial PARTS bill from Crown that he had ok'd and which he knew full well got destroyed because of an intermittent connection that was corroded underneath one of the difficult to get to filter capacitor lugs. The parts bill on the thing having blown like three sets of outputs before this problem was resolved was near 250 dollars! He offered me 300 then. I informed him that I'd like to make more than 2 dollars/hour on my labor and that minimum would be 550 for this very expensive amp. And I advised that we just sell it on ebay with disclosure that it had been repaired with details but 'as is'. He filed a complaint against me with the state of Montana and after they saw the invoice, informed him that they could not help him anymore. A waste of another couple hours of my time! On this has gone for years of him low ball offering me. He gets the police to threaten me that I can't sell the amp to get my labor back. What in the world!? 19 hours plus the ensuing damages of my life gone. Advice welcome.
Mathew Jonson / Vancouver, BC- Yes the DJ of wagonrepair.ca, typerope etc. Sold him a CS-20M on ebay. To save him money I went fedex. Little did I know that if the person doesn't pay the customs they come back after YOU for it!! Beware. Why doesn't fedex have an option box for that? So if you are sending to a friend for instance you can make it so it gets delivered even if they aren't there to pay customs? But otherwise they hold it til customs are paid? This clown acts apologetic and promises to get a check right out...for about 125 dollars. Oh half a dozen times or so til I finally start getting backpedaling "Oh I got it for this guy and I'll try to get him to pay it". Uhh..I didn't sell it to this other guy. I sold it to YOU Mr. Liar. What a waste of time. Well no way am I paying it. I'll give fedex's collections all his info and tell them to bug him if they want money. Why would a guy try to pull such an immature thing when he's a well reputed musician? Does he know how many gigs this is going to cost him for simply not taking care of his own expenses?
Grldy's episode I've included the mail transcript between us incl. my quote of my escalation letter to paypal. It picks up after I've asked him for a partial refund for the knobs that broke due to his horrible packing job, placing a 50lb keyboard in cardboard with just some of the ultrathin white foam (1/16" or so effectively I suppose) around it! Fedex (who he used) would require 3" or something like that to get a claim out of them... And there are a few mails missing which I don't know how to receive because I sent them through ebay. So I have all of his responses but the "I said" and "He said" stuff begins after a few choice earlier mails from him while we were doing it on ebay. As you can see he responded in the typical way of a person trying to dodge responsibility on the first reply anyway...on we go...
--------his first email reply to me on June 30th
Dear sounddoctorin,
before i finish this with paypal and it will cost you the shipping to send it back because you will not get a refund until the unit is shipped back to me. also it is not my responsibility to go to your website to see how you want something packed and shipped. so do you want the $20.00 or do you want to send the unit back?
let me know before i escalate the problem with paypal.
thank you
- grldy
--------I NOTE: (This is an inline comment and not part of the conversation)
Do you see how insane this is? First he shipped it inadequately so there can be no claim. He's asking ME to now rebox and ship at a cost of 100 dollars in time and outlay..a keyboard that I won for 77.00 total! This was a broken machine that I was fully willing to accept responsibility for it AS represented. As I've done 100's of times before without a hitch. However with this guy he yammers at me on the phone and interrupts then hangs up to where I have to throw my hands up and do a paypal dispute. Ok back to it. :-)
-----------A few hours later... after some ebay messages with me calling it absurd to ship the way he did etc.
you do not have to be smart with me.i never called you stupid.so why are you calling me stupid? if you want the $20.00 i will give it to you, i am poor from millions not a stinking $20.00. if you do not want it i will escalate it with paypal so you will have to send it back to the way it was shipped to you.
- grldy
-------I NOTE: (Inline comment again..)
You gotta admit..it's starting to get funny already. He interprets me saying it's absurd to pack the way he did after being offered good advice and ignoring it. He takes this as a GLOBAL insult. I replied noting that I doubt he has a bad IQ. Rather he's just stubborn and doesn't listen to others.... oh and I noted that on the positive side at least none of the case was broken miraculously. BUT I'm ABOUT to discover..that he lied about how many keys weren't sounding. As a result, another 30 or 40 dollars of parts that weren't expected...from his description..NOTICE how he is sweating TRYING to get me to take the 20 dollars. His plan of destroying it in the mail had failed. So now he's down to this.... oh and also note the neurotic statement that he never said I was stupid! So...does that mean I'm not entitled to call sending a 50 lb. object made of particle board in cardboard only...STUPID? He didn't call me stupid so therefore I'm not entitled to call his action what it was? arrrrrr....
----A bit later he replies
Dear sounddoctorin,
bob
i never said you where stupid. anyway do you want the $20.00 or not? you said on the phone that is what you wanted if so i will paypal you the money. if not let me know so i can close the paypal issue. i just picked up a kawai k5 is it worth anything or should i just trash it.
thank you
- grldy
-------------I reply to him:
oddly if you look for information on the K5 I actually wrote a software piece for it. They go for about 100 plus or minus some. They're a very unique synthesizer. They generate the sounds using the overtone series instead of samples like most modern keyboards or 'subtractive' synthesis like most older ones. Now anyway I've dumped another bunch of my time into the deal and was going to ask for 35 dollars since it's soaked more than that out of my day. I'll be VERY surprised if there aren't more complications when I get inside....There's one more thing rattling around in there.
Opening it up, I'm surprised that the wood isn't shattered. I really am. However the piece rattling around was a metal finger, black w/some rust. It sheared off something. A little under a cm square with a bend shortly after which mangled metal from it breaking off of something. Rats. That's too bad. I was hoping the missing chip would fall out. The Bb's obviously don't work because the SAA1004N is missing completely on that one.
I was remembering some keys didn't play but...I should send you a pic of the problems because that missing chip is obviously what you were referring to in the description. All of the Bflats would have been out because of that missing chip. However many of the keys are not level at all. So probably something is physically broken under the keys also. Something that absolutely couldn't be seen in any of the pictures. yeah please...I'm not a very rich guy. I get picked on by everyone it seems. The reason I have perfect f/b save one guy who wanted to use an unauthorized payment method and I refused so he left bad f/b...for whatever reason...but man I drive a rusty car and just work all the time. I'm always getting ripped off on things where it looks one way but turns out another so please understand I just try to make a stand for what is right in situations like this. I would never rip anyone else off. I always short myself if anything. But hey these don't go for a huge amount of money in good shape and I have to make more than 5 dollars an hour or I don't survive. -Bob
-----------He replies back quickly:
thank you for the info.the $20.00 offer is still good,
thank you
-----------And I reply to him
Right and like I say I just try to get paid a reasonable rate for my time on these things so I can make a living. The more time I spend the less I make a living. I thought half hour of shop time was a generous offer but like I say now I'm into it a bit more. In the future just reason with people and don't cut them off and make things difficult for them because it costs them money. 35 dollars will be the total damages. I've only had to do this a couple times in all the keysboard's I've bought. The delta that is featured in the pack faq actually I never got a nickel for and the guy just ignored me and we didn't have the procedure with paypal back then or obviously I'd have done it there too. And same with a lady who wrecked all the knobs on a moog opus 3. And the incident w/ daddy's junky music where they deliberately left a broken (bad..badly broken) end out of the photo. Otherwise most of the things have arrived as represented out of the hundreds I've done..or people just made it right without additional hassle. . -Bob
-------------However I had *also* said in this time interval,..note how i'm trying to cut any slack to this guy...
Ok I just got it open and checked out the keys...it was no big deal. Just some of the glue broke loose that holds them tot he metal frame. I've seen that happen on something else..I think my old Crumar Multiman of similar vintage.
Anyway so I certainly don't hold you responsible for that part of things. But there are a lot of damaged slider caps that won't stay on and sadly those are really a rare unique design that really adds to the value of the machine but with careful heat and glue I can fix them adequately I believe. -Bob
-------------he replies back
Hello Bob,
i am a very good man and always i try to help.if the fedex damage the unit they will pay for the damage.i give you back the $20.00 just to return to you the packing fee.
thank you
------------I NOTE: (Inline comment) Bawwhwahahaahaaaaaaaaa! Did you hear that!?
------------I reply to him.
I just did the test of the functionality. You said a few black notes. Actually about 1/3 of them don't work. There are at least three bad divider chips probably. The Bflat one flat isn't there. THe Aflats also do not work. And below a certain level the Dflats don't work and a few other oddball ones I don't have time to figure right now. But I'm feeling pretty hosed on this deal. The front panel is also very rusty..not good looking. 5 out of 10 cosmetically because of that rust. -Bob
------------and I say again...on 7/1 at 1:38am...
And one last update. I said 1/3 of the black keys however it was actually one short of being over half of them :-) . That's not what I would call 'a few'. If you are a 'good man' then be good enough in the future to accurately describe things so that the buyer knows what they are buying because there is a HUGE difference between a few (normally 2 to 4 maybe.) and a dozen out of 25 or whatever on that one. Doesn't that seem a little absurd to you?
Anyway the GOOD NEWS is..the D#'s turn out to share the same chip so it's only one missing chip and one totally bad one not three. So it could have been worse. -Bob
------------I reply after escalating the paypal claim just so he has a copy of it since I don't know if they give that to the person...
Preface: Why..pray tell..would you need a picture of the front panel? You saw the rust poking through all over it and even marring some of the stencilling. That part isn't any good to sell someone. YOU sold this as a PARTS machine..YET made it sound like there are parts that are GOOD which were not GOOD. That's why I call you a liar. You're a like a lot of people in this country. You've never met someone who would hold you to account and rub your nose in it. I don't complain often. You have to be pretty heinously over the top to earn a place on my project list. but...buddy..you made it there. Also why would you force me to invest in a nice macro camera so that I can take pictures of cracks that cause knobs to fall off? Actually a couple of them you could see pretty easily they were split/warped so bad. But without a close up camera...
dude..that isn't even a common sense request. All the more reason you are just using this stuff to smoke screen. anyway if I wasn't a super fast typist I'd be asking a lot more. Count your blessings.
-----note to paypal.
This guy kept cutting me off on the phone. He's hyper defensive and for good reason. He blatantly lied about the condition of this unit. He 1) Provided blurry pics but said it was in basically good shape cosmetically. Not so. There is rust poking through the front panel making one of the most important/difficult to replace parts a sore-eye. 2) He said a 'few' black keys were not working right there in the auction. Actually it was 12 out of 25. One of the divider chips is totally missing. Obviously someone got in there and removed one since only a piece of metal was floating inside; a result of 3 below 3) The guy did a *malicious* packing job. Ie. he simply covered it with cardboard and sent it Fedex; blatantly violating fedex's packaging requirements. AS a result about half of the rare/unique knobs were split in half because the loose case panel crashed against them in transit of course. I had specifically offered my 'pack faq' to show this guy how to easily/cheaply just put foam around the ends. But he had plans to make sure that I got reamed on this deal for some reason and just ignored that and did it the most blatantly absurd way possible. This person needs to be taught a lesson. He was extremely rude and discourteous. He kept 'yammering' excitedly as I was calmly trying to explain that the packaging job wasn't adequate. He said "I am not the manufacturer" etc. etc. and kept bantering these things and would just cut me off mid-sentence so he could say the same thing he'd already repeated a dozen times...THEN had the nerve to insult my intelligence and claim that I wasn't listening. Well..I listened. And I tried to make a logical response but he won't hear of anything but his philosophy that he has the *right* to lie about an auction then cover it all up with 'As is'. No it's not. It was fraudulently represented. It's not at all what "IS" was defined to be and this guy needs to be instructed that "As is" isn't a lisence to lie.
-----------He replies back finally
grow up and learn to read the auctions.first you coplaint about the packing and your $20.00 .now you coplaint about the whole key board.i don't know what is wrong with you???.i sold the unit for parts or repairs.did you go to school to learn to read.next time read before you bidding.the story is not about the unit .to me you are a bad person.
---------I NOTE:(Inline comment)...MY "20 dollars"? What is wrong with this guy?? Hey I hadn't had time to evaluate the whole keyboard. When I first started talking to him all I knew was there was likely going to be trouble from his malicious packing job. I had no idea there would be other rust and bad chip fraud involved til I evaluated the thing...keys falling off...about 20 or so had to be reglued..took some time to find out what all was going on with pieces coming off..
---------He also sends this mail right after....
also this email will be reported to EBAY AND FBI.MAYBE THESE PEOPLE WILL STRAIT YOU UP.I AM NOT FROM THIS COUNTRY BUT I LOVE THIS COUNTRY IDIOT.IF YOU DON'T LIKE THIS COUNTRY GO HOME WHERE YOU CAME FROM.
----------I NOTE: (Inline comment..) GOOD GRIEF! HE's calling the FBI now? huh? Then calls me an idiot....then tells me that I should go back to East Los Angeles? Uhhh....why? I don't like any country. He was confused apparently by the fact that I said "A lot of people in this country..."..does that logically exclude that there aren't a lot of people in ALL countries who do evil? Duh. Of course not. But this guy is too warped in his thinking to logically evaluate anything obviously... I love living wherever I am but I'm aware that a lot of people are deceivers. Soooooooo?
----------I had actually replied to that anyway saying:
The FBI? It's a crime to get ripped off by people now. What will they think of next. Go home where I came from? What in tarnation..... Dude.... maybe you aren't speaking English well enough to understand me...because I have *no* idea where *that* came from. But you've taxed enough of my time. I'll ...wait for ebay or the fbi to call me so we can have some laughs. -Bob
---------=and I also said in there:
PS...I'm going to post this whole thing on my fairly high traffic website. You've gone way over the edge. That'll tax you steadily for a long long time. I'm a teacher. It's my nature to teach people. -Bob
----------to which he replies twice, once just saying 'don't email me anymore and the other:
you are a bad person and you hate people.i watch a video from you on the u-2.please don't email me anymore.fbi will talk to you soon.
---------to which I finally reply in the concluding article, hopefully...
Oh I know the FBI just has tons of time to hassle people who have PERFECT FEEDBACK to help sort out a 50 dollar dispute. DUde..you have mental problems obviously. I'm sorry for you but I'm still creating a tinyurl that I can post in the feedback so that EVERYONE can see the falling down hilarious interaction we've had so that they can avoid the same. If that's what you want...kiss goodbye to a lot of sales. And yes I won't write you anymore I WILL however respond to whatever you write to me SO LEAVE ME ALONE ALSO LIKE I SAID. I SAID I WAS DONE YET YOU KEEP EMAILING ME. DID YOU NOT READ MY ESCALATION NOTE? NOw stop emailing me. Thanks. . -Bob