It all started when "Dustin" posted a 'For Sale' thread on My350z.com (https://my350z.com/forum/lighting/52...enon-sold.html) selling 2006+ headlight replacement assemblies. We agreed on some extra custom mods with these lights, which brought the total to $1350.00 shipped. He required the first half of the amount of $675.00 while the custom work was in progress and waiting on parts. I sent him that amount on June 16, 2011 via Paypal. The finished product was completed on June 23, 2011. To which I sent the second half of the payment of $675.00 on the same day via Paypal. The package was shipped via Fedex and due to arrive on June 29, 2011. On the expected day of arrival, I had been on constant contact with Fedex on approximate arrival time so I could get off work early to receive the package. However, they couldn't indicate an exact arrival time. When I arrived home from work about 5:30pm, I was expecting to see a Fedex notification on my door... but nothing. I went straight to my computer and tracked the package and it indicated "delivered". I took a stroll around my house a couple of times to make sure the idiot Fedex delivery guy didn't leave my package sitting outside of my house. I, then, contacted Dustin regarding my "delivered" package. He advised me to talk to my neighbors while he contacted Fedex. After confirming with my neighbors that they didn't see Fedex stop by (or anything suspicious, for that matter), I called Dustin back and expressed my concerns. We both made a conference call to Fedex and they indicated an individual by the name of "TVang" signed for the package. To this day, we still don't know who this individual is.
We proceeded with filing a claim via Fedex. After weeks of brain-damage and deliberation, the claim was finally settled and paid on August 3rd, 2011 by Fedex to "Steven Galan". Today's date is August 18th, 2011 and Dustin has not been in contact with me for almost 2 weeks now. I emailed, called, and sent him text messages to which none were returned. I even messaged him in this forum a couple of days ago and he ignored that as well. I gave him the benefit of the doubt and plenty of opportunities to get in touch with me but it is very clear what his intentions are. I guess desparate times calls for desparate measures. So in essence:

Dustin: my $1350 via paypal + $1350 Fedex claim check = $2700
Me: nada

He currently has some FS threads but buyer beware, YOU HAVE ALL BEEN WARNED!!!

Even after months of brain-damage, I had every intention of keeping this out of the forums and keeping it behind the scenes, but I couldn't just sit back and allow this Dustin aka Tehkmob aka Steven Galan victimize anyone else.

Dustin, if and when you do read this, I just want you to know that I'm getting my money back either way. I talked to a Seargent with the Live Oaks Police Department already, and I'm going to leave it up to you to guess what happens next.

 

hmmm

Hopefully this gets resolved quickly with a logical explanation.

 

damn son, appears your thread stayed tactful and factual, thanks for that.
SOrry to hear, thanks for letting others know, ahve you been in touch w my350zadmin?

 

No, I haven't. At this point, I'm not sure what the Admins can do about it. I've already taken the necessary steps to retrieve my money back. I just wanted to expose the shady-ness of this Dustin dude.

 

https://my350z.com/forum/members/139023-tehkmob.html

member profile page,
Last Activity: Yesterday 07:00 PM
Join Date: 10-18-2009

Member has a decent rep on teh forums in the past...

multiple for sale threads make me think theres something going on in the guys life now maybe, ya never know.
Maybe the dude got sent to jail etc..
dunno.
Regardless, never good to get ripped off, the admins can contact the member, whos been on the forum since 09 it appears.

 

i laughed at the last line of your post good luck op hopefully u get it resolved.

 

PM'd him to get the info and CC'd you as well.

In the future I would suggest that people PM one of the staff if things are starting to not go as planned rather than creating a thread after the fact..

 

Paypal is not your friend, and not a bank. Eventually people will see that Paypal is the worst way to buy anything (second only to money orders). It allows sellers to take your money with relative impunity. Use a payment system that protects you from this stuff.

 

moral of the story: Always paid stuff with credit card so you can file for claim later to get your money back in case of non-receipent.

 

i find this hard to believe i personally dealt with the guy and he met me halfway (1hour drive for both of us) and even trusted me enough to pay off the item in payments...im not saying OP is full of **** or has left something out but i think were missing something.

 

Interesting... I sold Tehkmob a set of halo's that he claimed were dead on arrival. I agreed to refund him the money and he shipped them back to me just to confirm that they were broken. Everything was legit, but when I got them back i could tell he took the ccfl rings out of the housings, which usually results in them breaking.

It was not a big amount of money so I dropped it, but it did leave me with some concerns that he possibly broke them...

 

Wow man... this is weird. I've done several transactions with him w/o any issues. Good luck.

 

thats kinda what i thought, i like to play devils advocate.. ppl get sick, get hurt, and get arrested for DUI out of the blue... you never know. Sucks either way, im sure we will hear from the guy.

 

Op I would also look into who signed for the package, what if this is not the first. I live in an apartment complex and ive seen people tell the delivery guys it's their package and not once has the delivery guys asked for I.D. they just ask for last name.

 

dam sux

 

subbed. that sucks OP hope it all works out for you.

 

even when both parties have good reputations things can go sour. Abushong and I both have lots of itrader feedback but I would never do business with him ever again.

 

now that someone else has come forth, i can finally let out whats been killing me inside...
Tehkmob victimized me too. He invited me over to help him build a tree house .. and it was fun, but then he gave me some wine and said it was OK, i was old enuff now.. and then he touched me on my privates.

I feel so empty inside.

hahaha.. cmon, give it a day since the mods PMd the guy, i betcha itll shake out man.

 

I just bought tehkmob's veilside rims and we have been in constant contact since the transaction begun, he sent all the additional pics I wanted, even lowered the price just before I sent payment because he noticed a small flaw on one rim. I received the rims today and they came in the exact condition we talked about. I couldn't be happier with the entire sale between tehkmob and I. Honestly not enough people treat a sale like he did, answered every text I sent and was completely honest from day 1.

 

Something just sounds a little fishy to me. Since no one knows who signed for the shipment, I don't see how the seller can be responsible for any of the problem. He shipped the merchandise and it was delivered. Apparently an unscrupulous person intercepted the delivery guy and signed for the shipment. The only part I don't understand is why the FedEx check was made out to the shipper rather than the recipient of the product. The original poster was already out the money and it just seems FedEx would have made the check to him. I'm not sure we are hearing all of the facts...................