I am going to lay out the basics of the whole story. So when the smear campaign starts you guys can know where it is coming from. I may have to seek some legal action or something, but at this point I am still trying to figure it out.
I bought a small electric car on Ebay from a dealer in Austin. I thought it would make a nice car for the wife and kids to run around town in. We live in a small town that doesn't even have a stop light in the whole town, so something like this is ideal. Here it is:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=290439019628&viewitem=Funny thing was that the dealer would only take a wire transfer of the funds and despite being just 5 hours away he didn't want me coming to get it. I should have seen those red flags. I am too trusting of people.
Unfortunately the car was not as advertised.
Some of the problems included:
The hood does not open and hood release level has been broken off (not show in the pictures).
The front brakes are locked up (big problem!). This doesn't exactly make it "runs and drives great".
The CV joint boots are split with grease dripping out of them on both sides.
There is body damage and attempted repairs plus spray paint on nearly every panel.
The whole underside of the car has rust all over it.
Something is wrong with the front suspension and one side of the car is over 1" (nearly 1.5") lower then the other side. (see pic).
The seat covers don't match...
So I brought all of this to his attention and asked to be refunded as none of this was disclosed. Not surprisingly he refused. After repeated attempts he agreed to resale the car to someone else and pay me back. I agreed only if the next buyer was made aware of all the things that are wrong with the car before hand.
Then the dealer (Antonio Burnet) made arrangements with another dealer for purchase, but I had to trailer it all the way to Dallas to deliver it to him. Thinking this was the only way I was going to get reimbursed for the deal, I took it down there to a meeting place that Antonio set up. The other dealer had to drive in from Louisiana.
However, Antonio refused to show up for the meeting that he arranged. He said is was afraid there would be some controversy.
This left me with the new buyer and no title to have to work out a deal between the two of us and Antonio who we could only talk to via phone. I agreed to take some money from the new buyer on Antonio's behalf and the rest after he received the title from Antonio (that he refused to show up with).
In the end I was still $501 short of what I paid Antonio. That doesn't include the transportation cost of getting it to me or the cost of taking it to Dallas. He still refused to pay that balance. I did get my TT&L back from him at least.
Then he asked me to go onto Ebay and cancel the transaction as if it didn't happen. I actually agreed to do so if I was paid back in full. Only then would it be no transaction for me. He still refused to pay back the balance. So eventually I left feedback and it wasn't real good.
So today I get the treating e-mail from him:
Hello Danny,
You should strongly consider removing the negative feedback left within the next 24 hrs. Unfortunately for you what comes around goes around. You left feedback for an item that you didn't purchased THE TRANSACTION WAS CANCELED; but if you want to play it that way I have some spear time in hands. Sounds like your business is very dependent on a good word and reputation in forums and internet costumers. Internet business its a bitch that way because you are completely dependent on a good word and customer feedbacks and reviews. It would be terrible and very costly for that to be tarnish with your business, name and reputation.
Hope you have a good day.
So if you see a rash of posts all over the Internet bashing GR Research, then this is the guy.
