[rcltrh]

Problem solved

Everything is now squared up between us and everything settled. There were legitimate problems that have worked themselves out.

 

[Jayhawk]

That is why I always insist on using a credit card to pay for everything. You can "decline payment" on anything in dispute.

 

[RBs]

Too many people out there on the net, some are bound to be crooks or less than ethical. Sorry to hear about your lights. Do you have your vehicles maintained at the Benz dealer in Fayetteville?

 

[rcltrh]

I use Riverside in Little Rock. Fayetteville is about 110 miles from me and Little Rock is about 70 so it's closer. How is the Fayetteville dealership (if you've used them before)? My kids' mother has moved to Rogers and the kids are going to move in with her next year up there. I will be giving my daugher the C220 MB when I move next year (she turns 16 next summer) and I want her to have a decent dealer nearby since I will be in NYC by then. I figured if I needed to her mom could take it there or take it to Tulsa if need be. Little Rock is the only one I have ever used.

 

[RBs]

I recently moved from Fayetteville, I was with one of the programs at the U of A (Go Hawgs![]). The dealership in town is at the northern end of College Blvd (before you hit the mall and enter Springdale). I didn't have a Benz then (just bought one for the Wife)so I don't know how they are,but,they're the only show in town so they are likely over-priced. My Beemers were serviced at NW BMW in Rogers, same story.

Rogers is rapidly becoming a mainly Hispanic town and has totally lost the character it had even a decade ago. I greatly preferred Bentonville and Fayetteville.

 

[1999_S600]

Hey, I found him on eBay too:

http://feedback.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewFeedback&userid=phoenix44

Notice that he is Unregistered. He could have made a listing, got a buyer, received the money, and immmediately unregistered, so that the buyer wouldn't be able to contact him.

Sorry to hear about it man[]

 

[junkman]

Maybe he didn't slip on the ice. Perhaps Vido and Luigi paid him a visit courtesy of the last guy he ripped off!

 

[offroadwarrior]

Shop Globally, Buy Locally. Buy C.O.D (Certified Checks or Money Orders) when dealing with individuals. Legitimate businesses will almost always accept a Credit Card Payment.

 

[rcltrh]

RBs where did you move after leaving the great Hawgotham metropolis?

 

[RBs]

The Great White North of Minneapolis...[]

 

[ttaleric]

rcltrh - 4/19/2006 11:39 PM

RBs where did you move after leaving the great Hawgotham metropolis?

I always found Phoenix to be truthful. Try emailing him again from a different email maybe. No idea. Sorry to hear about the money.

 

[flyboyike]

RBs - 4/20/2006 7:02 AM

The Great White North of Minneapolis...[]

Sorry to hear that, believe you me.

 

[rcltrh]

Nice and cold there during the winter I've heard. Were you from there originally or from here or somewhere else? I have been here all my life, in this dead little backwards area, and am moving to NYC in January, never to look back.

 

[RBs]

Heheh, originally from Hawaii. Ex's family co-owns a fairly large local chain of eateries there so we bought some property there more than a decade ago.

NW Ark is a lot less parochial than the rest of the state because it home to so many major corps. Lots of business opportunities there. Still, it's a small place to this day and it is nice to get back to a real city. I used to live in Sherwood down in your neck of the woods. Is the "Pig and Chick" BBQ on JFK still in operation?

 

[Teutone]

Any relation to Adolfs old running mate with the limp?If he spent it, you can only hope he did so with a mean dominatrix who gave him a good spanking.

 

[rcltrh]

This is possibly about to be resolved. Got an email from him today saying the bank draft for the refund has been mailed and that he had been out of the country for a month. Will post again if it comes through.

 

[mgardner2366]

He is not a registered eBay user any longer as Phoenix44 ....

 

[phoenix44]

Just a heads up. A Benzworld member phoenix44 from Canada, who has posted on here a lot over the years is either scamming me or something else is up with him.

I bought his '01 Xenon Headlights that he posted on here back in January. He said he shipped them through UPS in January, and indeed there were 2 tracking numbers. One arrived broken in February, a couple weeks after shipping which was fine, but the other never arrived. After a couple months messing with UPS, they finally admitted they lost it and he got the insurance claim check from them and told me he would send it to me. (Mind you this was actually my claim since I already paid him over $400 for the lights but they handle claims through the shipper). Well anyway, after hearing 2 dead dog stories and one slipped on the ice story as to why he could never find the time to mail me the check, it has now been over 3 weeks since I even last heard from him - almost 2 months since he got their claim check - and over 4 months since I sent him the original money. He does not answer emails anymore, and I have received no money. I ended up having to buy more lights, so I am now out over $800, and he has both my original money as well as the UPS insurance check and I assume has decided to keep it all for himself. Not a bad profit for one broken headlight. Buyer beware!

Well Thomas,

I can certainly understand your frustration! I would like to point out that the dead dogs, the slip on the ice, and the trip to Europe, were all absolutly true.

In fact, as you pointed out, I am a regular on Benzwrold, and you will note, that there were no posts during the period in question.

Regarding UPS, as you may recall, UPS would not even answer my questions directly, as I had used a UPS Store, and UPS told me that the UPS Store was the customer and not me.

You will also recall that UPS took a long time to perform their "search" for the missing headlight, and then they took even longer to issue a cheque.

You may wish to note that I have infact posted that I live in the country, some distance from the city and any banks where I would have been able to obtain a bank draft.

Upon my return from Europe, (which was a VERY last minute business trip for a client in France, I look after their Group benefits), I did go to the bank the very next day, and sent you the bank draft by Canada Post Express Post, and I e-mailed you the Tracking number and the Canada Post web site, where you could go to track the envelope.

The loss of my two dogs and my injuries from falling on the ice were no joke! It was a really SH***Y start to the year.

Regarding Ebay, I did not feel the need to continue my "membership", as anything that I had to sell from my old 430, was sold, and without any theatrics. Sometimes SH**T happens beyond the control of anyone. I do feel that I am a very honest and ethical person, and a really regret very deeply that you may not share that view of me at this point in time.

There was another member of Benzworld, who was looking for a front licence plate holder, I offered to send it to him, with out ANY dollar benefit to me, I only asked that he make a donation to the charity of his choice. Does that sound like someone who is a "scammer" or a thief?

Once again, I am very sorry for the far less than enjoyable experiance. The sequence of events got off to the wrong foot with UPS, and had that not happened, I am certain that everything would have been resolved long before any of the SH*T hit the fan in my life.

In addition, I sold you the lights for $350U.S. and the bank Draft which I sent you was for $200U.S. more that half of the sale price as "sorry" for what happend.

 

[rcltrh]

Problem resolved

Problem was resolved today - received my refund. The problems were legitimate and everything is now square.