When was the last time you got ripped off?
 

Been a couple of years now, had a truck shipped and paid for enclosed shipping and didn't get it. Dependable Auto Shipping , stay away from them.
What's your story, big or small.
Finn

I don't think I ever have been ripped off by a seller or a buyer.

I got an email one time from the prince of Nigeria......

Actually I get ripped off every month from my health care provider.

I sold an Audi S4 to a well-known local Audi tuner. He stripped the car and sold it for parts and never paid me. It was over a year of excuses. Then he went out of business. I still have the title, but I'm out a few grand.

Almost a year ago exactly:

http://forums.pelicanparts.com/porsche-911-technical-forum/522739-pelicans-san-francisco.html

http://forums.pelicanparts.com/off-topic-discussions/522734-i-might-getting-scammed-ebay-purchase-san-fran.html

I did get my $$ back, but not the years it took off my life from the stress and frustration.

I bought a license plate holder last weekend...got it home and it was too small for the license plate. Aren't all U.S. plates a standard size, what kind of company makes a plate holder that wont hold a plate?

I sent my ex-wife to a medical facility in San Diego. Paid for it with three charge cards. Lots of ugly details kept private, but suffice to say they screwed up BIG TIME. In an epic, 6 month battle I got one credit card company to issue an $11,000 charge back. In the mean time, I got the agency that regulates these places to investigate and they suspended the facility's license for a while. While our case was being investigated, the second card charged back the $5000 I put on it. The third card used Cardmember Services of Fargo ND as a acquirer so I was screwed. Even though the facility was temporarily put out of business and fined for what they did to us, Cardmember Services decided they deserved to be paid and refused to run a charge back. So I was out $9000. If you carry a card that says Cardmember Services Fargo ND on it in the fine print, beware. They serve the banks, not the card holders.

kaisen,

Care to share the Audi tuner? Extreme west side of town?

Roommate moved out last year without paying his last months rent and back utilities....
Anyone wanna buy my new used Hilti 7" Angle Grinder?

i'm a foolish idiot. i send goods before i ever get and clear a check. it is bound to bite me in the ass.

i have some stuff, out there now. no checks to me yet..hahha. whatever.

A&P Specialties in Independence, MN.....waaaay out West :(

See here: http://www.audizine.com/forum/showthread.php/376699-Is-AP-Specialties-still-around-here/page2

I've been buying mine from this outfit:

http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1295467540.jpg

kaisen,

Exactly who I expected as soon as you made the comment. Thanks for the confirmation.

If only Pep Boys was that honest...

I thought A&P had a good rep based on what I've read on MNAudi.

I've been screwed e few times over the years. I think it was usually small stuff. I don't think vie ever paid and not gotten something, but I've paid and gotten crap. I can't even remember any specific instances. I think most of them have been because I did something stupid and should have known I was screwing myself. My father in law talked each of my mother in laws daughters into buying a timeshare. I've donated to e various police/firemen funds years ago. Not much, but still... Now, I'd only consider giving money to the firemen in uniform that occasionally grace intersections, or maybe the Houston Police have a charity that they advertise on the police cars. Never again to the cold call telemarketer types.

does divorce court count?

I'm sure their reputation was why their landlord changed the locks, confiscated and sold all of their inventory because they hadn't been paid in almost a year. And why they're not in business anymore.

MNAudi.com was started or run by Chase or A&P.

Google A&P Auto Specialties MN ..... you'll find many tales like mine, some criminal, and there are also tales of negative comments on MNAudi being deleted due to the affiliation

I got ripped off at Applebee's on their beer prices yesterday, does that count?

Yesterday. When my wife allegedly ran a red light.

How about child support? If so I get ripped off every monthhttp://forums.pelicanparts.com/suppo...leys/splat.gif

If you believe it's going to your kids, maybe not

I paid $x,xxx per month. No fun.

Lets see.... I got paid on Tuesday, so I would have to say it was tuesday.......

quote from kaisen "If you believe it's going to your kids, maybe not

I paid $x,xxx per month. No fun."

It's doesn't. Plus it's based on every other weekend but I have her every other week and then some. Can we add in the $300.00 per hourly rip of that began 6 years ago and ended about three years ago and cost $X0,000.00.
There are still about 5-10 hrs. of rip off per year.

Been there, done that. Still doing that, I guess, but it's much better now that I gave up.

Get a room you two.

Just once when I bought some 930 parts off a guy in NY who said he was closing down a Porsche shop, called Platinum Porsche. Cashed my check (~$200) and never heard from him again. Emailed the PCA region he might have been in and they didn't bother to respond.

Every time I post on this Board...

Everytime Blabs posts on this board.

1/11/2011

You've been ripped of 22,727 times!? You'd think you would have learned by now....

Thank you nostatic.

not what i paid for!!!!!!
 

i bought a Porsche 964 off a chump in willoughby, Ohio. i bought a car and got a bunch of parts, three crates...ready to start new tires, etc with supercharger. not bad i got all the parts except the ones i needed to complete the project, missing fly wheel sleeve for one cylinder and the story goes on and on. What did I do...I made the lemonade from this and I'm in love with my 964. the cost lots I will never do that again. here is a pic of her now. and shes a screamer. http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1295492758.jpg

Other way around...we've been ripped off 22,727 times...

most recent but most likely not the last... 2 weeks ago, $9500 final payment on a job, turned it over to my lawyer. I'm tired of getting taken all the time by those with so much much more than me

Automobile Atlanta - Enough said

Ever hear of Anderson Motorworks?

How 'bout Motor Meister?

I personally got shafted by German Auto Dismantlers... Scum.