R/TDurango02 made the following purchases from me and promised to pay as soon as he could, here's the story on why to avoid him..
Stillen bumper cover-$200 (later sold on the forums for 250 apparently?, yet he has no money to reimburse me)
R/T rims- $500 (later sold on forums and advertised on craigslist, never got paid)
Fastman tb-$200 (presumably still on the vehicle, never got paid)...
Sale was made on November 16, 2008..It is now July 1st, no contact in nearly two months despite repeated attempts, now no phone line apparently?
This should be a lesson to everyone not to trust anyone you don't know.. Here are some pm's from him:
shortly after purchase not sure exact date-
Hey man how are ya, wanted to let you know that I should beable to give you like $400 in a week or so maybe sooner, whats your paypal or would you like a money order or something
2/8/09-
Hopefully soon man, right after I wrote you last time the trans went out of my rango and the day I got mine back the trans went out of my fiancesa rango, talk about luck. Evr since then Ive been tryin to recupe but dont worry I havent forgot about you. Hopping to do something with my tax return, Ill keep you posted and I apologize for the delay.
4/12/09-
Yep Im still broke lol, no not really things are gonna start getting better now that my fiance got a job that will be a big help and we,re unfortunately still waitting on our tax returns as well. Ive even had my ram up for sale now for like 2 weeks and cant even get an offer on the thing. I really do apologize, if I would have thought for 1 second it woulda got this bad I woulda never got the stuff from you, I really do feel bad about the whole situation. Non the less I am a man of my word and as soon as I can send you something Ill let ya know. I havent forgot about it. Thanks for being so patiant. Hope to give you some kinda good news shortly. Thanks again Roy
most recently, 5/1/09-
Hello just wanted to check in and let you know Im still kicking, barely but I am. I havent been getting more than 2 days a week at work for almost a month now and even tried selling my dually to come up with some money and that was no luck. I really am sorry man, I would have only got the wheels if I knew it would have been this bad. ANyway Ill be intouch and hopefully we ll get our taxes back sometime soon so I can send you something. Thanks for being understanding
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I did my research and as I said, he sold two of these items on this very site after "purchasing" them and although he received payment for them, was unable to pay me for the initial purchase..
So here I am, almost 8 months later and still have not gotten a dollar from him..
For anyone who is wondering about why I didnt wait to get payment first, here's the story:
Dont know if any of you remember me having problems with my r/t durango for months, but eventually I gave up and traded it in for the ram I now have. Before I brought it to the dealer I stripped it took all my mods off (you know how that goes) and sold almost all of it right here on the parts for sale forum. Here was my issue- the local dodge dealer only gave me the weekend to get everything out and I didnt have replacement wheels to put on in order to be able to sell the r/t rims, so the buyer of the rims needed to trade me their stockers as part of the deal. Being that I had such a short time period and not many people would be able to drive that weekend to do the swap, I decided to take this deal where he would pay me ASAP and swap me his wheels. I figured it was better than nothing because had I not taken it, Id have to return the truck with the 20" r/ts on it and gotten nothing for them so I decided it was worth the wait for the cash. When R/Tdurango02 came to my house to swap the wheels, he decided he'd take the stillen bumper and fastman tb I had for sale as well, and again, I figured it was easier than shipping it and finding another buyer. I was told Id be paid by Feb the latest and I had Roy (if that's even his name) sign a contract with me with the totals on it and the date of purchase etc. Above you see the pms I received from him from Nov till now and he continues to push back payment until he essentially disappeared from the site...Like I said, his phone number is now canceled, he doesn't respond to pm's, hasnt posted on the forums, and still owes me $900...