Quote Originally Posted by flrgen View Post
I have been issued a refund. Paid via CC and the $185 is already back in my account. Took about a day. I considered canceling the card but I am just going to watch the acct. and make sure no extra funny business happens.

I'm happy this has been resolved but I would rather have just received my FWI and called it a day. I know its not coming but I still hope to see a box sitting there every time I come home.
Just observing from the outside, but this does look scary. Cancel that CC NOW.
Watching that CC bill is of no use. He can use that info to get your SS number. Then he can get another card, not using your current address. You'll never know it, until you go to get a loan, and find out you are 50k in debt more than you thought. My sister had the later happen to her. They actually used her ID to build her credit score up, then took out 30k in student loans under her name in another state.

He is <was> selling Aeroforce gauges for less than he was paying for them?

He, after having people's money for a month or several months, is now starting to pay some, if not all of it back. Even offering the poster above, additional money for "working with him". Did he do that for others?

It seems the guy doesn't have a problem losing money in buisiness. The Only people who are willing to do that are people spending other peoples money, either in a tax dodge or in a ponzi type scheme.

Even if everyone on this site, or even other sites, all get paid back, they may just be paid off with his new "customers" money. That's what a ponzi scheme is, for our younger viewers. Rob Peter to pay Paul for a while, and use the money to buy things to sell to new guy, then start paying the original people back with new guys money. Then you get the big order, take off. Rinse and repeat on bigger stakes in a new situation.

Kinda of like Bernie Madoff, Except he stayed in the same Place.

I'm not hatin' on anyone here. The guy was on here for a year, built up a clientèle, then disappeared with out much more than a click of the light switch. Where does ID theft and Interstate fraud happen these days? On the Internet. What's a good place to gain the trust of people on the internet so they will send you money?? In a small group of people with a shared specific interest. People silly enough to want to trick out supercharged front-wheel drive cars

Anyway. Maybe people will feel relieved, if they only lost use of some of their own money for a while. Just don't make the mistake of thinking this is over.
The guy was here and he was at least IMHO, criminally negligent. That line was crossed when he failed to deliver items, then went silent.
This guy was given Credit card numbers, names, addresses, phone numbers. He knows you ain't poor. He knows what car you drive and where you park it. He knows how old you are, if your married... if you have kids. The same info many of us know just from logging on here. Why does that sound so creepy? Because it's true. I'm not saying that everyone who sent this guy a PM needs to enter witness protection. I'm saying stop for 10 seconds and look at what this guy knows about you.
THEN CANCEL THE CREDIT CARD.