Problems with Mike440
I've never seen him before. I go to Carlilse every year. I've never heard of him until people started getting ripped off on the Facebook Mopar sites.
If I remember correctly he joined about a year or so ago and played "I'm trying to start a business selling parts, can you help me get started???"
So many members offered him advice on how to start up and even gave him some leads on cars.
Then he started not shipping parts that people paid for and got banned. Then started it all over again with a new user name and changed his "business web site".
He will follow through with a few deals to "establish a reputation" and get a reference or two. Then will drag out the other deals past the time frame to dispute with paypal and stiff you after the protection "expires". Or get you to forfeit your protection and do the deal as a "gift"...
Now he's probably trying to invent a new persona to try to come back and scam the Mopar world with again....
We probably have him shut down for a moment, but if the guys that got ripped off don't prosecute and get him some jail time, then he'll be back doing it again....
He will try to play the nice guy and get you to let your guard down, then pounce. He will try to convince you not to send the Paypal payment regular, but as a gift, so they have no protection.... I would pay the fees myself and keep the protection if it was me...
He's a con. Plain and simple. He will get you to let your guard down, and then take advantage of you. I have noticed that he likes to say "I'm a good guy". I also had a guy once tell me that when he was trying to get me to pay for an engine that he hadn't pulled yet. I told him that I will pay for it when I pick it up. It told him that the only way that I would pay him in advance for the engine is that I will go home and send him a money order in the mail with signature required, so if he stiffed me I could press federal charges against him. ( I was lead to believe that I was going to pick up two engines, when he only had one ready to pick up). Suddenly after hearing that, he stopped asking for the money in advance. I'm still waiting for the phone call to pick up the 440.... That was over 4 years ago....
So yeah, he was going to keep my money until he found out the consequences and that I wouldn't fork it over so easy...
It reminds me of the old joke:
"How do you say f*ck you in Jewish"?
Trust me....
(Not to knock any Jewish people...)
But now when I hear "trust me" my red flag goes up, I'm starting to feel the same way about people who have to tell me that they are a "good guy" while trying to get me to hand my money to them....
So when someone tells me "trust me" or "I'm a good guy", my defense goes up as I take it as they are telling me "F*ck you"....
Every con artist will try to get on your good side, so they can take advantage of you. If you are really a good guy, I will figure that out on my own, I don't need you to tell me....
