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Miker56, or MidnightBlue = Scammer?

RegalGS98s

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Miker56, or MidnightBlue = Scammer?

Everyone says to show proof, so I’ll try to be specific. After going through my experience, I thought it would be best to share. The following is the thread I purchased from:
"http://www.grandprixforums.net/gen-v-lim-l32-heads-v-cs-best-offers-41857.html"

I began communicating with Miker56 on 2-14-11 at 9:25 AM. He was fast to communicate back and sent pictures in a timely order. . I was concerned of the burned valves, but he said the heads should be able to be bolted right on. By 2-15-11 11:20 AM, I decided to go through with the purchase. By 2-15-11 2:08 PM he sent me a total. I didn’t have access to my Paypal until later and paid him that night.

Some pics of original heads.

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A few days go by so I asked him if he sent the heads yet. He said he got hit hard by weather. Which is understandable for his location. On 2-23-11 I asked again if he would be able to ship cause it looked like there was a clearing for the weather. On 2-26-11 12:16 AM, he said he took the heads to get pressure checked and they had a small crack in them, but he was in the process of getting me a new set with 32k on them and a 199 day warranty. This sounded good and I appreciated him not wanting to send me junk. However, for all I know. He could of sold the heads to someone else since he had several for sale forums with heads still listed as available.

3-01-11 I asked for a status. Between then and 3-22-11 I asked for status a couple times. On 3-22-11 I sent the text: (I sent this text because he never responded to any of my messages/texts and never sent pictures of the intake and exhaust as requested?) “In order to protect my assets I am going to request a refund for the heads as it is approaching 45 days. As soon as u send me the pics of the intake&exhaust ports ill send you payment again.” A few minutes later, he sent me pics. I informed him I would check with my friend (used to be a machinist) and let him know. On 3-23-11, after showing them to my friend, I sent him the message “Those heads are beat and dry refund my money.” The condition of the heads got me a little mad.

Some pics of the other heads when I asked for the refund.

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He said he was sorry and asked for some time (to refund my money) cause something came up. I was fine with that and seen what happened to him in a thread on here the next day. He expected to have the money after the 6th of April.

The 7th came and no word from Miker56, but I seen he was looking at purchasing some items so I submitted a Paypal claim. At this point, I was pissed. I waited the time period for Paypal. Still no word from him. Paypal ended up having to take action and withdraw the funds on 4-18-11. About 2 months went buy from the time I paid to when I got a refund from Paypal taking action. All that time wasted with my car being down. Do not send him payment as a gift or you might not receive your item or the funds.
 


I apolizige for the time it took, i was doing my best to get another set of heads, i was continuing to stay in contact with you. Tell you the status and what i was doing. I apoligize again for the time!!
 


ive confronted micah on another occaision with another user and he solved everything on his own before i even asked about it.

sometimes people are busy, it's a way of life.
 
Not until I requested a refund, did he respond. Then he sends me pics of heads that my friend said looked like they were in a scrap pile. He had other for sale forums during the time I was waiting with another set of L32 heads listed that sounded like they were from a running motor. Why didn’t he offer those heads? If he would have been more prompt, I wouldn’t have had to rent a car for 3 weeks costing me $600. I know that is not directly his fault, but I was waiting on these heads from him. I’m not going to go somewhere else and buy a 2nd set of heads if I already have a set I’m waiting on. If I knew he wouldn’t be able to provide runnable heads, I would have looked elsewhere and had the car running before my Honda got totaled from a tractor trailer. I bought another Honda during those 3 weeks, replaced almost the entire brake system and had it on the road before I received pictures of the other heads. During the whole time, I see his whole engine being rebuilt on here, so I don’t think it was from him being too busy. During one of the times I didn’t hear from him, I checked around on forums and found this on clubgp: "http://www.clubgp.com/newforum/tm.asp?m=5529556&appid=&p=&mpage=1&key=miker56&language=single&tmode=&smode=&s=#5529744" Did you ever settle with that guy?
 


I just bought the GXP brakes off Micah. Everything went just like it should. He described everything just like it was. We had good contact throughout the transaction. I think you guys just had some bad timing. FWIW
 


I've never had any problems with Micah. He got me a set of window motors, rotors, and pads for my car. He even threw in a couple small items that I needed for the Camaro for free. Only asked for a minimal amount for gas since he had to drive a little bit. It actually probably cost him more to drive than what I gave him.
 
Blue decided that was irrelevant to the dispute.

Once you've received your parts, and inspected them, then your opinion will matter.
 
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