MX-3.com

cablemirc wrote:Okay, so here's the story.

Today, Q and I had arranged to have him come down from where he lives and pick up a GTX motor for his MX. So when he gets here, he asks what all I might have for sale laying around in the garage for his MX.

He tells me that there's a guy in Chula Vista that owes him some money off the mx-3 board, but ignores everyone that tries to contact him now, so Q wanted to make a nice little house call. I had Q try his number from my house phone, since it was one that marsh would not recognize... and sure enough, he answered... and of course hung up on Q when he said who he was.

So I called”bulls---" on this guy ever paying Q back, and went to go talk to GroHarlem, a longtime friend and member with some influence over here to see what he could do about this bozo.

Gro of course proceeds to show me EVERYTHING on this guy... the bad group buys, the thousands upon thousands that people were out from this guy ripping them off, so I resolved also it was time to pay him a visit, or at the very least, buzz his house... at the very minimum, I was going to go to the local PD with what evidence I could and ask on how I should proceed.

They were so "helpful" I wanted to puke, it seems as though each person that got ripped off would have to file with their own local police department individually, waa waa waa, so my resolve strengthened enough for a door visit of this address.
(By the way, we got the address from the addy people that mailed MO's sent it to).

Now before I go any further, I’ll admit I’m a puss. lol. I let Q be the one to knock on the door lest homeboy bust out with a gat and make things messy real quickly. so the foot in the door, and the balls to go up there, that was all Q. once the door was answered, marsh wasn’t home, and Q was there talking to his dad, so I joined in.

now I must admit I have quite a gift for gab, and am an effective salesperson and good communicator... but once we were in the door, I let both his parents know exactly what mr marsh had been up to.

see, mr marsh comes from a very traditional Asian family. you could see on his dad and mom's face just how horribly dishonorable this was for them, I really felt bad laying it all out on the table. both of his parents are very well off RE-MAX realtors, with an immaculate sales history... and when they heard how their son was doing business.... they damn near turned white. especially once we mentioned ifcc filings and a report with the FBI.

he wasn’t home at this time, but with the details of what paypal was, how it worked, the group buy, mx-3.com and their slight familiarity of the money transfers to his bank account, his mother quickly disappeared into the kitchen with a following phone call to her son, which could pretty much be summed up with a "get your a-- home NOW".

when marsh appeared, he was definitely in offensive mode. postured like he wanted a fight, we asked if we'd like to go talk about it "out back". I interjected that surely his parents would like to know what's going on, and his mother all but instructed him to take a seat.

things only got interesting from there. not only has marsh never been in a motorcycle accident, he doesn’t own a bike. the BMW he drives belongs to his parents. he lives at home, and they had no idea that he was doing any of this online, but they'd seen him ship parts from the mx-3 which was donated to charity recently. they knew he worked with the carbon fiber in the garage, and was "making attempts" at making fenders hoods cowls and skirts.

I took it real easy on him... I did... I wasn’t rough, I told him I understood, as a businessman myself, that things can get out of hand, and transactions and dealings can spiral out of control, but he needs to know when to ask for help, and not run off an ignore everyone. I told him there’s not a person on that forum who would have complained if he'd spent all the money on materials and realize he just wasn’t experienced enough, and offered everyone a refund over time since he spent everything on supplies... however, my questions for him were straightforward and direct. "why haven’t you gotten hold of anyone"? and simply to sum up all he said... "well, I emailed everyone to tell them that the freight company stole the shipment that I have no shipping receipts for, and the shipping company disappeared and I didn’t hang up on you my phone dropped the call, etc etc"... to hell if I knew what any of that rubbish meant, but thank god his parents had some sense about them, and saw he was grasping at straws and lying through his teeth.

I told him, and his parents, that the visit was not personal. it was business. and I had to follow up on their son’s bad business for friends that live thousands of miles away and can do nothing. "bad business" is a very strong keyword for an honorable Asian family in the realty business for the last 25 years.

they were so disappointed... marsh cried on the couch, he knew it was over.

marsh offered to paypal Q his money back, but I stepped in and bypassed marsh on it altogether, and went straight to the parents with the plea for this awful circumstance to be fixed. I told them I’d provide all receipts, all correspondence, all promises of shipping, etc, so they can see exactly what their son's been up to.

as any good businessperson should, they did. a very honorable family with a very dishonorable business dealing son. they're going to pay everyone back who received nothing, and I will take your invoices directly to her, and not be dealing with marsh on this anymore at all. if you GOT something from marsh, and it was sub-par quality, I apologize, but a refund is not available to you at this time. this is only for people who got NOTHING.

matter of fact, marsh is forbidden from selling online at all, so if any of you get wind of this happening again; please let me know immediately so I can relay that info to his mom.


Anyhow, hopefully this clears up the situation as it took place today, and I think Q and I run about 50/50 in involvement for getting this GB rip-off resolved... I’m just glad I was in a good position to help out some fellow Mazda enthusiasts,

Ya’ll know what to do from here…..

Drop me a line.

93SOHC wrote:I am absolutly exstatic that you all will be recieving refunds. I am even more proud to be a part of this comunity than before due to the personal dedication and team spirit shown by all members contributing to the resolution of this buy. Though I was not part of the buy myself, I just wanted to give you guys a pat on the back