ridiculous
If you need an interesting entertaining but extremely frustrating read then this is for you.
I saw his trade ad for the "built" toyota hard body he wanted to trade for a wraith. I dont have anyone locally to crawl with and i bought a wraith but found myself liking my 1.9 better. I contacted him and he agreed to trade. i had him describe the yota and it was pretty nicely built to hear him describe it. steel internals in the trans, MIP shafts, aluminum axle parts etc etc. so by his description his trade was worth more than my stock wraith, so i agreed to allow him to keep his electronics and i would send the wraith rtr minus a motor. then we were to ship the following day. fortunately i checked my PM's prior to shipping because i got the "hey dont ship yet" message over pm even though we had been communicating by text message.
at any rate, i had now taken the wraith apart and made it ready to ship.
then a week goes by and I put it back together and took it out and crawled for a while.
then he contacted me again and wanted to trade. we agreed on a deal again, for a "built yota" and we were going to ship the next day. I took a photo of the wraith disassembled, sent it to him, went to the ups store and took a pic, sent it to him, took and sent a pic of the wraith and components on the ups scale and sent it, then sent a pic of the receipt with tracking number. he responds immediately and says he is shipping later this afternoon.
at 7 my time, 6 his, after post office was closed I have to text him and he says his grandmother was in a car accident and he couldnt ship. hopefully for grandmas sake thats not true, but..........
Dont worry man, I'm shipping first thing in the morning bro, Im honest I wont screw you. etc etc etc
next morning around noon I ask and he has to finish breakfast etc before he can ship, then three hours later his dad was busy in the garage, and then finally i get a tracking number.
Then when the package shows up it is nothing like was described, no steel internals, no MIP shafts, it isnt built, it has some crappy sliders welded onto the scx chassis and bumper that matches in quality. there were aluminum axle parts, but otherwise it is relatively stock, nothing like was described.
so I contact him about the junk he sent and by now he has heard from some other members and knows hes busted. He says he will send me the aluminum rims and new tires to make the deal more acceptable. by this point, I realize, I got the short end of the deal, and that happens, so I have decided to just move on and build the truck the way i want it built anyway.
GUESS WHAT??????????
as difficult as it is to believe, no tracking number and no rims and tires have shown. just this morning he sent a text message asking if i was interested in purchasing a radio and other equipment and i said "No, I would be interested in knowing when the rims and tires are going to show up." Ive yet to get a response.
Bottom line is, trade if you like, but make him ship first, and I would then wait to get his product prior to shipping yours.
Thanks,
Anthony