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  • phillyj

    Aug. 15, 2008 7:01 p.m. phillyj New Reader

    Very funny stuff heres the shot autoblog version http://www.autoblog.com/2008/08/14/carsumer-advocacy-16-year-old-tries-to-bilk-sho...

    this is the actual forum post and the scammer comes in to defend him self. Very amusing and I hope he goes to jail

    People are saying they should have accepted a deposit first. That would have prevented scammers.

  • ignorant

    Aug. 15, 2008 7:54 p.m. ignorant SuperDork

    choad

  • Tommy Suddard

    Aug. 15, 2008 8:56 p.m. Tommy Suddard

    Looks like the kid spent 16k dollars he didn't have, to put carbon fiber trim and lambo doors on a Celica. What. An. Idiot!

  • pete240z

    Aug. 15, 2008 9:26 p.m. pete240z HalfDork

    ignorant wrote:

    choad

    excellent, it has been a while since I heard a guy call another guy that.

    And to think my wife claims all this time I spend here is a waste.

  • Volksroddin

    Aug. 15, 2008 9:36 p.m. Volksroddin Reader

    Tommy Suddard wrote:

    Looks like the kid spent 16k dollars he didn't have, to put carbon fiber trim and lambo doors on a Celica. What. An. Idiot!

    Plus its an automatic!!!

  • Tommy Suddard

    Aug. 15, 2008 9:45 p.m. Tommy Suddard

    He's too busy pushing the nitrous buttons to shift.

  • ignorant

    Aug. 15, 2008 10:37 p.m. ignorant SuperDork

    Tommy Suddard wrote:

    He's too busy pushing the nitrous buttons to shift.

    watch out.. you could blow the welds on your intake manifold.

  • dculberson

    Aug. 16, 2008 8:10 a.m. dculberson New Reader

    phillyj wrote:

    People are saying they should have accepted a deposit first. That would have prevented scammers.

    Apparently they did get a deposit. The original job was just a paint job, and they got a $1000 deposit. It ballooned from there, and they got sloppy and let the small deposit slide. It's easy to do that, in a small business.

    This "kid" is a habitual scammer, though. He's apparently ripped a lot of people off for a lot of things, and is currently on probation for a conviction of fraud. So I'm not sure the shop had a chance; most places enter into a deal with the "ass"umption that the other party at least intends to be on the up and up.

  • ww

    Aug. 16, 2008 11:59 p.m. ww Dork

    Yeah, this kid is pretty much a looser and has very little chance of recovering his car. He should be more concerned about how he's gonna look to bubba when that bar of soap slips out of his hand in the shower...

  • SlickDizzy

    Aug. 17, 2008 3:20 p.m. SlickDizzy SuperDork

    Wow, what a complete dolt. It's idiots like this that make my life harder by insinuating that everyone under the age of 21 is an irresponsible scam-artist.

 
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