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Old Jun 25, 2008 | 11:39 PM
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Has Anyone Had A Positive Dealing With Vette Parts Online Out Of Florida Or Precion Auto.now That I Ordered Somthing From Him I See Alot Of Bad Reports On Him.his Name Is Carl.for Some Reason I Still Check My Door In Hope It Will Come,but I Already Disputed The Payment On My Cretit Card
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Old Jun 26, 2008 | 10:42 AM
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Old Jun 26, 2008 | 11:08 AM
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Originally Posted by franks
Has Anyone Had A Positive Dealing With Vette Parts Online Out Of Florida Or Precion Auto.now That I Ordered Somthing From Him I See Alot Of Bad Reports On Him.his Name Is Carl.for Some Reason I Still Check My Door In Hope It Will Come,but I Already Disputed The Payment On My Cretit Card
You don't say how long you have been waiting for the part? How many times have you tried to contact him by phone?
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Old Jun 26, 2008 | 12:22 PM
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Long history on that guy ripping people off, at least 10 years and several name changes.
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Old Jun 26, 2008 | 08:15 PM
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Your chances of being satisfied with your purchase are not real good.
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Old Jun 26, 2008 | 08:18 PM
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stories???
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Old Jun 26, 2008 | 10:44 PM
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I Already Stoped Payment On My Card But The Funny Thing Is,he Called Today To Tell Me He Is Shipping A New One Very Weird.if I Was Gonna Rip You Off I Would Not Call You.
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Like many in the business he probably lurks here.
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I Already Stoped Payment On My Card But The Funny Thing Is,he Called Today To Tell Me He Is Shipping A New One Very Weird.if I Was Gonna Rip You Off I Would Not Call You.
Don't hold your breath. He's been in the "screwing" business for many years. My incident was about 5-7 years ago.
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Now this is the 3rd time in a month I heard VPO stiffed someone.
Search the forum and you'll see the complants other members had dealing with them.
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