Lost/stole/found? LS5 update
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Burning Brakes
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Lost/stole/found? LS5 update
I received a call today saying that the car was found in New Jersey. This is the story so far. The seller also sold a chevette to someone in Michigan (who would pay to have a chevette shipped halfway across the country?) The shipper for the chevette took the corvette instead and took it to the main shipping terminal in New Jersey. It sat there for thirty days for no known reason. I don't really care. I think the letter of intent from the lawyer and calls from other legal departments caused the car to magically appear but it is supposedly on its way to sunny north carolina. I will be out a big chunk of change for the lawyer fees. I'll inform everybody if it arrives and what it looks like. 
Melting Slicks
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Re: Lost/stole/found? LS5 update (tworottiedogs)
Well at least they found it and it should be heading to you . Well at least they found it before it got to the guy who bought the chevette. I think you would have needed more then laywers to pry that corvette out of his hands when he was expecting a chevette, he would have thought he got the deal of the century :lol:
:cheers:
Pat Kunz
. Well at least they found it before it got to the guy who bought the chevette. I think you would have needed more then laywers to pry that corvette out of his hands when he was expecting a chevette, he would have thought he got the deal of the century :lol: :cheers:
Pat Kunz
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Re: Lost/stole/found? LS5 update (tworottiedogs)
yeah right... who would want, or ship a chevette ? You busted an outright fraud! Hope your Vette (if you finally get it) is 1/2 of what the :jester said it was. EBay is a con artists perfect forum .... look, like, and make your decision to put down the $$$$$$'s after you have seen the car and paperwork.
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Re: Lost/stole/found? LS5 update (C3sharkattack)
:bs :bs :bs :bs :bs Sounds a bit suspect to me...wonder what happened to the guy who supposedly bought the chevette??? He never got his car??? If your car was taken instead of the chevette then he had a chevette that was not picked up and hanging around...wouldn't take a rocket scientist to figure out what happened to these cars...I belive this whole thing was a scam...glad your closer to getting your car...As for the attorneys fees I would sue to get the $$$ back for your time and attorneys cost...seems like the dumb azz would have at least cared about who(shipping company) got what car. The simple fact that he was soooooo unwilling to help leads me (and many others I'm sure) to belive he is a crock...
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Re: Lost/stole/found? LS5 update (tworottiedogs)
As an eBay seller and buyer (mainly pocket watches and smoking pipes and other small stuff), I've been watching this post to see how it turned out. Like a lot of others here, it sounds to me like something fishy 
was going on here.
It sounds like really good news that they found your car. I trust that once you get behind the wheel, hear the engine singing its song, and driving down the highway, all that has happened over the past couple weeks will be a distant memory.
Most of us have had to put a lot of blood sweat and tears into our Vettes. You got to do it all before you ever took delivery :rolleyes:
Great news. and please keep us posted.
Jeff S.
was going on here.It sounds like really good news that they found your car. I trust that once you get behind the wheel, hear the engine singing its song, and driving down the highway, all that has happened over the past couple weeks will be a distant memory.
Most of us have had to put a lot of blood sweat and tears into our Vettes. You got to do it all before you ever took delivery :rolleyes:
Great news. and please keep us posted.
Jeff S.
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Re: Lost/stole/found? LS5 update (tworottiedogs)
Maybe all of us here on the good Forum should donate $1.00 to the "tworottiedogs legal fund" to cover the lawyers fees then all go to visit and drive the LS-5 :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: great news!!
John
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Re: Lost/stole/found? LS5 update (theandies)
There is no doubt...this is smoke and mirrors...scam job in the first degree. The seller is a real crooked con man. I hope you do see the car.
Good Luck...
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Re: Lost/stole/found? LS5 update (tworottiedogs)
like other's of said, i wouldnt just drop the case now. that dosnt sound like much of an excuse....from the obvious that nobody would pay to have a chevette shipped.....but i dont really understand how they mistankenly picked the vette up and it just sits in shipping limbo for a month....? get a lawyer to sue him for damages too.
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Re: Lost/stole/found? LS5 update (tworottiedogs)
I've been following this thread since the beginning and I hope this car ends up being what you were led to believe it was. That may help make this terrible situation easier to swallow. Hope that jack*ss gets burned by the authorities!!!! :smash:
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Re: Lost/stole/found? LS5 update (tworottiedogs)
Now THAT is one really f'd up end to a story.
"Hi I'm here to get the 'vette"
"There it is"
"Thanks, bye"
So why didn't the CORvette get shipped to Michigan like the CHEvette was supposed to? This is one REALLY f'd up BS story.
I assume you have the vin of the car. I wonder if you could do a check to see if the thing was stolen at some point or something.
Dave
"Hi I'm here to get the 'vette"
"There it is"
"Thanks, bye"
So why didn't the CORvette get shipped to Michigan like the CHEvette was supposed to? This is one REALLY f'd up BS story.
I assume you have the vin of the car. I wonder if you could do a check to see if the thing was stolen at some point or something.
Dave
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Re: Lost/stole/found? LS5 update (tworottiedogs)
You're dealing with some MAJOR scumbag bad*sses; be careful--
When I was much younger (and dumber), I got a job working for my cousin who bought and sold used cars. He was the same kind of b/s-er you're dealing with now! At first it seemed legit; then he starts buying "hotboxes", changing VIN's (from wrecks to matching stolen cars), arson, insurance fraud, and he kept an EXTRA set of keys for EVERY car he sold. He would later send out thieves to re-steal them, etc. etc. When I figured out what he was REALLY up to, I got terrified. He told me he'd kill me if I quit. I quit anyway. My cousin, I later found out, was working for the mob. :seeya :seeya
When I was much younger (and dumber), I got a job working for my cousin who bought and sold used cars. He was the same kind of b/s-er you're dealing with now! At first it seemed legit; then he starts buying "hotboxes", changing VIN's (from wrecks to matching stolen cars), arson, insurance fraud, and he kept an EXTRA set of keys for EVERY car he sold. He would later send out thieves to re-steal them, etc. etc. When I figured out what he was REALLY up to, I got terrified. He told me he'd kill me if I quit. I quit anyway. My cousin, I later found out, was working for the mob. :seeya :seeya
Melting Slicks
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Re: Lost/stole/found? LS5 update (tworottiedogs)
Is that HIS story or the SHIPPERS story. I wouldn't take his word for it. If he's telling you this story, I would want the "Shipper" to corroberate the story on a witness stand or pay my legal expenses. Either way, I'd want my legal expenses paid. This sounds like a bunch of :bs
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Re: Lost/stole/found? LS5 update (79MakoL82)
Is that HIS story or the SHIPPERS story. I wouldn't take his word for it. If he's telling you this story, I would want the "Shipper" to corroberate the story on a witness stand or pay my legal expenses. Either way, I'd want my legal expenses paid. This sounds like a bunch of :bs