Beware! Bad Sellers--Bad Importer Story w/ Pictures

[drumma022]

I have had it with this company! Street Style Performance. I am a patient person and can put up with alot of crap before I get pissed off. The guy's name that I have been dealing with for the past 4 months is Matt ([email protected]), and the other person involved is [email protected]. The ebay acct is OLDR02. It all began with a great deal on a s14 clip on ebay. I am not a person to front the cash for something I see on the internet, but i figure...he!!...credit cards have an easy chargeback policy. So i go through with the sale and I recieve various emails for info on the s14 clip. I pay for the clip (which had an original location of California) and wait the 4-7 days. A week goes by, no clip. I ask for a tracking number, no answer to my emails. I call the number provided, a guy answers and says I will email you with that as soon as possible. I get an email saying that the clip is shipping from malaysia now. Many emails later and only 1 reply, I call and call this guy's cell number that he provided for me. 3-4 weeks go by and no clip. I email him with a nasty message and leave similar voicemails threatening to chargeback the credit card. The next reply is that he is having a problem with his merchant and the clip is sitting in the warehouse and has never been processed for shipment. At this point I am kinda upset that I paid this much $$ for this clip. He replies again that he will drop the price of the clip. I say OK. I then find a pic from FlashOptions' site of a clip for sale there that is the same as in my EBAY auction. I email them to see if this guy is using FlashOptions as his merchant, and they say that they havent heard of this guy. I send another email confronting him about this, and he says that I must have spoken to the wrong person b/c he has a recently new account with them and he is using them as a source for motors. I figure that this is true b/c I have read that FO is horrible to deal with and do not speak much English. At this point I email him saying that he must get the clip here in a week or cancel the order and refund my $$. I get a reply saying that he cannot meet the deadline that i gave him, but he can send me an s13 motor plus cash back I ask for a pic, and i see that the motor has no MAF and a cut harness. I tell him to refund my money and I will forget it all. He then says that his account has been frozen with his merchant and cannot refund it immediately. Another week goes by and no refund. I send yet another nasty email, and he pleads for me not to do a chargeback and that he can send me an s14 clip by the end of the week. I ask for proof and he send me this pic:



After seeing this clip, I jump on the opportunity of having a bad A$$ clip. Many things are running through my head... 1) BLING!!! 2)too good to be true 3)this guy is only trying to delay this 4)i am prolly gonna get screwed 5)Dang thats a hella nice clip!! So i send him an email saying as long as you can provide me with a tracking number, send me the clip. He said that after the weekend is over, he will send it out monday. After talking to my friends, and having them put negative images in my head, I decide to resort to my Forensic Science major and decide to breakdown the photo b/c it seems kind of fishy. In the next photo, you can clearly see that the "enviroment" around the car is in clear view and you should see that in the windshield.



Except for the fact that the windshield and cowling is blacked out, and a crappy photoshop job for that fact. I confront him about this and he replies "The black that was there was covering where I had tried to put streetstyleracing.com. But it looked horrible so I blackened it out. That is the only reason why it was there." That is still sounding like a lil BS to me, but I dont bother at this point.Then as things are seeming to settling in my mind and giving this guy the benefit of the doubt, I come across this link for a Japanese auction for Earth Grounding cables.

http://page5.auctions.yahoo.co...94567

and the first image is the same exact pic of the car, except this time the windshield is not blacked out.



And to top it all off, when reviewing the Ebay acct of the seller a minute ago, it states that it is not a registered user anymore and that the user is now suspended.

This is starting to P!$$ me off!!

[rocksco]

I got semi-screwed on my clip too from Technical Power Automotive - http://www.tpautomotive.com/ . To make a long story short. I inquired about getting a S14 front clip (aug 2001) for a RHD conversion I was doing, I told them it was imperative i received a S14 front clip as i was going to use the firewall plus i was going to shell out 3,800 for it (which was a good price at the time, sigh). After like 4 months of initial delays and lots of run arounds, I finally get my S14 front clip i paid for months before. After I received it it looked good on the pallet and didnt think much of checking it before the truck left. The chassis wiring harness was all cut up , lots of missing interior pieces, etc. I would soon find out why it was like that later. To top it off they took off the expensive BB turbo on the S14 and put on a CA18DET turbo and stripped the $@#$ing oil feed !!! I emailed them and asked for a BB s14 turbo and the wiring a interior pieces. I got the turbo from them and they told me the interior pieces were going to cost me. I started on the conversion, and i realized the clip was actually a RPS13 clip with a s14 motor in it!! with all the s14 pieces loosely placed in there and like 2 different wiring harnesses all hacked up. It looked like they send me all the odds and ends they had laying around their shop. GRRRR I sent them various emails to try to get the missing pieces or a new clip without the motor set. They fabricated this BS invoice that said i ordered a 's13/s14 hybrid' and agreed to a s13 clip with a s14 motor they put in it!!! OMG I WAS FURIOUS!! They gave me the run around 'we have no s14 clips in for another 4 months, but we will send you another one with the missing pieces' etc etc. After months of waiting i grew impatient, decided to do the swap using the s13 firewall, rack and pedals which turned out good.I used a hacked USDM chassis harness which is temporary until i can find the proper JDM chassis harness. I still have not received all the pieces i was missing. They ignore my emails now.

DO NOT BUY FROM TECHNICAL POWER AUTOMOTIVE http://www.tpautomotive.com

moral of these two stories (so far), buy parts from a reputable (enjuku, jspec, heavy throttle, unstable, mckinly, etc) or local source where you can check out the goods before you buy.

also if anyone has an empty s14 clip laying around in the south east, I would be more then happy to dispose of it for you

Rock

[MaineExport]

drumma022

You've gotten the shaft hard buddy! If you had done some research here you would have heard about these people. The flashoptons guy has been shady from day one. I'm surprised that they are allowed to advertise here at all. I have not heard ONE positive outcome from a deal with them. As a matter of fact... they begged for one NICO mmber to order and engine and they would prove how good their engines were. Well, one member did order an engine, it showed up late and it was complete junk. He shipped it back.. they said he'd have a new engine by February 15. Well, we still haven't heard from that member yet.

This girl/guy combo that you dealt with from EBAY have been using FO as their 'supplier' for a while and there have been a few threads about them as well. I don't know of a single buyer that has received an engine from them. I don't know who is at fault... but I wouldn't deal with either group... PERIOD!

[Dano]

dam dude, sorry to hear about all that ****. I wish u the best of luck in getting the situation resolved, keep us posted on this thread.

-Dan

[big jon's 240]

I would do a charge back on your credit card and take your business else where. Sounds to me like you are just wasting time with this prick.

[Holisticbeatz]

Good front clips are like girls. All the good ones are taken and whatever is left are ƒuxked up

[jmillheiser]

anybody get their engines from after dark yet? herd daunt was supposed to get his engines about now

[jmillheiser]

we should really do a sticky of GOOD AND BAD ENGINE IMPORTERS