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--- Quote from: fixedpigs on January 13, 2008, 10:10:10 am ---anything custom should require a deposit of some kind before anything is done...this protects the seller to a point in case the buyer flakes out on the custom order...all of the work that goes into making something specific to one person would be very difficult to sell to someone else who might not like what the original buyer wanted.

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Yes, I agree with this statement.

The operative words being DEPOSIT and CUSTOM.

In these circumstances, the product MUST be produced to completion, and delivered, within an agreed timeframe.


SlikStik had NO justification to take advance payment for these sorts of items :


--- Quote from: demaximis on January 12, 2008, 11:43:14 am ---I was able to successfully recover the funds I "lent" to Slikstik for a spinner that didn't ship after 30 days of ordering

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Thankfully, this would-be customer wised up "just in time", and got himself a chargeback.

He did not let himself be fooled by Christian's lame excuses ...


--- Quote from: Ice Cream Jonsey on January 10, 2008, 03:37:22 pm ---
--- Quote from: shardian on January 10, 2008, 03:24:01 pm ---Also, I'd like to point out once again that Christian penned the majority of those emails (and phone calls) that caused people to wait out their chargeback time frames.

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In true heroic fashion, he stayed on the phone for long hours, putting in tireless nights in order to glad-handle his way into getting people past their CC chargeback limits, all so he could selflessly take the flimsiest of reasons to hoard the product for himself and leave his previous obligations wholly unfulfilled.

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--- Quote from: Ice Cream Jonsey on January 10, 2008, 03:37:22 pm ---I am LOVING the fact that he references his new business in that mail. He's totally cool with 200-some odd people (a guess: 200 people at a $100 order a piece) having to fight for scraps in the class action lawsuit that's coming, thrilled to death that he got the physical merchandise safely out of there. You couldn't have written that any better if you were attempting to cobble together a fake e-mail that totally destroys his reputation for life.  Everything we said about him was 100% correct. Somehow, calling him out on his BS and predicting his movements every step of the way made us all "morons." (Morons with some kind of unexplained drinking problem as well, looking back.)

I'll give the kid that only speaks with the keys from ~ to backspace credit: his dogged determination to support a guy who apparently just concocted one of the greatest scams in the entire history of arcades certainly got him his product.

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That's under-estimating the amount of money that's been pocketed.

In Christian's own words, there are over 20K worth of unfulfilled orders on a wholesale (ie, cost to produce) basis.  Taking profit margins into account, this probably equates to about 50K in retail funds (ie, cold hard cash) of which people have been scammed ...


--- Quote from: M37R01D on January 10, 2008, 02:27:49 pm ---
[email from Christian Stango]

I am putting a cease on all orders that I was going to be filling out of my pocket. Yes, it has to be done. I am not going to sit here and take over 20k out of my pocket to restock the part inventory, manufacture them and ship them out

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There's also the outstanding, non-order related debts incurred by SlikStik, such as debts to suppliers ...

Kev Steele is owed money, for SlikStik's advertising in Retroblast, for which payment was never made.


Jdurg:

Well, apparently Happ Controls has gotten screwed over by SlikStik as well.  I had placed an order the week of Christmas through Happ for the Spinner Assembly, knob, and some other buttons just to flush out my order to $100.  When I had previously ordered from Happ before, the order arrived in a few days.  This time, a few weeks passed and I still didn't see anything.

On Friday I e-mailed their customer support department and asked what the status was on my order.  Just now, I got an e-mail back stating that the SlikStik spinner assembly has been on backorder for a few months now from the manufacturer.  They were "supposed" to be back in stock on December 28th, but she hasn't heard anything yet. 

I proceeded to make mention of this thread here and the pending litigation against SlikStik and asked if it would be possible to cancel my order altogether since they will never get the parts they've ordered.  I'm just waiting to hear their response.

divemaster127:

I still have a few spinner tops left if you need, also I am using the ultimarc spintrack its a great spinner that the happ spinner tops fit, pm if I can help
dm

FrizzleFried:


--- Quote from: divemaster127 on January 14, 2008, 05:11:28 pm ---I still have a few spinner tops left if you need, also I am using the ultimarc spintrack its a great spinner that the happ spinner tops fit, pm if I can help
dm

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Do they also fit the TT2 by chance?



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