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Title: I've been Screwed! They took my money and won't send my case!
Post by: Wyluli on January 05, 2005, 08:02:47 pm
 >:( Alright, I'm totally ticked off here.  I need another computer to make a dedicated mame machine out of it and stick it in a cab I am buying.  I planned to just build a cheap pc to use.  So I ordered a $25 (pc case) job from Colorcases.com.  They took my money via paypal and have not sent me my case!  I keep e-mailing and FINALLY received an e-mail from someone stating that the Previous owner of the company took my money and never delivered my case and apparently I am just SOL.  What is up with that?!?!?!?
@#$%@# sons of @#$%.
Where has customer service gone???   ???
 >:(

Title: Re: I've been Screwed! They took my money and won't send my case!
Post by: Sephroth57 on January 05, 2005, 08:04:18 pm
tell paypal this and have them pull your money back
Title: Re: I've been Screwed! They took my money and won't send my case!
Post by: Wyluli on January 05, 2005, 08:31:32 pm
tell paypal this and have them pull your money back
I tried to file a complaint with paypal but apparently this isn't covered.  They do step in on Ebay related stuff, but apparently not regular business transactions (unless I missed something).

Title: Re: I've been Screwed! They took my money and won't send my case!
Post by: mnm1200 on January 05, 2005, 08:37:20 pm
You could always get the law involved :police:

If I needed a case for just MAMEing, I'd just get some cheap plexi, mark the holes required and drill them out, and mount it in the cab with the mobo attached. Gets better airflow that way ;)

Sorry to hear they took your money and ran.
Title: Re: I've been Screwed! They took my money and won't send my case!
Post by: Lilwolf on January 06, 2005, 02:15:03 pm
Dont forget to forward paypal with the email.  They might take note on that one.

Also... Did you use CreditCard?  If you did... Call them... They can get your money back...

But thats BS... When you buy a company... you buy their dept...
Title: Re: I've been Screwed! They took my money and won't send my case!
Post by: Hoagie_one on January 06, 2005, 02:26:12 pm
sounds like a scam to me
Title: Re: I've been Screwed! They took my money and won't send my case!
Post by: SOAPboy on January 08, 2005, 08:30:31 am
>:( Alright, I'm totally ticked off here.
Title: Re: I've been Screwed! They took my money and won't send my case!
Post by: patrickl on January 08, 2005, 08:38:48 am
If the company you sent your money to goes bankrupt you normally lose your money. That's regardless of the method of payment.
Title: Re: I've been Screwed! They took my money and won't send my case!
Post by: DrewKaree on January 08, 2005, 09:18:41 am
If the company you sent your money to goes bankrupt you normally lose your money. That's regardless of the method of payment.

The company is still in business, hence his ability to get ahold of someone who would tell him that there was a previous owner.  It seems as if the previous owner sold the business to someone who is now the new owner, and the new owner seems to not give a rip that the company name has been tarnished, as he continues to heap new crap atop it by telling him "it's his fault, you're screwed, and I'm not doing a thing about it because I don't have to".

Seems to be a bad vendor hitting rock bottom, and starting to dig.
Title: Re: I've been Screwed! They took my money and won't send my case!
Post by: Shape D. on January 10, 2005, 01:47:24 pm
I had thought when you buy a buisness you buy all of its debts as well as its assets.
Title: Re: I've been Screwed! They took my money and won't send my case!
Post by: Sephroth57 on January 10, 2005, 01:52:52 pm
thats pretty messed up man, were you able to make any progress with this?
Title: Re: I've been Screwed! They took my money and won't send my case!
Post by: JackTucky on January 10, 2005, 01:57:17 pm
I had thought when you buy a buisness you buy all of its debts as well as its assets.

That's what I thought.  There are lots of ways around this.  I've been screwed a couple of times.

One of my customers went bankrupt owing me more than $50,000.  I got $5,000 from the bankruptcy court.

Meanwhile, the owner's mansion in Miami Beach was written up in Audio/Video Interiors because he was still plenty rich.

Art
Title: Re: I've been Screwed! They took my money and won't send my case!
Post by: darkmavis on January 10, 2005, 02:07:04 pm
I had thought when you buy a buisness you buy all of its debts as well as its assets.
i can pretty much garuantee he wont be the new owner, the same owner with probably still have it, your trading name is not allways your company name,  all you need to do is fold the old comapny, intsall a new director  in a 'new company' and trade away on the old name, the case owed is owed by the old company thus, no recorse.. its crappy , happened to me once.. best advice is to keep arguing the toss with him and he may relent.. i doubt it though.  just be a pain in the ass with him, ring him evrey day 2 times a day until he just sends u the case :D  thats what id do :D
Title: Re: I've been Screwed! They took my money and won't send my case!
Post by: DrewKaree on January 10, 2005, 05:11:53 pm
] i can pretty much garuantee he wont be the new owner, the same owner with still have it, your trading name is not allways your company name,  all you need to do is fold the old comapny, intsall a new director  in a 'new company' and trade away on the old name, the case woed is woed by theold company thus, no recorse.. its <auto-censored>, happened to me once.. best advice is to keep arguing the toss with him and he may relent.. i doublt it though.  just be a pin in the ass with him, ring him evrey day 2 times aday until he just sends u the case :D thats what id do :D

Somewhere in there is a coherent thought. 
Title: Re: I've been Screwed! They took my money and won't send my case!
Post by: Wyluli on January 10, 2005, 07:30:01 pm
Yes, I thought about just harrassing the guy every single day just to torment him.  Make him rue the day he stole my money and didn't send my case.  So far, no luck.  Paypal doesn't care and neither does the company I guess.  I did report them to the better business bureau for whatever good that might do.  I hope that new owners balls get infested with yak fleas!!!!
Title: Re: I've been Screwed! They took my money and won't send my case!
Post by: Goz on January 10, 2005, 08:46:46 pm
What form factor is the case that you need? Maybe I or another member can help.

-Goz
Title: Re: I've been Screwed! They took my money and won't send my case!
Post by: darkmavis on January 10, 2005, 09:00:43 pm
i need to use the spellchecker, or not post when ive had a few jack daniels :D
Title: Re: I've been Screwed! They took my money and won't send my case!
Post by: Wyluli on January 12, 2005, 08:54:36 pm
What form factor is the case that you need? Maybe I or another member can help.

-Goz
Just looking for a cheap ATX case with lots of room to work in.  The current case my old PC is in is so small it's a pain to do anything with it.  #$% colorcases.com.  I'd like to wait for these guys in the parking lot one night...grrrr. >:(