My paypal horror story - E92 M3 Brakes for sale

gtron · 04-03-2014, 01:20 PM

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Originally Posted by P1et

So it looks like the dad is "cobramarty" and his kid is called "bpas328xi". The kid made this odd post a while ago where he photoshopped out his neighborhood...

http://www.e90post.com/forums/showthread.php?t=533883

meanwhile there's a google map in this thread w/the exact location

schoy · 04-03-2014, 01:36 PM

The USPS website confirms all boxes were delivered on March 28. So, unless you filled one of the boxes with bricks ...

P1 · 04-03-2014, 02:06 PM

Looks like a nice neighborhood when driving through it with Google Maps. Until you come up to that house and it's one of those houses with 35 old cars parked outside.

coh4777 · 04-03-2014, 02:19 PM

Sorry that happened OP. Seems like a pretty clear scamming case. I'll be sticking around for a response from the buyer.

gtron · 04-03-2014, 02:36 PM

yea, i would like to see them hash it out in this thread for my personal entertainment.

KwlAznKid · 04-03-2014, 02:46 PM

someone needs to contact redidt

badazzm · 04-03-2014, 03:32 PM

Sucks man!!! Paypal is a bitch and always favors the buyer!! I lost $8k in a cell phone business thanks to Paypal. Took me a year to get over that shock. Good luck is all I can say and hopefully that douche is banned from all forums.

Maestro · 04-03-2014, 04:06 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by P1et

So it looks like the dad is "cobramarty" and his kid is called "bpas328xi". The kid made this odd post a while ago where he photoshopped out his neighborhood...

http://www.e90post.com/forums/showthread.php?t=533883

It looks like them since the truck in the pictures is in the driveway on the streetview.

I guess I messed up his privacy concerns

Quote:

Originally Posted by AWe90 View Post
why did you 'shop out your neighborhood?

Originally Posted by bpas328xi View Post
Privacy concerns for both myself and my neighbors.

I think they are the same person, if you look at the how cobramarty talks it sounds like a kid, I bet he created that account so to get some respect. Also they both are in the same thread talking about the truck and cobramarty ack like he does not know bpas328xi.

There are also other thread they are both in and you can see that the kid did not realize which account he was in when he posted so he picked up where the other one left off.

I am wondering if he ripped others off doing similar things, he moded that jeep of his, and put a supper charger on the 6 cylinder, he want to put turbo on his 328I and people are tell him the engine may not support it.

Looks like he on the jeep forums as well

http://www.cherokeeforum.com/f46/pro...-clean-127621/

Bmw M3 Guy · 04-03-2014, 04:54 PM

I really appreciate the help guys. I know 100% what I sold. I'm an honest guy and had a witness help me pack the brakes. I HAD to put 1 front caliper and 1 rear caliper in 1 box, and the same for the other box, along with 4 other boxes with 1 rotor in each. The pads were in the boxes with calipers. I'm very frustrated and upset someone would hurt me like this. I will keep you all in the loop with what happens with paypal and will let god take over from here.

Justin

Mr Tonka · 04-03-2014, 06:26 PM

So who's going to PM penisbreath and let him know that several people who are still anonymous have his home address?

There is ALOT one could do to really antagonize the people at that residence. Not that i would do any of these, but....

There is the old, 14 pizza delivery trick. You could have a load of mulch delivered to their front yard. Order a 40yd dumpster for their house and have it delivered at the front of the driveway. Have a porto-potty delivered to their front yard. Contact TRU-Green yard services and have them spray they yard to kill the grass because you intend to cover the whole yard with the rubber mulch. You could mail them envelopes with a mysterious white powder in them.... flour, laced with ammonia for effect. Contact a mobile detail company and have them come by to detail all the cars in front of the house and in the driveway. You could call about 20 local contractors and have them all come by their house to give renovation estimates. Schedule them all 1 hour apart from each other for 3 days straight. haha.

Just thought of another good one. Send a letter explaining the whole ordeal to all of his neighbors. haha

Like i said, i'd never do any of these things, but they are fun to think about.

BTW... pretty sure it's 1375 Brentwood Rd. - One of the google images didn't fuzz out the last 2 digits of the mailbox address. People forget just how accessible they can be depending on how much of their personal information they put out there. And who they piss off. I'm sure both the Doc and the Kid have Facebook pages.....

adobeee · 04-03-2014, 06:39 PM

the internet is a scary place..

P1 · 04-03-2014, 07:47 PM

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Originally Posted by adobeee

the internet is a scary place..

The amount of information that can be find with just a few clicks is indeed very scary...

ToothDoc · 04-03-2014, 11:00 PM

Makes you wonder with the number of cars and all those mods he has on all those cars how often he's pulled this scam... Paypal needs to seriously check up on his account and see how many times things have been disputed.

Mr. Liu · 04-03-2014, 11:19 PM

*popcorn*

grimlock · 04-04-2014, 12:21 AM

Wow, good work guys..

Is it the kid or the dad who's doing this?
Someone is in for a world of butthurt

He didn't know you were both on the same BMW forum?

I swapped taillights with another forum member once and I wasn't even sweating because who is going to be dumb enough to rip off another forum member?

Maestro · 04-04-2014, 08:29 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Mr Tonka

So who's going to PM penisbreath and let him know that several people who are still anonymous have his home address?

There is ALOT one could do to really antagonize the people at that residence. Not that i would do any of these, but....

There is the old, 14 pizza delivery trick. You could have a load of mulch delivered to their front yard. Order a 40yd dumpster for their house and have it delivered at the front of the driveway. Have a porto-potty delivered to their front yard. Contact TRU-Green yard services and have them spray they yard to kill the grass because you intend to cover the whole yard with the rubber mulch. You could mail them envelopes with a mysterious white powder in them.... flour, laced with ammonia for effect. Contact a mobile detail company and have them come by to detail all the cars in front of the house and in the driveway. You could call about 20 local contractors and have them all come by their house to give renovation estimates. Schedule them all 1 hour apart from each other for 3 days straight. haha.

Just thought of another good one. Send a letter explaining the whole ordeal to all of his neighbors. haha

Like i said, i'd never do any of these things, but they are fun to think about.

BTW... pretty sure it's 1375 Brentwood Rd. - One of the google images didn't fuzz out the last 2 digits of the mailbox address. People forget just how accessible they can be depending on how much of their personal information they put out there. And who they piss off. I'm sure both the Doc and the Kid have Facebook pages.....

I thought of that one, but concluded the neighbors probably already hate them. Trust me I know this area and its fill with a lot of uptight people. My Son and I get grief from the neighbors if we working and making noise after dinner time.

But here is a good one and this was done to me as joke, put an ad in the paper and craigslist to sell his cars and provide the address and tell people to come by and have a look, say they all must go, desperate for money, no reasonable offer will be refused.

Billup · 04-04-2014, 11:38 AM

Wish I lived in the area so I could pull the stem's out of every single tire of every car in front of that house at night.

Someone needs to serve this douche some good ol' fashioned American justice.

critical05 · 04-04-2014, 11:44 AM

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Originally Posted by Maestro

Okay found the son, his name is Benjamin

http://stancecoalition.com/2014/03/12/racejeep/
http://m.cherokeeforum.com/showthread.php?t=173699

He does race, but the jeep not the BMW as they claimed

http://www.motorsportreg.com/index.c...E#.Uz677PldU1I

it appears that daddy's name here does not imply a mustang but in fact to the boat he owns (COBRA SPORTFISHING BOATS)

http://www.boatinfoworld.com/registration.asp?vn=78180

Someone should create an account on the Cherokee forums and link this thread, lol.

Mr Tonka · 04-04-2014, 12:37 PM

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Originally Posted by P1et

I think it's 1373 Brentwood Rd. according to public information online.

I do believe you are correct sir.

MediaArtist · 04-04-2014, 12:49 PM

Man the houses in that area are cheap for what you get. You can buy a 4,000+ sqft home in that guys neighborhood for $600,000.

MidwestGolfBum · 04-04-2014, 01:17 PM

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Originally Posted by MediaArtist

Not to jump on the "I hate scammer" bandwagon, but I hate when people do this. Parking all their cars in the street when they have a perfectly usable and unused long driveway. Neighborhoods where everyone's cars are in the street just look ghetto to me.

We actually had somebody basically forced to move out of my neighborhood because of things like this. We had a neighborhood covenant that basically stated that you couldn't park more than X number of vehicles on the road for more than X days before you were fined. If it wasn't fixed, you were fined again, the third time things started getting towed and I think after 5 there was some kind of authority to impound cars until a solution was met. It was in the fine print of the agreement that everybody has to sign that if things aren't followed your life is basically made a living hell until you get the hell out.

He had a 4 car garage and room for another 4 in his driveway without being too much in the way but his entire garage was basically used as a wood shop (also against the covenants of both the neighborhood and the village) and his 5 kids always had people over. He did nothing but basically made himself enemies from the day he moved in to the neighborhood.

Glad he's gone.

Maestro · 04-04-2014, 01:53 PM

^ okay, I was going to leave the wife and mom out of this, but i have her email if the op want to rat the kid and dad out to the person who can make their lives miserable.

There are no cars in the garage, it is fill with junk and tools, there are picture of the garage on the jeep forum.

04-03-2014, 01:36 PM	#24
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badazzm Lieutenant 21 Rep 536 Posts Drives: RRS GT2 Join Date: May 2012 Location: San Jose, CA iTrader: (1)	Sucks man!!! Paypal is a bitch and always favors the buyer!! I lost $8k in a cell phone business thanks to Paypal. Took me a year to get over that shock. Good luck is all I can say and hopefully that douche is banned from all forums.
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Bmw M3 Guy Private First Class 70 Rep 184 Posts Drives: E92 M3 Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: San Diego Cali iTrader: (0)	I really appreciate the help guys. I know 100% what I sold. I'm an honest guy and had a witness help me pack the brakes. I HAD to put 1 front caliper and 1 rear caliper in 1 box, and the same for the other box, along with 4 other boxes with 1 rotor in each. The pads were in the boxes with calipers. I'm very frustrated and upset someone would hurt me like this. I will keep you all in the loop with what happens with paypal and will let god take over from here. Justin __________________ E92 M3 AW/BK RPI GT-M - ESS TUNE
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04-03-2014, 06:26 PM	#32
Mr Tonka is probably out riding. 6058 Rep 2,294 Posts Drives: Something Italian Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Sweatypeninsula iTrader: (0)	So who's going to PM penisbreath and let him know that several people who are still anonymous have his home address? There is ALOT one could do to really antagonize the people at that residence. Not that i would do any of these, but.... There is the old, 14 pizza delivery trick. You could have a load of mulch delivered to their front yard. Order a 40yd dumpster for their house and have it delivered at the front of the driveway. Have a porto-potty delivered to their front yard. Contact TRU-Green yard services and have them spray they yard to kill the grass because you intend to cover the whole yard with the rubber mulch. You could mail them envelopes with a mysterious white powder in them.... flour, laced with ammonia for effect. Contact a mobile detail company and have them come by to detail all the cars in front of the house and in the driveway. You could call about 20 local contractors and have them all come by their house to give renovation estimates. Schedule them all 1 hour apart from each other for 3 days straight. haha. Just thought of another good one. Send a letter explaining the whole ordeal to all of his neighbors. haha Like i said, i'd never do any of these things, but they are fun to think about. BTW... pretty sure it's 1375 Brentwood Rd. - One of the google images didn't fuzz out the last 2 digits of the mailbox address. People forget just how accessible they can be depending on how much of their personal information they put out there. And who they piss off. I'm sure both the Doc and the Kid have Facebook pages..... __________________ "There is no greater tyranny than that which is perpetrated under the shield of the law and in the name of justice. -Charles de Secondat" Last edited by Mr Tonka; 04-03-2014 at 06:42 PM..
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Maestro Major 1013 Rep 1,268 Posts Drives: 2007 335i Sedan, 2021 X3 Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Philadelphia iTrader: (0)	^ okay, I was going to leave the wife and mom out of this, but i have her email if the op want to rat the kid and dad out to the person who can make their lives miserable. There are no cars in the garage, it is fill with junk and tools, there are picture of the garage on the jeep forum.
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