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Beware of Ecoh72 !

2.5K views 18 replies 17 participants last post by  SquirrelZX3  
#1 ·
wanted everyone to know of this incident..

He had some wheels advertised on a thread as Originally Posted by Ecoh72

Wheels pictured without tires. perfectly balanced and clean. asking 130 for all four May be interested in other 16/17" wheel trades. also have headlights and other parts available.

Located in So Cal. will ship at buyers expense.
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Originally Posted by Ecoh72
bump. I want someone to have a nice set of wheels that are only collecting dust
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Originally Posted by Ecoh72
wrapped up and ready to ship. Someone pick these up
!

so i contacted him and we set the meet-up..
He told me that the day of the pickup would be at his work (pepboys) and that upper management would be there so he wouldn't have much time. So I agreed. I went to pick them up and after a 2 hour drive i was at his work. He showed me the wheels, two were scratched but it didn't matter because i was going to paint them anyway and they were of course used and the other two were already covered and wrapped and he said "sorry about these two they were gonna get shipped out" so seeing as how he had little to no time and i didn't want to get him in trouble at work so he put the wheels in my car and i gave him 100$. He quickly ran back to work. After a 2 hour drive back home i got the wheels out and opened the other 2.. they are bent and i mean bent. I quickly texted him and told about the issue and first he said that "the wheels were in good condition to my knowledge" and then "they weren't bent when i wrapped them", then to "I got those wheels from (FF member)and i didn't know they were bent, how am i supposed to know" and finally to "sorry there's nothing i can do"... I tried to resolve and the only way to get his attention was to put him on the spot on his meet threads. After he told me he wasn't going to do anything about it and i flamed him he said that he was waiting on money from selling something else to pay me back..? really? how hard would it have been to say "okay well if you drive back i can give your money back" ??? not very hard at all. We could have fixed that ASAP. Then his buddies were chimming in and saying how great of a seller he was and so on. If the Valley people are going to ignore how shady this guy is then I hope the rest of you won't. It would suck very bad if someone else had gotten these wheels shipped and had no way of contacting him...

Putting it out there, be very cautions of this guy and what he's selling.
 
#3 ·
ah shoot what's up with the negative issues going on lately?

think you can get more than 100 for those wheels? or can ya spend some time trying to knock them back to usable condition?
 
#5 ·
^^But still in the description is says " perfectly balanced and clean". But yes i agree for $100 it seems a little fishy
 
#6 ·
well to be honest bro, why the hell would you leave without at least opening one of the wrapped ones? Since you did see scratches on the other 2 I woulda for sure opened up the other ones. I wouldnt care how much time the guy didnt have...LoL.
 
#10 ·
well the wheels are OEM ZX3 wheels, pretty ugly but i was going to use those on my car and sell my rota wheels since i could use the money. I tried taking them to the wheel repair shop but it's gonna cost me $85 a piece to fix. Like i told him " will see him again sooner or later" but what pisses me off is that he had these wheels ready to ship out to someone else who would be able to do nothing about it....
 
#11 ·
seems to me like your only option is to go to his work place and make a stink since he obviously isnt going to make this right.