Bummer, but you ARE a better person so don't lose any sleep over him. On more pleasant note: how did your Charlotte soiree' go today? How many owners showed up? Where did y'all go and what did y'all do? Tentative plans are afoot for Maryland owners to join a Northeast caravan to Pigeon Forge. Think any Carolina owners would want to meet them somewhere near VA/TN line? Bill Robertson Ford Truck >--- In DMCForum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, Louie Golden <louie@xxxx> wrote: > OK, I may regret posting this later, but I'm fuming now so here I go. I've had some bad experiences with Bob Miller, a small time vendor/service guy here in NC. It all started in June when I sent the car to him to have my Dakota Digital Dash removed. We agreed his payment would be the digital dash, which brand new cost over $900. To those who watch eBay, my dash was sold by him on ebay within the last couple of weeks by him for over $500. When I FINALLY got the car back from him, 3 months after I dropped it off, he slapped me with a $350 bill (this is already AFTER I sent him $100). Something like $180 for labor, and at least $50 of parts. He did other work to the car as well, but he charged additional labor for the dash when we agreed that the dash was his payment for the gague swap. I provided him with the original gagues from my car and everything. I can honestly say I don't think the amount of time it took him to remove that dash was worth $700. > > To top things off, on multiple occasions he told me the car would be ready on a certain weekend, and I would drop my plans for that weekend and drive 2 hours to my parents house to stay, so I could pick up the car (his shop is within an hour of their house). I would call him repetedly, leave messages all weekend long, and end up having to give up and drive back to school never hearing from him. It usually turned out that he'd call me sometime the following week and apologize. I don't care if the car's going to take longer, but his dishonesty cost me my time... I'm a senior in college with a job... my time is kind of at a premium. > > He's done other stuff too. I contacted him after I totalled my old DeLorean, and he wanted to sell me a car. So he told me to come down a certain weekend, and I did so. You can guess the results. This time he called me later that evening after I was back at school, apologizing saying that he didn't want me to look at the car today, it wasn't cleaned up. You can guess how mad this made me. This made me wash my hands of him, and vow never to support his business again. > > My latest misadventures with him is why I'm posting this. After I totalled my old DeLo, I had about 6-7 people contact me about buying the car. I promised it to the FIRST list member who contacted me, and let everyone else know that they're in line in for the car behind him. Bob was the sixth or seventh person to contact me. He kept trying repetedly to get me to sell the car out from underneath the buyer who I had promised it to, which I absolutely would not do. Today I was contacted by the buyer I promised the car to, and he said the car was up for auction, and he couldn't make it and had to pull out. Since the car already had bids being placed on it, and would be sold by Monday, I decided to just go ahead and post the car to the lists. I did this because it would waste time going down the list and confirmind/crossing off interested parties. I wanted to make sure the car would go to someone in the DeLorean community. Keep in mind, I haven't owned VIN 10115 for about a month now, it's been the property of Federated Mutual Insurance. So I get an email from Bob today chewing me out saying that I had promised the car to him, and asking me where my values were. Needless to say, I'm pissed. I don't like airing my dirty laundry in public, but I don't tolerate being jerked around, and I sure as hell don't want to see anyone else get screwed over by him. This isn't a post saying to boycott Bob Miller, it is just a buyer beware. He often sells stuff on ebay, he's out of Durham, NC; and you can see his advertisements in Hemmings with the phone number (919)383-6187. His company is Miller and Sons Automotive. Just wanted to give you all a head's up. -Louie > > _____________________________________________________________ > Pre-order the updated second edition of "DeLorean: Stainless Steel Illusion" now! Details <a href="http://www.stainless-steel-illusion.com"; target="_blank">here!</a> Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ADVERTISEMENT <http://rd.yahoo.com/SIG=12c0rnjbp/M=267637.4116730.5333196.1261774/D=egro upweb/S=1705126215:HM/EXP=1068448708/A=1853618/R=0/*http://www.netflix.com /Default?mqso=60178338&partid=4116730> click here <http://us.adserver.yahoo.com/l?M=267637.4116730.5333196.1261774/D=egroupm ail/S=:HM/A=1853618/rand=698329857> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: DMCForum-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service <http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/> .
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