WARNING!! Bad experience with Blackline and their ARC counterfeit shift knobs!
Thanks Chaz for seein what's going on here.
Guy buys something and is happy with it, 2+ months later asks for a refund, and then THREATENS for one or else he will spread fake rumors about me online?
I can only imaginge how many times kpt6 has done this to other vendors online now. Great way to get free products.
Guy buys something and is happy with it, 2+ months later asks for a refund, and then THREATENS for one or else he will spread fake rumors about me online?
I can only imaginge how many times kpt6 has done this to other vendors online now. Great way to get free products.
okay since there are four paragraphs ill answer them one at a time:
1) somebody has to own it. for you to just say "he doesnt, thats bs", is just ignorant and stupid frankly. unless you have some kind of proof.
2) you felt it was "sketchy"? what was sketchy about it? it came without the insert, oh nooo. he took a while to send you an insert after that, well guess what - map performace (one of the most highly revered vendors on here) has multiple cases where they take weeks to get small pieces out to customers. took them almost 3 weeks to get me brake pads. sometimes, **** happens.
3) He could have easily been referring to his ARC replicas. As far as everyone knows, the one you have is legitimate. He is selling ARC replicas now, technically still an "ARC" product.
4) Because he sold it to you two months ago, you could easily send back a fake or what not. It doesn't matter if he can resell it. He's a vendor and doesn't want to put up with your bull**** as an extra hassle.
I've never dealt with them personally and I don't know who is truly at fault here, however, the details provided thus far it really seems like you are being paranoid or attempting to scam. They have done nothing that appears sketchy to me except maybe take a little too long to get you things which, when considering vendors as a whole, is very common.
If there is some break in this case and new information comes to light actually PROVING that what you have is fake and they scammed you, then I sincerely apologize for all of this. However, thus far, this is a bull**** argument. Bring in some hard evidence or stop trying to scam.
EDIT: maybe find some body with an older real ARC knob and compare -- as long as ARC never changed their design/material when they actually existed...
1) somebody has to own it. for you to just say "he doesnt, thats bs", is just ignorant and stupid frankly. unless you have some kind of proof.
2) you felt it was "sketchy"? what was sketchy about it? it came without the insert, oh nooo. he took a while to send you an insert after that, well guess what - map performace (one of the most highly revered vendors on here) has multiple cases where they take weeks to get small pieces out to customers. took them almost 3 weeks to get me brake pads. sometimes, **** happens.
3) He could have easily been referring to his ARC replicas. As far as everyone knows, the one you have is legitimate. He is selling ARC replicas now, technically still an "ARC" product.
4) Because he sold it to you two months ago, you could easily send back a fake or what not. It doesn't matter if he can resell it. He's a vendor and doesn't want to put up with your bull**** as an extra hassle.
I've never dealt with them personally and I don't know who is truly at fault here, however, the details provided thus far it really seems like you are being paranoid or attempting to scam. They have done nothing that appears sketchy to me except maybe take a little too long to get you things which, when considering vendors as a whole, is very common.
If there is some break in this case and new information comes to light actually PROVING that what you have is fake and they scammed you, then I sincerely apologize for all of this. However, thus far, this is a bull**** argument. Bring in some hard evidence or stop trying to scam.
EDIT: maybe find some body with an older real ARC knob and compare -- as long as ARC never changed their design/material when they actually existed...
Nowhere did I say the second guessing took 60 days.
From my original post:
"I'm already feeling this is a squirrelly deal" -- okay so you had a strange 'feeling'... you bought it off of craigslist, it'd be odd NOT to feel slightly sketched out. But you did not say anything about the validity of the knob at that time, you said nothing about its integrity until 60+ days later.
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