Oscar Andrews again beware

[davehg]

Guys, just wanted to post a link to piston heads where oscar is trying to sell an FD, most people know the history behind him......

http://www.pistonheads.com/sales/1000360.htm

[Nik da Greek]

Yeah, that\'s one of his listings on eBay at the mo, under one of his many alter egos "nikzpink206". This is my favourite one, a genuine R-Magic engine "dampner" (sic) where the R-Magic sticker has "come off" ....and it\'s a FEED copy anyway :Hammer!   http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/MAZDA-RX7-FD3S-R-MAGIC-ENGINE-DAMPER-DAMPNER-STRUT_W0QQitemZ260395471486QQcmdZViewItemQQptZUK_CarsParts_Vehicles_CarParts_SM?hash=item260395471486&_trksid=p3911.c0.m14&_trkparms=72%3A1683|66%3A2|65%3A12|39%3A1|240%3A1318

[mread4]

Just got a price for a diff for my FD from this bloke did not know it was oscar. He wanted £185 inc delivery dont think i will bother now so im still on the hunt for a diff.

[gsb876]

Yep steer well clear of this here Oscar,

Has a charm to sell stuff through paypal method and you recieve nothing for your monies or something completely knackered instead - DO NOT BUY FROM OSCAR ANDREWS a quick search will reveal why !!!!!

[mread4]

He just sent me a mail saying that he can not do paypal. Think i would be better of making a diff out of cardboard than buy one off this bloke oscar.

[Jit]

where abouts in England are you Matt?

[nuki]

why dont you just collect the diff and have a day out on the road? surely if he robbed you then you pay him a visit? its not hard to get his address details.. although i would take everybodys advice and stay away! just find a diff elsewhere
 
http://shop.ebay.co.uk/merchant/nikzpink206
 
here is oscar\'s full listing
 
and im almost 100% this Carbon inlet has been sold 3 times now.
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/MAZDA-RX7-FD3S-CARBON-INLET-MANIFOLD-PLENUM-COVER_W0QQitemZ260395471504QQcmdZViewItemQQptZUK_CarsParts_Vehicles_CarParts_SM?hash=item260395471504&_trksid=p3911.c0.m14&_trkparms=72%3A1683%7C66%3A2%7C65%3A12%7C39%3A1%7C240%3A1318

[chrisJDM]

i suppose at least with that car for sale he is saying its fubarbed and if you went to pick it up unless its nicked its still prob worth £1500
just dont pay him through paypal only in person

[Nik da Greek]

nuki, that carbon cover\'s been "sold"  three times because I kept reporting it to eBay as stolen. He "bought" it from me by sending PayPal payment and then blocking the transfer after I\'d posted it, then told me a pack of lies and never re-sent the money.

I kept reporting it to eBay in the vain hope they\'d actually offer some of their much-vaunted protection against rip-offs, but they never did, the useless c***s.

I got a bit of stick at the time for posting up about how he\'d ripped me off, but he was a valued trader on here back then hahahahaha. I think time has proved me right, and revealed that he is in fact a maggot-c*cked lying cheating theif

[Nik da Greek]

btw, anyone thinking of bidding on that plenum cover, I\'d cancel your bid if I were you. It\'s not FEED, it was made by some guy at home when he was doing a compostites course at college, and it was starting to have the resin separate from the weave through heat damage. I said all this when I listed it for sale, and took photos of the damage, but unless it\'s miraculously healed itself, Oscar seems to have neglected to mention this.......

The thing that really peeed me off was that I even took the time to line it with aluminised anti-heat tape for the little **** before I posted it :Hammer because I felt guilty about selling less than perfect stuff to a fellow MRC member! Hahahaha, if only I knew then.......

[nuki]

i cant understand why hes getting away with this? i know for a fact i could get his address.. hes even offered me to go look at his unit and home where some of the cars are before i knew he was oscar from the forum as i was intrested in buying parts from a pistonheads add etc... ive even got his mobile number.. why didnt you just ring him up under an unknown alias saying you want to come look at a rebulilt engine or somthing worth alot of money to intrest him then re-claim wht he stole from you? hes about 22 year old and hes getting away with stealing .... im confused because if he stole from me like he did you and others my family members and handy lads would deffiantly want to meet him regardless of how much he stole just for the fact he stole from me.. just for the day out they would be satisfied to call at the coast on the way back

[Nik da Greek]

well, in my case it\'s because he ripped me off to the tune of about fifty quid, which is about what it\'d cost me to go down to Wimbourne and back in petrol, so it hardly seemed worth the effort to throw good money after bad. I just learnt from the experience and moved on.

That\'s not to say I didn\'t try everything I could (and still do) to inconvenience him. I\'ve taken out several disputes with both eBay and PayPal about it, (and probably spent the same amount of money on their exorbitant rate phone lines lol) and all I learnt from that is that both of their "protection" schemes are an absolute waste of time. Basically, as long as Oscar keeps paying the listing fees, they don\'t care who he rips off. Apparently it was my fault for posting to an unconfirmed address, even though PayPal had sent me an official communique stating the funds from him were in my account. The onus would be on me to have taken the matter to a small claims court, which would have cost me a considerable amount of time and inconvenience, as well as money, so again the system works for him, not the wronged party. However, as I say, I\'ve learnt plenty from the situation at least.

There\'s also the issue of the fact that I understand he lives with his parents still, so if I were to rock up to his door and demand my property back....and he simply says "no, go away off our property", what do I do then? Smash my way in and do them all over? Wait for the police and argue my word against his over something that happened over a year ago? The Plod\'d love that, wouldn\'t they? I\'d get a very sympathetic ear off them, I\'m sure. Whatever happens, he\'d have witnesses, and I wouldn\'t....and I\'m not that stupid.

I have a long memory, with that said, and are there are no limits to the length I\'ll carry a grudge, so if I should ever meet the erstwhile Mr Andrews Junior, the story may well be different. I\'m just not going to lose any sleep over it in the meanwhile

[AshRX]

Nik, as said at Fast Show, we will just get a van and go down there and get your money back.

[gsb876]

well said Nik,

sadly the laws dont help in issues like this !!!!

[rx jamie]

oh dear, unfortunately seems like there is an oscar on every site, which is quite bad. ive had a search and read up on him so thanks for the heads up.
on the pulsar forums there is a lad called steve coleby who does exactly the same.
he trades through ebay aswell and in all things jap not just pulsars,so watch out