I submitted a response here but it was rejected by Audiogon as I had mentioned the man's name and his address. Here is that message again with that info left off. For anyone interested in that information, please contact me.
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Oh oh....I knew where this was going the minute I saw it.
I have dealt with this man.
I saw a similar post by somebody else who dealt with him and they too were getting the runaround...audio magic cables. This was earlier this year. Search for AudioMagic cables in the forum here and his posting should come up.
He claims to do website design for this cable company and CJ and even uses a CJ email address. And yes, he too told me he is a lawyer. I have seriously considered emailing CJ about this man but I guess it is not my style to be accusatory.
I bought a Counterpoint NPS 400 amp from him....and I sent him 3 $500 installments. I always thought it was strange that he wanted me to send the checks under his wife's name. Finally he shipped the amp to his buddy here in StPaul MN. Well, the amp was severely damaged due to his poor packaging. He claimed he paid Purolator to repack the amp but that was obviously never done. This was Feb 2001!!!! He went round and round with me that he had it insured but never got paid for this claim.."they would not pay since it crossed the US border". So after all this time, I have been super super patient. My wife has complained so much of this as it is in a crate sitting in our living room and no news from Guy except more of the same. So I feel for you here as I have pretty much written this off as one of those (hopefully) once in a lifetime unfortunate events. Oh well, I am out $1500 but it could have been much much worse. And perhaps with $1000 or so to repair the amp with Michael Elliot, I could end up with something nice, but still I was taken.
And I have talked on the phone with his StPaul buddy who I met and is a nice guy but I hate to bring him in the middle. But he needs to know what his friend is doing to all of us down here.
So everyone do yourself a huge favor....be very careful with this man. I feel the Audiogon staff needs to take action to disallow this user to do any further business here until he can prove to everyone that he is not taking us all to the cleaners.
By the way, I bought the amp through an ad he had placed on the Counterpoint website so I can not go through the audiogon "dispute" process. Looks like I am screwed here but I hope to prevent anyone else from going through the same.
John
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Oh oh....I knew where this was going the minute I saw it.
I have dealt with this man.
I saw a similar post by somebody else who dealt with him and they too were getting the runaround...audio magic cables. This was earlier this year. Search for AudioMagic cables in the forum here and his posting should come up.
He claims to do website design for this cable company and CJ and even uses a CJ email address. And yes, he too told me he is a lawyer. I have seriously considered emailing CJ about this man but I guess it is not my style to be accusatory.
I bought a Counterpoint NPS 400 amp from him....and I sent him 3 $500 installments. I always thought it was strange that he wanted me to send the checks under his wife's name. Finally he shipped the amp to his buddy here in StPaul MN. Well, the amp was severely damaged due to his poor packaging. He claimed he paid Purolator to repack the amp but that was obviously never done. This was Feb 2001!!!! He went round and round with me that he had it insured but never got paid for this claim.."they would not pay since it crossed the US border". So after all this time, I have been super super patient. My wife has complained so much of this as it is in a crate sitting in our living room and no news from Guy except more of the same. So I feel for you here as I have pretty much written this off as one of those (hopefully) once in a lifetime unfortunate events. Oh well, I am out $1500 but it could have been much much worse. And perhaps with $1000 or so to repair the amp with Michael Elliot, I could end up with something nice, but still I was taken.
And I have talked on the phone with his StPaul buddy who I met and is a nice guy but I hate to bring him in the middle. But he needs to know what his friend is doing to all of us down here.
So everyone do yourself a huge favor....be very careful with this man. I feel the Audiogon staff needs to take action to disallow this user to do any further business here until he can prove to everyone that he is not taking us all to the cleaners.
By the way, I bought the amp through an ad he had placed on the Counterpoint website so I can not go through the audiogon "dispute" process. Looks like I am screwed here but I hope to prevent anyone else from going through the same.
John