BREAKING UP NICE OLD RICKS FOR PROFIT...
Posted: Tue Jul 24, 2012 10:54 am
Gibsondependable (Ebay) has struck again.
Some may remember the incident earlier this year in which John Simmons' lovely original JG Combo was broken up for parts by Gibsondependable (Ryan Ingram). With assistance from Gareth Holder, I managed to recover many of the parts and reconstruct the Combo, but by the time I found out about it the harness and tuners were gone.
Up on Ebay at this time is a JG Combo 950--a '65--that (you guessed it) has been broken up for parts. It belonged to David McLaughlin for a number of years, and was sold on to "guitar murph", then acquired by Ingram. Remaining at this time are the body: http://www.ebay.com/itm/Rickenbacker-19 ... 2997wt_818
...along with the original brown case, the pickguard, bridge, and tailpiece. Apparently, once again the electronics and tuners are gone already.
It seems that Ingram uses one account (his girl friends?) to buy, and his own to sell, in an attempt to cloud the chain of ownership. Her name is Jennifer Knapp, and she uses the same street address as Ingram in (Carneys Point, NJ).
I've been banned from bidding on any of this guy's stuff, following an incident back in 2010 which, in retrospect seems ridiculous. It involves my purchasing a spare 330 harness from him and attempting to get my money back when it did not arrive for almost 30 days. The "resolution" is a good indicator of how blind both Ebay and Paypal can be to a buyer's legitimate complaint. NOTE: MY original post below from another thread in the past is mostly intact, but I've edited it it for clarity:
I was the buyer in a case recently which involved "gibsondependable". After nearly 3 weeks, when I didn't receive my item, I asked him for a tracking number. No tracking number--he sent it regular mail. I threatened negative feedback if he didn't cough up.
Then I filed a Paypal claim. Paypal ruled in his favor, because somehow he showed them a USPS receipt and said he shipped it. I dinged him with a negative and he emailed me several times each day asking me to change my feedback.
Here's where it gets surreal:
At first, he claimed that the package was at my post office and he'd tell me who to talk to, to retrieve it. But only if I changed his feedback immediately. I walked over to the PO in SF on my lunch hour and waited in a crazy-long line, only to be told by the supervisor herself that there was nothing with my name or address being held at that PO.
The next day, he emailed me first thing to tell me that he had spoken to my mailman, and the mailman had hidden it in my building. However, if I changed his feedback to positive, he would tell me where the package was hidden.
During the next couple of weeks, he repeatedly emailed me, sometimes 2 or 3 times per day, trying to get me to change my feedback from negative to positive.
Three weeks after I "won" the item, it was delivered; apparently a PO glitch was responsible. It took almost a month to get it, because he had sent the item ordinary cheapo ground mail with no tracking. This was not a one dollar item, and deserved a tracking receipt or UPS or some way to keep tabs on it.
A couple of days after that, on the day his request to change feedback was to expire (and after 27 harassing emails from him, and three complaints from me to eBay), he wrote me, saying that if I didn't change my feedback for him, he would have a friend in the neighborhood come into my building, retrieve the package from its hidey-hole, and mail it back to him, and I'd be out my item and the money I spent.
I wrote him back that he should send his imaginary friend to my office, instead, because the package was sitting on my sofa. No change of feedback, I told him, because he was an irritating little twerp.
Oddly, after a final total of 32 emails, he never wrote me again after that...
Anyone who is against this practice should take note.
Some may remember the incident earlier this year in which John Simmons' lovely original JG Combo was broken up for parts by Gibsondependable (Ryan Ingram). With assistance from Gareth Holder, I managed to recover many of the parts and reconstruct the Combo, but by the time I found out about it the harness and tuners were gone.
Up on Ebay at this time is a JG Combo 950--a '65--that (you guessed it) has been broken up for parts. It belonged to David McLaughlin for a number of years, and was sold on to "guitar murph", then acquired by Ingram. Remaining at this time are the body: http://www.ebay.com/itm/Rickenbacker-19 ... 2997wt_818
...along with the original brown case, the pickguard, bridge, and tailpiece. Apparently, once again the electronics and tuners are gone already.
It seems that Ingram uses one account (his girl friends?) to buy, and his own to sell, in an attempt to cloud the chain of ownership. Her name is Jennifer Knapp, and she uses the same street address as Ingram in (Carneys Point, NJ).
I've been banned from bidding on any of this guy's stuff, following an incident back in 2010 which, in retrospect seems ridiculous. It involves my purchasing a spare 330 harness from him and attempting to get my money back when it did not arrive for almost 30 days. The "resolution" is a good indicator of how blind both Ebay and Paypal can be to a buyer's legitimate complaint. NOTE: MY original post below from another thread in the past is mostly intact, but I've edited it it for clarity:
I was the buyer in a case recently which involved "gibsondependable". After nearly 3 weeks, when I didn't receive my item, I asked him for a tracking number. No tracking number--he sent it regular mail. I threatened negative feedback if he didn't cough up.
Then I filed a Paypal claim. Paypal ruled in his favor, because somehow he showed them a USPS receipt and said he shipped it. I dinged him with a negative and he emailed me several times each day asking me to change my feedback.
Here's where it gets surreal:
At first, he claimed that the package was at my post office and he'd tell me who to talk to, to retrieve it. But only if I changed his feedback immediately. I walked over to the PO in SF on my lunch hour and waited in a crazy-long line, only to be told by the supervisor herself that there was nothing with my name or address being held at that PO.
The next day, he emailed me first thing to tell me that he had spoken to my mailman, and the mailman had hidden it in my building. However, if I changed his feedback to positive, he would tell me where the package was hidden.
During the next couple of weeks, he repeatedly emailed me, sometimes 2 or 3 times per day, trying to get me to change my feedback from negative to positive.
Three weeks after I "won" the item, it was delivered; apparently a PO glitch was responsible. It took almost a month to get it, because he had sent the item ordinary cheapo ground mail with no tracking. This was not a one dollar item, and deserved a tracking receipt or UPS or some way to keep tabs on it.
A couple of days after that, on the day his request to change feedback was to expire (and after 27 harassing emails from him, and three complaints from me to eBay), he wrote me, saying that if I didn't change my feedback for him, he would have a friend in the neighborhood come into my building, retrieve the package from its hidey-hole, and mail it back to him, and I'd be out my item and the money I spent.
I wrote him back that he should send his imaginary friend to my office, instead, because the package was sitting on my sofa. No change of feedback, I told him, because he was an irritating little twerp.
Oddly, after a final total of 32 emails, he never wrote me again after that...
Anyone who is against this practice should take note.
