> Brandon Weiss (Detective brandon to you) Wrote:
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> > Jansen Hanzer Wrote:
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> > who is wildcard and what happened
>
> Long story short, i bought a Derbi Variant sport on here awhile back and
> had it shipped from Georgia. It was listed in a thread on here and
> described to me very specifically via PM as having its engine fully
> rebuilt and serviced, ready to ride needing nothing, with any and all
> broken parts replaced, "rips to 40". Pictures looked good so i paid for
> it and waited for it to come. What showed up was a VERY rusty variant
> with a badly dented rear mag, rotted tires, frayed/broken cables, a bent
> and barely functioning pedal mode selector shaft, cracked plastics, worn
> out sprockets, improperly spaced wheels, and a filthy grease caked
> engine that was never rebuilt, and had all the original leaky hard oil
> seals. I popped the cylinder off and saw that he had installed the reed
> block backward and the metal reed stoppers were grinding into the crank
> and making metal shavings. ring gap was way out of spec. Drained the
> tiny amount of oil that smelled like sewage and had metal flake in it.
> Gas tank had petrified lacquer chunks in the bottom that plugged the
> petcock. the bike likely sat in a horse stall for 20 years the way is
> smelled...
>
> At the end of the day i payed $1200 for that bike expecting a ready to
> ride machine, when instead i got a machine that needed many hours, a
> full teardown and hundreds of dollars to even make rideable. I tried to
> send it back, but he refused to cover return shipping even though he
> clearly defrauded me intentionally, and even threatened to fly up to me
> and find me if i didn't drop the Paypal case....i ended up dropping it
> because i didn't want to chance some maniac showing up at my door, and
> pursuing it would have meant unintentionally putting some close friends
> into uncomfortable positions... so i waited like 8 months to even touch
> the bike because of the sour taste it left in my mouth. now its pretty
> much done.
>
> I didn't tell the story because i had been documenting the rebuild
> showing everything wrong with the bike, with screenshots of
> messages...by the time i was done the iron was cool and i was mostly
> over it, and didnt want to reopen old wounds. But maybe ill do it anyway
> ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
