I have been extremely hard to reach by many people because I'm putting every second and dollar I have into of the largest steps in my personal life and for my business. As I mentioned in another thread and have told many people, I'm moving house and shop 3 hours north and building the new shop. I've cleared the land, did 95% of the excavation, helped build the concrete forms and pouring, right now as heavily involved in erecting the structure, and I am finishing the entire inside of the shop with the help of 2 friends.
This was all supper to happen and be done by thanksgiving, so in early November I had to drop everything I was doing and started packing my shop up and hauling cars, customer parts (including your transmission and turbo parts Robert), and small tools/equipment up to the new location. Then some large delays happened which has pushed the time line to where it is now.
If I returned every call, email, or text I have missed while moving my parents out of their condo, moving my personal stuff from my condo, moving the things from my shop thus far, and all the time I've put into the new shop building, I would be on the phone or computer for 4 days straight. At the current moment, my highest priority is dedicating every waking minute to getting the new shop done so I can finish moving my current shop and get back to work and get customer jobs finished.
Since you made it sound like I'm a terrible business operation Robert and run away with people money, I think the rest of the club here needs to know some facts. The job that Robert thinks I ran away with his check on is a 1756vk turbo kit and a light built 02j. The deal we agreed on for covering the labor of both the trans and turbo kit is he traded me a low mile bew out of a wreck and I was going to sell him parts 5% over cost. Now because I'm not making anything off of this deal and I have substantial overhead to cover every month, my end of the deal was he needed to pay for all of the parts up front. He only sent a check for ~2/3 of the parts total, not the full amount as I asked. On the transmission parts, he didn't like the price I quoted him for a .658 5th gear so he insisted on sourcing his own. I couldn't send any of the gears to cryo until I had the 5th gear from him. Once I finally got the 5th gear 4-6 weeks later, I sent everything out for cryo and a few days after I got them back, I got the initial time quote of supposedly having my new shop don't by thanksgiving so I had to drop everything I was doing and start packing. It seems like it was very easily forgotten that when I was building your race motor/trans last time, I sent the motor/trans to you when you still owed over $2k on the bill. Good luck finding any other vendor that would do that for someone they've never met that lives on the opposite coast.
This is what the new shop looks like as of 530 today.
Matt when you do a business of any kind with anyone you do NOT promise and give a word or agree something that you would not deliver and along the way you get your personal matters as an excuse to cover up for the delays for your irresponsibility,, our recent issues your promise was within 2 weeks to get it done !!! it is now approx. 6 months no calls in return or nothing, do I feel that you are running away with my money and parts of course I do, a person that does a business need to back up his agreements,, let's back track a little bit between you and I,,, as an example last engine 2.0TDI you put together, we started dealing on this since 2010, it took you 4,5 years to built it when you agreed and promised to build it within 6 months I got the engine at the beginning of 2015,, you have an unprofessional twisted pattern Matt sorry to tell you,,, one thing I can attest to you I am a business owner myself and your professing and reassuring to do something at a given time then you take a money and disappear without a trace, it is not a good practice in our field..
Lets talk clear and cut the BS Matt lay out the facts here with invoices and evidence, first off the turbo is NOT a 1756vk it is a 2260VK, I never agreed to send over to you full amount where did you get that from???I agree 50% but sent you approx. 80% of invoice and I do NOT owe you 2 grand I owe you $1,000,00 on this invoice remember quick book is a tell tell story, cause I was clear to you that if it was done like you promised me within two weeks I would send you more which I did, knowing from my last experience on my 4.5 year long voyage with your BS, I would have been a fool to have paid you in full.
Matt if you want to play naked poker with me I am willing to do I can post invoice my ck and .658 gear, 2260vk turbo, with dates and all,, I am coming really close to do that so members can judge and see, quick book invoice showing all parts 2260vk turbo and all.
You shipped me last engine after 1000 phone calls texts and all and you felt so bad that it was close to 5 years when you finish the built, I paid you 55% of invoice by 1st year then i waited for you to finish it, then you solely made the decision to ship it before paying it off,, then Matt how long did it take me to send the check after receiving crate with engine in it?? you got full payment within week I am a straight shooter with dignity I do not BS Matt.
I am realizing now that I am not the only one that you have gone through this issues with you, so this is a pattern from you,,, you may or may NOT run with the money but keeping their money and not fulfilling your pact, agreements for me or anybody it is a bad business to begin with, being full of lies, no one needs to beg you and chase you after payment have been made after all.
All I hear excuses about my house here, girlfriend breaking up, shop there, my parents moved over there, what does this have to do with your business and agreements?,,, same behavior from last dealing with you with the 2.0 TDI,,, so why not be straight up, a good businessman takes whatever he can handle and deal as he goes along, you just do NOT play with anybody financial estate and think that is cool.
Where is the blessed promise you said to me, I quit my regular job now I will have time for all members and you can call me anytime I will answer ?? Do you recall this? Full of white lies.
I am all ears and eyes Matt you make the call which table you would like to play the poker??
Txs Ryan for getting Matt to reply I am sure that if it was not for you,,,he would have ran like a bandit for a while in a hide and seek mode.
