Date: Tue, 7 Sep 1999 08:11:27 -0700
Reply-To: Scott Fraser <kn6f@DOLPHINSCI.COM>
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From: Scott Fraser <kn6f@DOLPHINSCI.COM>
Organization: Dolphin Scientific, Inc.
Subject: Don't Do Business w/Todd Hill, Volkswerks Transaxles
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Per instructions requested and received from Tom Carrington, I am
posting this to this list.
Since I posted this on a number of bus lists on Saturday, a number of
additional people have come out of the woodwork essentially saying "I
thought I was the only one, Todd is such a nice guy, but he got me too."
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I am posting this
1. To provide a warning for all those considering doing business with
Todd Hill of Volkswerks Transaxles.
2. As a last resort,
3. With great regret.
I attempted to get a transaxle from Todd. After 181 days, and not
receiving a transaxle and the deposit check of $300 being long cashed, I
canceled my order with Todd. He agreed that would be best for both of us
and would send me the deposit back. It is now September 4th, 1999 and to
date, I have not received a penny back.
I know that now that I have posted this, I can most likely kiss my $300
goodbye, but at least nobody else will follow me down the same abyss.
I have put together a history of my dealings with Todd that I hope
should show that I have been reasonable in dealing with him. Maybe too
reasonable.
It now comes to my attention that I may be one of at least four people
that have been taken/strung on by Todd.
Rather than post the entire story to the list, I have posted it to:
http://www.dolphinsci.com/toddhill.html
For those of you that say, give Todd a chance, my response is please
reread the history posted in the link above.
For those of you that might think that I have not presented the 'entire'
story, the messages that I left out were those that had nothing to do
with the transmission and were of more one on one nature. I left out
words of encouragement when he was down about the family health,
comments about my type IV conversion project, mention that I was leaving
for vacation, when I'd be back and also touching base while on
vacation. I left out the general email chatter between vdubbers. Stuff
that has no bearing on the transaxle, but is similar to that you would
send any other "vw buddy". Anything that had bearing on the transaxle
is included in the history list. At the end where I started getting
angry, those messages are included, word for word. There are no raging
messages withheld. I have put everything out there for all to see.
Please read it, be advised and feel free to send comments to me.
I sent Todd an advance copy of this on Friday 9/3/99 and notice that it
would be sent out today (9/4/99), and have yet to receive a response.
I do not like airing dirty laundry like this, but it has come to the
point to warn my fellow vdub nuts about a vendor that is not honoring
minimal business standards.
Regretfully,
Scott Fraser
Please feel free to forward this to any other aircooled vw list that I
may have missed, it was sent to the following lists:
vintage bus list vintagebus@type2.com
type 2 bus list type2@type2.com
aircooled vw acvw@onelist.com
thing list things@mailinglist.net
RAMVA rec.autos.makers.vw.aircooled
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Scott Fraser mailto:kn6f@dolphinsci.com Lakewood CA
To Page me send an email to mailto:4252006@MobileComm.net
Still waiting for $300 - http://www.dolphinsci.com/toddhill.html
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