[rich-allen]

Last year I bought a transmission from the lateral-g classifieds. The guy was a total scammer and ripped me off for $1k.
When I started to raise hell about it, members from LS1-tech posted that the very same guy ripped members off from their website as well.

Since I used paypal for the transaction I figured I was safe... WRONG. Paypal didn't do squat other than write a letter to the guy asking for his side of the story.
I googled internet crime reporting for the state of IL (where the scammer lived), they internet crimes department was extremely helpful. I sent them links of the classified AD on lat-g and LS1tech.com. They also took copies of email correspondence and the paypal transaction.
The police told me to stop payment on the CC I used to fund the paypal account, Paypal through a fit because I basically told them to shove it.

Three weeks later the DA office for IL called me about the crime. They said they were doing their very best to get thios scum bag for the crime.
2 weeks later I get home from work to find a transmission Ion my door step.
I called the internet crimes office and told them about recieving the transmission and they told me that they threatened the guy with either delivering the trans or going to jail.

I have to give Tyler from ATS a lot of credit for finding this guy, aparently this clown tried to scam Tyler out of some parts by giving him a credit card.
Of course Tyler had his phone number and passed it along to me.

As for the transmission that arrived after I got my money back, the internals were thrashed badly. It needed a complete rebuild with everything replaced.

I learned a few things from that transaction; never use paypal and never pay with anything except a credit card. Even if you have to buy MO, buy them with a CC. You can always cancel the payment and let the CC company deal with it.