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This idiot car mechanic overcharged me, lied to me and is refusing to finish the work

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Browncoat1984

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So I was in an accident and had a car door banged in about a year or so ago. Insurance said it was my fault so they wouldn't pay for repairs. Since I got money back from tax returns I met this mechanic at a car wash and they said they would fix it for me and give me a good deal. So right there they pulled the dents. All they needed to do then was reseal the door and repaint the car.

So the company was just a glass company they were going to replace my windshield because there was a crak in it. They did that was well (insurance paid for that) and then they contract out to have other work done. His brother was the person who was going to do the work and get it done only problem is when push came to shove his brother apparently refused to do the work. This was about two months from start point waiting to get this job (job started in March and this all came down in May).

So the guy decided to do the work himself. Said he had a lawsuit against the brother and that they would pay me part of the money since I lost money because of this but that I needed to pay him so they could get the tools that they needed to do the work (at this point the door had no paint on it and needed to be painted and the side piece be put back on) so I agreed on the assumption that they would repay me with the money from the lawsuit. Fast forward another two months, the work finally gets done (middle of June) except for putting the side piece back on he was going to come over and do it in like 20 mins or so he said.

Anyway one day he goes to cash checks I wrote him. Since he was cashing multiple checks and the bank teller didn't recognize my signature they thought he was fraudlent, put a fraud alert on my account. I then went and fixed the problem with my account but later that week he came to me and told me that several checks he had already cashed that had cleared my account were being rejected from his account, and that his bank said for me to re-write the amounts of the checks and that the rejected funds would return to my account. So I did that.

Well, when what he said didn't happen, I contacted my bank and have since spoken with several people from my bank and not one person from my bank can verify his story of further checks being "rejected." I also put a stop on one check to see if I could get those funds back into my account but it had already been cashed and cleared. Now I told this guy I put the stop on the check and he told me that the check rejected from his account and caused other checks to reject...only after talking to my bank they said that the stop did nothing because the check had already cleared. So in other words I know this guy lied to me at least about that and probably other stuff to.

So I gave this guy an ultimatum - he had until a certain date to give me back that money and finish the job on the car. His response to me? "I don't owe you anything man!" So finally I was like "you know what, forget the money, just fix the bloody car and lets be done with it" and he still refused. And he still has that side piece and is now refusing to give it back to me.

Here's the problem - the only evidence I have this guy is in the form of texts (IE several texts I sent him asking where the money from that lawsuit was, why I wasn't seeing it, a text he sent me lying to me about the "stop payment" situation), a text he sent me about checks rejecting and needing to re-write them where I can prove that those checks cleared my account.

What would be my options in this situation? I'm done talking to this guy. I know from my bank that he lied to me about the stop payment and if he's dishonest enough to be willing to lie to me about something like that then I can't trust a word he tells me and he's probably lied to me about other things too.
 
Browncoat1984 said:
So I was in an accident and had a car door banged in about a year or so ago. Insurance said it was my fault so they wouldn't pay for repairs. Since I got money back from tax returns I met this mechanic at a car wash and they said they would fix it for me and give me a good deal. So right there they pulled the dents. All they needed to do then was reseal the door and repaint the car.

So the company was just a glass company they were going to replace my windshield because there was a crak in it. They did that was well (insurance paid for that) and then they contract out to have other work done. His brother was the person who was going to do the work and get it done only problem is when push came to shove his brother apparently refused to do the work. This was about two months from start point waiting to get this job (job started in March and this all came down in May).

So the guy decided to do the work himself. Said he had a lawsuit against the brother and that they would pay me part of the money since I lost money because of this but that I needed to pay him so they could get the tools that they needed to do the work (at this point the door had no paint on it and needed to be painted and the side piece be put back on) so I agreed on the assumption that they would repay me with the money from the lawsuit. Fast forward another two months, the work finally gets done (middle of June) except for putting the side piece back on he was going to come over and do it in like 20 mins or so he said.

Anyway one day he goes to cash checks I wrote him. Since he was cashing multiple checks and the bank teller didn't recognize my signature they thought he was fraudlent, put a fraud alert on my account. I then went and fixed the problem with my account but later that week he came to me and told me that several checks he had already cashed that had cleared my account were being rejected from his account, and that his bank said for me to re-write the amounts of the checks and that the rejected funds would return to my account. So I did that.

Well, when what he said didn't happen, I contacted my bank and have since spoken with several people from my bank and not one person from my bank can verify his story of further checks being "rejected." I also put a stop on one check to see if I could get those funds back into my account but it had already been cashed and cleared. Now I told this guy I put the stop on the check and he told me that the check rejected from his account and caused other checks to reject...only after talking to my bank they said that the stop did nothing because the check had already cleared. So in other words I know this guy lied to me at least about that and probably other stuff to.

So I gave this guy an ultimatum - he had until a certain date to give me back that money and finish the job on the car. His response to me? "I don't owe you anything man!" So finally I was like "you know what, forget the money, just fix the bloody car and lets be done with it" and he still refused. And he still has that side piece and is now refusing to give it back to me.

Here's the problem - the only evidence I have this guy is in the form of texts (IE several texts I sent him asking where the money from that lawsuit was, why I wasn't seeing it, a text he sent me lying to me about the "stop payment" situation), a text he sent me about checks rejecting and needing to re-write them where I can prove that those checks cleared my account.

What would be my options in this situation? I'm done talking to this guy. I know from my bank that he lied to me about the stop payment and if he's dishonest enough to be willing to lie to me about something like that then I can't trust a word he tells me and he's probably lied to me about other things too.
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You got scammed multiple times here. Time to move on. You can try to sue him in small claims but good luck ever collecting.
 
In a city of 1M, there are only about 5 body shops I would ever let touch my car. In general, don't use someone you met in the parking lot to fix your car. Good shops don't need to go find work in parking lots, it all comes to them.
 
Browncoat1984 said:
So I was in an accident and had a car door banged in about a year or so ago. Insurance said it was my fault so they wouldn't pay for repairs. Since I got money back from tax returns I met this mechanic at a car wash and they said they would fix it for me and give me a good deal. So right there they pulled the dents. All they needed to do then was reseal the door and repaint the car.

So the company was just a glass company they were going to replace my windshield because there was a crak in it. They did that was well (insurance paid for that) and then they contract out to have other work done. His brother was the person who was going to do the work and get it done only problem is when push came to shove his brother apparently refused to do the work. This was about two months from start point waiting to get this job (job started in March and this all came down in May).

So the guy decided to do the work himself. Said he had a lawsuit against the brother and that they would pay me part of the money since I lost money because of this but that I needed to pay him so they could get the tools that they needed to do the work (at this point the door had no paint on it and needed to be painted and the side piece be put back on) so I agreed on the assumption that they would repay me with the money from the lawsuit. Fast forward another two months, the work finally gets done (middle of June) except for putting the side piece back on he was going to come over and do it in like 20 mins or so he said.

Anyway one day he goes to cash checks I wrote him. Since he was cashing multiple checks and the bank teller didn't recognize my signature they thought he was fraudlent, put a fraud alert on my account. I then went and fixed the problem with my account but later that week he came to me and told me that several checks he had already cashed that had cleared my account were being rejected from his account, and that his bank said for me to re-write the amounts of the checks and that the rejected funds would return to my account. So I did that.

Well, when what he said didn't happen, I contacted my bank and have since spoken with several people from my bank and not one person from my bank can verify his story of further checks being "rejected." I also put a stop on one check to see if I could get those funds back into my account but it had already been cashed and cleared. Now I told this guy I put the stop on the check and he told me that the check rejected from his account and caused other checks to reject...only after talking to my bank they said that the stop did nothing because the check had already cleared. So in other words I know this guy lied to me at least about that and probably other stuff to.

So I gave this guy an ultimatum - he had until a certain date to give me back that money and finish the job on the car. His response to me? "I don't owe you anything man!" So finally I was like "you know what, forget the money, just fix the bloody car and lets be done with it" and he still refused. And he still has that side piece and is now refusing to give it back to me.

Here's the problem - the only evidence I have this guy is in the form of texts (IE several texts I sent him asking where the money from that lawsuit was, why I wasn't seeing it, a text he sent me lying to me about the "stop payment" situation), a text he sent me about checks rejecting and needing to re-write them where I can prove that those checks cleared my account.

What would be my options in this situation? I'm done talking to this guy. I know from my bank that he lied to me about the stop payment and if he's dishonest enough to be willing to lie to me about something like that then I can't trust a word he tells me and he's probably lied to me about other things too.
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as other posters have mentioned you were scammed and it is time to move on.
 
Browncoat1984 said:
So I was in an accident and had a car door banged in about a year or so ago. Insurance said it was my fault so they wouldn't pay for repairs. Since I got money back from tax returns I met this mechanic at a car wash and they said they would fix it for me and give me a good deal. So right there they pulled the dents. All they needed to do then was reseal the door and repaint the car.

So the company was just a glass company they were going to replace my windshield because there was a crak in it. They did that was well (insurance paid for that) and then they contract out to have other work done. His brother was the person who was going to do the work and get it done only problem is when push came to shove his brother apparently refused to do the work. This was about two months from start point waiting to get this job (job started in March and this all came down in May).

So the guy decided to do the work himself. Said he had a lawsuit against the brother and that they would pay me part of the money since I lost money because of this but that I needed to pay him so they could get the tools that they needed to do the work (at this point the door had no paint on it and needed to be painted and the side piece be put back on) so I agreed on the assumption that they would repay me with the money from the lawsuit. Fast forward another two months, the work finally gets done (middle of June) except for putting the side piece back on he was going to come over and do it in like 20 mins or so he said.

Anyway one day he goes to cash checks I wrote him. Since he was cashing multiple checks and the bank teller didn't recognize my signature they thought he was fraudlent, put a fraud alert on my account. I then went and fixed the problem with my account but later that week he came to me and told me that several checks he had already cashed that had cleared my account were being rejected from his account, and that his bank said for me to re-write the amounts of the checks and that the rejected funds would return to my account. So I did that.

Well, when what he said didn't happen, I contacted my bank and have since spoken with several people from my bank and not one person from my bank can verify his story of further checks being "rejected." I also put a stop on one check to see if I could get those funds back into my account but it had already been cashed and cleared. Now I told this guy I put the stop on the check and he told me that the check rejected from his account and caused other checks to reject...only after talking to my bank they said that the stop did nothing because the check had already cleared. So in other words I know this guy lied to me at least about that and probably other stuff to.

So I gave this guy an ultimatum - he had until a certain date to give me back that money and finish the job on the car. His response to me? "I don't owe you anything man!" So finally I was like "you know what, forget the money, just fix the bloody car and lets be done with it" and he still refused. And he still has that side piece and is now refusing to give it back to me.

Here's the problem - the only evidence I have this guy is in the form of texts (IE several texts I sent him asking where the money from that lawsuit was, why I wasn't seeing it, a text he sent me lying to me about the "stop payment" situation), a text he sent me about checks rejecting and needing to re-write them where I can prove that those checks cleared my account.

What would be my options in this situation? I'm done talking to this guy. I know from my bank that he lied to me about the stop payment and if he's dishonest enough to be willing to lie to me about something like that then I can't trust a word he tells me and he's probably lied to me about other things too.
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in reference to the title of your post, it seems you are the idiot in all of this.
 
Browncoat1984 said:
What would be my options in this situation? I'm done talking to this guy. I know from my bank that he lied to me about the stop payment and if he's dishonest enough to be willing to lie to me about something like that then I can't trust a word he tells me and he's probably lied to me about other things too.
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Cut bait, get out, and consider it a lesson hard-learned.

So many red-flags here:

1) Meeting a car mechanic at a carwash? No references, no reviews, nothing to indicate he's on the up-and-up. Offering you a 'good deal' despite not knowing you at all. Danger Will Robinson!

2) His brother can do the other work. This is practically 'Blatant Scamming 101.'

3) He is suing his brother, but don't worry, you'll get some of the money. Despite not being named a plaintiff in the case or filling out any paperwork. Yeah, sure, that will happen.

4) Bank indicating that him cashing your checks is possibly fraudulent. Does the red flag have to literally be a red flag? And literally be hitting you in the face?

5) Checks clearing your account and being rejected from his. Seriously? Are you freakin' kidding me?

6) Completely unwilling to take responsibility and live up to his promises. Well, this is when even OP figured out this guy was full of shit.

I don't mean to be TOO hard on you OP. You got taken for a ride, hard, and the last thing you need is a bunch of people giving you shit for it and making you feel worse about it.

However... if you don't take this opportunity to sit down and think very carefully about what happened, what the warning signs were, and what you could have done differently, then the money and time you lost will truly be wasted. If you do learn from this then the money wasn't completely wasted, and sharing what happened can help other people avoid making similar mistakes.
 
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