My message about be careful who you buy from got p

Well, what do you expect? No one should steal the money & the car. That's wrong.

But, what do you expect?

--->Paul

I've also gone to Canada and bought tractors for people. A 2000 mile haul would have cost you $4000 plus a 20% comission on the purchase if you sent me to buy for you. If you buy it off the lot that plus cost of the warranty (or the repairs, yes I've had head gaskets blow starting them on the trailer, in fact had an injector pump fail on the trailer this week coming off the farm where I bought it)is built into the price.

Basic economics dictates that risk brings rewards but also RISK of loss.

Tim

What do we do about it?

You have sounded very angry in all your messages. You we have hope for, and are trying to help..... The crooks in the world are what they are, what can we do? Fill all the discussion groups with names of people we don't like & hatred towards them???? What does that accomplish?

A lot of messages like yours have been left up - if they are written calmly & factually, not with spite & hate.

You are filled with those right now - it comes through loud & clear.

Try to continue to be a good person. Don't join the dark side.

Yea, it bites for a while. But we all learn. The other person was dishonest. You expected too much. The truth is somewhere in the middle. Most likely closer to you, but you are not 100% right either - if 95 or 99%. Do you understand that?

Now, where do we go from here? You are calling all the people who replied to you names.

Is that really the picture you want to paint of yourself???

Are you being a better person than the one who ripped you off?

Frankly, I'd rather do business with a known crook than with a sour name-caller. The crook will be more fun to talk to, and I know how to watch my back..... Think on that.....

Now, do you want to go forward from here, & make things better?

That is what people are trying to steer you towards. A better frame of mind, a better place. Calling them names - well, you will have to live with that.

Perhaps some of us are pretty clumbsy with words, & have not said what we want to say very well. I know I am aweful with typed words..... I'm sorry for that, and if I offended you, my appologies.

I don't have anything more to offer than that. I'm not sure what you are looking for here.

--->Paul

I think that Jim has been called more names than he has called anybody on this site. And for the rest of the people that keep telling him to quit whining and posting it on this site....Why dont they just go to another subject to read instead of adding negative comments to already escalated situation. It seems that most of the comments here are trying to make Jim out to be the evil one here instead of the guy who tells people that he is selling them a great running tractor and then when it gets unloaded it wont even start because its a wore out old hag.....

Many a tractor's been re-sleeved right out in the field with the plow still in the ground because that's where she broke, and that's where she got fixed so that could finish plowing.

A head gasket aint all that bad. So, what kind of tractor are we talking here so we can get her fixed and going again.

Mark Krzyzanowski of Bristol, IN., but you're welcome to call me "Mark - IN.", because all of the other don't fit when posting.

Some advice if I may? You have the tractor, it's yours. Has a blown head gasket? OK, I don't know what type or model of tractor, but a head gasket isn't the end of the world. Try posting at it's specific manufacturer site, and someone oughta be able to help you through it. Are much worse or harder things to replace than a head gasket, and someone else did say was a 50 year-old tractor.

Might turn out to be the best tractor in the world.

Mark.

My brother and two of his buddies drove from Nova Scotia to Nebraska to look at some Dodge cars. To me that trip was a looser before it got off the ground. However they could drive the cars home. While there he was offered a Farmall Super MD for $1,000. Looked like a good deal, until you look at cost of shipping.

You might try wording you threads a bit different, Canada does not have a patent on SCOUNDRELS. I rather doubt that the per capita of these is much different across North America.

But then, didn't you look at the machine before you paid for it? Seems quite a stretch of trust for you not to - kind of setting yourself up to be had, aren't you?

No excuses for the guy that took you, but still & all, you need to protect yourself a little better than that. We live in a world of crooks, you gotta be prepared.

--->Paul

If its questionable escrow and shipping agents are in business for a reason.