Damn! This thread went from "Hi, look at my car" to, "Where's my money?" In no time. Now we all want to learn more about that.
Yeah, as many times as I've brought it up now, I'd have thought it was common knowledge on here. I know Don Pfau, Laser and Sapperfire all had quite a few problems with him not following through on parts requests too...
He asks about parts, and then once a price is agreed upon, he asks for a PayPal invoice and then never pays it. After badgering him for a few days, he'll finally ask for another PayPal invoice. Again, he won't pay it. This goes on and on until he disappears from the site for a couple months. That happened a couple times prior to the incident described above, with a couple different sets of Strutmasters coil conversions. I wasn't too upset at the time, because I was able to sell them to other members.
Shame on me for having compassion for him when he came to me once again, asking for a set of air shocks and a VRCM module for the latest POS car he bought wrecked. I got his phone number from him and, for whatever reason, we only spoke through texts. I was never able to get ahold of him on the phone, but I was ok with texts.
I texted him when I was at the junkyard and told him the condition of the air shocks (decent amount of cracking in the rubber, but still holding air) and he said that was fine to get him by for a little while. I told him the price and told him I wouldn't get them for him unless he promised (yeah, I know...) to send the payment by the end of the week. He promised, and said that he would come down to SC and get them to save on shipping. Obviously, he never paid. I bugged him about it MANY times and every time, it was the same old story. "I'll send the money when I get paid, send me another PayPal invoice..." Then a couple months later, he PM'd me and said that he got rid of his Mark VIII and moved to Wisconsin or Montana or something. Then he disappeared from the forums for a few more months. When he popped back up again, he was still in Charlotte, NC. When I called him out on it, he wouldn't acknowledge anything about it...
Then, I noticed him asking about some parts in someone else's 'for sale' thread. I called him out on not paying for these items and he got all butt-hurt about me doing it in public. (I'm not going to let him screw someone else over if I can prevent it.) He stated that he wanted to settle it once and for all, and send me the money. He asked me to send another PayPal invoice (notice a trend?), which he also never paid. We went back and forth for a couple weeks again, until he once more disappeared from the forum for a few months.
Now he's back again. With another wrecked POS. Last week he was asking about buying a quarter panel from a member on LOD. I warned the other member, who told me he wouldn't sell Kendrick anything until he settled his debt with me first. At this point, I don't ever expect to get paid by him. I know he never will. But, I'm not gonna stand by and let him do the same thing to other forum members either. As long as I'm able, I'll take every chance I can to warn others about him.
The worst part about this is he has never once apologized for any of this. He just acts completely oblivious to the fact that he's screwing people over. Sapperfire and Laser made the same observation. I might feel differently if I had just gotten some form of an apology or something along the way.
