I didn't buy it off pugplus, I also knew of his reputation before I bought it from the poor lad that paid him nearly £2500 for it!
How the f*ck he is allowed to still trade on here is beyond me. He needs to be banned.
It's one thing making the odd mistake, but he makes them every week!

He was reported to the tax man for it but obviously they have been to busy chasing legitimate businesses!

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Cherry rallye - DOB Thursday 29/04/1999
Team Rallye - the leaner, meaner, better looking sister of the GTI6

The best engine in the world is the vagina, it takes any size piston, its self lubricating, starts with 1 finger, and every 4 weeks does its own oil change. It's just a pity the management system is so fecking temperamental. 

nobody is saying hes a thief, hes either thick as pig shit or he couldnt give a dam about his customers. sorry hobbyists dont have customers. every week theres another thread on hear about something hes f*cked up. everybody makes the odd mistake but its every member he sells to. he needs investigating, he is clearly running a business and hes either tax dodging or trying to get out of basic legislation. i hope ash reads this and sees its yet another thing hes f*cked up and bans the c*nt.

Ryan

Don't get angry, I'm not having a go, I'd like to make a valid, objective argument. Clearly you are defending him and that's fine, I completely understand you know him personally, and as such I genuinely plead you to have a word with him about this.

I know you say it's just one mistake and he'll refund it immediately and such, but the fact is he won't. It'll take forever, there'll be more threads about it, and it'll all get out of hand and very tiring. People keep buying from Richard because he breaks a lot of cars and does a lot of business, and that's exactly what we need - people who come on here and sell stuff we require.

If Richard turned round and just said yup you know what, I'm a trader, this is official, I've paid for membership and have sorted out my order tracking stuff then he could make *so* much money out of it, but his repeat business must be more or less zero; only when new people come along without knowing the history (this being a prime example) do people place orders.

If he did that then he'd make money, everyone would get parts, and we wouldn't have to go through this every time. I genuinely think it'd be fine, people are pretty forgiving once someone's proven themselves. The legality of what he does I know know and is quite frankly none of my business, but what *is* my business is when someone takes my money knowing full well they do not have the resource to follow through an order. As a buyer, it is not my responsibility to PM PayPal payment IDs that have been missed, it's not my problem to chase up parts.

I honestly have nothing personal against Richard, but he seems so determined to make himself look bad at times. It's his responsibility now to organise a collection of Wayne's glove box and deliver him the correct one. If he does that and bucks his ideas up then everyone can just get on with it, but until he does every thread on here will inevitably end up the same.

People need stuff. He wants to sell stuff. It's not rocket science, it's putting the right thing in the right box with the right address. It shouldn't be this hard.

O.

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Oh I know it's not every member, but the reality is that no-one's going to come on here and start a thread because you've managed to deliver a part - that's a basic level of service everyone should be able to expect. People will always shout louder when they're angry than when they've just bought something and it all went to plan. As a business you cannot expect customers to go around singing your praises because you managed to wrap up a wing mirror.

This is why companies now pay people just to sit on Twitter and Facebook all day monitoring complaints and dealing with them publicly - because they know how damaging it is when someone gets into a rant and everyone else is all too willing to join in.

Using your example of Carl - I would actually say I see more positive threads about him than negative, which is why everyone was so willing to get on Carl's side on that recent thread.

I'm sure Richard's not dishonest, but he does expect his customers to do the digging around and audit trail work when something goes wrong, and I've never had the impression he's "happy to help".

The better you are, the more people are on your side, the more business you do, the lower the proportion of bad:good sales. It's just frustrating to watch, that's all.

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He told him to bring it back, he sent him parts free of charge to sort the overheating himself (which is what James asked him to do), he still offered to supply the parts needed to fix it 2 weeks later when the head went.

It was obvious there was a problem, the guy choose to sort it himself and not take the car back and it went wrong. He didnt "come through" with the head kit as he sold the car to you

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Ryan

Talking, arguing, whatever you want to call it with you is like banging my head against a brick wall.

I'm not a social worker, you decided my description of my job meant I am but I'm not, to do that I would of had to finish my degree and also to a point I wouldnt want to be that involved with a childs life.

When did I once use the phrase "social retard", I said detatched from and struggles with society... They mean different things incase you cant work that out.

As far as I'm concerned it was a bit of banter between me and Owain, as I said, I cast a line and he bit. Should everyone else that plays a game console come on here crying because of what Owain said to me? No

As you said and I agreed, Owain has quite a good sense of humour, you clearly dont.

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Ryan

I still have that rallye glovebox...

I also believe my inbox isn't full.

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Black X Reg PIII.VGTi 6 A4212 pt 1 A4212 pt 2 Searching the streets of Bristol for 1.36p/day.

Joint Kent Leader

Yes and to the address requested.

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Black X Reg PIII.VGTi 6 A4212 pt 1 A4212 pt 2 Searching the streets of Bristol for 1.36p/day.

Joint Kent Leader

You put it on a rolling road apparently knowing the headgasket was f*cked and you moan that the block was wrecked, seriously take a look back at what you are saying and see how rediculous you are being. I drove that car and it did not overheat, James had problems with it and didnt take it back, whatelse could Rich have done really? Why take it back when it's f*cked when the guy didnt want to return it when it first had problems?

You didnt buy the car from Rich yet you still complain as if you did, how does that work?

We obviously wont agree on this which is fair enough but I would honestly like to know your answers to the above. Also posting the nonsense about getting his money back is the exact type of comment I was referring to above.

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Ryan

Ryan , Thanks for his number mate. I'll drop him a text.

Yes i did put it on the rollers, but it never over heated on me!
The first thing I replaced was the fan as the one that was on it didn't work!
Has anybody else had a block crack at normal operating temps??
How you can't see what a liability PP is is beyond me! Does he pay you to be his customer relations officer? Oh no, you couldn't be that as it would imply that he is a trader, which he so blatantly isn't :O
Or are you a solicitor that does a bit of social working on the side

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Cherry rallye - DOB Thursday 29/04/1999
Team Rallye - the leaner, meaner, better looking sister of the GTI6

The best engine in the world is the vagina, it takes any size piston, its self lubricating, starts with 1 finger, and every 4 weeks does its own oil change. It's just a pity the management system is so fecking temperamental. 

Just because the water passing the temp sensor isnt overly hot doesnt mean that the water seeping into the cylinders and passing across the cylinders wont be too hot and wont do damage.

I'm not even bothering with the rest of your dribble.

Techdw, Not a problem, I'll point him your way the soon as I speak to him

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Ryan