Complaint Review: Adonis Cutom Drums - Adonis Drum - Portland Oregon

I had not, to this point, called Patrick Lynch a lair. But, his rebuttal is a bold faced lie. All of my previous report was true in its entirety, 100 percent. I stand by that and will address the fiction rebuttal Mr. Lynch has filed. First, I am certainly not "infamous" in the drum industry. I would like to see some specifics on that wild claim. I am just one consumer. I do regular business with Conaway Drums, Centre Street Drums (Tauton, MA - www.centrestreetdrums.com), and am preparing other orders with drum part suppliers with no problems whatsoever. This is pure fiction and demands some kind of proof. Second, I was NEVER informed of discontinued parts. He makes the lugs, and he claimed to have the shells I needed at the time. Nothing was ever said to me about discontinued items. I was also PAID IN FULL, and Patrick even was good enough to return to me the money equal to what he had not yet finished. I have the check from him in my records file here at my home!! Does that sound like I was never charged in the first place for discontinued items? He just did not finish the job. It was only after MY repeated phone calls and finally contacting his webmaster to get Mr. Lynch to respond. Third, I tried to give Patrick another chance to let us do this right and really liked his drum lugs, and the work he did. HE refused to sell to me unless I removed all of this from the site, and again, was unsatisfied with the rules of this site in that I could write a good resolution for all to see. Now, he has bold-face lied to everyone reading. I am a professional person with a successful career as a music artist (non-profit) and graphic artist. For over 20 years I have gathered a list of professional and personal references to my character and I am a man of integrity. I simply can not believe that this man has written such outright fiction about me on this site. It is extremely childish, as is his previous email to me calling me a "wing a nut", in his words. He should leave this alone and stop digging a deeper hole. For the record, I had to go to other drum companies and suppliers because HE went out of business, or decided to not do his craft any longer after posting on his website that he was moving his business. I have had no troubles with anyone else...the one other I have done business with since Adonis.

Troy Winston's account isn't correct. All paid for items shipped and his order was completed in full. His original order contained unstocked items. We didn't charge him for those items and agreed to order them and bill him for them on arrival at a later date. Unfortunately our supplier discontinued those items. Troy was never charged or paid for unreceived items. I explained the situation to troy. After repeated explanation it became clear that an on going relationship with this customer wouldn't be possible. He later asked to order more items. I refused his business and continued interaction because of his untruthful posts on this site. Troy is infamous within the drum industry and his business has also been declined by other suppliers.

Owner of Adonis Drums, Patrick Lynch, demanded that I remove this report in order to buy leftover stock from his (now) defunct company. When I realized that I could not delete the report, I amended it to reflect that we were now communicating and working things out. However, now that he knows it cannot be removed completely, he has refused to sell me the drum lugs I needed, not satisfied with a good ending on the Ripoff Report. Please also note that he has resorted to name calling in this incident because I relayed the news that I could not remove the the Ripoff Report entirely. For the record, Patrick Lynch at Adonis Drums (now defunct) has never acknowledged the fact that he ceased all communication while he had my funds, and I was waiting for a product to be complete. That is, until this report was filed and I was forced to leave messages outlining possible action if a product was not completed. All I ever asked for was normal communication, and the product for which I paid for.

Communication was finally re-established, and a solution was agreed upon by both parties. For the official record, the quality of the product was never in question, and remains as one of the best among its competitors.