Richard
El Sobrante,#2Author of original report
Tue, March 01, 2005
Just a quick update to this story. Great Northern Auto Parts contacted me to offer to sell me the part (which of course they never had available to sell) after I submitted a parts search request through a website called www.getusedparts.com When I realised I was being ripped off, I went to GetUsedParts.com to let them know. I found that the site includes a member forum where users can post questions and comments. There were two seperate threads concerning Great Northern Auto Parts, with a large number of posters complaining that they've been ripped off. I contacted the site operator and told them that they were providing this scam artist with new victims even though their own forum contained so many complaints about him, and they basically 'blew me off' with a comment that they 'don't get involved' and that they're 'just like a search engine'. Not only that, but when I went back to the member forum, the thread full of complaints about Great Northerb had been removed - I guess GetUsedParts.com doesn't want it's site visitors knowing that they're going to have their contact information passed on to a crook so he can steal from them.