Former Employee
Escondido,#2UPDATE EX-employee responds
Wed, June 18, 2008
There are numorous complaints about LI cycle and marine I worked there for many yearswhen at there old location in West Islip and can tell you or anyone of the bussiness habits of them. The owners name is Tom Castellano who lives in West islip and was in the car bussiness prior to the motorcycle store, the family did own south shore Jeep in Lynbrook up until approx 1997-or 98 at that time they were forced to sell the dealership due to bad business practices and was basically pushed out of the new car game by the manufacture of the products they sold. the bait and switch tactics are not new and have been done by them since day one, the financing practice of "double dipping" they do all the time and they will finance a product, then also get a buyer a credit line on a revolving charge from say honda ,kawasaki yamaha ect to add the overpriced extended warr,alarms, assy or what ever, the seller usually has no idea until a month later when they get the bill, they often have the customer sign so much stuff on delivery they never relize what they signed for till is too late, very common practice over there, saw it all the time while i was there first hand. only the very acute and sharp buyers would pick up on what was happening at the time of sale and would eiether just walk away from the deal and go someplace else, or get it corrected at that time and verify what they are paying for before they leave, I have been involved in it alot when i was there any finally just quit. there was so much stuff going on at the time and seems to be now as well with them, there were finaice companys that dropped them for bad business Green tree finace M&I Bank and countless others i cant remember its been a long time since i worked there, i happened to find this website and wanted to shed some light on this for future buyers. Here is some info on the "muscle" they have working there. Freddy Rollo is Tom's brother-in-law and resides in Massapequa, Tom Corpac another in-law and i think lives in bayshore, Brother Ed Castellano another owner, lives in West islip and was the owner of another store they had in commack called North shore cycle and marine, but from what i heard it was closed and taken over by a new owner,again they lost it due to there bad business practice's. As for Ed I dont think he involved in the business anymore, from what i heard yrs back he took off and supposedly embezzled a ton of cash and left. The Castallano family has a bad Reputaion in the car business on Long island which would explain there loss of there new car store in the past, and the other motorcyle store as well. bottom line here is buyer beware, always , and i mean always know what your signing, verify dollar amounts, and product pricing, hope this helps, if anyone wants to respond i can give you alot of info that can help you get some things settled, thanks
Former Employee
Escondido,#3UPDATE EX-employee responds
Wed, June 18, 2008
There are numorous complaints about LI cycle and marine I worked there for many yearswhen at there old location in West Islip and can tell you or anyone of the bussiness habits of them. The owners name is Tom Castellano who lives in West islip and was in the car bussiness prior to the motorcycle store, the family did own south shore Jeep in Lynbrook up until approx 1997-or 98 at that time they were forced to sell the dealership due to bad business practices and was basically pushed out of the new car game by the manufacture of the products they sold. the bait and switch tactics are not new and have been done by them since day one, the financing practice of "double dipping" they do all the time and they will finance a product, then also get a buyer a credit line on a revolving charge from say honda ,kawasaki yamaha ect to add the overpriced extended warr,alarms, assy or what ever, the seller usually has no idea until a month later when they get the bill, they often have the customer sign so much stuff on delivery they never relize what they signed for till is too late, very common practice over there, saw it all the time while i was there first hand. only the very acute and sharp buyers would pick up on what was happening at the time of sale and would eiether just walk away from the deal and go someplace else, or get it corrected at that time and verify what they are paying for before they leave, I have been involved in it alot when i was there any finally just quit. there was so much stuff going on at the time and seems to be now as well with them, there were finaice companys that dropped them for bad business Green tree finace M&I Bank and countless others i cant remember its been a long time since i worked there, i happened to find this website and wanted to shed some light on this for future buyers. Here is some info on the "muscle" they have working there. Freddy Rollo is Tom's brother-in-law and resides in Massapequa, Tom Corpac another in-law and i think lives in bayshore, Brother Ed Castellano another owner, lives in West islip and was the owner of another store they had in commack called North shore cycle and marine, but from what i heard it was closed and taken over by a new owner,again they lost it due to there bad business practice's. As for Ed I dont think he involved in the business anymore, from what i heard yrs back he took off and supposedly embezzled a ton of cash and left. The Castallano family has a bad Reputaion in the car business on Long island which would explain there loss of there new car store in the past, and the other motorcyle store as well. bottom line here is buyer beware, always , and i mean always know what your signing, verify dollar amounts, and product pricing, hope this helps, if anyone wants to respond i can give you alot of info that can help you get some things settled, thanks
Former Employee
Escondido,#4UPDATE EX-employee responds
Wed, June 18, 2008
There are numorous complaints about LI cycle and marine I worked there for many yearswhen at there old location in West Islip and can tell you or anyone of the bussiness habits of them. The owners name is Tom Castellano who lives in West islip and was in the car bussiness prior to the motorcycle store, the family did own south shore Jeep in Lynbrook up until approx 1997-or 98 at that time they were forced to sell the dealership due to bad business practices and was basically pushed out of the new car game by the manufacture of the products they sold. the bait and switch tactics are not new and have been done by them since day one, the financing practice of "double dipping" they do all the time and they will finance a product, then also get a buyer a credit line on a revolving charge from say honda ,kawasaki yamaha ect to add the overpriced extended warr,alarms, assy or what ever, the seller usually has no idea until a month later when they get the bill, they often have the customer sign so much stuff on delivery they never relize what they signed for till is too late, very common practice over there, saw it all the time while i was there first hand. only the very acute and sharp buyers would pick up on what was happening at the time of sale and would eiether just walk away from the deal and go someplace else, or get it corrected at that time and verify what they are paying for before they leave, I have been involved in it alot when i was there any finally just quit. there was so much stuff going on at the time and seems to be now as well with them, there were finaice companys that dropped them for bad business Green tree finace M&I Bank and countless others i cant remember its been a long time since i worked there, i happened to find this website and wanted to shed some light on this for future buyers. Here is some info on the "muscle" they have working there. Freddy Rollo is Tom's brother-in-law and resides in Massapequa, Tom Corpac another in-law and i think lives in bayshore, Brother Ed Castellano another owner, lives in West islip and was the owner of another store they had in commack called North shore cycle and marine, but from what i heard it was closed and taken over by a new owner,again they lost it due to there bad business practice's. As for Ed I dont think he involved in the business anymore, from what i heard yrs back he took off and supposedly embezzled a ton of cash and left. The Castallano family has a bad Reputaion in the car business on Long island which would explain there loss of there new car store in the past, and the other motorcyle store as well. bottom line here is buyer beware, always , and i mean always know what your signing, verify dollar amounts, and product pricing, hope this helps, if anyone wants to respond i can give you alot of info that can help you get some things settled, thanks