357 is at it again!!!

[RacerX]

Toejam groupie more like

[Flametop]

Postarrhea is a sad affliction. Maybe we could start a fund to find a cure for it. We could get Sally Struthers, but Ron and Toejam would get perpetual boners. I'd be more than happy with my posts set at 101 for ever. I hope it works out for the best for these guys as I said way back on an early page. And if it comes to be, I like my crow grilled with Franks Red Hot Sauce drizzled on top of it please.

[Deneb]

anyone else get thier guitars yet?

[ApeDosMil]

anyone else get thier guitars yet?

(crickets chirping)

[slayer]

(crickets chirping)

[sworn_enemy]

Ok, this whole thing is really get weird now. Some of the guys on the SD forum have doing some research on "President Dan" and found out he used to be president of another company called Invinca-Shield. This company was sponsering Nascar racers and offering gift certificate and diecast Nascar replica deals to the public with the chance to win a brand new race car. The only problem is the sponsorship money never came through and they were sued by the race team. I believe the company went bankrupt. Check it out.....

http://www.motorsport.com/news/article.asp?ID=31238&FS=NASCAR-GDS

BTW, if you check out the 357 site they are getting into the nascar business.

[RobRR]

I sent an email Sunday, and have yet to recieve a reply. Theyve got till Friday or Ill be giving them a phone call. 6 days is MORE than enough time for a reply, I dont care how busy you are.

[ozzuk1]

Before you see the wylde's you musttt burrnnnnnnn!

either way this is an annoying experience, allthough they've been making way too many excuses for it to really be all these problems....

they should have planned for things to go wrong and delays to happen and compensate for it....

moving half way through this was very very bad....

I hope you guys get em though...

Ozz

[Hyperfuzz]

Yesterday, I e-mailed the confirmation to 357 that the diecast had been delivered back to them. Later in the day, I received and e-mail from them stating that they refunded my credit card. I haven't seen the credit hit yet but it usually takes a couple of days for my CC website to update such things, so we'll see.

[RobRR]

You can also call your credit card, theyll be able to tell you instantly if they have credited you.

[Razor]

Ok, this whole thing is really get weird now. Some of the guys on the SD forum have doing some research on "President Dan" and found out he used to be president of another company called Invinca-Shield. This company was sponsering Nascar racers and offering gift certificate and diecast Nascar replica deals to the public with the chance to win a brand new race car. The only problem is the sponsorship money never came through and they were sued by the race team. I believe the company went bankrupt. Check it out.....

http://www.motorsport.com/news/artic...&FS=NASCAR-GDS

Would this be the same company?
http://www.invinca-shield.com/index.asp

[sworn_enemy]

Would this be the same company?
http://www.invinca-shield.com/index.asp

I assume so. Apparently since 2000, Invinca-Shield is a whole different company with different owners, located in North Carolina and is a reputable company.

[Razor]

http://www.tricklefan.com/last2/99-0728.html

Scroll about halfway down to this topic.

LJ Racing Lands Five-Race Sponsorship

Yeah, it's the same company based on the link in the above website. Damn if he isn't a promotion running motherfucker.

[sworn_enemy]

Further developements.....

It's hard to say much now while being responsible and not saying anything slanderous. So, given that, I will say this:

1. As others have discovered via Google and Yahoo searches, the current 357 Customs owner Daniel was the President of a company back around 1999 called Invinca-Shield.

2. As of 2000, Invinca-Shield began again as a new company with a completely different ownership.

3. While Invinca-Shield was owned by Daniel, they contracted to sponser a NASCAR team. During that time, the money contracted for was not given to the team and the team missed races because of it. That team took legal action against Invinca-Shield. No further details about that legal action and it's results have been found yet. This is all we know: http://www.motorsport.com/news/artic...&FS=NASCAR-GDS

4. At some point in time, 3 investors were convinced to invest in Invinca-Shield. Each investor invested something like 20-30K. At some point in time, those investors became unhappy and filed suit against Invinca-Shield and Daniel. The lawsuit was dismissed as Invinca-Shield and Daniel were found to have done nothing wrong. The plantiffs/investors just did not do their own homework period.

5. While at Invinca-Shield, Daniel ran a promotion where people got $75 gift certificates for Invinca-Shield products, a NASCAR diecast of the car Invinca-Shield was supposed to be sponsering, and a chance to win a brand new Monte Carlo. What happened with that promotion, we do not know the final results of, we should know tomorrow.

6. At some point in time previously, there were a group of people who had been looking for Daniel for quite awhile and who could not find him. This is somehow in regards to investment money and these people are from the Elkin, North Carolina area. At this point, it would NOT be responsible for us to elaborate further because we do not have all the details and are in no position to make any judgement on if anything was done wrong. Individuals at the current Invicta-Shield company were surprised to know that we were in contact with Daniel. This may stem from this: http://www.motorsport.com/news/artic...&FS=NASCAR-GDS which was covered in #3 above.


Let me sum up by saying we have NOT found a smoking gun. We have NOT found anything that would make us cancel our orders. We will continue to look into things.

[jgcable]

Further developements.....

I am sorry to say it.. but... you guys are FUKKED.