I'm bout to get sick of Steve making up all this crap. He basically stole a swirled guitar body from me. I shipped it to him, & I have the tracking information to prove it. It was DELIVERY SIGNATURE and was sent NEXT DAY AIR. He signed for it at his CONFIRMED address on the date he SCHEDULED for DHL to ship it on. I'm SICK of him saying he didnt get it. And for your information Steve I havent made ONE false, or slanderous comment.
EVERYTHING this guy gets either gets lost, damaged, stolen etc, I sold him a PERFECT Ibanez Wizard neck about 2-3 years ago...guess what...broke when it go there he claims...I send him a swirl 6-8 months ago...guess what...claims he never got it. Sent it to his address, they attempted delivery, he wasn't home, he rescheduled delivery date, it was shipped on that day, signed for at his address....does a reversal on his credit card, gets the money & the body. Oh, & his name was not legible, so his credit card company sided with him based on the signature being different than his "USUAL" signature...what a scam.
Kinda funny how several memebers on here have reported seeing it on e-bay for sell months back, but yet he never got it. What a crock.
See for yourself.
www.dhl-usa.com Tracking # 9002424583
Also, I have had the User name Sims Customs on e-bay FOR AGES b/c we use to specialize in CARS AND MOTORCYCLES ONLY, that was also our business name for over 10-15 years. I went over this in the very beginning of this thread for those of you who are too lazy to read it. When we decided to start doing guitars about 3-4 years ago we deicided to change our name to Sims Custom Shop, b/c it sound more "Guitarish" like Gibson Custom Shop, Fender Custom Shop, etc...Back then I had NO FREAKING clue who Martin Sims was...and didn't until about a year ago. When we changed business names we also started selling guitars on e-bay, so naturally we started using the name SIMS CUSTOM SHOP...but we STILL have the Name SIMS CUSTOMS, SIMS CUSTOMS sounds good for the car and motorcycle industry b/c it goes along with names like West Coast Customs, Godfather Customs, S&S Customs, East Coast Customs, etc
Now, why the HECK would I want to copy somebody intentionally? I don't have to Leech onto ANYBODYS name to get business. I dont HAVE to pretend to be Martin Sims or his business. We get PLENTY of business and everybody knows WHO we are. We have NEVER ONCE claimed to be the Sims Custom Shop in the UK, nor claimed we were even affiliated with them. I'm not ABOUT TO CHANGE my name that I have spent years establishing. I think the pictures on my web site speak for themselves on the quality of work I do, as well as COUNTLESS testiomonials. Theres ALWAYS going to be SOMEBODY somewhere that has something negative to say if you've been doing business for a long time with alot of people.
Just as an example heres an e-mail that I got today from a customer we did a BC rich Gunslinger for...
"I can't get over how awesome the paint job looks. You should have a positive comments page on your website . The pictures you have speak for themselves. Thanks again, Pete"
I'm sure somebody like Steve or Jemplayer will claim thats some kind of false made up e-mail that I just posted, so if you'd like, contact me and I will give you his e-mail address and you can ask him yourself, and also verify the above quote.
I shouldn't have to prove ANYTING to ANYBODY. I'm not trying to pass myself off as Martin Sims...we probably do more paint jobs than he does anyways. Who cares
Now lets address this crap Jemplayer is trying to get started about this e-bay user name stuff.
Lilmisscutie417 is my wife's username. She wanted me to help her build her feedback up, so I listed 3 swirl guitar bodys...
1. The Starry Night swirl which sold the 1st day for $450
2. The black, red & white swirl which sold the 2nd day for $250
3. The passion & warfare swirl (which is on e-bay now) which sold for $299
Ok, the starry night guy paid, guitar is shipped, no problems. The black red & white swirl has been paid for, shipped and no problems. The guy who bought the PAW swirl...user ID Chadchapelle (which I can no longer find on e-bay when I do a search for his name) didn't pay. He had ZERO feedback and lived in Alabama, created the User ID the day he bought my guitar. The auction CLEARLY stated to contact me PRIOR to bidding if you had zero feedback...he didnt. He won it last Wednesday...said he sent the money that day, that I would have it on Friday...didnt come...said it would be there Saturday...didnt come...I asked him for the delivery confirmation # he claimed to have....suddenly he stops responding to e-mails...didnt come Monday or Tuesday.....The auction stated payment MUST be received in 3 business days, it wasn't, so I relisted it on Tuesday...Tuesday I got a bid...but then her User ID got canceled B/C they said she was "Abusing e-bay"..I wrote e-bay an e-mail asking what the heck the deal was...& heres what they said.
Somebody (I won't mention any names, but shouldn't be too hard for you guys to figure out if you been reading this thread) turned her into to e-bay b/c the pictures of the Swirls I was selling on HER NAME were taken from MY SITE,
www.simscustomshop.com
SOMEBODY, and I won't say who, was a low down DIRT BAG and contacted e-bay and told them that "Lilmisscutie417" had STOLEN the pictures of the guitars she was selling from
www.simscustomshop.com and that they weren't ACTUALLY her pictures, or items.
So e-bay CANCELED/SUSPENDED & Blocked her User ID until, GET THIS, until she SUPPLIES BY MAIL pictures of her HOLDING EACH ITEM that she had for sale...so to get her ID back we're going to have to have her hold the RMC swirl, PAW swirl, and Starry Night Swirl...which we can't b/c their already shipped. Total BS. Basically she'll have to start all over with a new name now. (Thanks Scumbags)
So I needed to sell the PAW swirl..so I listed it on MY username, SIMS CUSTOM SHOP...which makes the 3rd time...The original, the relisting from Chadchapelle not paying, now today. Also I have my USER feedback PRIVATE b/c of some BS negatives that I got from a few sellers, NOT BUYERS, who listed items that they didn't even have in stock. To be totally honest with you its my decision and business if I choose to make my feedback private, and I also plan on making my bidders names private as well. If you dont like it then buy somebody elses swirls. Its an option made available on e-bay, and I have chosen to use it...if you think its wrong to have your feedback private go cry to e-bay. Oh and I also got a Negative from Steve ...Claiming he never got his guitar...too bad he LEFT THE FEEDBACK ON THE VERY LAST DAY or I would have supplied the tracking information as a follow-up. Dont you love people who wait like 44 3/4 days to leave a FALSE feedback, that way by the time you see it you don't have time to respond to their negative or leave them a negative for that matter..
If ANYBODY here thinks I want people to think I'm Martin Sims, or that I need him or his name to get business or be sucsessful then your living in A DREAM WORLD. I have my name b/c thats the name I thought of that I wanted years ago and its MY LAST NAME TOO, and it just SO happens theres another one. BIG DEAL, GET OVER IT. If on the other hand you want to side with Jemplayer and Steve who try to incenuate Im a crook, scam artist, liar, e-bay user trying to pretend like I'm Martin Sims Like he's GOD of paint or something, then fine by me...dont do business with me. But I promise you, you will continue to see new guitars, cars, and motorcycles on my site weekley, if not daily, and in about a month there will be quite a few JEMSITERS leaving positive comments about the guitars we're working on of thiers right now...I'll let their comments do the talking, and if you still think theres something fishy up then fine, I'm not going to try and convince you anymore, b/c you obviously have already made up your mind on what you want to think. I dont need to defend myself against these alligations anymore. I set all this clear in the beginning of this thread. My name says CHATTANOOGA TN USA on the top of the page, HOW MUCH clearer can it be??
Some of you guys have WAY too much times on your hands. Its like your little detectives just TRYING to find one little spec of dirt on me...just TRYING to find something fishy with my e-bay names, earlier in this thread one guy was trying SO HARD to convince people the pictures on my site werent mine b/c they were named differently and some had upload icons in the right corner and some didnt..its just ridiculous. And if I have to stop coming on JEMSITE and stop advertising on here to get some piece of mind from you little Private investigators then so be it. I'm so tired of people trying to incenuate all this crap that I'm some kind of Martin Sims worshiper who clones everything he does....hardly the case. I was in business WAY BEFORE Martin was...ok I didn't have a web site in 1997..BIG DEAL! That doesn't mean that I'm tryting to copy somebody. HOW HARD is it to understand that its just a MERE CONINCEDENCE that he and I JUST HAPPEN to have the same name? Some of you guys just act like this is a SUPER huge big deal and that its absolutely IMPOSSIBLE that it could of happened by coincendence. Technically if anybody should be pissed it should be me...My Business name was Sims Customs before him, my e-bay User name is Sims Customs, not him, my other e-bay name is Sims Custom Shop, not him, my WEB ADDRESS IS SIMS CUSTOM SHOP not him...I could go on and on and on. I've been painting since the 80's, he's been painting since like '97..but you know what..I dont care. Good for him, I wish him well. He does his thing I do mine. I don't make a big deal out of it, neither does he, so why do all of you? Just get over it, if you don't like it then just don't do business with me, simple as that.