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happycube
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Post subject: Re: AVOID Duncan Hunter/Bayview Electronics/laserdiscservice Posted: 21 Jun 2016, 18:26 |
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Reading that email chain... it's a real shame he didn't retire gracefully. He'd have lots of good stories+things to share with us here, on top of not hoarding people's property. If I was local to him, even after all this, I would offer to work for him under the table pretty cheaply on weekends and help get his backlog cleared out - I'm sure I'd learn a lot! . o O (On the other hand, we live in a world where for instance a <=$40 Raspberry Pi board can play videos with quality far beyond what even an X0 with a MUSE decoder can do. And you can easily make new video files for it. Dunno what it says about me playing with LD's so much )
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Post subject: Re: AVOID Duncan Hunter/Bayview Electronics/laserdiscservice Posted: 06 Sep 2016, 09:05 |
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Just FYI, Ducan H. hasn't visited LDDb for over a year, his account just got "frozen": http://www.lddb.com/account/ldserviceIf you know his address, can't the US-based people with a LD Player missing in action fill up a claim at the local police station? If several people fill up the same claim, local police might have to come and investigate. Julien
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dumbchemist
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Post subject: Re: AVOID Duncan Hunter/Bayview Electronics/laserdiscservice Posted: 06 Sep 2016, 09:38 |
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admin wrote: Just FYI, Ducan H. hasn't visited LDDb for over a year, his account just got "frozen": http://www.lddb.com/account/ldserviceIf you know his address, can't the US-based people with a LD Player missing in action fill up a claim at the local police station? If several people fill up the same claim, local police might have to come and investigate. Julien I don't have an LD out for service with Duncan. However, maybe someone with really good documentation could have a lawyer draft a letter to Duncan warning him that his activities must cease or there will be theft charges brought to bear. Maybe a class action lawsuit would "wake" him up and make him realize that what he is doing is illegal. Just my 2 cents worth.
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bkw
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Post subject: Re: AVOID Duncan Hunter/Bayview Electronics/laserdiscservice Posted: 06 Sep 2016, 19:42 |
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Joined: 09 Jun 2016, 06:58 Posts: 24 Location: United States Has thanked: 2 times Been thanked: 1 time
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Updated email thread with the last few weeks additions. Old one ends on Jun 14 2016, so if you already read that, you can skip down to the end. Nothing much new, just that he HAS answered an email at all in the last few months, which means the address is still valid as of June 2016. That last known shipping address in the 1st post in this topic is probably still valid too, as that's the address my unit was shipped to. https://drive.google.com/open?id=0Bys6e ... zAzNnZ0cVEI guess it's not productive to lose your cool no matter what happens, but I just hunted back through my paypal transactions from 12 months ago and figured out that I paid $246 for the player (200 plus 46 shipping) drop shipped right from the ebay seller to Duncan. And then as you see in the mail log here, I paid Duncan another $193 for labor and shipping back to me. I guess it's just lucky I can actually afford to lose $450 into thin air and it's not my rent or a kids braces or something. I just printed this today, so remember to add that 6 1/2 weeks of no-answer after that last email from me on Jul 21... It honestly had never occurred to me to me to file some sort of complaint with police in his area. Didn't occur to me that there even was any such process you could invoke. Now that someone mentions it, it sounds pretty appropriate. After all, at least when I first contacted him, he did still have a web site which advertised the service, and he did respond in emails confirming that service. And even aside from that, much more recently he requested and received payment for that service. That is all pretty cut and dried. I don't know exactly which laws that violates, like computer or mail fraud, or something else specially related to operating a business, but it has to be *something*, and it's probably actionable, even just for one individual case, let alone when several people can all claim the same thing.
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dumbchemist
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Post subject: Re: AVOID Duncan Hunter/Bayview Electronics/laserdiscservice Posted: 06 Sep 2016, 21:27 |
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rein-o wrote: It costs a lot of money. I know that a lawsuit would not be cheap; but, you might be able to find a lawyer that would do the job "pro bono". Even a lawyer not in Duncan's area could send the "letter". Are there any LD hobbyists that live in Duncan's area and are a lawyer who might be able to take on the case? (I know that would be a long shot.)
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Post subject: Re: AVOID Duncan Hunter/Bayview Electronics/laserdiscservice Posted: 08 Sep 2016, 21:15 |
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Greetings everyone regarding Duncan Hunter. I am John Tomaskovic from Ossining, New York. I sent Duncan my Theta Voyager back in January of 2014 to the address on the website after being in email contact with Duncan. It was returned repaired in one month. Worked fine until later that year I had another problem which I was in contact with him and it was sent to the Yelm address. It has been there ever since with very little contact other than health and divorce issues excusing his tardiness, along with the email loss as he claimed. It is now two years. I did NOT send him any money for the second repair. I happened to see the thread about this and thought it would add to the fuel! Please let me know if I can be of any assistance with a "class action" action! Not sure if the police could get involved without someone going there but I looked up the Yelm website and it is pretty lame. Appears to be Volunteer police officers, etc.
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