[JBo]

Lewis;
Let us get the facts straight here for once and for all,
1. You pursued me to buy this car…(email threads remember??)… as you did other ACOC members whom you emailed after obtaining addresses from that site. Your story was ‘I’m a collector; as is my brother; I just bought a car in Hawaii and my brother now wants one like it…yours James” I told you it was not for sale, but stay in touch..which you did until I decided to offer it to you. Point of interest, after speaking to other ACOC members and owners, after all this, I find that you have been verbally abusive over prices, etc you’ve been offered for cars for “Are you stupid…I can buy these all day long for less money…RM sold one for…etc”.
2. After tacitly agreeing to a negotiated price,(I offered to sell at XXk, you countered with XYk, I countered with XZk which you accepted) you went silent for 10 days, until I contacted you and that story was you needed to make arrangements and the AU and US dollars were in flux.
3. When I subsequently pressed you for a closing, at a later date, you hemmed and hawed and acted like you weren’t sure…I should have realized at that point something was amiss…my error. This all has taken place in the last two or three weeks of January as an aside. At this time another interested party surfaced.
4. When you found out I had another interested party..you began the “you’re my Italian brother..we have to stick together, you can’t sell to anyone else. Can we make the deal today?” was your question to me.
5. You asked to renegotiate and I agreed to a $2000 haircut from the original terms as an accomodation, in return for prompt payment and closing.
6. You and I agreed on the price (my error entirely) and you set the terms for a $5000 earnest money/deposit and payment of the balance by March 4th via wire transfer to my account in US funds. You wired the deposit and I agreed the car was under contract pending a successful closing. You asked if I would transport the car to Port Newark, I responded I would make all arrangements and supervise at cost and it had been estimated at $250; but I would return what ever was left from your advance of those funds.
7. March 4th came and went, no money wired, no word, no nothing!! Nothing the next day, so now I know I don’t have some one who will fulfill their obligations and later on March 5th I emailed you; {late in the day (it was probably the 6th your time as it is 16 hours difference in time zones)} and advised you, you had failed to live up to your terms and conditions and the deal was off and your deposit forfeit. Now, who is the scammer or maybe you are a stiff . You signed up for something you didn’t have the money to complete the transaction for….. why else would you not perform??.
8. In subsequent emails, first it was I need a few more days…then it became a few weeks, sort of takes the starch out of your claim “the bank and I were arranging the transfer” & remember Luigi or Lewis, I can prove by your emails what I say. Scammer or stiff buyer?9. The other interested party has come and gone. I’ve shelved my plans for a replacement vehicle and gracefully removed myself from negotiations on it. You’ve cost me two months, a sale, a bit of “face” and money.
10. I then find you are a Used Car Dealer in AU, (lewis@investmentmuslecars.com.au) 0r investmentmuslecars.com.au, so perhaps your outrageous indignation is not so well served. You understand business rules fairly well I would suspect, but fail to abide by them. Why did you not disclose the fact you are a dealer, could it be you were trying to “flip” my car as the Hawaii purchased unit is offered for sale on your web site?, and still is? But that would mean you were trying to broker something you didn’t own yet (hadn’t paid for) and didn’t have a brokering agreement on and that probably would be slightly off key, even down under. Or as I suspect you bit off more than you could chew.
11. Now you begin threatening me via email, threatening to use my banking and email info in some terroristic way, inferring you could get violent, inferring legal action, using foul and offensive language, attempting to put a curse on me (do you realize what century this is?) and generally showing your true nature, lack of upbringing and a general disregard of the truth.

This is an abbreviated, yet completely true recount of this series of events. I can prove it all with the email threads. Regards to all interested parties,
Jbo