DEALER ALERT
The Vinyl Collector Civil Resistence Page

UPDATED 1-November-1997

This Page is dedicated to the unprotected Vinyl collector who often finds himself (read his cash) endageread by unscrupolous sellers or traders.
The very nature of modern commerce that easily encompasses the globe, either trough the net or plain old snail-mail-order, makes more and more difficult for record collectors to set records straight (pun intended) with -BAD DEALERS- , It sure is not possible to hop in our cars and just visit the -NICE GUYS-, this being the situation and having already been hurt many times by -DISHONEST TRADERS- I have decided to resort to what i consider the last weapon I have to keep the world a little more civil and trustworthy: make their names and actions available on the web so to alert other unsuspecting buyers that they might be starting doing business with less than trustworthy dealers.

The "Stinkers" list

NEW ENTRY Jim Reeves c/o Vinyl OnLine 152 Pekin Avenue East Peoria, IL 61611 USA tel:309-698-3107 Vinyl on Line - Jim Reeves mail to the crook	One of the most dangerous scam Artists on the WEB, hes got such polite ways before getting your money and seems ohh so honest and reliable, actualy sends items but the quality and grading is an allucination all of his own. BEWARE when he says M/M he actually sends VG/VG..and so on..very very disconcerting. he says he refunds items that do not correspond to the grading he stated but does not refund shipping customs and duties payed for his mistakes, this guy is a real crook and I do advice to stay clear from his operations.
BAGS UNLIMITED INC. 7 Canal St. dpt. A, Rochester NY 14608 ph:(716)-436-9006 Fax: (716)-3288-526	These guys advertise regularly in Goldmine, very popular among record collector for their LP covers and LP boxes, have lately proved to be in a somehow disordered state of affairs when it comes to administering their debts and credits with BUYERS Credit Cards, I have two reports of people whose credit card has been charged twice for the same order and I personally experienced an outrageous charge for shipping and actually never received anything (us$200 of goods and US$250 surface shipping yet I had requested UPS shipping), it was my second order..and after three phone calls they still claim they are investigating the issue. Mistakes sure can happen, what these guys do to deserve a mention here is to completely ignore customer complaints. BEWARE . follow up: Items arrived one year later..credit card never credited for double charge.
BEYOND RECORDS Christopher Chatman 12218 Venice Blvd. Los Angeles also PO BOX 661666 Los Angeles tel: (310)572-7233 Fax: (310) 572 - 7232	Advertises in Goldmine Never shipped goods for US$ 480, Never answers the phone and never returns calls left on his answering machine, I have already reported AMEX about the issue. follow up: afther he saw hes name on this list he sent the items ..about a good 10 months later apologizing and crediting me with a virtual US$ 100 if I would ever buy from him again...(not so fool sorry), Items anyway were outrageously overgraded and well....forget him.
Jerome Tomko PO BOX 272 Mansfield Center, CT 06250-0272 tel:(860) 456- 7761 fax: (860) - 456 7758	Advertises in Goldmine Despite having received the money asked for Air Mail Shipping, declares he shipped surface ....records never received, unfortunately i sent him cash... follow up: his name on the list made him mad, a few threats but no records...blah blah blah...a scam artist!
Tom Sims PO BOX 1464 Spring Valley , CA - 91979-1464 tel:(619)-492-9909 fax:(619) - 237 - 8052	Advertises in Goldmine This is less troubles then the rest of this bunch, he auctions records in Goldmine and private mailings, only problem he has is his grading system, he actually dreams of M and M- records yet he ships at the very best what in my book is VG or VG+....very disturbing.

santi@ctonline.it