Hello fellow machinists,
Just would like to know what you guys would do in this situation.
I am 22 years old, was just thinking about starting my own machine shop business out of my garage. I work for my uncle now and have learned a lot and is now time to move on and start my dream of having my own shop.
So I was looking around at machines for many months and came across an Emco PC turn 155 online. So i contacted the guy and he made it seem like he had the machine on his shop floor. He even said I can come and view the machine.
This guys name is Brian from Himes Machinery located at 2831 St Rose Pkwy # 217, Henderson, NV 89052
So i decided I am going to buy the machine. It was $15,500 with shipping. So it be known that I have now given this guy the money. Only thing is now I started to get a weird feeling he started to take forever to reply and so (in short) i asked if I can get a refund for the machine because he still has it on his "shop floor" and he said he cant do that. He told me I can sell the machine back to him for $9,000 so I would be at a loss of over 6k or wait till he resells it for a full refund.
Well now that I told him i want to sell it back to him for 9K and just take the loss he has since not replied, I can not view his web site anymore himesmachinery.com and there is no answer on the phone.
What do I do?
I am thinking I just lost my ass.
That pretty much sums up what happened although there is more detail you guys can get the gist of it, I just am regretting being stupid and believing something like the BS this guy was feeding me.
And btw this happened about a month ago and I have since bought a Emco Maier E45 from my uncles friend, just trying to see how I can get some money back from my stupidity from before.
Any help would be great.
Alex
Just would like to know what you guys would do in this situation.
I am 22 years old, was just thinking about starting my own machine shop business out of my garage. I work for my uncle now and have learned a lot and is now time to move on and start my dream of having my own shop.
So I was looking around at machines for many months and came across an Emco PC turn 155 online. So i contacted the guy and he made it seem like he had the machine on his shop floor. He even said I can come and view the machine.
This guys name is Brian from Himes Machinery located at 2831 St Rose Pkwy # 217, Henderson, NV 89052
So i decided I am going to buy the machine. It was $15,500 with shipping. So it be known that I have now given this guy the money. Only thing is now I started to get a weird feeling he started to take forever to reply and so (in short) i asked if I can get a refund for the machine because he still has it on his "shop floor" and he said he cant do that. He told me I can sell the machine back to him for $9,000 so I would be at a loss of over 6k or wait till he resells it for a full refund.
Well now that I told him i want to sell it back to him for 9K and just take the loss he has since not replied, I can not view his web site anymore himesmachinery.com and there is no answer on the phone.
What do I do?
I am thinking I just lost my ass.
That pretty much sums up what happened although there is more detail you guys can get the gist of it, I just am regretting being stupid and believing something like the BS this guy was feeding me.
And btw this happened about a month ago and I have since bought a Emco Maier E45 from my uncles friend, just trying to see how I can get some money back from my stupidity from before.
Any help would be great.
Alex