A dude by the name of Mike Henri from Leander TX (ATX area), aka Robinson79, aka CASH BMX, has been taking over the for sale sections on various forums. The dude is pretty shady. He will act like your best friend but only to get what he wants. I've noticed a few newer usernames on this site and just wanted to make sure to pass along my experience.
Some of his acts of shadiness include:
Selling someone a wheel set with missing pieces from the driver. Recipient of said wheel set needed to buy a $65 driver to fix the issue.
On BMX Museum there was a WTB thread started looking for "old T1 frames to hook neighborhood kids up with". I think everybody has probably noticed the crazy prices that some older T1 frames are asking. Nobody is trying to hook up a neighborhood kid with a frame that is highly sought after by hardcore T1 collectors. They are trying to find cheap ones to flip to said T1 collectors. Is flipping shit lame? Well, that is debatable (but my personal opinion is yes). But is lying about why you are after the frame, and using "neighborhood kids" to help your lie...... now that is just down right despicable.
Could it get worse? Oh yea, it can. One of my old buddies from Full Factory had some shit go down with his cat. Long story short, he started a gofundme account to help raise some cash to pay the vet bill. At the time, Mike Henri had an IG account that he reposted all of my buddy's posts regarding his cat. Mike Henri went further as to contact my friend at Full Factory. He told him that if Full Factory would hype up "Cash BMX" on Full Factory's IG account that Mike would donate a complete Orange Soda Funday to a winner of my buddy's choice. The goal was met, a winner was picked for the bike to be sent to. Then both my friend Will (the guy who does the Freestyle Fridays on FF's IG) and the kid who won the bike both tried to contact Mike Henri through his IG account. No messages were returned, no bike was ever sent. The kid was super bummed, as he should be. What happened to Mike Henri's instagram account that was suddenly deleted after this whole ordeal went down?!?!?! Coincidental.
The moral of the story, you can buy and sell to whoever you want to on the internet. I just want to make sure that people are knowing exactly WHO they are selling to, sometimes. Because, unfortunately, not everybody is honest with their intentions.
Ramp on, my blue brothers. Ramp on.