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Old Feb 11, 2002 | 08:20 PM
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Ok, here's the deal. Mr. Tran is not cooperating, so I want to warn others of his doings. I bought a set of ITR tires from this John Tran (real name Jean-Pierre), 8602 Grand Knolls Dr., Houston, TX for $200 shipped. They were advertised as 2 brand new and 2 80% tread left. See thread below: https://honda-tech.com/zerothread?id=120901

Anyway, I received these today and they are CRAP! I measured the tread and 2 have 6/32" left (so 60%), 1 has 5/32" left (50%), and the last has 4/32" left (40%) with bad camber wear. This one should have been tossed out. I'll post some pics later. No one would even come close to paying $200 for these POS tires. But I trusted this fool and now I'm out $200 and have crap to deal with.

I've tried reasoning with him to return my money, but he is unwilling. He posts on here quite a bit, so if you know him, talk some sense into him. This is one scam I'm not gonna stand for!!!!! I'm may not be in Texas, but I'm willing to come down to take care of this!!!!!
Old Feb 11, 2002 | 08:27 PM
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I just dealt with him, and the transaction was extremely smooth.

Just letting you know what kind of person he is, so you dont get TOO worried.
Old Feb 11, 2002 | 08:29 PM
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Nick, here's the problem though. Obviously he knows his stuff. He's trying to put the blame on the person whom he bought them from originally. Anyone who isn't blind can see that one of the tires has bad camber and very little tread left and should be thrown out. Instead, he says it has 80% tread left and sells it to me. That's BS!!
Old Feb 12, 2002 | 07:52 AM
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I hear that...Im sorry man

He's been around a while and seems quite reasonable...hopefully he will take them back or you all find another way to resolve it. Good luck!
Old Feb 12, 2002 | 11:34 AM
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Ok, here's the deal. Mr. Tran is not cooperating, so I want to warn others of his doings. I bought a set of ITR tires from this John Tran (real name Jean-Pierre), 8602 Grand Knolls Dr., Houston, TX for $200 shipped. They were advertised as 2 brand new and 2 80% tread left. See thread below: https://honda-tech.com/zerothread?id=120901

Anyway, I received these today and they are CRAP! I measured the tread and 2 have 6/32" left (so 60%), 1 has 5/32" left (50%), and the last has 4/32" left (40%) with bad camber wear. This one should have been tossed out. I'll post some pics later. No one would even come close to paying $200 for these POS tires. But I trusted this fool and now I'm out $200 and have crap to deal with.

I've tried reasoning with him to return my money, but he is unwilling. He posts on here quite a bit, so if you know him, talk some sense into him. This is one scam I'm not gonna stand for!!!!! I'm may not be in Texas, but I'm willing to come down to take care of this!!!!!

I bought the tires from another user (SwiftTypeR) and that is the exact condition I sold to you. I have never used them. They are NOT crap...they were used by SwiftTypeR...two has about 80% thread left and two has nearly perfect thread left. I would say about 93-95% left. You paid $142 for four RE010 tires. Come one..you are buying USED tires..what are you expecting for $142 for four RE010 that retails $150 a piece???

You send me $200....$58 goes to UPS for shipping the tires to you... $142 - 3.9% charge by Paypal...so I got something like $135 from you.

I have sold tons of things to everyone...never scam anyone in my life!!! You expressed that you don't want the tires, wrote you back offering to take them back if you send them back to me...I'l send you the $142 back (that's the money for the tires)... the $58 is shipping fee...there is no way UPS will refund that.. I never got that money. (If you ordering stuffs from a company, returned it..you don't get shipping back anyways...just a real life senerio to clear your head). Anyways, you wrote me back and want me to send you $240 as a refund? What the **** are you thinking? Are you smoking dope?

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Old Feb 12, 2002 | 11:37 AM
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Ok, here's the deal. Mr. Tran is not cooperating, so I want to warn others of his doings. I bought a set of ITR tires from this John Tran (real name Jean-Pierre), 8602 Grand Knolls Dr., Houston, TX for $200 shipped. They were advertised as 2 brand new and 2 80% tread left. See thread below: https://honda-tech.com/zerothread?id=120901

Anyway, I received these today and they are CRAP! I measured the tread and 2 have 6/32" left (so 60%), 1 has 5/32" left (50%), and the last has 4/32" left (40%) with bad camber wear. This one should have been tossed out. I'll post some pics later. No one would even come close to paying $200 for these POS tires. But I trusted this fool and now I'm out $200 and have crap to deal with.

I've tried reasoning with him to return my money, but he is unwilling. He posts on here quite a bit, so if you know him, talk some sense into him. This is one scam I'm not gonna stand for!!!!! I'm may not be in Texas, but I'm willing to come down to take care of this!!!!!


I bought the tires from another user (SwiftTypeR) and that is the exact condition I sold to you. I have never used them. They are NOT crap...they were used by SwiftTypeR...two has about 80% thread left and two has nearly perfect thread left. I would say about 93-95% left. You paid $142 for four RE010 tires. Come one..you are buying USED tires..what are you expecting for $142 for four RE010 that retails $150 a piece???

You send me $200....$58 goes to UPS for shipping the tires to you... $142 - 3.9% charge by Paypal...so I got something like $135 from you.

I have sold tons of things to everyone...never scam anyone in my life!!! You expressed that you don't want the tires, wrote you back offering to take them back if you send them back to me...I'l send you the $142 back (that's the money for the tires)... the $58 is shipping fee...there is no way UPS will refund that.. I never got that money. (If you ordering stuffs from a company, returned it..you don't get shipping back anyways...just a real life senerio to clear your head). Anyways, you wrote me back and want me to send you $240 as a refund? What the **** are you thinking? Are you smoking dope?

john
I agree besides the part about paypal 3.9 its more like 2.9 plus 30cents but thats minor.
Old Feb 12, 2002 | 11:37 AM
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Here is the original advertisement posted by SwiftTypeR:

Link: https://honda-tech.com/zerothread?id=111008

Original message (ads) from taht link posted by SwiftTypeR:

98+ integra factory front nose/bra. used only a few times on my gsr. paid $130, asking - $50
97+ type R dc sport intake. i bought it from a friend and ive only used it 2 times on my car, i had it on my car no longer then a couple of months. asking - $60

2 195-55-15 stock gsr tires. took them off at 1k from my gsr 3 years ago. their still in mint/near new condition. 95% of the tread is still on there. asking - $50.

2 195-55-15 010 friend gave them to me after he swapped them out for re730's. looks like there is about 80% tread left. i can show you the pic and you can decide for yourself. asking - SOLD

94+ integra spoon front strut bar. used for only a month. retails for $200. asking - $150

94+ integra factory oem side skirts. bought them awhile back but now i want to upgrade to a complete body kit. retails for $250-300? asking - SOLD

i have pics of everything except the bra. i can take pics of the bra if you want to look at it frsit before purcashing. buyer pays for shipping and price is firm, no lowballers plz.


Old Feb 12, 2002 | 11:43 AM
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2 195-55-15 010 friend gave them to me after he swapped them out for re730's. looks like there is about 80% tread left. i can show you the pic and you can decide for yourself. asking - SOLD

Swift Type R sold these to me for $75...then later on, he said he has another two brand new one and will send them for $100...I took all four from him....and that was one I sold to Pete Vang. Yes, I paid $175 for these tires..sold them to you for $142.....plus s/h.

If you dont' want them, as I told you in email before...send them back and I'll send the $142 back to you...I'm tired of all your bitching emails everyday.
Old Feb 12, 2002 | 11:49 AM
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I agree besides the part about paypal 3.9 its more like 2.9 plus 30cents but thats minor.
2.9, 3% whatever..not a big deal..I just took the total wired into my paypal, subtract it from what I got and got a percentage out of it that goes to paypal..comes out to be around 3%...doens't really matter...Fact is, I didn't even care about paypal charges and will return the $142, price of the tires if he send them back to me.

These sales are my finals sales..i crashed my Integra..going to get a family car and will never buy/sell performance craps again...so really don't care about reputation and ****..but of all the 5 years I'm on various boards like these...have I EVER scam anyone? But I've been toasted many times....I bit the bullet and took the loss.. Just pissed me off when trying to sell **** for dirty cheap and get bitched upon...I'm saying the tires are not crap...the other saler whom I bought it from advertised them as 80% tread left...****, you are buying USED TIRE damn...what are you expecting? show room condition for 1/4 of the cost??? I'm fuckign tired of this ****.


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Old Feb 12, 2002 | 11:53 AM
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yeah I agree with you. Sometimes people think they are getting a brand new item when someone writes new CONDITION! New condition means used, but not much.
Old Feb 12, 2002 | 12:26 PM
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Dude - not to be a dick but he is offering to give back the cost of the tires. That is 100% reasonable. You don't deserve the shipping back. It wasn't what you expected - so what. Did you get pictures beforehand? You got $600 worth of tires for $142. That is 75% off retail. If they have 60% tread then I would say you got a deal dude.

Send the tires back, collect your $142 and let it go.
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Some people are just not happy no matter what.
Old Feb 12, 2002 | 12:44 PM
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i'd hate to say this but why are you trying to put the blame on me? if the tires we're 40-50% tread left im pretty sure you wouldnt have bought them....and as for the other guy he should have requested pics first before he bought them.
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FROM HIS AD

"ITR stock tire, two brand new, two 80% tread left...just bought then used, I never mounted them yet... $175"

The ad above did say
BRAND NEW so I think he should get shipping costs too.
And this is the AD by the SELLER. The post later on where the SELLER got this should be irrelevant.
Old Feb 12, 2002 | 12:49 PM
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i'd hate to say this but why are you trying to put the blame on me? if the tires we're 40-50% tread left im pretty sure you wouldnt have bought them....and as for the other guy he should have requested pics first before he bought them.
You should not be involved in this. Your ad offered pics and you did not claim that it was NEW while the other guy did.
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Swift. I don't know why John Tran is involving you, but this has nothing to do with you. He's just trying to make excuses.

Pdiddy - when you buy something as advertised, that's what you expect. If they are advertised as brand and and 80%, that's what you expect. Not 2 at 60%, 1 at 50%, and 1 that should be thrown out. If he would have told the truth, I would not have wasted my time or money!!

As for only getting $142 back, that's bull crap. He sold them for $175. I paid $190 with a check and when he cried about shipping, I paypal'd $10 to him even before I received them. So he received $200 from me. The max paypal fee is $0.30 guys. Total amount to ship was $50, so he had to come up with $25 more bucks and not $58. But all this is irrelevant unless he is blind, has a seeing eye dog, or has a walking cane.

Anyone who isn't blind could have seen that none of the tires were brand new. So why would he say they are??? One of the tires is almost to the wear bars and has bad camber. Would you guys say that it is 80%? I don't think so. I didn't ask for pics because the said they were brand new and at 80% and from the looks of what else he was selling, he didn't seem like a blind idiot.

For him to say that he would graciously return $142 for his lies is bull crap! Even if I ship them back, it's gonna cost me $40. How the hell can a person be lied to and in the end lose $100???? That's not right at all. I don't think anyone would take that deal.

John Tran is the one who lied. He's the one who is blind. He should pay me my $200 plus the shipping cost of $40. I even offered to take $100 back and call it even, but that won't do anymore.
Old Feb 12, 2002 | 01:35 PM
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Swift. I don't know why John Tran is involving you, but this has nothing to do with you. He's just trying to make excuses.

Pdiddy - when you buy something as advertised, that's what you expect. If they are advertised as brand and and 80%, that's what you expect. Not 2 at 60%, 1 at 50%, and 1 that should be thrown out. If he would have told the truth, I would not have wasted my time or money!!

As for only getting $142 back, that's bull crap. He sold them for $175. I paid $190 with a check and when he cried about shipping, I paypal'd $10 to him even before I received them. So he received $200 from me. The max paypal fee is $0.30 guys. Total amount to ship was $50, so he had to come up with $25 more bucks and not $58. But all this is irrelevant unless he is blind, has a seeing eye dog, or has a walking cane.

Anyone who isn't blind could have seen that none of the tires were brand new. So why would he say they are??? One of the tires is almost to the wear bars and has bad camber. Would you guys say that it is 80%? I don't think so. I didn't ask for pics because the said they were brand new and at 80% and from the looks of what else he was selling, he didn't seem like a blind idiot.

For him to say that he would graciously return $142 for his lies is bull crap! Even if I ship them back, it's gonna cost me $40. How the hell can a person be lied to and in the end lose $100???? That's not right at all. I don't think anyone would take that deal.

John Tran is the one who lied. He's the one who is blind. He should pay me my $200 plus the shipping cost of $40. I even offered to take $100 back and call it even, but that won't do anymore.
post some pics, its like that dude who ripped someone off by sending them dented fender on here...
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John Tran is the one who lied. He's the one who is blind. He should pay me my $200 plus the shipping cost of $40. I even offered to take $100 back and call it even, but that won't do anymore.
I agree with you. I am sorry to hear you got ripped off. And yes, if someone were to told me an item is BRAND NEW, I won't demand pics. I hope you get ALL your money back.
A good seller should not hold you liable for shipping costs when his ad was hella misleading, if not, a LIE.
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Dude - not to be a dick but he is offering to give back the cost of the tires. That is 100% reasonable. You don't deserve the shipping back. It wasn't what you expected - so what. Did you get pictures beforehand? You got $600 worth of tires for $142. That is 75% off retail. If they have 60% tread then I would say you got a deal dude.

Send the tires back, collect your $142 and let it go.
I am upset about this because something like this happened to me before even though it was just for a $60 item.
Anyway, when an ad states NEW, you EXPECT new. I don't know, $142 back plus his cost to ship the tires back is NOT reasonable especially since the seller lied.
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SwitftTYPER, i'm not involving you..just simply pointed out that I bought the tires from you, had to resell it since I crashed my car....remember our conversation on the phone? Your friend has two new tires to sell for $100 and you have two 80% thread left for $75??? But that's besides the point..I'm simply pointed out that I bought htem, but never used them...

Pete Vang, You send me $200. You told me shipping was $25...I shipped it out and it costed $58...I wrote you an email, and you said "oh sorry, I miss calculated..I was calculating for only two" Duh!! You convienently forgot about that did you??

You don't believe I paid $58 to shipped them to MN?? I have the ******* receipt right here !!!! damn...this is pissing me off...

I'm not even going to waste my tmie with this bullshit... if you want to send them back, send them back, I'll send you your $142 back..that is it...
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Here are the pics to prove my case:

The crap one next to the 60% one:


Close up of camber wear and minimal tread left.


Does the one on the left look like 80% to anyone????? Would anyone even bother buying it or take a chance of using it????
Old Feb 12, 2002 | 01:59 PM
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okay the one on the left has about 20% left. The one on the right has about 60-70. The other 2 I can't really see.
Old Feb 12, 2002 | 02:03 PM
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okay the one on the left has about 20% left. The one on the right has about 60-70. The other 2 I can't really see.
Just accept the fact that you got ripped off. It will be easier for you that way. There is no sense on fighting this since he is unwilling to give you a full refund.
Now, it's up to you whether or not you want to get ripped off for $200 or $100 because either way, those tires aren't much good.

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okay the one on the left has about 20% left. The one on the right has about 60-70. The other 2 I can't really see.
I only took pics of these 2 that were taped together. The other 2 not pictured are at 50% and 60%. So how do you feel now that you see it's not brand new as advertised???? I'm not asking for perfection, just honesty from the get go....
Old Feb 12, 2002 | 02:08 PM
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okay the one on the left has about 20% left. The one on the right has about 60-70. The other 2 I can't really see.

Just accept the fact that you got ripped off. It will be easier for you that way. There is no sense on fighting this since he is unwilling to give you a full refund.
Now, it's up to you whether or not you want to get ripped off for $200 or $100 because either way, those tires aren't much good.
I know I got screwed..... But I'm not gonna take this one!!! I'll get even... This is the straw that broke my back!!!!!



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