Good work guys! Hopefully our friends from overseas will see some sort of "justice".

Bumping this to the top of the heap.

Awesome job! I hope something good comes of this. What he has done is just sickening, the fact that those in positions to help out haven't stepped in is even worse.

AKA all that matters is I get mine. Great community spirit. Hopefully our friends form overseas and here will remember this the next time you reach out for help.

I do believe this to be a wee bit of an exaggeration. If you can't find it elsewhere you probably aren't looking hard enough. Like someone else said, at least your honest. Points for that I suppose.

Common sense? I was referring to someone that seems to think it's great to support someone accused of grand larceny and wire fraud that preys upon our community because it doesn't effect him. You want to talk about personal responsibility, it's people like him that keep this jokester in business. Every time one of you yahoos buys some parts from MAD it's supporting his operation and keeping his shady self in business. How about taking some responsibility. You are supporting a criminal enterprise. All because you are too cheap or lazy to look elsewhere. Last I heard MAD didn't have exclusive pin part rights.

I think you are missing the big picture-domestic orders get shipped. We are ALL painfully aware domestic orders are received and seem to go out A-OK. As domestic buyers have consumer protections. International orders however don't. He takes the money via wire where there is no consumer protection and never ships the product. Most people trust a business as you mentioned that has been in business forever so they don't think twice about wiring the funds. He takes advantage of that and folks like you who continue to support him, help him stay in business. He preys on the international community and it is sickening.

I guess we have interpreted the posts differently. I have only ever seen it being reported as the international community being screwed as well as some suppliers. This has been going on for years. It sucks. He takes advantage of our fellow collectors/community and b/c folks domestically get there stuff they continue to support him and keep him afloat. As a Pinsider, having this knowledge, in my opinion, there is no reason to support him.

No, but for many it is the best way to bring awareness and warn others. These threads have kept many an international collector from falling victim and have helped inform our friends stateside about what is going on. Sadly the powers that be Attorney General, FBI (wire fraud), etc have not done much to bring about any kind of justice.

People have had thousands of dollars stolen from them. We are not talking about some rubber ring kits and a couple of bulbs. It's a lot of money. Yeah, there have been worse, but that doesn't make this any less effed up. Theft is theft and folks should be warned. I'm not sure how you cannot condemn someone that is preying upon our community like so. It's theft. How is that not condemnable? He has a very specific scam going on and he knows that nothing legally can be done, so he keeps doing it.

Bob Roberts has been doing the Moon Pies forever and usually a handful of Mardis Gras bling during the festival as well. No one beats Bob!

Hey Guys, I reached out to the consumer protection division and the Attorney General in NJ. Both have been in contact with me concerning this matter. If you have been cheated by MAD and would like to pursue this with them please PM me and I will tell you what we need to do to get the ball rolling.

That sucks. I tried contacting some other NJ news stations as well without much luck. I don't have many connections in the media department down there.

I just started yet another Mad thread concerning the AG. Hopefully some folks will come forward and we can get the ball rolling.

AG Thread: https://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/folks-cheated-by-mad-amusements-the-nj-attorney-general-wants-to-hear-from-you