Originally Posted by camarochick
First of all. I have spent alot of time with randy and he couldnt pay the rent for the shop because so many ppl fucked him over on money and he couldnt pay for the parts he needed. my husband and i lent him alot of money to help him out with the shop so he tried to keep the shop open to get everyones car done. my car was at his shop for a month and nothing happened with that i mean my car was stolen and he was going to fix it and it never got done before he had to close up shop. do you see me on here saying dont go to randy cuz his work sucks. he actually does good jobs. does them right. ive seen them and ive done them. ive seen him work on cars and worked on a few myself. randy isnt here to defend himself so do you really think its fair for yu to be sitting here talking the shit that you are. shit happens and you just got to deal with it. i am driving my car right now with the hood of the car tied down, theres no rubber seals in my doors so my car is leaking i have no blinkers and no windshield wipers and am i bitching because he couldnt fix my car for me? no im just going to have to find somewhere else to go that will fix it for me. thats just my .02 cents. but well try and get randy to chime in on this matter.
None of that about Grand Am is Randy's fault. That is Ins. Co. So you STILL wouldn't have anything to complain about.
I agree if I didn't know what REALLY happened, I'd be REALLY mad. But, I don't want to be a middle man, is why I am staying quiet. Hopefully randy will come to my house and come online and explain.
Basically, randy did a lot for ALL of you. You guys would go to him with insurance jobs, etc. he would not only get you out of paying deductibles, he would charge LESS than what ins. check was for so he put money in YOUR pocket.
I'm not gonna start a whole huge thread. Let randy have his say. But understand, he did his damndest to keep EVERYONE happy. He DID make LOTS of mistakes, we all do. But the whole time he constantly tried to help everyone else in turn screwed himself to the point he was living out of shop, lost EVERYTHING he owned, and yet when he knew he had someone's car too long he told some of you to take your cars without paying remaining balances, etc. As far as parts missing, that is from A) People walking in and out of shop even though he has asked EVERY customer to not come into shop, and B) From what I understand, some old employees that he thought he could trust disappeared. No excuse for that I know, but try and see the other side of the story, and know randy will do everything he can for each of you. He was faced with a VERY tough decision, and hopefully he reopens shop SOON starting at zero.
I SUGGESTED to him he continues working on 1 car at a time, and 1 of you who feel you were mistreated to try and keep money coming in, and also make right where he went wrong in the past. I can't BEGIN to speak of what he will do. I will get him to chime in when poss. But please slow down on the bashing. Each of you have VERY legitimate gripes/complaints, but when you lose the shirt off your back to try and help people and keep getting kicked in the face every time you turn around, it just begins to be too much.
I hope I'm saying this the right way, I'm not making excuses for anything that happened, but randy is a friend of mine, and I'm going to let him say his part in here. Just slow down with the bashing, and at least hear him out, post your concerns if you want, and he will tell EACH of you probably through PM what he will do to help you.