Black-Hat Alert! Revolution Cycles

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Bryan Semones, you are permanently banned at MBc.

my next move, if pushed, will be to use my personal web-space to
publish your obscene & threatening e-mails to the MBc staff.

please note the red-highlighted area in my email to don grube...this is staying right here, buddy!! in fairness, i did publish his letter in entirety.

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From: "Augie D." <augidog@motoredbikes.com>
To: <dongrube@hotmail.com>
Subject: brian semones of arizona
Date: Mon, 28 May 2007 07:06:53 -0800


dear don,

my name is augidog & i administrate a forum for builders & riders of motor assisted bicycles. many of our 300 members are using your products and seem quite happy about it.

we are an open forum, in that all riders of all methods of mechanical assistance are welcome, as well as all suppliers of kits and accessories. because we want to attract all ages, we have a strict set of rules and content policies in place, as well as rules on vendor conduct
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one fellow who has been harrasing our members and constantly trying to circumvent my security is brian semones of (revolution cycles llc) motorizedbicyles.net. his language and behaviors are unacceptable, he openly attacks our members and staff. instead of telling us how good the grubee products are, he prefers to tell us why other sellers and engines don't deserve our business. if his plan is to lose sales, he's doing a fine job of it.

and, he's been doing it in the grubee name.

let's be clear, we're consumers who want or need motoredbikes for a variety of reasons. we want affordable and reliable products, and we don't care who likes who inside the chinese engine industry.

so i wanted to ask you if brian's behavior is the "grubee way"...do you encourage or accept such tactics?

this message, along with your response, or lack of, will be published on my forum for our 300+ members and 400-600 visitors/day to read.

respectfully,
augidog
admin/moderator
www.motoredbikes.com

----- Original Message -----
From: Don Grube
To: augidog@motoredbikes.com
Cc: duronimo@gmail.com ; jsandlin@barsanco.com
Sent: Monday, May 28, 2007 9:06 AM
Subject: [SPAM] RE: brian semones of arizona


Dear Augie D;

Confirmed; We also have written to Mr. Semones dba:/ Revolution recently about his vocal and unprofessional written conduct in making actuations and slurs without fact.

Our belief is Honey attracts more flies than Vinegar! I trust you run your chat forum the same way?

Bryan seems to think he is our official spokesman which is not true. He is not one of our direct WD accounts but does buy from one as a dealer, Barsanco our WD in Detroit.

We have asked him to remove our grubee inc name and reference from his web site chat postings unless he is selling our products as a dealer via WD and has something good to say. Your e-mail was timely; Thank you. It is not our policy to belittle others or to offend. Unfortunately; we have little control over what a dealer may say.

The only folks in the business who we might offend are those whom we report to EPA as smuggling 2 cycle engines in from China as service replacement unassembled parts and then assemble into complete engine kits now selling on Ebay. This is against the EPA law as of Jan 1 2006 to sell an uncertified emmission engine obtained after the Jan 06 deadline. Our position in China as China GAS export allows to know quite readily who is doing it. China GAS stopped exporting 2 cycle engine kits in Nov. 2005 and abides by US`law. There is little control of those in Canada who ship to the US in small qtys.

FYI: I might add that Bryan has given us great assistance in analyzing some noise problems we had with an early shipment of 60 4 cycle engine kits for Honda GXH50 engines that went out in Oct. last year. We have addressed these problems and corrected the mistakes in present production which we are truly grateful for his assistance. In his own way he can be a nice fellow and very intellengent but does need some professional polish in my opinion. I guess no one is born perfect and can be conditioned by hardships.

Bryan's 4 cycle gear box complaints were found justified and we have agreed to replace all 60 gear boxes to those who bought them. The problem was caused by the factory's failure to machine on CNC equipment and hold tolerances. Replacements will be available at Barsanco in about 30 days. Barsanco wants them shipped in a consolidated container load which was held up by others and beyond our control or they would have been shipped sooner.

Best regards;

Don Grube pres. GruBee / China GAS www.chinabestexporter.com & www.grubeeinc.com

CC; Bryan Semones; Repeat: Please Please clean up your act. Others now report distress also.
 
Always apreciate the heads up!
I believe that Mr. Semones has another name on Ebay.
I will do some research but, I almost did business with him.
Doc
 
Cool deal I well keep my head up befor I buy one more as my #2 ride.
I think ThatsDax sames to be a cool guy. I was going to buy from him way befor I gone on ebay him and Mike.S 2 good motor sellers.
But what stoped me was I was telled by some cats not to buy from dax and I did not like how he has it where he dont want to take a U.S. money order as thats the only way I pay for items by mail...
But hey maybe Ill take to him I think we well be cool with it,
if any of you get feedback on who this dude is on ebay Pls update us. I want to buy 1 more motor for my wife//
 
he uses 'motorizedbicyclesdotnet' on ebay
a low-life if ever I've seen one !!!

OMG!!
Thats the one I got my motor from..
I well not give names but was telled over the phone from a member that he is a nice guy. I did get my motor it ran. Lots of work to get it working.
Was telled 20.1 oil gas mix well Its runing so rich now for that mix..
=(
 
After I decided not to do business with him, he told me that I would have to have an I.Q. under 60 to belong to our Forum. What a loser!
Doc
 
I am here in Tucson and contacted him to be friendly and was put off by his apparently determined desire to remain anonymous. I did not want to become close friends I only wanted to exchange info and see if he could be a local resource for the motorized bike community. He was determined to remain an anonymous eBay seller and was not going to do any local sales. I was concerned and cut off any further contact because all my (every single one) red flags were on high alert. I don't normally judge people that quickly but was unable to avoid making the decision that this was a seller/person to avoid. I have no time or money for a looser that is trying to rape their customers.

Kep1a
PS: This is my personal rant and in no way reflects the opinions or views of the motoredbikes forum. (not intentionally anyway).
 
Yep, I got an email from that guy (motorizedbicyclesdotnet) and I get the impression he is VERY unfriendly. I have my Schwinn OCC listed on ebay, and he sent this email rambling on and badmouthing Don Grubee (whether or not it's justified, the tone of the email was a bit rude). Not a question whatsover about what I was selling on ebay. That's how I ended up finding this page (when researching his "ramblings"). I still have a saved copy of that email (but "copying and pasting" it here without editing would probably violate Terms Of Service). My thoughts.
 
Yes I to got slammed!!! I bought 2 60cc skyhawk automatic engines from revolution cycles & I got what looked like 2 48cc square head manual motors. Not at all what I wanted. I already had 2 of those engines that I wasn't using. all he did for me was sent me a box of junk to make me feel like I got kissed first. He sent me things like old stlyle clutch lever, OH BOY! I know I will never buy anything from him again & advise no one else to either!!!!!
 
I have seen two AZ sellers regularly on ebay. One of them is livefast. This guy is A-OK in my book. the other is the person referenced in this thread.

i have dealt with livefast a couple times and give him an a+. great phone service etc
 
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