As you know Geoff I am just a rookie here and don't get off the bench much but I wanted to repley to your post. I joined in March of 2006 and I contacted Lon for some of his free comps and stuff. Man he hooked me up big time. Our next deal was also great but in the fall of 2006(which I have already mentioned in a prior post) he wanted a 2 or 3 bucks a piece for his new comps. He said his insurance didn't pay all of his medical bills with his back surgery. I thought well,I will help him out and pay what he wants. Then I noticed he was listing all of his bootlegs on here and was wanting a couple of bucks each for them. He also was asking for shipping. I sensed a change in his way of doin' things but hell I was a new jack and still am so I kept my mouth shut and never mentioned how I felt. I paid for them and of course as I have already said I never got 'em and I had to file a claim with Paypal to get my money back! You don't know how bad I wanted to bring it here to the Forum and tell folks. I am sure at that time the majority of people here would have skinned me supporting him. Then again I think some of you knew things weren't right. I did NOT buy any of the Hurricane cds or anything else he was ofering. He never apologized for having to file a claim and blew off my pm's and emails so I don't do business with people like that.My heart however goes out to ALL of you that have and I pray this gets resolved in everyone's favour. Even if this is just one big nightmare and Lonnie is cleared of any wrong doing,I will never do business with him again.
Same with me but I was gonna get the Frontrunner stuff and Hurricane reissues but thankfully I didn't pre-order anything.
I asked for some of his early comps and I hooked me up as well......on 2 separate occasions sending me a total of about 50 cd-r's (all sent through UPS from that Ford dealership) of mostly bands I had never heard of but now I know are great bands like Kidd Wikkid, ELI, etc. He always kinda mentioned possible payment later but nothing ever came of it and I too noticed he started selling bootlegs he had gotten off file sharing forums for 2 or 3 dollars and I thought that was screwy but didn't really think anything about it at the time. I feel sorry for all the ones that have been scammed out of their hard earned money.
Kinda of reminds me of the Spongebob episode where Plankton becomes friends with Spongebob to only later show his true colors and steal a crabby patty.