Anybody know STW member Watsontony?

Did you call round?

He won’t be able to answer, it’s like the TV series Revolution round there.

All electrical items stop working forever.

(Apparently)

🙂

What’s latest on this bizarre saga?

whats happening then chaps ??

No items as promised, no refunds, no communication, no Tony, no word from Tony’s mates (who were very keen to stand up for Tony on pages 2&3)…….

Not a lot of positives at the moment!

It’s iDave all over again……

iTony in fact

Does anyone on here actually know him in real life?

Just refunds, or the things they paid for would be nice 🙄

Nothing this end either. Nothing from the ebay side of things either. Did wysiwyg doorstep him I wonder?

Has he got some huge personal crisis going on?

Does seem really odd for such a regular poster to just completely disappear with such a realtively small amounts of money?

No-one find it odd that nothings been heard from WYSIWYG since he went to visit Tony?

Not as strange as the silence from those that backed him and were very rude to you chaps that have been ripped off. Just read the whole thread and think he’s bang out of order, regardless of what’s going on in his private life.

I’ve sold loads on other forums (retrobike mostly)and ebay and wouldn’t dream of acting like this. It once took me a couple of weeks to send a set of forks off to Oz but I kept the buyer up to date at least every other day and offered to refund due to my poor time keeping (that couldn’t be helped for one reason or another). The buyer got them in the end and was very happy.

Sounds like this bloke’s conned you. Wouldn’t be suprised if those that said it was a cheap payday loan gone wrong were not far off the truth. Seems to be a lot of that going on atm.

I dont think anyone was ‘backing him’ in the beginning, they were saying ‘wait and see’ cos it was still early days and the pitchforks were out far too early.

Now more time has passed and more info is available it is looking worse and worse, but we still don’t know exactly what is going on…

It would be a very bizarre thing for such a regular poster to suddenly decide to do this over such a small amount of money unless there is something else going on.

Payday loan speculation aside or whatever, the point is there’s probably more to it than meets the eye, maybe he is in financial trouble, stress can make people do some very stupid things, and financial trouble can be very very stressful, and although I don’t condone what he has done so far I would imagine for someone with genuine problems it might be very difficult to come back and explain yourself after an event like this, maybe he just doesn’t have the balls to admit it at the moment.

For all we know he could be crying at home in a pit of despair over losing his house and not being able to feed his family at the moment, and some handlebars are the least of his worries, but then again he could be a guy who just stole seventy quid for sh1ts and giggles, we don’t just don’t know…

It reminds me of Insert Wit Here/IWH who was a regular poster on a number of fora, but he did it with a hell of a lot more money, this barely seems worth the effort!

Im afraid I failed in my quest. A: it was further off route than i suspected and B: my time when I was meant to be leaving was taken up by a young lady..

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Or a cunning ploy – defraud one forum/member for a lot of money, or many forums for smaller amounts. We know of two forums cycling related that he’s done this to, he may have done it on lots of others. The thought process possibly being just what people have said here, that a) he’s a regular poster so why would he do it for such a small sum of money and b) its a small sum of money, most people won’t chase it up.

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Or, it could be that he’s got other stuff going on….who knows. Either way he’s buggered off with peoples money and not sent the stuff.

I’ll admit I was one of the defenders, not because I knew tony but because of his posting history, and was advocating a wait and see strategy. My guess is that there is more than meets the eye on this, be it a payday loan gone sour or personal issues. Either way he’s made me look stupid, and has taken folks cash.

BURN HIM!

tomhoward – Member
I’ll admit I was one of the defenders, not because I knew tony but because of his posting history, and was advocating a wait and see strategy. My guess is that there is more than meets the eye on this, be it a payday loan gone sour or personal issues. Either way he’s made me look stupid, and has taken folks cash.

BURN HIM!

Burning the witch alone is not enough, the witch’s supporters must burn with them 😉

Burning the witch alone is not enough, the witch’s supporters must burn with them

It’s in the rules:

Rules:

1)He who sells on the internet should not be a d***.

2)He who flames wrongly should be flamed themselves.

😉

a quick search on google images of Renthal Fatbars suggests Tony didn’t take that photo of the bars!

if you mean the original source of the image being ehre:

http://www.pinkbike.com/photo/8281047/%5B/url%5D

then it’s possible Tony bought them from that chap originally, either that or he’s even naughtier!

then it’s possible Tony bought them from that chap originally, either that or he’s even naughtier!

i merely suggested he may not have taken the photo… 😆

At least you have the forks, i think. I’m getting confused here.

Ah, the forks haven’t arrived either! Mind you, I haven’t paid for them. At least there isn’t someone else out there waiting for Tony to get to the post office!

Now, i’m not the kind of person who gets incolved inthese situations, nor am i the kind of chap who likes to dispense advice. However, my many years of accumulated wisdom have led me to recommend that you don’t pay send any money for those forks.

They’ve probably been second chanced to at least half a dozen people by now!

Link a dink to ebay?

i rememeber the guy posting lots of “show me your favourite DH bike” or “show me “X””…. a little childish/adolescent, if you will…

bit wary of that sort of character.

Wysiwyg – pics of young lady…………..

or you hovered around his door for hours (muttering like Gollum about how “he stealed it my precious”), then bottled it). 😉

i rememeber the guy posting lots of “show me your favourite DH bike” or “show me “X””…. a little childish/adolescent, if you will…

bit wary of that sort of character.

I can’t put my finger on it, but I always thought there was something a bit ‘off’ about him…

[/quote]i rememeber the guy posting lots of “show me your favourite DH bike” or “show me “X””…. a little childish/adolescent, if you will…
bit wary of that sort of character.

Or a good way of collecting photos for future bogus sales adverts elsewhere.

Just a thought.

Might I suggest finding out what’s going on before jumping to conclusions?

Hell, I’ll go knock on his door if he’s in Blackburn and anyone has his address, see if I can help. I may be naive, but I’d be shocked if someone “childish” would spend months laying groundwork with the grand master plan of ripping someone off for thirty quid.

Apart from those that gave him money, we all owe Tony.

This has neen one of yhe most entertaining threads since JoB’s!

There may be no master plan. Just someone who found them self in shit street, thought they would have to sell some stuff, and then through bad circumstances decided he wouldn’t or couldn’t honour his sales and had already spent the money so then could not refund it even if he wanted to.

Desperate measures in desperate times.
Would not make it right. But that is the only thing I can think of.

All sounds very iDave, by the way is he still at large? Does he still owe money?

Might I suggest finding out what’s going on before jumping to conclusions?

😯 Steady on.

Having said that I do like the idea of this sort of personal service;

“Hello, I’m one of the moderators from SingletrackWorld and I’ve come to either clear your name or inform you that you have been banned.”

I only get an email when I’m banned.

This has neen one of yhe most entertaining threads since JoB’s!

I bet it’s the best thread ever if he’s got your money, yeh right laugh…

All sounds very iDave, by the way is he still at large?

Very active on twitter and involved in quite a lot of professional cycling activity from the occasional retweets I see of his stuff.

Does he still owe money?

Yes, last time I heard on here, or at least training plans are owed.

I think that about 6 months or so later, iDave did cough up in a fashion?

Tony…….Tony……Tony……