5 months ago, I've made a trade deal with a guy whose got Days of Thunder and the complete Armageddon score. Both being my favorite of favorite scores, I made a trade deal with him. I sent him 2 bootleg videos and after a couple of weeks he received them.

We were contacting each other over ICQ when the stuff I sent were on the way. Once he received them, he begins to lose contact with me. He claimed that he sent his CDs over, and he said that he was out of town so he could not reply.

Now four months later, I'm still waiting for the CDs to arrive which I doubt it will...

I tried emailing and ICQing him, but his brother said that he is out of town and way too busy...

I am just dissapointed that there are such people who are so irresponsible, and now I will just have to make do with the Real Audio files I have of the 2 scores.

I for whatever reason didn't want to mention his name yet, but since you did...

I was also screwed by Jeff Johns. I sent him some stuff, lets see, last October about, and still haven't recieved anything back from him. I advise everyone to be careful when dealing with people over the net.

and Will,

If you still need the scores to Days of Thunder and Armageddon complete, let me know, I can help you out there.

Anyway, I bet if you were to do so, if you don't get your discs, at the very least it would prevent someone like him from continuing to do this in the future.

Just be careful who you trade with,
there are a few sharks in the sea.
But hopefully next time,
the victim he will be.

I don't really know what to say, but "SCREW THAT SON OF A B**** !!!" Well, at least I don't have to hold my breath any longer for that _______ (fill in the blanks) to reply. I posted this topic reluctantly, as it would be the last thing I would do is to accuse him of cheating me. In fact, back in MovieTunes, somebody posted a message saying not to trade with Jeff Johns, but I ignored it as he sounded like he could be trusted...

Well now we know that there is a _______ (fill in the blanks) out there who cheats people of their collection. It's a good thing I didn't send him any money though, and the stuff I sent him was kinda cheap though, luckily.

And Audacity, I am most grateful of your offer. I will email you (or maybe ICQ?) to discuss further.

I've nothing to complain about when dealing with my good chums; Jeron, Audacity and Scott thats for sure, and I hear other good things about some peeps on the board when it comes to trading too.

Dan (UK)

Any way I can get my hands on the set? However I don't have anything significant to trade with though.

He volunteered to obtain two BBC magazines that had a free CD of Rachel Portman's music in return for a CD of Bernstein's "Spies Like Us."

I readily agreed and had Screen Archives mail him the CD.

I waited and waited. He assured me he had the magazines, but was low on cash until payday when he could afford to send them. Then he forgot my address. Then he was low on cash...then my address.....this went on for more than a year....NOT by my prompting him...I gave up on him after one month and ordered the magazines directly from BBC. But he kept assuring me he had the magazines and would get them to me....he still pops up from time to time and I say nothing.

Be warned. He has no intention of following through on anything.

Here's another:
JOHN TOWNSEND from New Jersey. I sent stuff for a trade with him over a YEAR ago and he never sent anything.

When I sent my stuff, I waited about a month.
I think it's reasonable to think that he may have gotten delayed.
Nothing arrived after that time, so I figured I'd gotten hosed.
But I found an old email of his and emailed him back, basically chewing him out for screwing me on the trade. He was very apologetic, and would get the tapes out.
"They're very high quality tapes that I [he] monitors through out the whole process so he can guarantee the finest quality tapes." Well, whatever.

Another 6 or 8 months have gone by and still nothing.

So far in the list:
1. Jeff Johns (Oklahoma)
2. Daniel Ek (Australia)
3. Martin Patermoster (UK)
4. John Townsend (New Jersey)

Don't hesitate to name someone who has not delivered you your stuff after 4 months.

May we trade only with the people who delivers their part of the trade.

From someone who got conned,

I posted about this elsewhere and suddenly he got back in touch with saying that his brother had been using his account and what would it take to make everything right. I also forwarded him an E-Mail from another burnt customer in Europe that I received after posting at that other place. I told him that at this point I would settle for a well-done CD-R.

He told me that he would get right on it. That was over 6 months ago. I had pretty much given up on it. Last week he writes me to say that he lost my mailing address. (Note that he had my email address and could have written me at any time) He says that he is sending me the CD-R. We shall see.

If I don't get something from him or hear from by the end of the week, I will add his name to this list of scoundrels.

It is interesting to note that none of these folk have responded to these posts to deny or dispute them.

1. The only reply he gave me when I tried to mail him concerning the lost package, was that he would be off-line from now on and forever...

2. He acted "stupid", not understanding what the problem was...

3. He confused the titles we were trading all the time...

4. His posts were very vague and "gibberish/child-like" - hard to understand what his points were...

5. He claimed "I shouldn't blame him too much, because he was only 12 years old" or something like that...

6. Another contact of mine verified that he too had had problems with Mr. Ek and failure of delivery...

All I am saying is that he has followed through with all of our trades. If he skimped out on you then maybe others should be wary of him. I definitely know what you mean about him acting like he's 12 years old though..

Sigh....

SFT

Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade 2-CD set.

-or-

Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom PLUS Spartacus

Email me at adhose@hotmail.com, and we'll discuss this further.

On Tue, 28 Mar 2000 20:25:42 +0200, Peter Holm <Peter.Holm@SANDVIKEN.SE>
wrote:

>Fellow members,
>
>I would like to issue a warning of the following individual:
>
>Danny Gonzalez
>88-11 Elmhurst Avenue.Apt.A11
>Elmhurst, NY 11373
>E-mail: Analyzethis9118@aol.com
>
>
>The short version of this story is that I came in contact with him through
>Film Score Monthly's message board, the trade section. We made a trade (a
>CD for a CDR). I sent him mine, but I never received anything from him.
>After several mails and promises from his part and still not receiving
>anything from him I believe he never sent the CDR in the first place to
>me. (For a longer version, see below.)
>
>I'm not upset with the fact that I lost a CD, because it's not a
>particularly expensive one and it's still on the market. However my point
>with this e-mail is to WARN you of this guy and not giving him another
>opportunity to rip people off.
>
>It's all evident that even though we film music enthusiasts aren't that
>many compared to other interests around the globe we obviously have our
>fair share of a few bad and rotten people among us. And it's this that
>really upsets me the most!
>
>Take care and watch out for this guy.
>
>- Peter Holm
>Sweden
>(peter.holm@sandviken.se)
>
>---------------------------------------
>Longer version
>
>I came in contact with him through Film Score Monthly's message board, the
>trade section, on their Internet homepage late in December last year.
>After a few rounds of e-mailing we agreed upon a trade and that we should
>send each other's CD a couple of days later. It was a promo CD (still
>available on the market), that I had, for a CDR copy of a very limited
>promo CD, which he had. What the titles were doesn't really matter.
>
>I never received any CDR from him, but he confirmed that he got mine.
>After waiting a couple of extra weeks I contacted him about not receiving
>the CD. He claimed that he had sent it and that it must have been lost on
>the way. In the sign of "good friendship" he said that he would make
>another CDR copy and send it over to me.
>
>After waiting another couple of weeks I contacted him about it and got no
>answer. After a few days I sent him a new e-mail and said to him that I
>believed that he had ripped me off. That he had never, in the first place,
>intended to send me the CDR. I then got an answer that he had had other
>important things to do, but that he would make the CDR and also throw in a
>bonus CDR of a newly released promo.
>
>Again nothing happened for another couple of weeks and I sent him another
>e-mail. He then claimed that his e-mail program had crashed thus losing
>e-mails etc and wanted me to send my address once again. I gave him a last
>chance, but I never received anything CDRs from him.
>
>(I must say that I usually wait until I get the CD/s before I send out
>mine, when I'm the initiator to the trade, but he asked if we could do
>this because then he wouldn't have to wait so long before getting the CD.
>(Big mistake, I will never do that again!))
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>
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>To leave FILMUS-L, write to FILMUS-L-signoff-request@LISTSERV.INDIANA.EDU.

The warning should be heeded. Of some 90 ebay transactions over the past 6
months only one ended in failure to receive the item. Involved Danny
Gonzales. This individual is NOT TRUSTWORTHY. BEWARE.

Mark Stanberry

Friday, 3-31-00

I guess I'm screwed then huh?

I am always glad to help people find the scores they are looking for. If you are still looking for the Armageddon 2 CD set, let me know we can work something out.

Also, I traded with Danny and had no problems at all.

Audacity
NP Rules of Engagement (Mark Isham)****1/2

NP: Tokyo File 212 (Albert Glasser)

The trade was set up under the agreement that neither of us could list/trade/sell the items we were trading for. What does he do? The second he gets it, he announces to the world that he has the thing, and begins to sell it for upwards of $30! A CDR! That's just wrong, in my book.

So, you'll forgive me if I hold a grudge. Spineless? At least I post under my real name.