Well (sp729),
I live about 125 miles from where Bruis Glassworks is located. I also live 30 miles from Twin Cities Dragway. we have lot's of good cars around here and i ask around, no one uses his product that i talked too.
I've been following this thread since the beginning and haven't said anything because i donot know the person. Howevr i did a google search today and found out that Troy Bobbit is only the marketing manager there and some one by the name of Tee Wilson owns the place.
I'm not in any way taking sides here except to say that if he has peoples money he needs to produce and ship the orders he has before taking other people money. He sounds like a couple of engine builders here, taking peoples money to keep the shop afloat.
I agree with most of the posters here that you could have ended up just another statistic with your money gone and no parts to show for it. I also doubt that the people posting here are working for other glass companys just trying to put him out of business, come on if these people were in the glass works why would they buy from him as he indicated in his phone conversation to you.
I also strongly disagree with an ad that says free shipping and then the order is shipped COD on the shipping cost to the buyer. All of this sounds like he is trully a scammer in my eyes and doesn't deserve to do business with racers like us who work very hard for what we have and what we want to buy to make our cars better.
So SP729 i would say you made the right choice to walk away, also if it would have been me in some of these complaints i would drive the 2 hrs. and we would really have a sit down talk.
Just my .02
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