I understand that his health has been not good as of late, and I do meaningly wish him a speedy recovery, and hope all goes well for him. I wish no ill will towards him.
I have to say though, that this behavoir of his is not new and has been going on for years now. Unfortunately, quite a few of these threads about his practices have been locked or deleted, so most newcomers can't learn of it before they spend $$$ with him. Combined with the fact that most newbies don't even use the search function beforehand to learn something about the person from the threads that do remain, and just go and spend their money and then get this result. At that point, you don't put in the effort, you get what you earned, sorry, but that's the way life is.
At the risk of being warned or banned because I am stating this about a fellow member here that has shown over and over again that he just isn't a trustworthy business man, The basic truth comes to this:
He treats some members here like royalty, and therefore they speakup and defend him. Those are the ones that have ALL the phone numbers that he has, what times to call, etc. and with caller ID.....he knows who's calling...and who to answer when they call..... enough said. But anyone that has an issue about his product after buying, or is a newcomer, he treats as an expendable inconvienence and they get treated like s&!t when they
only ask for what they were told they were paying for. Most other people that have pulled this kind of crap as often as he has, have ended up being warned or banned, and rightly so. Surprisingly, that hasn't happened in his case that we are aware off.
Now I'm not asking for him to be banned. Please don't take it as that, but I think that it should be stated to him, and explained that his behaviour does reflect back onto this site in many ways, good or bad and that he, as a Club member, and advertiser and seller here, that he has to follow some preset standards and should act properly, or face some consequences. Most sites such as this one, you have to follow some pretty strict rules in order to sell there, and if you don't follow and there are too many complaints, the right to sell is taken away, period.
Just my view from where I sit, after dealing with him here and viewing all the threads complaining about similar issues involing Lee, and even on ebay. IMO, this shouldn't keep happening over and over as it has.
This will be the last comment on Lee that I will give. mainly in 2 parts, due to, if you don't heed the warnings, or research before buying, you deserve to be screwed. Secondly, he's just not worth anymore effort, he won't change, and there isn't any penalties that will convince him to change.
One way to phrase it, If Walmart operated this way, and it was put in the press, would you spend your hard earned cash there still?
Dave