I know many of you have a presence on DiscoWeb and I'm certainly one who wouldn't like to see a lot of the crap that sometimes goes on over there to migrate to LRO, so I've not really wanted to mention anything about this here. But I think I have to send out a warning to people, because a problem that seemed to be in the past is cropping up again.
Kyle Van Tassel, who operates RoverSolutions.com, making custom roof racks, bumpers, and Hi-Lift mounts, has been taking deposits on custom fabrication and then disappearing. It had appeared that he simply fell off the face of the earth, but a thread on DiscoWeb leads me to believe that he is STILL taking money from people:
http://discoweb.org/forums/showthread.php?p=161695
Please, if you intend to buy something over the Internet, even if it is someone who appears to have a community presence, don't agree to pay up front unless you use some kind of fraud-protected funds like credit card.
And more specifically, beware of Kyle and RoverSolutions, as there have been and continue to be allegations of fraud (including from me... the whole story is complicated and I won't repeat it here, but you can search the archives on DiscoWeb for 'KVT' and 'roof rack' and get the gist).
Incidentally, Kyle is one of the administrators of DiscoWeb, and apparently he's the one who physically manages its servers. I have a suspicion (though absolutely no direct knowledge) that KVT is indirectly related to why LRO exists in the first place, and for that I say thank you Serg.
