Just for kicks, I decided to send an e-mail to team-paradgm suggesting that if they expected their reputation not to be tarnished, they should respond to UMS's questions. The e-mail bounced back! Now it may be the wrong address but it was from their website! Makes you wonder.

to which adress did you send to?

I send to every adress I found on their website... nothing happened!

does anyone have a adress of Brandon Rohde?

FYI...


WHOIS information for team-paradigm.com:

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Registrant:
Paradigm Technologies, LLC.
934 Michigan St.
Sturgeon Bay, WI 54235
US
920-246-1845
Fax:920-743-5261


Domain Name: TEAM-PARADIGM.COM

Administrative Contact:
Rohde, Brandon brandon@team-paradigm.com
934 Michigan St.
Sturgeon Bay, WI 54235
US
920-246-1845
Fax:920-743-5261

Again this communication problems with Brandon!

No order! No refund! This guy lies when he open his mouth!

mail from paypal:

Sehr geehrter Herr Gerhard Umstädter,

vielen Dank für Ihre Anfrage an PayPal.

Leider muss ich Ihnen mitteilen, dass ich keine Rückzahlung an Sie in
Ihrem Paypal Konto feststellen kann.

Bitte setzen Sie sich diesbezüglich mit dem Empfänger der Zahlung in
Verbindung und fordern Sie nochmals die Rückzahlung, wenn diese mit Ihm
vereinbart war.

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This means, that Brandon didn´t refund the money! Everybody can decide by his own what he thinks about Brandon Rohde. For me - he is a gangster! If I can get him anytime when I´m in the USA - I will get my money!

Thank you for your attention. Please tell everybody to be carefull with this rat.

did you get your parts at least?

Hi Mr. Tamiya,

I didn´t get anything than just the last mail... No parts, no refund: NOTHING!

I think i figured it out.. Team paradigm has joined forces with Big Jim Greenmeyer... You know him. the self proclaimed motor god.. Well just look around at big jims threads.. he is a theif as well.. Takes you money, and waits many many months to send you your stuff.. and by the time you get it it is outdated..

So maybe paratheif is using big jims business practices.. maybe eventually some day you might get something...i personally will never buy there stuff.. after the actions i saw of a few former team guys who were caught cheatin...

I ordered some stuff at Big Jim and I got it in 2 weeks...

As someone who has been screwed on these boards before...I think you have been taken my friend.....I applaud you for sharing your transaction with us....I for one WILL NOT order from these people.......There are other honest Buisnesses on this thread
so why even bother with someone you not sure of......Again..I hope you get your
money or product....But no matter what the result is....They will never see any of my
money

I think it speaks volumes about Brandon and his business that he hasn't been back on the forums to give his side of the story. He was here in the beginning to say it never happened, then he admitted that it did. Now he seems to not care that he is ripping people off... I'll never buy from him, and any event that I attend, I'll make my feelings about "team paradigm" known.
Brian

that´s why I posted this story in this (and other) forums. I don´t like it when somebody behaves like Brandon Rohde.

Now I posted what happened. Everybody can decide by his own if he wants to buy something from Brandon or not.

If somebody sees Brandon at a event - ask him directly in his face about this story! I can prove everything I wrote here!

UMS. I applaud you on your patience.You started this thread on 4-20-05 Now that is very close to 2 months., and you have not been delivered your parts and the full refund as promise.I could only hope I was as patience as you for getting screwed out of what you paid for. It is a shame we have buisness men in our hobby that cannot stand behind there word.But as already stated above.I also will never consider doing buisness with Team Paradigm. I consider this chapter as being closed.and I wish things would have turned out better for you. Take care

sent you an email

I saw some comments in this thread about Big Jim and thought I'd copy this here too...

This was copied from another board~

Big Jim Rest in Peace
Sometime between 8:00am pacific Time and one hour ago Big Jim sat back in his chair and passed on. I could say a million things about JIm. Hard headed , grouchy, egotistic, funny, lazy, brillient, Loved science fiction, R.C cars and motors and a little red vet. He also loved his Mom, Sister and her family, and his Daughter and Granddauter, his best friends were Don Camblle, Tom Bowlin, and myself. He was a pain in the ass and I will miss him he was family.

Thats the best I can do right now.

Luv ya Jim I hope the girl of your deams and a little red vet are on the other side waiting for you.

Jay KImbrough

Will update funeral Arangements as soon as I can.

__________________ Jay Kimbrough

I am shocked! Is it true? I can´t realize that!

Jim, I hope you feel better at the place you are now. I never met you face to face - but I enjoyed the emails I got from you...
You helped me in some cases I didn´t expect any help from a guy who is so far away and who doesn´t know me personaly...

I will keep you in my mind and heart.


With the best wishes

Gerhard


burbs: I didn´t get an email from you... Please send it to ums@gedas.de

burbs: Sorry, got the mail...

A new mail from Brandon:

Gerhard,
I have had a submission through PayPal to refund the money, however have nort heard back from them yet. I will instead do a standard "Send Money" to you tomorrow for the full amount. I am in no means a liar... it is simply a matter of PayPal's terms of not refunding the amount after 60 days.

Sincerely,
Brandon Rohde

"Umstaedter, Gerhard" <Gerhard.Umstaedter@gedas.de> wrote:
Brandon!

What´s wrong with you? Paypal told me, you didn´t refund anything! And my
order isn´t here yet!

I was right! You are a lier! Check out hobbytalk, now the people know who
you are!

Gerhard

Until I get the money and the order I don´t believe anything! Remember "his part of the deal"...

As I recall, he said that he would refund the money AND send the parts you ordered. I can understand the paypal refund being slow, but you should have had your parts by now if he was a man of his word, just my opinion though,
Brian

If I were Brandon, I'd quit bothering with the Paypal REFUND and just send him some money asap. HELLO!?!?! I'd also send his order and post the tracking info here so we can all see.

I can't call someone a thief that hasn't stolen from me,and I personally have had no problems with Big Jim or paradigm,but from the sounds of it there are problems.I have ordered stuff from Big Jim and received it in a timely manner with no problems,so I couldn't say one way or the other,but if he hasn't ever stolen from you I can't condone calling him a thief,a poor business man maybe but that doesn't make him a thief.

Pepe, I´m not talking about Jim! Only TeamParadigm and Brandon.

How do you call it if you transfer money and you don´t get something for it since 6 month now?

Pepe, I´m not talking about Jim! Only TeamParadigm and Brandon.

How do you call it if you transfer money and you don´t get something for it since 6 month now?

I understand your frustration,I would be pretty peeoed myself,but sometimes you just gotta learn from it and move on,I've been ripped off for a LOT and I mean a LOT more money than what your talking about here and it sucks for sure,but I learned a valuable lesson in the end,and that's what I have to keep telling myself.

I understand your frustration,I would be pretty peeoed myself,but sometimes you just gotta learn from it and move on,I've been ripped off for a LOT and I mean a LOT more money than what your talking about here and it sucks for sure,but I learned a valuable lesson in the end,and that's what I have to keep telling myself.

Yeah, there is the philosophy that "It cost you a $150 to learn not to order from this company." I applaud your continued efforts though...

that´s true. But if nobody talks about that, many people pay 150 $ for this lesson, right?

UMS: I too applaud your efforts. I would not give up until you recieve satisfaction. To many times people like this get away with ripping other people off cause the person being ripped off gives up and just say "it sucks, but I learned a valuable lesson". Keep us posted with the results... best of luck to you.

RC

Wow, what a surprise! The first result: Brandon sent the money to my paypal account...
Now it´s time for his second part of the deal (order).

Thank you guys for supporting me. Without your support I wouldn´t have had this patience!

Without going into too much detail...I had a poor experience with Paradigm a couple years ago. Their website listed a motor as being in stock. I ordered the motor and some brushes. Credit Card was charged for the whole order. Then I get an email saying that the motor is out of stock and my order won't ship until more motors are available. I told Brandon to cancel the motor order, refund my card, and ship the brushes ASAP. After a few weeks, that happened. When the brushes arrived, 5 sets I think, two of the packages had broken brushes inside them. I emailed Brandon. He said that they must have broke during shipping. I just dropped it there and decided not to buy from Paradigm anymore.

still no order here...

ok, but my money is back. That´s the positiv thing.

But remember - there were two parts of Brandons deal...

Well good luck! At least you have your money back. I have been trying to order and contact for a few months now. There phones are out and now just about everything on there website is "Out of Stock" I am glad I saw this post before I made a transaction with them. This has been like this before Big Jims sudden passing so I dont know what is going on in Wisconsin!

spider, goog luck! Or did you get anything?

well, my money is here... but no order yet. Better I close this chapter - Brandon will not do anything...