Well here's my promised 2 week post. Obviously Barry Jon Michie AKA Cambron (the name on my bounced checks) hasn't done the honorable thing and paid me the money he owes me nor any of the several dozen other people that contacted me off board to tell me their "TankRats Jon is a Thief" story...and unfortunately I'm not exxagerating that number.
Due to the fact that Barry Jon Michie is such a con-man sc**b*g I doubt that any of us will ever see a cent BUT if nothing else if everyone of you who has been cheated by Jon contact the people/authorities I am about to list maybe law enforcement will be forced to look into Jon, his wife and their backhanded thieving business practices and shut his operation down. The hobby doesn't need a puke like him in it.
I have already filed a complaint against him through the FBI's Internet Fraud website (listed). To those in the trade I also have his current, I believe> personal cell number and I will gladly share it with you off board along with Pdf of his bounced checks.
As I wrote above the hobby is too small and too important a part of many of our lives to let a scummy grifter like TankRats ruin it for many of us so let the authority's know how you were cheated!

Regards bobC

Here are the addresses, names, emails etc

Arizona Attorney General, Consumer Fraud Div., Phoenix Office (He lives in a suburb of Phoenix)
http://www.azag.gov/consumer/ 1-800-352-8431 1-602-542-5025

OK here's my actual complaint This is a copy of the complaint filed with the FBI
https://complaint.ic3.gov/default.aspx

Here's the FBI Internet fraud site
http://www.ic3.gov/default.aspx very easy to follow the prompts to the complaint form

Maricopa County Sheriif's Dept. White Collar Crime Division 1-602-876-1092
http://www.mcso.org/index.php?a=Home

Peoria Az. Police Dept (his hometown Police Dept.) 1-623-773-8311
http://www.peoriaaz.gov/content2.aspx?ID=14413#

Police Department
Contact Info:
8351 W. Cinnabar Ave.
Peoria, AZ 85345
Phone: 623-773-8311
Administration: 623-773-7096
Fax:

I hate that anyone got scammed, but how beautiful would it be if Sheriff Joe Arpaio go a hold of your "buddy" and put him in the tent camp all winter, on a road gang, in pink underwear, with nothing to watch on TV but the Weather Channel, to see how hot and cold it was going to be in the tent camp or next morning on the road gang!

If there is a veteran that's been scammed, pull that card with Sheriff Joe, and watch him PERSONALLY get involved in "taking out the trash!"

For those of you not familiar: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Arpaio

Good luck to all you guys!

What a shame he scammed so many people. Even more of a shame, the pathetic crowd of his hangers on defending him at every turn as a "Gee, shucks, it's hard to run a business" guy.
Hope he knows what happens to Tank "Rats" in jail....!

Bob, I ordered some PE from him October 17th. All were listed as in stock. It was a small order and my first time ordering from him. Haven't seen my order and he's taken my credit card payment. I have called and emailed several times but no response. He's definitely in operation as he's posting videos on his website.

BTW I pinged his site and it is run out of Florida which means transactions are going through FLA. I am up in Canada so don't know your laws there in the U.S. but assume the FLA authorities would have to get involved as well.

http://www.totalwarinscale.blogspot.com/

I'm TRULY amazed at how many people this guy has screwed. I was at a show in Cleveland on Sunday (great show guys!) and guy after guy came up to me and told me about their "unfortunate outcome" 'Rat" B***ard experience. Guys were getting screwed out of $20-$30 etc smallish amounts but added it up the total was a few hundred dollars and this was from just a few guys at one show. Like I say in my post above "the hobby is to small to let a scammer like this continue....So if you've been screwed at least call/write etc the Arizona AG and put the Rat on their fraud radar
Below is all the info I have that many may never have seen


[email protected]

Address and name on my bounced Checks is it actually him? I don't know

Barry J. Michie
8201 W. Beardsley Rd. Apt 1010
Peoria, AZ 85382

Address on website
Tank Rats AFV Depot
8161 W. Clara Ln.
Peoria, Az 85382

Phone Numbers
1-480-269-8177 Shop?
1-623-249-0002 His cell?
1-623-362-0082 ? At one point he answered all the listed numbers

http://www.tankratsafvdepot.com/index.php?main_page=contact_us&zenid=78b0f91f6fb9c670bb7a576c46c63adf
There is an email function from this web page on his sale site

Wouldn't that be determined by where the website is hosted from?

Just because the business is in AZ, doesn't necessarily mean that is where the website is being hosted from.

Not sure where my website pings from, but I am pretty sure that since my website host is Go Daddy, that the ping wouldn't show from New Brunswick, Canada, even though that is where the business is.

Bob,

Did you contact your credit card provider and what was their response?

Paul

has nothing to do with a credit card. He owes me money based on bad checks. Though anyone who was cheated and used a CC to make your purchase can pursue The Tank Turd via their CC company
Another post Tuesday!

I placed an order on their site earlier in the year. As I am based in Hong Kong, while the postal service is very good, sometimes international mail can go astray, so I contacted them by email to check if they did send the package.

In spite of several chasers, I never got a response, which makes me believe that they have a habit of non-performance. Fortunately, it was on about US$30.

Best regards
John

I encourage anyone who has be cheated and stolen from by Barry Jon Cambron Michie AKA TankRats or some permutation of those names to go after him through your CC company if that is how you paid. The CC companies are MUCH more responsive than taxpayer supported law enforcement!
Grifters like Jon are cancers on any and everything they get involved in and I am doing everything I can to put him out of business.
So don't accept that its "...only $30" in reality it's "...only $30" from lots of people-Ultimately he's a conman thief and needs to be ,finally, brought to justice or minimally put out of business!
You guys would truly not believe the emails and phone calls I'm getting about him and how he's cheated people!

ASorry off my soapbox
Regards bobC

Taking a lot of money from one guy is risky, but taking small money from many guys is a much safer way to steal. Most of the times the many won't bother since they "only" lost small money.

You should take him to small claims court and then try to get someone like Judge Judy to hear the case. Embarrassment might be the most effective tool.

RobG

"You should take him to small claims court and then try to get someone like Judge Judy to hear the case. Embarrassment might be the most effective tool.


I beg to differ. A baseball bat across the kneecaps works wonders. To paraphrase the words of Inspector Alexander "Clubber" Williams, NYPD:

"There is more justice at the end of a patrolman's nightsick than in all the decisions of the Supreme Court."

This is beyond small claims court. This qualifies as interstate credit card/bank fraud. He's in the major leagues now.

And your legal bills from application of the baseball bat negate any restitution for your initial losses. But I know you're just being facitious.

He alone hasn't been taken for enough money. Perhaps if they all ban together, but not singularly. I thought he was out several thousand dollars, not a paltry amount, but not a Bernie Madoff amount either.


RobG

Bob was stiffed in a big way. Check out what he had to say about this in previous threads. As far as the money goes, if everyone who had paid for items, and not received them, files a criminal complaint with the relevant agencies Bob listed, he will be charged with bank/credit fraud, kiting checks and possibly for violations of interstate commerce regulations.

P.S.

I wasn't being facetious.