Hi everyone,
First of all, since this is my first post I would like to congratulate the owner(s) and all others that were involved in creating this site and its forum and maintaining it. SWEEET.
For the past few months I have been sneaking around reading post that have help me more than the current 2 Disk CD and Euro Haynes manuals have together.
Now back to business....

This is a warning to all that have seen and visited these websites and have or have not purchased product from this company.
The parent company is called:
Parts Components International, Inc. (also known as PCI)
Listed below is half of the websites that PCI has been stealing under.
www.partscomponents.com
www.1autobodyparts.com
www.2autobodyparts.com
www.autopartsland.com
www.partscomponents.com
www.auto-headlights-taillights.com
www.myautobodyparts.com
www.auto-body-parts-online.com
www.autopartsdiscountcenter.com

DO NOT BUY FROM THESE SITES. If you find other sites that have prices that are too good to be true, compare the "Terms and Conditions" page before purchasing. If the "Terms and Conditions" are similar, walk away.

The sites advertise product that they don't have in stock. They will tell you that they do, but as soon as your credit card processing is completed (1-2 days) you will be notified of a 4-8 week delay.
So what do you do?? Most people cancel their order. What happens when you cancel your order?? You are charged a 25% fee.
If you lucky you get your money back through your credit card protection plan. I'm still waiting....
For those individuals that don't cancel their order, 2-4 months later,,, some get the items they ordered,,, some are still waiting

For more information check with the BBB and www.badbusinessbureau.com (also known as www.RipOffReport.com)
Hope this helps some of you.

Thanks for posting this thread. A lot of us here buy via websites and we need to know who are the good guys and who are not.

Hope things work out for you getting your money back.

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1992 500E (Daily Driver)
2004 Porsche RUF 955 Dakara 550

This thread. This company is the worst that I have dealth with. I am fighting with them to refund me for something they said has shipped but did not.

lata,

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"no one changes..it has always been there"
---Robert Nesta Marley

Here is the DNS info on those URLs:

Registrant:
Pars Company Inc. (PARTSCOMPONENTS-DOM)
P.O. Box 3883
Cary, NC 27519
US

Domain Name: PARTSCOMPONENTS.COM

Administrative Contact:
Vahmi, Kasra (KVI29) partsco@PARTSCOMPONENTS.COM
Parts Components International
12812 S SPRING ST
LOS ANGELES, CA 90061-1620
US
310/538-5900 fax: 999 999 9999
Technical Contact:
DataPipe (HO4576-ORG) domains@DATAPIPE.COM
DataPipe
609 Washington Street
Hoboken, NJ 07030
US
201-792-1918 fax: 201-792-3090

Record expires on 07-Jul-2003.
Record created on 18-Oct-2002.
Database last updated on 14-Jun-2003 14:24:18 EDT.

Domain servers in listed order:

NS1.DATAPIPE.NET 64.27.65.13
NS2.DATAPIPE.NET 64.27.64.76



Parts Components International Inc.
7060 Hollywood Blvd.
Suite 315
Hollywood, California 90028
United States

Registered through: Go Daddy Software (http://www.godaddy.com)
Domain Name: 1AUTOBODYPARTS.COM
Created on: 27-Feb-02
Expires on: 27-Feb-06
Last Updated on: 12-Oct-02

Administrative Contact:
Components Int'l Inc., Parts samnobar@hotmail.com
Parts Components International Inc.
7060 Hollywood Blvd.
Suite 315
Hollywood, California 90028
United States
(323) 469-7800 Fax -- (323) 469-7899
Technical Contact:
Components Int'l Inc., Parts samnobar@hotmail.com
Parts Components International Inc.
7060 Hollywood Blvd.
Suite 315
Hollywood, California 90028
United States
(323) 469-7800 Fax -- (323) 469-7899

Domain servers in listed order:
NS1.CYBERBLVD.NET
NS1.D2.NET

Parts Components International inc.
KASRA VAHMI
12812 S. Spring Street
Los Angeles, CA 90061
US
Phone: (310)538-5900
Fax..: (310)538-0066
Email: wholesale@partscomponents.com

Registrar Name....: Register.com
Registrar Whois...: whois.register.com
Registrar Homepage: http://www.register.com

Domain Name: 2AUTOBODYPARTS.COM

Created on..............: Fri, Dec 14, 2001
Expires on..............: Sun, Dec 14, 2003
Record last updated on..: Sat, Jun 15, 2002

Administrative Contact:
SmartWin Technology
Yong CHEN
2/67 Tranmere Ave
Carnegie, VI 3163
AU
Phone: +61-3-9568-2565
Fax..: +61-3-8660-2013
Email: ychen@smartwin.com.au

Technical Contact, Zone Contact:
Register.Com
Domain Registrar
575 8th Avenue - 11th Floor
New York, NY 10018
US
Phone: 902-749-2701
Fax..: 902-749-5429
Email: domain-registrar@register.com

Domain servers in listed order:

NS1.DATAPIPE.NET 64.27.65.13
NS2.DATAPIPE.NET 64.27.64.76


Nobar International
7060 Hollywwod Blvd.
Suite 315
Hollywood, California 90028
United States

Registered through: Go Daddy Software (http://www.godaddy.com)
Domain Name: AUTOPARTSLAND.COM
Created on: 18-Dec-01
Expires on: 18-Dec-05
Last Updated on: 05-Sep-02

Administrative Contact:
Nobar, Sam samnobar@hotmail.com
Nobar International
7060 Hollywwod Blvd.
Suite 315
Hollywood, California 90028
United States
(323) 469-7800 Fax -- (323) 469-7899
Technical Contact:
Nobar, Sam samnobar@hotmail.com
Nobar International
7060 Hollywwod Blvd.
Suite 315
Hollywood, California 90028
United States
(323) 469-7800 Fax -- (323) 469-7899

Domain servers in listed order:
NS1.DATAPIPE.NET
NS2.DATAPIPE.NET

Pars Company Inc. (PARTSCOMPONENTS-DOM)
P.O. Box 3883
Cary, NC 27519
US

Domain Name: PARTSCOMPONENTS.COM

Administrative Contact:
Vahmi, Kasra (KVI29) partsco@PARTSCOMPONENTS.COM
Parts Components International
12812 S SPRING ST
LOS ANGELES, CA 90061-1620
US
310/538-5900 fax: 999 999 9999
Technical Contact:
DataPipe (HO4576-ORG) domains@DATAPIPE.COM
DataPipe
609 Washington Street
Hoboken, NJ 07030
US
201-792-1918 fax: 201-792-3090

Record expires on 07-Jul-2003.
Record created on 18-Oct-2002.
Database last updated on 14-Jun-2003 14:27:52 EDT.

Domain servers in listed order:

NS1.DATAPIPE.NET 64.27.65.13
NS2.DATAPIPE.NET 64.27.64.76


Nobar International
7060 Hollywood Blvd.,
Suite 315
Hollywood, California 90028
United States

Registered through: Go Daddy Software (http://www.godaddy.com)
Domain Name: AUTO-HEADLIGHTS-TAILLIGHTS.COM
Created on: 05-Jun-02
Expires on: 05-Jun-03
Last Updated on: 14-Jun-02

Administrative Contact:
Nobar, Sam samnobar@hotmail.com
Nobar International
7060 Hollywood Blvd.,
Suite 315
Hollywood, California 90028
United States
323 469-7800 Fax --
Technical Contact:
Nobar, Sam samnobar@hotmail.com
Nobar Intrernational
7060 Hollywood Blvd.,
Suite 315
Hollywood, California 90028
United States
323 469-7800 Fax --

Domain servers in listed order:
NS1.DATAPIPE.NET
NS2.DATAPIPE.NET


Nobar International
7060 Hollywwod Blvd.
Suite 315
Hollywood, California 90028
United States

Registered through: Go Daddy Software (http://www.godaddy.com)
Domain Name: MYAUTOBODYPARTS.COM
Created on: 20-Apr-02
Expires on: 20-Apr-05
Last Updated on: 17-Feb-03

Administrative Contact:
Nobar, Sam samnobar@hotmail.com
Nobar International
7060 Hollywwod Blvd.
Suite 315
Hollywood, California 90028
United States
(323) 469-7800 Fax -- (323) 469-7899
Technical Contact:
Nobar, Sam samnobar@hotmail.com
Nobar International
7060 Hollywwod Blvd.
Suite 315
Hollywood, California 90028
United States
(323) 469-7800 Fax -- (323) 469-7899

Domain servers in listed order:
NS1.CYBERBLVD.NET
NS1.D2.NET


Parts Components International inc.
KASRA VAHMI
12812 S. Spring Street
Los Angeles, CA 90061
US
Phone: (310)538-5900
Fax..: (310)538-0066
Email: wholesale@partscomponents.com

Registrar Name....: Register.com
Registrar Whois...: whois.register.com
Registrar Homepage: http://www.register.com

Domain Name: AUTO-BODY-PARTS-ONLINE.COM

Created on..............: Wed, May 01, 2002
Expires on..............: Sat, May 01, 2004
Record last updated on..: Sat, Jun 15, 2002

Administrative Contact:
SmartWin Technology
Yong CHEN
2/67 Tranmere Ave
Carnegie, VI 3163
AU
Phone: +61-3-9568-2565
Fax..: +61-3-8660-2013
Email: ychen@smartwin.com.au

Technical Contact, Zone Contact:
Register.Com
Domain Registrar
575 8th Avenue - 11th Floor
New York, NY 10018
US
Phone: 902-749-2701
Fax..: 902-749-5429
Email: domain-registrar@register.com

Domain servers in listed order:

NS1.DATAPIPE.NET 64.27.65.13
NS2.DATAPIPE.NET 64.27.64.76


Parts Components International inc.
KASRA VAHMI (wholesale@partscomponents.com)
(310)538-5900
FAX: (310)538-0066
12812 S. Spring Street
Los Angeles, CA 90061
US


Administrative Contact:
SmartWin Technology Pty Ltd
Yong CHEN (ychen@smartwin.com.au)
+61-3-9568-2565
FAX: +61-3-8660-2013
2/67 Tranmere Ave
Carnegie, - 3163
AU


Billing Contact:




, -
US


Technical Contact:
SmartWin Technology Pty Ltd
Yong CHEN (ychen@smartwin.com.au)
+61-3-9568-2565
FAX: +61-3-8660-2013
2/67 Tranmere Ave
Carnegie, - 3163
AU



Status: PROTECTED
Note: To help prevent malicious domain hijacking and domain
transfer errors, the registrar has protected the registrant
of this domain name registrant by locking it. Any attempted
transfers will be denied at the registry until the registrant
requests otherwise. The registrant for the name may unlock
the name at any time at the current registrar in order for
a transfer initiation to succeed

DNS servers:
NS1.DATAPIPE.NET
NS2.DATAPIPE.NET

VERY TELLING!

in the open discussion forum, with a link to this one. I think that everyone should know abou this, before they inadvertantly do business with them. If it is permissable to post in the tech forum, will a moderator please email me?

Thanks,

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just something to let you all know, but as far as I know, no company is allowed to charge your credit card until the items are ready to ship.

When I had my computer company, We once ran a charge before we had shipped something, and visa called us up and *****ed us out for doing so and said if we did that it was fraud.

Alon

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'92 300CE - Sold
2004 C240 - 744 - C7 Wheels - Android Radio
2002 C320 - 816 - Sport Wagon

Ashman,

Could you explain how they are getting away with this type of fraud? Is it possible that they are telling the credit card companies that items have been shipped? I believe they are doing this daily.

Thanks,
Stevo

We all need to be reminded to read the "Terms and Conditions" of ANY card: credit or ATM, or any other financial obligation.

When Paypal first came out I signed up. Thought it was smart, convenient and great. Suddenly a credit card of mine that was linked to them wouldn't take a purchase. Odd I thought since it had a credit limit of well over $5k and I had only purchased a few items and there was no balanced carried forward (paid off each month).

I called the card company and they told me Paypal had entered an amount that maxed the card! I was outraged. I called them. They agreed that it was a mistake but couldn't to this day explain how the exact amount in multiple numbers was charged to my card to achieve the EXACT limit of the card.

Long story short, Paypal agreed to send a credit back to the credit card but it would be at least 30 days ..... AND get this, they would not agree to any fees, interest or penalties I got because of their mistake!

Several weeks later a close friend had the same thing happened.

Needless to say, I will never use them.

Read terms and conditions carefully ....

Haasman

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'03 E320 Wagon-Sold
'95 E320 Wagon-Went to Ex
'93 190E 2.6-Wrecked
'91 300E-Went to Ex
'65 911 Coupe (#302580)

Was this before or after Ebay bought PayPal out? I believe things have changed a bit, before I heard the president of PayPal openly admitted that they hid the customer service links. Also you could expect a few day wait on replies.... I haven't tried contacting them lately but they seem to have links everywhere now and I haven't heard as many complaints. However as for their fraud there is a site with nothing but complaints and advice on it, http://www.paypalwarning.com

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Jeff M.
Mercedes W123 DIY pages are now located here.
1983 / 1984 300D Sold
2000 CLK430 Cabriolet ~58k Sold
2005 Avalanche 4x4 ~66k

Nothing has changed with Ebay-PayPal.

My wife was recently charged for a purchase that never shipped. She's battling with Ebay & PayPal to get her money back.

She will never again do business with Ebay or any group linked to PayPay.

WoW.. Thanks

It is illegal to charge the card before the items are shipped.

In 1992 I was a witness for the District Attorney in Ventura County, CA that went after a mail order house that billed and didn't ship. They got fined 40k and relocated to another state.


It took a lot of consumers to complain before the DA looked
into it.

Squeaky wheel gets the attention.
I still keep one card with a 500 limit and use it for most online purchases. Can't use it for the bigger stuff but I think it limits the chances for fraud. The 500 card is the one I use with Paypal.
I have been double charged a couple times (not paypal) but they took it right off when I complained. I think a call to the credit card company would put the offending merchant in peopardy of loosing their ability to accept cards.