Larsen Larceny Exposed!
Here's an interesting exercise for anyone who imagines that Eric Larsen is an honest guy who just has a lot of bad luck.
I've spent time searching around forums, chat sites, what-have-yous, looking for anything to do with HBE (should have done this before sending him any money, but anyway..) and have found a bunch of people who waited an extrodanarily long time for their holster because the first holster he sent out to them was "lost in the mail". I know. Mine was one of them(see post #78 this thread).
Now we all know that the USPS sucks but, in truth, they really don't "lose" things very often at all. Usually if they do it's only because the address was really screwed up and even then only if there's no return address to fall back on.
I've done quite of bit of sending and recieving mail in my life and can honestly say that USPS has never lost anything of mine. I thought for sure they did once (a $500 McMillan stock with Badger bottom metal) but that turned out to be my fault and I got it right back when I corrected my mistake. Maybe some of you haven't enjoyed my kind of luck but if you were losing the kind of volume Eric claims to you probably wouldn't keep leaving it to "luck".
I can't go back and find all the posts that I've come across on these different boards where folks have said Eric's first attempt to fill their order was "lost in the mail", but an honest, un-exagerated estimate is about 6 people me included. Not too many but consider this only represents the percentage of his customers who a) post on the internet and b) care to comment on the HBE topic.
We might conclude that there are many times this number of customers who get treated to this story but aren't posting about it on the WWW.
Well, so what? Except then all the excuses that seem to pop up early and often start looking pretty thin... Flooding, computer frying, copied down your number wrong, deathly ill, moving, phone company locking down cell phone, out of materials, mold reworking, spam filter on email, divorce, computer "offline", stolen phone, too many government contracts (really!?), funerals..
Wow.
Some of these may very well be true but there are some real looloo's in there too. And in light of the dubious and well-worn "lost in the mail" story one might reasonably suspect Eric's honesty.
I want my money back. Now. Eric and I had a verbal contract. He took the money up front. I trusted him. He's broken the contract and is now avoiding me. I've been asking (via phone, bbs, PM, email, smoke signal) for a refund for the last month. It may take 12+ months to get a holster out... but it doesn't take a month to mail a check. That's crooked. It shows bad faith and that's where "excuses" become "lies".