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This case points out the HUGE risk everyone takes when purchasing wheels or any other high dollar item from any vendor online, especially when the vendors require most if not all the funds up front. Many vendors/resellers today in the information age operate from their garage, in days past ( I know as I had a shop in the 80's ) you had to have a honest to goodness business and store front before you could buy from parts wholesalers and private companies. Enter the "boutique" wheel world and you have the very real potential for fraud, both by the reseller and even by the manufacturer. Even vendors/resellers with impeccable reputations can have an overnight financial crisis and you could be left literally holding the empty money bag and attempting to recoup your funds across state lines, though online payment brokers, credit card companies and or from a person you may never even spoke to face to face let alone really know. The bulk of us no longer can just walk into an honest to goodness speed shop thanks to their destruction largely due to the mail order/online resellers and their lower overhead so we as consumers are the real risk takers in these higher dollar "ghost" transactions. I certainly hope you recover your funds but I fear you have a fight ahead of you.
Ed M.