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[RSchneider]

Sadly, you are correct.

One of my biggest "Pet Peeves" is people who say "I'm gonna" -- I'm gonna do this or gonna do that.

Clearly there was money spent on the prototypes, but why go through that exercise if you didn't have a plan in place to bring the "Mongrel" to market. I think I would have researched all of the import regulations, etc. or had a warehouse in the US to build the thing (without worrying about importing regulations). The guy claimed to have built race cars and such, so this should have been a "walk in the park". There was nothing exotic about the "Mongrel" that could not have been sourced in the US -- all "off the shelf" parts and some sheet metal.

I imagine he could have had Paul Elio's database of reservation holders for a song, then sent out literature to each of them.

It reminded me of a personal project for him and he just used this group and others who got shafted by Elio, to make him feel good about what he was doing. I found out that when he was extremely defensive about this project and what he could do, sent up a red flag that he was covering up something. Plus, what was his last name? We knew he was Mark and going to make the BEX Mongrel but other than that, zero information about him. He wrote his resume for everyone to make it sound like that he had it all under control and was here for you, the Elio Owner. He got what he wanted, a handful of people that supported him and were ready to buy, yet he never intended to sell or any of his other plans.