Julian Barnes: Thief - Severnside imports - Achilles Tire - Low Brain Drifters

Andy_F said:
So many stories about this bloke, the guy is a scumbag. Glad to actually hear it from someone high in the community for once.

Not really sure if I should post this now, but maybe it will change some people's minds. One of the first stories to surface about Julian here (akinadan's original thread about it all which was originally removed), with plenty of words straight from the horses mouth. Long, convoluted, but bloody interesting to see how shitty his business practices are. Have a read of this and see if you still think he's a decent bloke.

http://www.driftworks.com/forum/drifting-chat/113036-ghostdancer-scam-just-taken-mug.html

For those who can't be bothered to read it all, here's the jist:

Bloke buys a car (somewhat indirectly) from the old scumbag Ghost dancer, through Julian Barnes.
Car isn't as described at all when it finally arrives.
Julian refuses to give the guy a refund when he refuses the car on grounds of misrepresentation.
Julian folds the company, clams it was in his wife's name, then starts another company with a very very similar name but slightly different for legality.
Original buyer is out of pocket for a lot of money and has never got it back.
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Read this whole thread ? Really disgusting
 
ilovelamp said:
are the geomasters made of gold?
i didnt hear anything about 15k,
tbh this thread is getting 2deep4me
i was just trying to convince people he isnt the serial murder he was made out to be, just goes to show english=trust no one
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Are you taking the piss or are you retarded?

Akinadan - just read your thread of woe in regards to the FD, I can't imagine how much pain that's caused you and your family! What a nightmare!
 
II Timmi II said:
I just read that whole thread reference the rx7. Cracking read if you want an example of jumped up know-it-alls talking about something they clearly know nothing about. There is something iffy about the whole thing but at the end of the day you may aswell grab 15k and set fire to it if your taking a cyber advert as gospel as to the condition of a car. Especially an import.

I suggest if driftworks want their bits back then go seek legal advice instead of getting ye old faithful bum lickers to spread slander via fb / twittwatter etc. This is a public forum but with accusations like this not a public matter unless you can prove with clear cut evidence that major wrongdoing has occurred. As of which there is none.

If anything you are doing Julian a favour, in months to come unless this "evidence" comes to light, which I doubt it will. Then it will be free advertising / marketing lol * ironic*

Commen sense prevails, apart from on the driftworks forum it seems...
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Julian has posted a similar on FB.
 
Ross. said:
Are you taking the piss or are you retarded?

Akinadan - just read your thread of woe in regards to the FD, I can't imagine how much pain that's caused you and your family! What a nightmare!
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Im taking the piss because Im retarded, and at this stage Im trying to get band off this shite forum becuase no one even cares about drifting and everyone is a keyboard warrior that thinks they are smarter than the next poster.
 
ilovelamp said:
Im taking the piss because Im retarded, and at this stage Im trying to get band off this shite forum becuase no one even cares about drifting and everyone is a keyboard warrior that thinks they are smarter than the next poster.
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Simple if you are so fucking bothered learn to spell and read properly and don't log on !
 
ilovelamp said:
Im taking the piss because Im retarded, and at this stage Im trying to get band off this shite forum becuase no one even cares about drifting and everyone is a keyboard warrior that thinks they are smarter than the next poster.
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you should change your name to ilovejulian before you go
 
Andy_F said:
Have you even read the first post? What more do you want?
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EVIDENCE. i.e proof. Take the first post into a legal court and see where it gets you without genuine e-mail /recorded phone conversations

I may appear to be defending the accused but in the real world all this is crap. Just bullying tactics that WOULD stand up in a court of law.
 
II Timmi II said:
I just read that whole thread reference the rx7. Cracking read if you want an example of jumped up know-it-alls talking about something they clearly know nothing about. There is something iffy about the whole thing but at the end of the day you may aswell grab 15k and set fire to it if your taking a cyber advert as gospel as to the condition of a car. Especially an import.

I suggest if driftworks want their bits back then go seek legal advice instead of getting ye old faithful bum lickers to spread slander via fb / twittwatter etc. This is a public forum but with accusations like this not a public matter unless you can prove with clear cut evidence that major wrongdoing has occurred. As of which there is none.

If anything you are doing Julian a favour, in months to come unless this "evidence" comes to light, which I doubt it will. Then it will be free advertising / marketing lol * ironic*

Commen sense prevails, apart from on the driftworks forum it seems...
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are you a bit simple or something?

or did you just not read that thread?

simple facts, REGARDLESS of wether the car/advert was decent, or what condition of the car was:
The buyer handed over 15,000 POUNDS and hasnt got A SINGLE PENNY BACK OR THE CAR

£15,000.

£15,000 and NOTHING back. in case you missed it. with no reasonable explanation.

he provided pages of "clear cut evidence" its not slander. its in black and white for you to read.

As for the dworks issue, i think its safe to say that phil probably has earnt enough through honest sales and work not to be that arsed about the financial loss of a set of geomasters, but more the principle of it.

If the above serves as free advertising and makes people want to get work done/cars imported at severnside then honestly im hanging up my driving gloves and walking away from this sport!


on another note to flip things, ive met julian and he seemed pretty sound so got no personal reason not to like him, however that doesnt excuse the above does it?
 
Dear Guys
i met Julian in 2009.
I bought some cars from him. No problems at all.
So we diced to invite him in Italy for a drifting race in ROME with Luke Fink.
No preblem as well.
We bought other cars thanks to him, even if he changed always bank account and also he used his girlfriend company and account.

We gave other money but this time he never gave us a car, or them back.
So 23.000 gbp lost!
and with all the bank trasfer as prove.
He said that he spent and cannot give us back.
I have emails proving!

He told us, when he will have....
well now is 2013 and nothing happened since 2010!!
simply disappeared but still in business!

strange!!!

Also we discovered he used Severnside Company details and invoices and everything also after the company was closed.

HE IS SIMPLY a STEELER!!!

thanks for listening, i hope can help.

i have many many emails, to many to post. thanks
 
Fwiw I think drifting's full of dicks like this.
Poor quality and misrepresented cars, parts, service etc. Rip off merchants and drug dealers laundering profits through cars/businesses etc.

The shit people accept and pay good money for in this scene would be scrap anywhere else and the term mint amongst the community is so far off the mark it's a joke.

There are a lot of decent people out there but they're the ones that struggle to run businesses, compete, sponsor drivers, just to survive.
 
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II Timmi II said:
I just read that whole thread reference the rx7. Cracking read if you want an example of jumped up know-it-alls talking about something they clearly know nothing about. There is something iffy about the whole thing but at the end of the day you may aswell grab 15k and set fire to it if your taking a cyber advert as gospel as to the condition of a car. Especially an import.

I suggest if driftworks want their bits back then go seek legal advice instead of getting ye old faithful bum lickers to spread slander via fb / twittwatter etc. This is a public forum but with accusations like this not a public matter unless you can prove with clear cut evidence that major wrongdoing has occurred. As of which there is none.

If anything you are doing Julian a favour, in months to come unless this "evidence" comes to light, which I doubt it will. Then it will be free advertising / marketing lol * ironic*

Commen sense prevails, apart from on the driftworks forum it seems...
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Clearly I didn't just hand payment on the basis of a cyber advert, emails to-from ****** ******* and Julian Barnes

and I insisted on paying in person once I'd confirmed that the ebay seller wasn't some thieving monkey operating via the internet from Somalia

I had confirmation by e-mail that the seller knew the car personally and that it was built to a top standard, now apart from jumping on a flight to Japan I'm pretty sure I did as much as I could under the circumstances


***Edit: Removed example of un-disputable evidence for now, we'll keep this for the courts, but there you've seen a fraction of the evidence with your own eyes



but hey ho, I was nieve and it cost me


Pass on my regards
 
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II Timmi II said:
EVIDENCE. i.e proof. Take the first post into a legal court and see where it gets you without genuine e-mail /recorded phone conversations

I may appear to be defending the accused but in the real world all this is crap. Just bullying tactics that WOULD stand up in a court of law.
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so because in this day and age stupid laws/courts side on the guilty even when its obvious to anyone with common sense what has happened, and let people get away with stealing money by using loopholes/running up bills and folding companies means that we too should just let it slide and not bring it to anyones attention?

as it might just turn out that this isnt isolated incident

edit- well fuck me look at that, few posts above.

rest my case
 
This thread is absolutely pathetic, Julian is a good friend of mine and you lot live less than an hour away, like one of you couldn't drive down and talk face to face with him about this ( I.e you phil ) instead of writing it on your own forum...

Funny how Matt at pure performance has ripped people off left right and centre and fucked people's cars up which other people have had to fix and to you still had him as a trader on your site!

I know as much as the next person on this situation but putting it on a forum is stupid!!

My advice is simple.. Be a man and go talk to him in person.. Resolve this properly not puttin it over the net.
 
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