IMSAI II - still viable OR has anyone else lost their deposit?

I had absolutely the same experience. I paid in full for a machine in march of 2003. For a year he bs'ed me about how the machine was a few months off. Then in june of 2004 I asked for my money back. He then went from telling me how honorable a businessman he was, to lying about sending me a refund, to no response at all. This man is in my opinion a liar and a fraud if not worse. DO NOT SEND HIM MONEY NO MATTER WHAT HE CLAIMS HE CAN DO. -----Original Message----- From: cctech-bounces at classiccmp.org [mailto:cctech-bounces at classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of Robert Stek Sent: Monday, October 01, 2007 12:22 PM To: cctalk at classiccmp.org Subject: IMSAI II - still viable OR has anyone else lost their deposit? I was an early fan of the Todd Fischer's IMSAI II project (www.imsai.net) and sent off a deposit several years ago. I even offered to review it in Ciarcia's Circuit Cellar Ink (I'm a friend of Steve's and formerly lived in Hartford). I understand the problems of a task like re-inventing the IMSAI and think that I have been more than patient. His website is still active, he has a copyright date of 2007 on it, and it appears that you can still order not only an IMSAI II but other items as well. Unfortunately I have emailed him several times over the past 12-18 months and haven't had the courtesy of a response. I know he's there - he posts in comp.os.cpm - but from him to me: nada, zip, zilch, nothing. Is there anyone else on the list who was as retrospectively foolish as I as to trust him with a deposit? It doesn't speak much for his ethics if he advertises and takes orders for non-existent products (who was that guy and his company that advertised in Kilobaud, among others, back in the '70's with full page ads for non-existent products? Remember that?). And his customer service skills are non-existent if he just ignores politely worded inqueries re: progress on the product. So, am I the only one still waiting for an IMSAI II? Bob Stek Saver of Lost Sols