A Moveable Happy Meal: August 2023

A SNAKE IN THE GRASS:

MY EXPERIENCE TRYING TO DO BUSINESS

WITH CASEY MCBROOM OF SHIELD LABS

I’ve been a comics fan since I was a wee lad, building collections and then losing them, taking a long breather from time to time. I built my last collection from 1980 (when I was wowed by issue 136 of Uncanny X-Men) through 2015 (the Secret Wars mini-series). By then I had about 11,000 issues.

Secret Wars seemed like a good exit point from collecting comics. Marvel was resetting its continuity … and my Parkinson’s symptoms were gathering strength. I saw the writing on the wall, and that writing was shaky. I realized that 80 short boxes of comics would constitute a burden on my caretakers or heirs – or an asset if the collection were sold by someone with some idea of its worth.

I sold many of my back issues as sets on ebay.fr from 2018 through 2021. But as my stamina waned, it became too difficult to list and ship the comics, so I sold what remained to a friend who runs a Parisian comic shop. For the first time in 40 years, comics I had none.

Still, I wanted something to serve as a memorial to the hobby I had enjoyed for so long. I decided to use some of the proceeds from my sales proceeds to buy a replica of Captain America’s shield – not a plastic toy, but a hand-crafted metal object that would look good hanging on my wall.

After doing a little research, I placed an order with Shield Labs in Independence, Missouri. Which turned out to be a mistake, one that cost me not only money but also time. And since my remaining time on this earth is alarmingly finite, I resent wasting so much of it on this misadventure.

I know almost nothing about Casey McBroom, who does business as Shield Labs. I know he has a good-looking website where he sells about 30 different movie prop replicas. I know that during the pandemic he took advantage of the federal government’s Paycheck Protection Program, borrowing about $29,000 for “payroll” and having the loans forgiven in 2021 and 2022. I assume, from the way he wishes correspondents a “blessed day,” that he considers himself a godly sort of person. And from my own experience, I know he can be a weasel.

I ordered a replica shield from him in April 2021, paying nearly $800. I never received the item. It took until July 2023 to get back most (but not all) of my money. I ended up writing him 33 emails over a period of 27 months -- 25 of which he ignored. He and his wife promised on five separate occasions to resolve my complaint, and finally coughed up some money only after he was threatened with exposure on Instagram as a scammer.

What follows is my full correspondence with him, presented verbatim. I have added some brief notes in [brackets] to provide context or highlight some particularly egregious examples of his double-talk. Is Casey McBroom and his nonsense worth 5,000 words? Certainly not. But his conduct in this matter is so shameless that it may amuse you, and this chronology may serve as a warning to anyone else choosing to do business with him.

And Casey? Have a blessed day, pal.

-- Mark J McGarry

14 April 2021: Confirmation of order placed by McGarry with Shield Labs

Order 1378

24” classic replica shield prop: $650

Shipping: $123.98

Total: $773.98

21 June 2021: Email from McGarry to Shield Labs, subject: Shield

Hiya. Is there a problem with order 1378? I’m not in a hurry, but it seems to be taking a while. Thanks!

Response: none.

22 November 2021: Email from McGarry to Shield Labs, subject: Order 1378

Hiya. When my shield is ready, could you send it to the following? Thanks!

[And here I provided the name and address of a friend living in Florida. I did not ask for the shipping charge to be recalculated.]

Response: none.

8 December 2021: Email from McGarry to Shield Labs, subject: Order 1378

Hiya. When my shield is ready, could you send it to the following human? I’m currently living in France but will move in the next few months. Greg will hold onto it for me.

Also, this will save you the hassle of shipping the shield overseas. And have you ever had to pay duties on adamantium!?

[Here I repeat the name and address of my friend in Florida. I ended up not moving, but by this time I figured I’d just gift the shield to Greg.]

Response: none.

14 April 2022: Email from McGarry to Shield Labs, subject: Order 1378

Hello! It has been one year since you confirmed my order. What’s going on!?

Response: none.

29 April 2022: Email from McGarry to Shield Labs, subject: Order 1378

I have been waiting for a year. Sheesh.

Response: none.

29 April 2022: Email from McGarry to Shield Labs, subject: Order 1378

WTF, dude?

[After ignoring seven emails sent over the course of a year, the sleeper wakes. And as we will see later, it is not the case that all seven emails somehow failed to reach him. He simply ignored me.]

29 April 2022: Email from Casey McBroom at Shield Labs

Hi, How can I help you? Was there a problem with your order? Thanks & have a blessed day.

29 April 2022: Email from McGarry to Shield Labs, subject: Order 1378

I never received the shield. Or a shipping notification. I wrote you several times but didn’t get an answer.

Response: none.

4 May 2022: Email from McGarry to Shield Labs, subject: Order 1378

I never received the shield. Or a shipping notification. I wrote you several times but didn’t get an answer.

Response: none.

6 May 2022: Email from McGarry to Shield Labs, subject: Order 1378

You can’t even bother to reply?

9 May 2022: Email from Shield Labs

hello! I got your reply in regards to the order and am looking into it, I apologize for the delayed reply but was waiting to get a proper response with some information for you as I have been on the road the lat two weeks. Until I got your message I had no idea there was a problem and bow we are trying to discover if it was shipped out last year if it was lost in transit or one that was returned back to us as we had some problems international orders 2021 due to covid issues in some countries. I will get you more information and a resolution to your problem with the order as soon as possible

Have a blessed day

-Casey

[And so the gaslighting begins. “Until I got your message I had no idea there was a problem”? At this point I’d been complaining about my “problem” for a full year. Nevertheless, I assumed the issue would be settled soon. “As soon as possible,” even.]

21 May 2022: Email from McGarry to Shield Labs, subject: Order 1378

Let’s try this again....

My order #1378 was confirmed 14 April 2021.

24-inch classic replica shield prop, $650.00

shipping, $123.98

total, $773.98

paid in full via PayPal

I never received a shipping confirmation and I never got the shield.

If international shipping is impossible, I can provide a US address.

I’d like to get this resolved in some fashion, I don’t really care how.

Response: none.

24 June 2022: Email from McGarry to Shield Labs, subject: Order 1378

Another month has passed and still no response from you. It has now been 14 months since I ordered my shield.

I guess I should just turn this over to my attorney, right?

Response: none.

5 July 2022: Email from McGarry to Shield Labs, subject: Order 1348

[Yes, I made a typo in the order number in both the subject line and the body of this email. Mea culpa. I did get it right the other 32 times, however.]

Casey McBroom:

As you will recall, I ordered a replica Captain America shield from you on 14 April 2021. I paid in full via PayPal. I received an automated email response acknowledging my order, order 1348. I never received a shipping notification nor have I received the shield.

The details of the order are as follows:

24-inch classic replica shield prop, $650.00

shipping, $123.98

total, $773.98

I sent you emails about this issue on 14 April 2022, 29 April 2022, 3 May 2022, 4 May 2022 and 5 May 2022.

You finally replied by email on 9 May 2022:

Hello! I got your reply in regards to the order and am looking into it, I apologize for the delayed reply but was waiting to get a proper response with some information for you as I have been on the road the last two weeks. Until I got your message I had no idea there was a problem and now we are trying to discover if it was shipped out last year if it was lost in transit or one that was returned back to us as we had some problems with international orders in 2021 due to covid issues in some countries. I will get you more information and a resolution to your problem with the order as soon as possible

Have a blessed day

-Casey

Since then I have heard nothing. I sent you emails on 21 May 2022 and 24 June 2022. You have not responded. I find your behavior astonishing.

I demand a full refund ($773.98) immediately, paid by check drawn on a US bank and mailed to me at the address below. If you do not respond to this email within 72 hours, I will file complaints with the Better Business Bureau and the Missouri Attorney General, and I will report my experience with Shield Labs on Facebook, Instagram, Etsy and Shopify. If I do not receive the check for $773.98 by 13 July 2022, I will file additional complaints with the Better Business Bureau and the Missouri Attorney General, and I will report my continuing experience with Shield Labs on Facebook, Instagram, Etsy and Shopify.

Mark J McGarry

(copied to Law Office of Polly Feigenbaum)

5 July 2022: Email from Shield Labs

here is the confirmation: order 1348 was delivered last year. Let me know if that is all correct and you didn’t receive it and I’ll be happy to help inquire with the post what may have happened however I can. Thanks

5 July 2022: Email from McGarry to Shield Labs, subject: Order 1348

Correction: order 1378.

5 July 2022: Email from Shield Labs

Excellent! Thank you Mark! This will help. I’ll confirm the order information and see if it got shipped out and hopefully can be recovered and resolved quickly for you. I have been happy to help but was operating with the wrong information while looking into your order.

Also, I got an email from a polly a bit ago that I see now is Not you? I assumed it was, but I am guessing they must be associated with you as the email seemed to mirror your previous one. It had a link to a defamatory thread you made about me? I have been as helpful as I can be with the information I had. I’ve been polite and I’m committed to helping you till the end, regardless of the thread you want to make about me, but if your order was shipped out and there was a postal issue there is nothing I can do about that happening. The domestic and international post offices have been Historically Bad the last too years handling mail and covid had effect a-lot of that state to state and country to country. I hope you can understand that.

Anyway, that said. I will go ahead and state here in case I did not before. I’ll confirm whether your order shows it was delivered or not, and if not of course I am happy to re-make/reship your order at my expense, or even issue a refund and lose the shipping and materials if that ends up being preferable. I understand where you may be at viewing the order and issues, and I trust if you say it was not received then it was not, and I will verify that. Regardless I appreciate your initial support and interest in my artwork and hopefully I can get your order sorted out one way or another soon for you. Anyway! Thank You, and have a blessed day! I’ll email again when I have confirmation on order 1378 for you.

[This email of his is just filled with shameless gaslighting. Casey seems to represent that I have been providing him with bum information all along when in fact I got my order number wrong once and I corrected the error within hours. And he seems to have forgotten that he promised in May to deal with this problem “as soon as possible.” He says he is “happy to help,” but this is only the start of his yearslong campaign to avoid resolving an issue in which he is clearly 100 percent in the wrong, both legally and ethically. I am also left cross-eyed by his assertion that “I trust if you say it was not received then it was not, and I will verify that.”

[The “defamatory thread” he refers to was posted on therpf.com, which I guess is popular among cosplayers. I didn’t know about the site until my lawyer brought it to my attention. To this day I’ve had no contact with the two individuals who posted.

[On 13 December 2021, user chocobo86 wrote: Does anyone have any different contact info for this company [Shield Labs] other then what is readily available online? I ordered 2 shields from them back in May and have not received them to date. They were slightly responsive right in November right before the 6 month timer expired on raising the issue with PayPal. Since then i’ve received no response through email, social media, and phone #. Any help would be appreciated as i spent 1,400 on 2 shields and seen nothing in 8 months time.

[Continuing the thread, on 23 December 2022, user wedge77posted: I’m in the same boat as chocobo86. Ordered back in March 2021, and have been ghosted since the time he said he’d ship. I’ll catch him on another social media platform and he’ll respond, but as soon as I bring up the shield that he owes me, he immediately starts ghosting from that point on. I’ve tried every email address I’ve found, instagram, facebook, etsy, and his cell. He’s active on his social media pages, and I’ve seen etsy reviews from people saying that they’ve received their orders from him recently. I’ve found a few other people that have gone through the same thing and it’s really frustrating that just because we ordered from his site before he opened his Etsy store, he’s screwing us over. At this point, I just want my money back.]

5 July 2022: Email from McGarry to Shield Labs, subject: Order 1378

I have made NO comments about you or Shield Labs. I wasn’t aware of that comment until Polly Feigenbaum found it.

I take responsibility for getting the order number wrong, but I have been trying to get some action out of you since 14 April 2022, a full year after I made my order. So I think I have been more than patient, and I look forward to getting this issue resolved.

15 July 2022: Email from McGarry to Shield Labs, subject: Order 1378

Casey: What’s the word on order 1378?

Response: none.

11 August 2022: Email from McGarry to Shield Labs, subject: Order 1378

Yet another month has passed and still no resolution to order #1378, which I paid for on April 14, 2021.

At this point, I do NOT want the shield. Just refund my money, $773.98, by check sent to the below address. I would strongly recommend you send it by FedEx or UPS and provide me with a tracking number.

Response: none.

12 September 2022: Email from McGarry to Shield Labs, subject: Order 1378

You really are a piece of work. I ordered a shield and paid nearly $800 for it SEVENTEEN MONTHS AGO. Never got a shipping notification. Never got the item. And you ignore my emails unless I CC my lawyer.

Well, I’ve CC’d my lawyer. You can deal with her from now on.

Have a blessed day.

12 September 2022: email from Shield Labs

I have not ignored your emails. did you not receive my last reply? You order was shipped. I cannot control any issues through customs or international shipping. Especially while there has been Global shipping issues with covid restrictions, or employee shortages during the past year. We haven’t forgotten you, and you Will get taken care of with either a refund or delivery of your order. We still have a lost parcel inquiry open with USPS and they are slow about these things I apologize. This email was received, and if you could this time shoot back an email to confirm you also received my reply. The address we had for the order was:

Mark J McGarry

4 Villa Blaise Pascal

92200 Neuilly-sur-Seine

France

please confirm again that was indeed correct.

Thank you again & have a blessed day.

12 September 2022: Email from McGarry to Shield Labs, subject: Order 1378

That is indeed my address.

12 September 2022: Email from Shield Labs

Thank you Mark. Email & address confirmation Received

I’m going to make sure and ping back every email so you Know it was received and keep the line of communication going. I completely understand your perspective and frustration in the situation and regardless of how you take this, I get where you’re coming from and appreciate You. I know it will be more solid when you see a physical solution in the form of the order or a refund manifest (and if the order can’t make it to you That WILL be the resolution) but I promise you have Not been forgotten and we are still working to resolve your order. Ideally with the handmade item that work, and materials cost getting to you, or if necessary a refund and hopefully it makes it’s way back to us.

Thank you again for your reply & and have a blessed day

17 October 2022: Automatic shipping confirmation from Shield Labs

Your order is on its way.

[No, dear reader, you didn’t miss a step: Here I’ve been demanding a refund, not the item, since 5 July 2022, and more than three months later I get a notification that my order is “on its way.” But my order is not on its way. The notification links to a tracking number on the USPS web site, and the status is that the package has not yet been given to the Postal Service. Casey has printed a shipping label, but that’s all. The tracking status will remain that way for months.]

29 November 2022: Email from McGarry to Shield Labs, subject: Order 1378

Six weeks ago, I got an email from you with the subject line "A shipment from order #1378 is on its way." The email had a link to a USPS page that says "Pre-Shipment Info Sent to USPS, USPS Awaiting Item." Does this signify anything?

As a reminder, this is an item I ordered in April 2021. After waiting nearly 20 months, I would rather have a refund.

Response: none.

14 April 2023: Email from McGarry to Shield Labs, subject: Order 1378

I am so tired of you. Give me my money back. Now.

It is now TWO YEARS since I placed this order. It is now SIX MONTHS since you said my order was "on the way." When I click on the tracking number, the USPS web site informs me that: The U.S. Postal Service was electronically notified by the shipper on October 17, 2022 to expect your package for mailing. This does not indicate receipt by the USPS or the actual mailing date. Delivery status information will be provided if/when available.

Response: none.

15 May 2023: Email from McGarry to Shield Labs, subject: Order 1378

Give me my money back.

NOW.

It is now TWENTY-FIVE MONTHS since I placed this order. It is now SEVEN MONTHS since you said my order was "on the way." When I click on the tracking number, the USPS web site informs me that: The U.S. Postal Service was electronically notified by the shipper on October 17, 2022 to expect your package for mailing. This does not indicate receipt by the USPS or the actual mailing date. Delivery status information will be provided if/when available.

Response: none.

25 May 2023: Email from McGarry to Shield Labs, subject: Order 1378

What kind of person are you?

Give me my money back.

NOW.

Response: none.

3 June 2023: Email from McGarry to Shield Labs, subject: Order 1378

I AM DONE.

SEE YOU IN COURT.

I wrote to you about this order on:

April 14, 2022

April 29, 2022

May 4, 2022

May 6, 2022

May 21, 2022

June 24, 2022

July 5, 2022

July 15, 2022

August 11, 2022

September 12, 2022

April 14, 2023

May 15, 2023

May 25, 2023

Do you think there is any judge in the country who will sympathize with you?

I’ll end up owning your house.

4 June 2023: Email from “Misti” at Shield Labs

Hi Mark,

We found this message and one other it seems we missed in our Spam folder, sorry to hear you are still having issues? We definitely recall your order, I believe we had multiple shipping addresses, and attempted to ship to Florida and then to France, and have already spent a couple of hundred in shipping. Our last email received was in the September, and we assumed the order finally made it to you without issue this time.

I can and will check on this for you As Soon as the Post opens. I can only access what it says on shopify but maybe there was incorrect tracking input, but I will check the shipping account. I know on our last attempt to reship we confirmed the address on hand for France. Either way if it shows it isn’t delivered, and is Non deliverable for some reason I’ll work with you to issue some form of refund and just eat the cost of materials and shipping. After 6 months we don’t have access to even manually issue a refund through Paypal so if we end up having to issue one it will have to be just by sending the funds directly to you and the order will be archived. We’ve moved this to our main inbox and flagged it with priority, and will check back in Monday as soon as I have access. Sorry for the ongoing issue, we have had some orders to Australia and Mexico for some reason have been non deliverable and just had to cancel the orders as well. Thank you again for your patience and support.

Have a blessed evening.

-Misty

[Casey’s wife continues the gaslighting campaign. My latest email “and one other” ended up in the spam folder – the modern equivalent of “the dog ate my homework” – but I sent four. “We had multiple shipping addresses,” which makes it sound like I couldn’t make up my mind. In fact, I provided one alternate address, in Florida, in November and December 2021, in emails the McBrooms never bothered to acknowledge.

[Note that I received no shipping notifications for any of these heroic efforts to send the shield to various addresses, and Misti makes no attempt to explain the tracking information on the USPS website: seven months before, the McBrooms registered a package with the USPS but never brought it to a post office. In fact, there is no evidence that they made any attempt to fulfill my order: no shipping notifications other than the one in October 2022, no tracking numbers, no explanation for how multiple shipments to Florida and France could go astray.

[Finally, I was unsettled by the reference to “some kind of refund” and the noble sacrifice to “just eat the cost of materials and shipping.” Yes, Misti, that’s what you do when someone pays for a product and you don’t deliver. And for those keeping track, this is the fourth time in two years the McBrooms have vowed to resolve this issue quickly.]

4 June 2023: Email from McGarry to Shield Labs, subject: Order 1378

You have zero credibility.

You reply to emails only when I threaten legal action.

You allegedly spent hundreds of dollars on shipping to various places but you have never sent me a shipping notification or tracking number ... except for the one in October, which STILL says the USPS is awaiting the shipment FROM YOU.

You have FORTY-EIGHT HOURS to get me a refund of $773.98. I don’t care how you do it. Just do it.

I have been putting up with your nonsense for TWO YEARS.

Response: none.

6 June 2023: Email from McGarry to Shield Labs, subject: Order 1378

Your 48 hours is up. See you in court. You’re going to end up paying court costs, my legal fees, and damages.

Have a blessed day!

Response: none.

[I saw a couple days later that the status of the package had changed. On June 5, the item had been scanned in at the post office in Independence, Missouri. Yes, nine months after the label had been printed. And a day after I reiterated I wanted a refund. The package went on to Kansas City, then Chicago, where it bounced around for a couple days. Then the USPS sent it back to Casey!]

19 June 2023: Email from McGarry to Shield Labs, subject: Order 1378

GIVE ME MY MONEY BACK!!!!!

Your item was returned to the sender on June 17, 2023 at 7:40 pm in CHICAGO, IL 60688 because it could not be delivered as addressed.

Response: none.

21 June 2023: Email from McGarry to Shield Labs, subject: Order 1378

I see you’re back to ignoring my emails....

As you can see on the USPS website, the package you tried to send to me, CJ195948594US, made it as far as Chicago. "Could not be delivered as addressed." Which is weird, because I have been at this address for 15 years and never had a problem.

It is now TWENTY-SIX MONTHS since I placed my order.

GIVE ME MY MONEY BACK.

I DO NOT WANT THE SHIELD ANYMORE AND I WILL NOT ACCEPT DELIVERY.

GIVE ME MY MONEY BACK NOW.

22 June 2023: Email from Casey at Shield Labs

We got the shield back from USPS and sent it back out with the same label, it got bounced right back this past week from Customs. I’m not sure what the issue is. We have had historic issues with the US Post the past couple years. It’s costing over $100 each time to ship. This time the shield came back pretty banged up from customs! I can’t reasonably ship this one damaged. I can either make & ship Another at my expense, or at this point with it being just unable to be delivered and the original order is back here now, I can cancel and issue a refund of sorts, and I will just take the loss on shipping and materials, and try to salvage this shield. If you’d rather a refund, because the refund window on Paypal is closed for issuing a refund, I can Paypal you the original order value directly. Just send me your current paypal email address, pr if you have venmo I can venmo you the amount. With Venmo I believe there would be no fees for you. Let me know which solution works best for you. Thanks and have a blessed day.

[I don’t think Casey McBloom is brainless, but he makes a good case that he is in reality a complete moron. “If you’d rather a refund….” I have demanded a refund, at the top of my voice. Also, he claims he has already tried to ship this item to me multiple times, he tries again, gets it back again, and immediately hands it back to USPS “with the same label”? And again he seems to think it is noble and selfless of him to “take the loss on shipping and materials.” Nevertheless, I dared to believe that this nonsense might soon be over. What an idiot.]

22 June 2023: Email from McGarry to Shield Labs, subject: Order 1378

I DEFINITELY want my money back.

My PayPal address is markjmcgarry58@outlook.com

Response: none.

3 July 2023: Email from McGarry to Shield Labs, subject: Order 1378

I am still waiting for my refund on an order made more than two years ago.

Send $773.98 to markjmcgarry58@outlook.com using PayPal.

Response: none.

6 July 2023: Email from McGarry to Shield Labs, subject: Order 1378

It has been two weeks and I am still waiting for my refund.

Send $773.98 to markjmcgarry58@outlook.com using PayPal.

Response: none.

8 July 2023: Email from McGarry to Shield Labs, subject: Order 1378

Send $773.98 to markjmcgarry58@outlook.com using PayPal.

DO IT NOW!

Response: none.

[I waited a couple days, then placed short, critical feedback in the Shield Labs pages on Instagram and Facebook. Within minutes, my comments were removed and I was barred from reading or posting to the pages.]

11 July 2023: Email from McGarry to Shield Labs, subject: Order 1378

So you have time to block me on Facebook and Instagram but not to pay me a refund I have been trying to pry out of you for a year. You are a real pi

Response: none.

12 July 2023: Instagram direct message from 36minutes.fr (Mariana Nastase) to Shield Labs

I am the girlfriend of Mark McGarry, and I have been watching this bad adventure Mark has had after he paid you this money and has never got anything.

If you don’t reimburse this money to Mark, I will share in my stories what kind of business you are running. Shocking.

You can try to block me as you blocked my boyfriend, but in that case you will have also to block 296,000 followers.

[And this, folks, is what finally got McBroom to cough up my money. Or some of it.]

12 July 2023: Paypal notice of payment by Shield Labs

Casey McBroom has sent you €565,91 EUR

13 July 2023: Email from McGarry to Shield Labs, subject: Order 1378

I acknowledge receipt of your payment of 565.91 euros on 12 July 2023. But you know full well that this amount (the equivalent of $630) is only a PARTIAL refund of what I paid you in April 2021: $650 for “24 inch classic replica shield prop” plus $123.98 for shipping, for a total of $773.98.

You still owe me $143.98.

I suspect you are trying to beat me out of the shipping – although I have no idea what your justification for this could be. I have been telling you since August 2022 that I no longer wanted the shield, I just wanted my money back. You ignored my request and tried to ship it anyway. And the Federal Trade Commission requires that businesses ship items ordered on the Internet within 30 days (not 730 days), or make a FULL refund.

Send $143.98 to me via PayPal to markjmcgarry58@outlook.com within 24 hours.

THE END?

Of course, I haven’t heard from him.

If this account shows Casey McBroom to be a weasel, it also shows me to be wholly unprepared to deal with such miscreants. But I’ve always been at a loss when confronted by someone who is acting unethically, illegally, immorally. Casey should have answered my first email, and resolved the issue immediately. The situation is completely unambiguous: shield paid for, shield not received, replacement or refund to be issued immediately. But he didn’t do that.

Instead, he ignored 25 emails of 33 sent. He and his wife promised six times to resolve the issue expeditiously, then did nothing. Finally, 819 days after I placed my order and hours after my girlfriend threatened to badmouth him to her nearly 300,000 Instagram followers, he coughed up a refund. And even then, he shorted me by $144. That’ll teach me! (Teach me what, exactly?)

My only regret in all this (aside from the obvious one, that I sent this idiot my money in the first place) is that I threatened to sue him and then didn’t follow through. But a lawsuit would have cost thousands of dollars, and the outcomes would be uncertain. Also, it would have required strength I didn’t have. In addition to my Parkinson’s symptoms, since April 2021 I have been hospitalized twice for unrelated illnesses, and visited the emergency room perhaps half a dozen times. I need my rest.

But this clown still owes me $143.98. The fight continues.

I can do this all day.

Mark J McGarry

20 August 2023

Sunday, August 20, 2023