Ashley is a mk1 club member and is well known to a few of you within the club.He contacted me over 18 months ago asking me to restore his white tintop auto.I agreed and he drove the car up to woodsport.The car was here for a few weeks before work started but sadly one of our staff left leaving us unable to do the work straight away.Ashley said this was not a problem because he was having money issues and could not afford to have it carried out anyway.At this point we did no work to the car,nobody owed anything and i expected ashley to come collect his car.
The car sat outside my premises for a further 6 months without any reply from ashley,all attempts to contact him failed.I was informed by the industrial estate manager that if any car was being stored outside the unit and NOT being worked on that i would need to pay a storage fee for it as it breached the terms of my contract,they accept a few cars outside at any given time,we are a busy garage after all,but long term storage is not accepted.
I tried again over the following year to contact ashley with no joy,ignored every single email and phone call.Meanwhile i was being told there were big fees being incurred for this car being stored.
Finally 2 months ago ashley rang me out of the blue saying he wanted to come collect his car,i told him about the storage charge and he said he wouldnt pay it,i said well im not paying it,its not my car and you have left it here abandoned for the last 16 months without even a phone call.I told him the storage would have to be paid before the car could be released.
Ashley then rang me back the next day and told me he had decided to sell the car to cover the storage fees and was very apologetic,i suspected nothing.He then said the buyer needed to see the car before paying for it
(obviously) but wasnt prepared to travel to durham.Ashley asked if i could do him the biggest of all favours and pay the storage charge for him so that his car would be released and he swore on his life he would repay me as soon as he got the car back to wales.Now some might call me soft or too gullible but i agreed to help him out,i personally paid
£750 of my own money in storage fees to release his car.Ashely came for it the next weekend with a trailer (the brakes had all seized on,alternator siezed etc,car had sat for so long!) ,he again promised me a cheque would be sent up within a week of getting the car home.Well its now about 3 months on,ashley is comletely blanking me,im
£750 out of pocket and feel like a right mug.Ashley took advantage of my kind nature and has not only left a car abandoned with me for 16 months but has left me to pick up the storage charge.One day i will catch up with you Mr goodfield,until then i think its important nobody else in the mk1 club gets conned by this guy.
If anyone has an address or home telephone number for him id be eternally grateful so that i can start legal proceedings to try and get my money back.
DO NOT TRUST THIS GUY!!!!
and from my experiences a great person 