Wtf arcades

I’ve got a lot to say about this guy, nothing positive.
My story starts as, I was looking for someone to tutor me on how hyperspin works and help with artwork. I posted an ad on craigslist and «Buddy» or «george» responded. He told me he’d teach me some stuff and then just give me a fully loaded (2TB) drive of all games and artwork I was looking for at a fee of 300 dollars. I told him I wasn’t looking to spend any money but could tutor him on networking and give him a server I had laying around (apprx. value 400 dollars). He agreed.
I went down the first time and he showed me «his setup» which was flawed at best. He blowed a lot of cigarette smoke around, made a bunch of excuses about how his «buddy» had his good drive and that he was waiting to get it back. (back story, this is 45 minutes away from my house). So I drove down the next time, I met his son, Buddy «showed» me my drive, i put it in quotes because he said it was still unzipping and even though I texted the night before to confirm we were still on, and brought the server inside and set it up for him, I still walked away empty handed.
3 days later, I called him, said I was wasting a bunch of time and really needed him to get it together when I came down the following monday. Tried to call him that day, no answer. Finally got a text a day later saying he «threw his phone to the ground because he got pissed and broke it» and that I should «start texting and calling his wife’s number now». Whatever, I went down, more excuses after he didn’t answer the door for 20 minutes, followed by him saying he didn’t have time to go through it, but the drive was ready. He handed it to me, I took it home, the drive had a broken SATA connector (which made it almost impossible to even plug in without duct tape) and there was no label on it, turns out it was a 500GB drive with no more than a few Nintendo and Genesis ROMS. Callled Buddy, «oh s*$&, I must’ve given you the wrong drive.» Blah blah blah. I went down twice more, the next time I was still just a tad optomistic he had the drive, went down, as he’s sitting and going through everything he was missing and needed more time (month and a half had gone by), someone else came to the door, looking for an arcade setup (not sure if HD or full blown setup), I sat there and watched him lie to him about who I was (his computer guy helping him get all his stuff together on one drive) and then a few choice excuses that I had heard already.
Finally, I tried to call him to tell him I wanted my server back, he didn’t answer, so I just showed up, beat on the door until his dogs finally woke up his son, the son let me in and woke up buddy. I told him I was just there to pick up my server, he said a few choice phrases about how much of a d*&$ i was for not being patient, and proceeded in telling me I needed to hurry up and get the server out because he needed to get back to sleep. I lugged the 125lb server up from his cat pee drenched basement and out to my car.
Two days after, he texted me some nasty texts saying I was a *$&#*(#, and cursing me out saying he had everything ready and if only I would’ve waited a few more days I would’ve gotten everything. I said a few choice phrases and blocked him on my phone.
Anyway, I wanted to write this review to help other people from wasting their time, i can’t speak to him taking or not giving back money since that wasn’t our deal, but I can say he’s got a criminal record for doing exactly that. good luck to everyone that has money tied up with this guy because it’s seems likely you’ll not see it again.

Has anyone ever received an arcade or their money back from this George I paid him my money well over a month ago and still have received nothing he never answers your phone calls gives you excuse after excuse I’m just curious if anyone has actually ever gotten arcade for their money back from him I’m pretty sure we’ve been scammed

George we agreed on this deal on ¹⁰⁄₂₈. Since that time delivery has been delayed atleast 4 times. I explained I needed time for art work. Unfortunately you did not hold up your end of the agreement. I even offered to pick you up for delivery. I have texts that show my machine was completed in November but nothing. So at this point I have moved on however I do expect a refund of the 500 or the equipment that the 500 purchased.
This guy is a fraud and I concur. EXCUSE AFTER EXCUSE.
HIS RESPONSE. I DONT DO REFUNDS. IM STILL WAITING TO HEAR ABOUT THE EQUIPMENT MY DEPOSIT PURCHASED. IM NOT OPTIMISTIC

Don’t ever buy from this guy he is nothing but a fraud and a con Artist. He had ripped off quite a few people. The pics the he post on the website are not even his he stole the pics from other websites. He has no clue what he is doing. He’ll give every excuse why the Arcade is not finished don’t Believe a word he says. He’s nothing but dirty white trash and a drug addict and he dose have a criminal record .So please don’t wast your time with this bum. If u did get ripped off by this guy and need a arcade go to
. This guy is one of the best out there I highly recommend him. He helped me out big time because of this jerk off buddy or George. So please help spread the word about this guy so he dose not do this to other people.