| Jeremy Frombach |
| Jeremy Frombach Vintage Honda CB Have money to give away? Jeremy Frombach will take it! Burbank, California |
| 17th of May, 2011 by User323836 |
Greetings, potential victim of Vintage Honda CB! If you were wondering whether or not to purchase a caf racer from this Burbank, CA based motorcycle ?shop, youve come to the right place. I was in your shoes once; enamored by the beautiful machines posted on http://www.vintagehondacb.com.
So I decided to give them a call. I spoke with a guy named Jeremy Frombach. He seemed nice enough and offered to meet with me even though it was the weekend. Then I told him I would get his address off the website and would see him in the afternoon. First red flag: no address on the website. Jeremy told me this was because he didnt want people snooping around the ?shop. Weird, but OK, I could see how he might be too busy to deal with walk-ins. When I got to the ?shop, it was little more than a house garage next to some projects in Burbank. The place was filled with old parts and run down bikes. There were a few built bikes, however, and they looked great (I later found out they had been sitting for over a year, likely as sales props.). So I asked him to build a bike for me. We looked at the built bikes and I told him what I wanted while he wrote everything down. The total build was quoted at around $5,000. Since I didnt have any checks, I suggested that I go home and when the bank was open, transfer the initial sum he needed to start. Second red flag: he needed money, as much as I could get, the same day. I awkwardly laughed as he told me that I had to drive him to an ATM so he could watch me withdrawal my limit. It wasnt a joke. While in the car, I started getting nervous so I asked to receive pictures and updates throughout the build process. Jeremy agreed and I felt alittle more at ease. I drop Jeremy off and go home. The next week I send Jeremy the rest of my money and wait for the build updates to come. A week goes by. Nothing. Two weeks. Nothing. Three weeks.
Nothing I send him an email asking how the build is going. He replies promptly. Third red flag: nearly a month goes by and no work has been done! OK, now Im being taken for a ride. I asked to meet with him in person during the weekend. He says fine, hell send me an email with the time and place.
The weekend comes, no email. I send him another. Fourth red flag: he ?forgot about our meeting and wants to wait another week. It has now been over a month since I gave Jeremy Frombach over $3,500. Less than two weeks from his proposed deadline. No work has been done. Im pretty upset at this point and wouldnt want to ride a motorcycle built by him even if it was free. I email Jeremy and ask for my money back. No reply. I send another. Final red flag: Jeremy refuses to return my money. I just got scammed. Now Im down a lot of money and have no way to get it back.
Jeremy just tricked another sucker. Thank you reading my story. Hopefully this finds you before you give any money to Vintage Honda CB or Jeremy Frombach. |
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This is absolutely ridiculous. We have been taking deposits on custom bikes for over 3 years and have never had an incident.
The guy came to the shop, we agreed on $5000 for a custom made CB750 cafe bike, our agreement in writing was 6-8 weeks for completion and even that was an estimate. At week 4 he calls and says he is "unhappy" with our transaction and wants his money back.
At this point I've already spent his deposit buying the bike and over $1500 in parts, so I told him he was either getting a bike or forfeiting his deposit.
He resorts to slandering me on the internet and tells me he will write all of this shit about us until he gets his money back (to which I countered saying I will simply sue on the grounds of extortion).
Take from this what you will. He gave me the deposit April 12, he asked for it back on May 13. |
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| Definitely beware of Jeremy Frombach/Vintage Honda CB. I personally know someone he ripped off. Avoid at all costs. |
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if you have had any issues with Jeremy from Vintage honda, please post your email address.
I would like to get a hold of you and discuss our options.
thanks.
i will be checking back shortly
it's not extortion when you simply tell the facts; good'ol 1st amendment |
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email address frfom any and all people that have purchaed a bike from Jeremy. I believe there is a major loophole in his business tactics.
please post email address so I can get back to you and let you know the deal..
you may have an option.. |
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| Hey Jonathon, original poster here. Sorry I didn't see your post. I originally posted this at http://www.ripoffreport.com/motorcycles/jeremy-frombach/jeremy-frombach-vintage-honda-eeb35.htm This site seems to have made a copy of it. I would really like to speak with you, but I don't really want to put my email on here... So I made a temp email at [email protected]. Send me your email so we can talk! |
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| I have been dealing with Jeremy for a while now and haven't seen one time where he didn't bend over backwards to make things right with anybody that had an issue. A set-back/ time-delay does not constitute a rip off report . "Vintage bikes" do take time to build and to make everyone happy takes even longer... |
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| I agree with the "time delay" issue, if you have records of the transaction as well as a contract (or anything else on paper) this guy would of been snatched up by your local law enforcement (double that for L.A.!) This seems like a "hindsight/sour grapes" bull$hit tactic. (And as far as "not posting an address"...good idea, I was ripped off by "potential customers" and there buddies everytime I turned my back or locked the door). It seems the piss and moan scooter scenesters (the trainspotters, not the loyalists) decided that Vespas and Lambrettas aren't "cool" enough and moved into a new "scene" to complain about and "improve" on the Internet. I've seen it before, and it will happen again. So my message to "whomever it may concern"..."$hit or get off the pot" [email protected] (drop me a line Jeremy) |
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| [email protected], feel free to email me and let me know what you found out Jonathon. Thankyou |
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| I'm in the same boat as you guys now, this scumbag ripped me off and I think we need to take him to court |
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| I'm in the same boat, except it has been 7 months. I'm incredibly sick of reading all these bad reviews about Vintage CB. Wish I would've known before hand. |
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| I think i might have gotten scammed myself, please let me know if there's anything we can do, i can't afford this shit right now. |
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| I have also been scammed count me in. |
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| I also have his address is anyone is interested. |
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| Nothing but bullshit, lies, and a jacked up finished product. Not even close to being reliable or even street legal. [email protected] |
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| He scammed me also. Sold me a bike without a title that didn't run. |
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im bringing them to small clamis i need an address.
im down 3500 + plus insurance + registration
we gotta fight this |
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| The idiot Scammed me of $75. I sold him pipes to a 550 and then he had me ship them to him with the agreement that he would reimburse my shipping cost. |
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I found his Facebook page, it is under Jeremy Arthur Vandelay! Not Frombach.
Who knows what his real name is?
Yep I been ripped off too. He has a chunk of my cash and has been avoiding my emails and calls for over a year now.
Sold me a bike that I wanted cafed out. He farmed out the project to someone who builds bikes because he doesn't know how. When I got it, it looked good, but the title was all weird and it ran like crap will oil leaking out of everywhere. I had to pay someone else $1000. to pull the motor and replace all the dry-rot gaskets. He SUCKS! |
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