I was reading an old thread about Trick Marine. Chris Sunkin and Long Dong Duck were both commenting, few of us knew their days were numbered

Lol, I guess they wouldn't of given him this if they knew they wouldn't have got paid for what they sent.
http://www.tradeonlytoday.com/column...mproved-sales/

As Cigrocket replied, yes. Fred bought it from a friend of Jeff Cheng (founder of OSO) If I remember correctly, it was bought new by a Capitol Recods exec. Word was there were many cool bandmembers aboard that boat. Might want to do a search.here

Rachael is DEAD!!!!! Oh no!!!! lol

DUDE! The victim died in a DUI collision? WTF did that chick do in a past life to deserve such a sh!t hand!? that's depressing.

Wonder what his story is now. Too bad about his family. That's really sh!tty.

Years ago at an OSO party in S Beach, I spilled a pitcher full of beer all over his fancy shirt. He treated me like I was a total degenerate after that. Interesting who was the real low life!

funny how it works like that. one of the biggest things ive learned in life about business and people. if you sit back and watch you can really see how insecure people are.

At the same time, that very thing is probably responsible for a lot of human success. As we strive to do better, make better and create bigger, not to mention accomplish more to gain acceptance from out fellow man, progress is made.

So.... If I name my new parts business , Trick Marine.... Might not be a good idea?

Depends how well you want said business to do LOL

FYI, I'm big, my name is Scotty but I am NOT "Big Scotty" lol

Someone thought using the name was a good idea.

http://trick-marine.com

ummm yea, but dont lie about it...

Dont compare Fred to Bill Hionis ever PLEASE !! Fred was actually a nice guy that didnt know how to properly grow a business. His intentions were good the end results werent. Hionis just plan phucked people over in a scam. I was involved and when we went to court there was over 34 mil that he stole from people.

Wish someone could explain to me how he never went to jail???

I meant Hionas

^^Agree^^, I ask the same

I was friends with Fred. I stayed at his house, boated with him etc. I too was disappointed to see his business go down the tubes like it did. I will say that he tried very hard to please people. Without making excuses for him, he and his family had endured some very difficult times.
Sad to see what becomes of some people.
Equally sad to see a group mentality pile on just because its popular. I've been on this board since '02 and witnessed those who hated Fred, knew Big Scotty, and sign petitions to free Ben Kramer just because they wanted to be part of the crowd.
I miss the old days of speedgirls avatar, phantomchaos and his jokes, cashbrain's rants, and Apache is best...

You forgot Stecz's koolaid lol

so what did fred do w/ all the money he took in?

don't forget,doc(clip money from my business and parteners) holiday.think he's still in his trailer though.

No idea sutphen 30. What exactly are you asking me?

OSO is sorta a community of 75,000 residents. Fred was a thief/criminal/crook whatever that got away with a series of crimes against members of this community and industry suppliers. The fact that he may have been a bad business manager or that he has had difficult times does not correct what he did to customers and businesses. My purpose for the original post was for his customers and business partners that possibly wanted to contact Fred.

where did the money go?

Forgive me for being defensive, but how would I know.

Please don't insinuate that I was somehow complicit in anyone's deceit because I was friends with them.

This is an interesting comment.... when I first joined this board some 14 years ago I, without knowing the pack mentality that existed here at the time, disagreed with Fred.... and was attacked by him & all his "groupies" ... but now it seems you are inferring that the same attitude towards Fred is wrong somehow?

I was fortunate in that I did buy several items from Trick & was treated very well.... it certainly is a same that some were not so fortunate.... but as for Fred.... he advocated the group mentality imo when the group was on his side.... so when it went the other way.... what goes around comes around....

I bought a bunch of s hit off Fred. A nice steering wheel, couple drive showers, a purple anodized Fountain dash, can't remember what all, never had a problem. It was sad to see it go down but not particularly uncommon in the Marine business. I think the CMI deal really hurt him. I remember him screaming about how often people would screw up the "straightforward" measurements, the CMI people were really a bunch of dairy farmers and he was stuck in the middle IIRC. He had a Sonic too. He was one of the very first to call out Big Scotty. Pretty much from the get go. Again IIRC BS posted a pic of his plane and Fred traced it to a random Google images shot. Not an easy thing to do on a computer in those days...at least for me lol

Sorry...IIRC?

If I Recall Correctly ....... ??

This thread is "Too Old"

who had been trolling my facebook page.....bad bad bad people....lol

i still wear mine