I hear you ^^^ yes your serial numbers were not transparent so I have to ask other members is nt that discrediting the person that sold the products with removed serial numbers or is the finger pointing still on me for being the discreditor ??? Again I am posting info that needs to be known and many questions needing answers without being transparent in the marine world including info I need to know. Like I said my job is to keep boaters boating without issues. Who does nt want that ?

And for ALLDodge receiving a cut wired trim sensor that is ok for who's standards and price ? Most likely it will fail down the road because of the splicing needed to be done. Water can easily wick itself into the splice .

Yeah I hear everyone Hmmm Im the bad guy -- another Tony Montana right here.

Did nt Clinton use that word transparent alot to skate around the questions in hand ?

Still waiting for the warranty shipping address ?????????????

Don't think so, but we all have opinions

We greatly appreciate all the posts on this thread and for the free advertisement :-).

would you like that with tags or without............:D

Pretty much what I think Jerry, Hell not like merc seems to warranty any BRAVO failures anyway.

I'm gonna pass on the free T-shirt, but if you could send me those two Merc 860's and 6 drive packages I'll say mucho great things about you on this thread!

I've bought plenty of stuff from Mike and will continue to do business with him. CME is a great company to deal with.

SO, Some have questions about CME's business practices.
Some have had good experience with an up-front and positive response.
But, no-one has purchased, nor have had experience with their advertised engines.
It's unfortunate.

I bought a 30 pitch maximus prop from mike and he sent me a 32 pitch maximus that had been reworked. I tried to return it an he refused. Buyer Beware when dealing with Coastal Marine Export and Mike Wood. I can send anyone photos of what I ordered and all of the communication with Mike when he sent me a photo of the prop and told me he had that exact one in stock. He sent me a 32 pitch that is like a 27 or 28 not the 30 I ordered and he stated (in writing) that he had. I asked him for a refund but he said all sales are final. That would be fine with me if he sent me what I ordered but he sent me a reworked 32 and it is clearly stamped on the hub. Not a good company to do business with.

I have been in this business for 35 years and around performance boats for over 40 years, longer than many of you have been alive. Why don't you go to your local dealer and support them. We all discount parts, props, transoms, etc. If you want to come down and hang out at the clubhouse (our place of business) you have to pay dues. Many of you go to your local dealer and ask why does my motor do this or that and after we diagnose it you go online and by from the cheapest seller you can find. You borrow props and say thanks and go online without even asking if we can match a price. Online sales will end up destroying the local guys. Then who will you turn to on Sunday when you have a boat load of people and need a rocker arm or whatever. All I can say is I don't have any sympathy for what you receive from sellers online. Everyone is in business to make a living and pay their bills. Everyone, even the guys online selling parts at cost. That last sentence says it all.

Chris I will say this, you have a pretty cool clubhouse to hangout at.

I just had the best grilled porkchop in my life while reading this mess!!

Word for word exactly what my cousin says about his bicycle business, different stuff...same sh!t.

That is unfortunate.... If you do receive them make sure you check to see that they are not 496 motors with "860" stamped on them. Sorry to hear...

You are OEM dealer and Boat manu why did you buy thru this hack who shaves all serial numbers off ? Unless you are talking about someone else you sent 140 K to ??

If this is a case ordering thru CME --- Man I feel sorry for you and bet you heard every excuse under the sun and the moon. From MW.

You should be posting this all over the web and forums. I understand its none of my business but this guy as I mentioned 5 years ago about do not do any business with him and got totally plastered over it . .

Why is the CME beware post completely gone and under review CME is not even an advertiser, surely I am not the only one to ask this question ?

Not sure what thread you are referring to. There are 2 threads in the Beware section about CME. If its not one of these two, then let me know with a Thread Title and date of the last post in that thread.

One was started by OSO member smokin' gun. He resolved his issue with CME the same day and HE deleted his thread himself as any member can do within 24 hours of posting.

The other thread was started by OSO member MCKILLOP. and that thread was started just asking if anyone had done business with CME.
It really did not belong in the Beware Section at that time and it was moved to General Discussion with a permanent redirect to the new location.
If you click on that thread it takes you here. That thread is this thread.

For those that have not seen it yet. There is a new Vendor Section in the Industry News. That section was designed for threads exactly like this one and I will be moving this thread there soon, but will leave it here for a while so everybody sees this.

It was a thread about new prop sales and both props were used restamps - MOSES was also in that thread as well about his dealings and prop dale . That thread is still up here on OSO ? I am asking cause I do not know and post # 101 mentions a post as well. Was nt he ( Offshore Legend ) the one who posted about his restamp - reworked prop that was to be a new prop sale thru CME aka M W.

Is Mercury involved in this yet? Shouldn't they be?

That is F'd up, Ed. Wow...

That's how we ended up finding out what was going on, check with them on the serial numbers directly instead of using Mer Net.

I've dealt with Mike when I ran LOM and we were not a Mercury dealer, got drives, long blocks and transom assemblies, etc from him. Never an issue and always got the parts. It's 100% my fault our company sent the money on the motors. We got the serial numbers, checked Merc Net, etc to make sure they existed. Needed them for a project and they were ready to ship and a good deal, found out after we paid they allegedly were over seas. Waited about two months with shipping issues, etc before we found out we were not getting them and received the "brokerage" fee back after I asked for it only. Still out around $140,000.00. I'm only posting now because I don't want someone else to make the mistake I did. They company still wants to recover the funds.

Pretty sure that's not going to happen & we won't be ordering any parts from anyone other than Mercury again.

yep

I hear you EXACTLY the reason I posted 5 years so NO ONE GETs up the azz by this guy. I am lost as to why the boat owners whom have been to the CC boat manu company in South florida and bought the 5 finger discount parts -- will not help other boaters out with the address here. See fellers Mike owns nothing in a way of marine shop nor a marine parts set up directly with any oems not even Merc. . He does own a website and again HE IS NOT a MERC dealer period nor never was.. He use to work for Land N Sea as they sell Merc parts and other aftermarket parts. The parts are going out the back door..

next is I know for fact a lot at Merc and Merc Racing know Mike and his nickname thru Merc is "the Junkyard Dog" NO BS. But the KICKER HERE IS Merc does nothing about this guy nor cares to - they have turn their backs on all this and continue to.. Also he really has pissed many boaters off and including dealers especially OEM dealers in Florida.. Many get caught up with the cheap pricing dollars signs from Mike - think about it - when chit is backed door hell anyone could sell products cheap.

I remember 5 or 6 years ago I talked to him on the phone and many things did not add up at all. The guy had so much BS and basically thinks he is smarter than everyone else plus he has a lot of play on words for everything. Just like his responses up here. And I quote one of them of the many -- He runs a Transparent company --- really huge play on words.

On a phone call years ago point blank, I asked him how can you get parts and sell so cheap even below Boat builder costs. His comments back to me --- was Merc loves him like a son and he done so much for Merc that they feel like they owe him favors and thats how he gets cheap great pricing thru Merc.. . Amazing if you talk to Merc their story is soo much different and half of Merc will say Mike W who ?? Never heard of him. .Keep in mind when stuff is backed door every thing becomes cheap. I hope employees that make decisions at Merc are reading all this and take note cause many think Mike works for and or with Merc on the side.. Again he NEVER has worked for Merc nor never was dealer ever. .

Next is still currently I am shocked that many Florida Merc dealers whom I have talked to and or ran into thru out that has complained about this guy but none will not post up here about any of it and their beefs with CME.. .

That would be this thread. https://www.offshoreonly.com/forums/...za-cutter.html
Not sure why the CME discussion was added to this thread or which mod closed the thread.
It said "moderated" because a new member posted and we had to approve that single post.

Thanks I am sure the buyers of those bad dealings like that its still up.here on OSO.

WOW!! Yeah that's pretty bad!!

Moses was banned ? Why ? Link ?

Yes he texted me late last nite and said he got band. Actually he is a decent guy.and prob some take him wrong. I did the same at first but after talking to him I totally change those thoughts.. He is NOT a bad dude at all and really wanted a fair deal on the prop sale but did not turned out well for him all the way around. . .

He got 30 days for starting a new thread to talk trash about the MODS. He is not permanently banned. Just FYI

I remember those 860 engines - it was a seriously good deal on them. I called him sorta considering them for my Comp but I got the same story - they were overseas and he wanted the money upfront before he would ship them back to the States. I told him that myself and anyone paying that kind of money would need to physically see and touch the engines here in the States before paying for them. He wanted no part of shipping them back first. I can totally understand why someone having done business with in the him in the past would trust him though. That totally sucks. The Scum. Amazing how someone can pull this and not be behind bars.

Okay. Thanks for letting us know.