Billy is the V4 carb guru. He used to do ALL of my V4 carbs, then we had a falling out last year after I asked him to do a set of CBX carbs, and he basically flaked out on me. Held onto the carbs for 3 months, didn't touch them, wouldn't answer any of my calls or emails, then blew up at ME when I publicly called him out on the forum and asked him WTF was going on?
Wow, that's pretty much a mirror image of my experience with him, except my carbs were fine(that V30 ran like a swiss watch). I needed a new set of plug wires, which were NLA from Honda, and someone mentioned that Billy stocked and sold good quality ones for a reasonable price, it was like $40 or something. Whatever. I emailed him, he got right back to me with a price and paypal address, I sent the payment. Nothing for like 3 weeks. I emailed him saying I hadn't received the wires and what the status was. No reply. I sent him a PM on the forum(I'd seen him posting in the meantime, so I know he was logging on), which also went unanswered. If I'm not mistaken you gave me his phone #, which I called, left a message, and was of course unanswered.
After another couple days of being ignored, I called him out on the public forum. People started getting pissed at me since I guess they assumed I was just trying to discredit him for no apparent reason. I saw him post after I'd put that thread up, he wouldn't reply to it. Finally, like 3 days later paypal tells me I got a refund. The only note was, in essence, "here, take your money back, tired of dealing with you, now go away". No apology, no explanation. A few days later he replied to the thread trying to smooth things over with the public by saying my order must have "slipped through the cracks" when he went on vacation.
One of the mods (Mongo iirc) was all on my ass the instant I posted the thread, saying he didn't appreciate me "slandering" Billy publicly. I explained I'd paid for an item, and he'd flaked out on me, not answering emails or PMs, and I either wanted the parts or a refund. We went back and forth a few times, I got the refund so I let it go. A few weeks later a new member said something about ordering wires from Billy, to which I (politely and casually) mentioned I didn't have a great experience with him and to get them from Magnecor(where I eventually got wires from) instead, which custom made them and arrived at my door in like 3 days for only a few $$ more than what Billy was charging. Mongo flipped shit on me again, saying he'd "had enough" of me "publicly flogging" this guy and to shut the hell up or....*gasp*....he'd BAN me. I told him he was a fascist douche who put way too much value on his virtual authority, and suggested he go have relations with a duck.
You don't realize what a great place VMF is until you go someplace else. I was briefly on a forum for mini-motorcycles, mostly to try and find a Comet torq-a-verter for my minibike project(which I did from some random person). Place was filled with douchbaggy power-obsessed mods. One of them made a post about how 5hp was "plenty" of power for a minibike, and would get his 320lb "frame" around just fine, saying my 14.5 belt drive was a "waste of a good motor". All I could think about from then on was that World of Warcraft guy from South park...the fat nerdy douchebag perched on a 3" wide seat on 5" wheels with a tiny 5hp struggling to even move with his fat ass on board. I made a very satisfying insult tornado to his inbox, asked my account to be deleted, and never even checked to see if my login was deleted.