Ok due to the recent amount of emails and phone calls I've been getting I decided its time to put up a post. FOr the past 3 months there has been a significant problem with people selling used AFCs as OUR AFCs...when infact they are psc-001 afcs and WILL NOT WORK on the msps. We are THE ONLY people who sell the correct version for the msp PSC-020. I have 3 confirmed cases of intentional scams and a few I'm still taking a look at. What the scammers are doing is picking up 001s off of ebay for say $30 or so and then listing them on here or pming people with wtb threads on here(and other mazda sites for that matter) saying they have an AirFlow AFC for sale. To those buying used AFCs please please be careful. While there is nothing I can do to prevent people from doing this I can offer several tips:
#1 Demand a pic of the product. Namely the top cover AND the wiring harness. the 020 has a distinct set of wire colors different from other afcs. The correct colors are listed on our webpage under install instructions.
#2 Only buy from members that you either know or that have been on here awhile. A member with only 10 posts selling an AFC for a great price is probably up to something.
#3 Only use paypal, they have a program specifically to combat scam artists and many times you can get your money back.
#4 We have a database of every person to ever purchase an AFC from us, just shoot me a pm and I'll do my best to check and see if this person bought an afc from us. THis doesn't help if its been resold a few times, but its the best I can do to track them. I'll need their real name and forum name to check.
Finally I'd like to say that it isn't always a scam. Sometimes the user bought the afc second hand thinking it was the correct version and didn't know any better. So if you think something is fishy or you think you got taken take the mature route and first talk it over with the seller to see if it isn't an honest mistake. If its a scam, do your fellow mspers a favor and report them to a mod. Also as a way to help eliminate this childish crap I'm going to look into getting a forsale page up on our website. This will be a way for people to sell and buy used AFCs that I will confirm are ACTUAL msp verion afcs, or I may just throw up a post after the OP post confirming the authenticity of the afc for sale.
-John
#1 Demand a pic of the product. Namely the top cover AND the wiring harness. the 020 has a distinct set of wire colors different from other afcs. The correct colors are listed on our webpage under install instructions.
#2 Only buy from members that you either know or that have been on here awhile. A member with only 10 posts selling an AFC for a great price is probably up to something.
#3 Only use paypal, they have a program specifically to combat scam artists and many times you can get your money back.
#4 We have a database of every person to ever purchase an AFC from us, just shoot me a pm and I'll do my best to check and see if this person bought an afc from us. THis doesn't help if its been resold a few times, but its the best I can do to track them. I'll need their real name and forum name to check.
Finally I'd like to say that it isn't always a scam. Sometimes the user bought the afc second hand thinking it was the correct version and didn't know any better. So if you think something is fishy or you think you got taken take the mature route and first talk it over with the seller to see if it isn't an honest mistake. If its a scam, do your fellow mspers a favor and report them to a mod. Also as a way to help eliminate this childish crap I'm going to look into getting a forsale page up on our website. This will be a way for people to sell and buy used AFCs that I will confirm are ACTUAL msp verion afcs, or I may just throw up a post after the OP post confirming the authenticity of the afc for sale.
-John
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Thanks for the good look bro.
