TCA EMAIL

The TCA board member who demands honesty ought to give his name.

Anyone could ay they are a board member by e-mail, if not identified by name.

I think you have been taken. I don't believe tca would do anything like this. If he e-mailed you thru ebay, you must have his ebay ID. I put my TCA number at the end of every description since 1998, and I have trains on every day. I've never been contacted.

Could that be Village Train & Hobby in Windsor, NY?

Soooo, if you list something on eBay and you say you are a TCA member you have to take returns?  I assume if you are a TCA member taking returns is required when selling something?  Is that part of their policy?

Rick

Every decent person on Ebay takes returns wheather tca or not.

I would never respond to an e-mail like that (and am assuming that no official of the TCA would possibly be stupid enough to send such correspondence).  If that individual ever made the unfortunate mistake of calling me, I would do my best to give him an unpleasant very few seconds of my time.

I'm not aware of any restrictions regarding use of a TCA member number.  You paid for it; it's unique to you; and I can't imagine anyone making up a set of rules governing when and where you can use it.  If such a rule does exist, let me go on record here by stating it is a dumb one.

Further, if the TCA can determine who contacted Cincytrains representing himself as a TCA board member, that individual's membership should be suspended or even terminated.

Just my humble opinions.

Update:

I spoke with John Luppino(sp?), operations manager of the TCA, he stated that he knew nothing about it. I gave him the persons ebay ID and he is looking into it. As of yet villagetrains has not responded to me with his name.

Good question!!! I may call and just ask if someone there is a TCA board member!!

TCA does not really have board members.  The TCA board is made up of national officers and all the division presidents.

I fully understand your concern, but this individual does not deserve a response. Don't waste any further time on this one.

That would be my recommendation as well.  You have alerted the TCA officers, so it's best to just let them take it from here.

Allan is correct. This person is up to something and the lest one has to do with such people the better your life will be.

As for the use of the TCA number that is one of the big reasons I joined in the first place. When people use their ID numbers in places like ebay they are providing a traceable number through an organization that has little tolerance for folks who would pull that name down.

I too feel that the TCA officers should try to find this clown and then kick him down the road into history.

"Every decent person on Ebay takes returns wheather tca or not."

Under what conditions do you take returns.  I have never thought about it...but, it seems to me that taking returns can only breed trouble from dishonest people.

Do you put a time limit on the return period?

Please expound on this comment.

Considering that villagetrains has not responded to my request for his name, it is either a scam or someone who has nothing to do. Im done worrying about it.

In my experience, you can never underestimate stupidity.

Be well Cincytrains.

Gerry

Certainly sounds like a scam, but what would be this person's motive?

you should know!!