I woke up this morning to find out that (unbeknownst to me) I wrote an apology letter about my own blog post, Li-Ion Motors – The Electric Lemon. I’m not sure if I should be flattered that there’s a fake me on the Internet writing apology letters or if I should be upset that someone is out there is damaging my integrity.
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It appears that Li-Ion Motors may have paid a company to publish my fake apology on India Consumer Complaints Forum. Maybe they did it themselves, I have no evidence to tie it directly to them. However, I did contact the India Consumer Complaints suggesting that they’re hosting a fake letter and they removed it.
I’m guessing they are behind it because when you search, “Li-Ion Motors” in Google, my blog comes up on their first page of results. I imagine that they’re trying to push that out of the front page. However, this is only speculation on my behalf. If you would like to see my fake apology, I saved a PDF of the site: click here for the PDF. What’s more disturbing is that the letter used my picture, my name, and even suggested “My hosting providers has closed down the FTP of my website.” I think it would be rather difficult for my hosting provider to shut down my FTP given I am my hosting provider. |
Let me state this very clearly: By no means do I apologize for my blog post, to my knowledge everything that I wrote is factual, and in my opinion Li-Ion Motor Company, EV Innovations, Hybrid Technologies or whatever they want to call themselves — is a scam.
More over, in my suit Lyon vs Li-Ion Motors (read the Electric Lemon article for background), their lawyer Scott Meehan quit representing Li-Ion Motors about two weeks ago. I am guessing that had something to do with not being paid and possible liability over what they are doing now.
To wrap this up: Stay away from these guys, they’re bad.
UPDATE:
More evidence that Li-Ion Motors are trying to manipulate chat forums and sweep what has happened here under the rug. Jay Groh emailed me this today and I thought it was worth sharing:
I don’t know if you have been made aware of the recent crap this company is trying to pull on priuschat.com but I will let you know anyway.
It starts here on a topic that points to your blog about your horror story.
http://priuschat.com/forums/ev-electric-vehicle-discussion/74243-electric-vehicle-innovations-li-ion-motors-horror-story.html
I’ll give you the quick short version.
The poster is john joseph. He claims to purchase a vehicle from the company and wants the topic closed.
He then posts again and a customer saying the company is great and still wants the topic deleted.
Then he represents hims self as someone from the company and if the topic is not removed he will take legal action. LOL
He creates another account under william larry and tries the same crap.
john joseph goes on to create two more topics on how great his company is.
http://priuschat.com/forums/other-cars/80560-li-ion-motors-hybrid-electric-cars.html
http://priuschat.com/forums/ev-electric-vehicle-discussion/80562-li-ion-motors-successful-story.html
I reported this as spam to the moderators and he goes as far as calling my posts illegal.
lol He also claimed I posted links to my website which I did not do. I’m guessing he was referring to my sig which is in all my posts.
Anyway I though you might want to add this to your site to show how low these scumbags will go. The topics have a little more detail but will only take a few minutes to read through.
I’m glad you have not removed the blog and not cave into these dumbass take down notices. Good luck in the future. I just wish you did not get screwed because this is a small setback in the EV community.
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Thanks,
Jay Grohhttp://www.jaygroh.com