Tony Parrinella

ebscreen · September 8th, 2014, 03:59 PM

Felt it prudent to give everyone a heads up on this guy as he now seems to fancy himself a used equipment broker.

He had a Barudan machine for sale a year or so ago that I was interested in. He was posting it daily and the price was dropping each time he posted. I contacted him about it shortly after he had a posted price of $14K and we discussed making a deal. He thought I hadn't seen the posted price and it magically went up "due to a keyboard slip". That should have been enough of a warning to run right there, but I didn't.

He hassled me about giving him a non-refundable deposit before even seeing the machine. I'm smarter than that. I cut out of work to travel 500 miles to see the machine and hopefully make a deal as long as everything was on the up and up. Halfway there I get a call from my shop that Mr. Parrinella had reneged on the deal, full well knowing I was on my way to check out the machine.

Long story short, dude is super shady. Unfortunately many brokers are. Don't get taken.

Equipment Locators · September 8th, 2014, 04:33 PM

This is the kind of people that want a machine for cheap and not putting a deposit down .This was our personal shop and we sold equipment that went to alaska, russia, mexico and all over the us and no problem with them doing a deposit to hold the equipment also this was june 2013 this guy has nothing better to do than cry over spilt milk.

ebscreen · September 8th, 2014, 04:36 PM

Don't ***** people over, and they won't talk about you *****ing them over.

Good luck in your new venture Tony!