FB group admins - RAM CONTROLS influencing them?

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Maybe we can share this thread to all Facebook groups? Because this is getting ridiculous. Please and thank you :) Even if this guy poses no risk ever (which I feel he still definitely does), he's stolen tens of thousands of dollars from fellow collectors over many years, and I think it's shameful enough to be buying from him, let alone waving him around like he's a great guy that thousands of people can trust - people don't get an entire KLOV section and dozens of threads dedicated to them by being good people.

Travis/Adam/RAM Controls is still at it, and in some ways is more famous on Facebook than ever. These days he is often getting shoutouts in Facebook groups, has started his own Facebook group (see joeycuda's thread here: https://forums.arcade-museum.com/showthread.php?t=458734), has many Facebook friends/friends of well-known and respected community members.

Bolding this for any potential Facebook readers... Unfortunately most do not realize this guy has been doing this for decades, and his M.O. is selling legit for a while, then pulling the plug once he's gained trust under that alias and scamming the living hell out of everybody. Orrrrrrr, his next favorite, which he's done in the past, screwing all of his European customers while properly serving his American customers to keep his reputation up and legal issues non-existent, leaving a situation where about 1,000 Europeans call him out and 1,000 Americans rush to defend him, leaving everybody confused and Americans, at the very least, feeling confident in reliability of their continued purchases even if not happy with his actions. The perfect strategy, really

It is bizarre to me that the most notorious scammer of all time across KLOV, dating back to 2000 in the newsgroups, and has scammed enough people to warrant his very own KLOV section and dozens of threads, is now being highly lauded on Facebook, many by people who know exactly what he's done and are even members here.

I have noticed a weird uptick lately in people tagging him in posts and recommending him, especially among authority figures in Facebook groups. I wouldn't be surprised if he's offering these people some kind of discount, free items, or just plain $$$ in exchange for the good word. (Or maybe just killing them with kindness/sob stories) Sure, he appears to be actually providing products lately, likely naturally accumulating some good praise, but the level of that is coming up lately is a little... unnatural, even for somebody making good products. Especially since a lot of it is coming from authority figures, people well known and trusted, and even worse guys who know who exactly who he is. People I didn't think would trust him whatsoever, let alone buy from him, let alone attach their name to his name.

Do I think they're all in on it? No way. I'm sure many of them are clueless and just happy to offer a good word to some guy they think is actually a good guy, who's providing product. in exchange for free shit. I'm not here to shit on Facebook group admins and users because I'm sure a good majority of them are clueless, but some do know full-well.

But it is odd to me because a lot of these guys DO know, and not only refuse to remove them from their groups, buy from him themselves, but actually are going out of there way to offer him praise.

I mean I can think Michael Jackson is completely innocent, buy his album for myself, but I still probably wouldn't recommend him as babysitter for thousands of people who trust me, let alone attach my name to it. Considering most arcade guys are unforgiving as hell, it's bizarre. Perhaps I am sounding like a conspiracy theorist but figured I'd post and let people draw their own conclusions.

These guys usually ban people from very little offenses (or sometimes nothing at all besides just being a pain in the ass) just to avoid the drama, so I find it odd he's not only allowed in, but they are actually resistant towards anybody who informs them of his history and suggests he be removed, and he has been removed from very little Facebook groups.

The way a lot of these guys are writing about him also just feels really unnatural and requested by Travis. Some of them read like blatant advertisements. There's more not shown.

Note his account is tagged in all of the posts as well but I have him blocked so it appears as plain-text

As I continued to search for his name, it really started to concern me that many of the names making the almost advertise-y posts started to match up to ownership/adminship of the groups. I know some of these guys know his past, some I'm not sure. Just some examples of the heavy and fully-public praise from group owners, as recent as a few weeks ago:

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At this point, having no prior knowledge of this next group or the poster, I had noticed a pattern enough to jokingly tell somebody next to me "Look, here's our next admin in the conspiracy", not realizing I would actually be correct on that assumption... he was indeed one of the few admins among the 2,500+ users in the group. It was actually hard to find very many recommendations that weren't done by group admins

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At this point, I decided to check personal profiles and realized all 4 of these guys and most other group owners were personal Facebook friends with him - not only were they personal customers of his, had offered him a recommendation to the masses, but they, along with most of the most popular group owners, were Facebook friends with Travis, and all in all, I am suspecting he initiated these online friendships in an attempt to build trust in the Facebook community using these admins. Whether these third parties were aware of his past or not is not a point I am trying to make and I am not attempting to shame any group admins, as I'm sure some of them didn't know... (but to be fair, many have been alerted over the years and have refused to act, or are current or former KLOV members and have known all along, yet somehow sleep at night offering a recommendation and having the world's biggest creep, under a fake name, watching all of their family moments on their personal Facebook accounts)

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Porting this over from the mega-thread where this was also discussed. Exidy is a bit of a KLOV legend so I agree it's pretty bizarre and disappointing (but at least it wasn't a whole advertisement spiel like some of these)

Exidy is a #$&*& idiot and a tool, so it doesn't surprise me, if it is real.

[In reply to tron guy]

I know there are a decent amount of people who feel that same way.

Really hugely disappointed in Exidy for this. How could he not know?
 
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He is also permitted in the Arcade Jason Facebook group and Facebook friends with the man himself. Travis Reynolds has clearly made a decent effort to be Facebook friends with anybody who's anybody, he's hated around here, yet on Facebook it's total opposite - practically all the popular folk have this guy added, it's ridiculous. Many of them know. While the admins there aren't touting the guy, other people are... this just in today from that group, people getting so excited about his wonderful products.

The poster of the main comment is a good guy/a KLOVer and caught his mistake after somebody pointed it out and the error has been corrected, so I'll block the name out.

Just posting to show how many people eat his stuff up, not knowing who he is. Not implying Jason knows the backstory either, he's a good guy, and has made no posts about Travis, I'm just using his group and him as an example - this guy is everywhere, groups and personal profiles alike, whether or not the people on the other end are aware of who he is. It seems like there's more that don't know than do, these days. But this guy is in way too many collectors' seller base, let alone personal profiles. I would suggest everybody check their profiles if adding strangers is your thing and make sure he's not on it.

I can almost guarantee you he's mass adding people

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Off-topic and not involved in my tinfoil conspiracy theory...

And for the last post of the night to avoid rocking the boat too much... as you look further into his profile, you'll find he's Facebook friends with a ton of experienced KLOV-ers too, who surely know about all of this. I can only see mutual friends due to his privacy settings, which is pretty hefty as-is, the only other glimpse being who's "liked" his cover photo and profile photo. All three of the guys who are liking his timeline cover photo are basically KLOV legends ironically enough.

So apparently most people just don't give a damn anymore. Anybody care to share what the redeeming qualities of being this guy's friend are? Genuinely curious, because while he's the most hated person here, it appears many KLOV-familiars not only tolerate him, but welcome them into their social circles, surely full knowing of what he's done and the type of person he is.

With so many people still fired up here, and nobody coming to his defense, I'm surprised so many that have since swept this under the rug and welcomed this guy into their life, have not spoken up in his defense... these threads are mostly one-sided and very negative towards him. Nobody's speaking up, so is it "This guy is a terrible person, but I'm able to ignore it", or, "This guy is a terrible person, but I like him, and I don't want to speak up in support of him to avoid pissing off KLOV", or the very unlikely "I've never heard of his past before"?

I mean, we have an entire forum section dedicated to the dangers of one guy like never before, yet we have like dozens of KLOVers and high-ranking community people buddying up with him, most surely knowing the scope of what he's done. It's weird.

EDIT: Decided to do some KLOV searchin' and found one of these guys defending him on here, acknowledging they have a friendship, and saying he's not RAM Controls, so I guess that's the counter-argument... although since 2018 that argument has lost steam.

Not trying to be snarky or witch hunt anybody, genuinely curious on any counter-arguments. Everything here is pretty much one-sided, and also seems pretty crystal clear and factual, so this is a surprise to see.

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Dude, lay off the meth.

Yes, nobody on FB cares. Because people there are stupid robot consumers, and will follow anyone they think is 'cool', and who can get them parts. The place is full of morons, with morons leading the groups, who care more about attention than doing what's right.

We don't have him here, and that's the best we're going to get.
 
Maybe he should hire Bill Burger to be his public relations manager. Actually, sounds like Travis Judd has done a good job of it himself.

It's a well-tested strategy. Businesses use it all the time.

Scam, disappear, rename, rebadge, and repeat.
 
Anybody care to share what the redeeming qualities of being this guy's friend are?


Maybe it's a keep friends close, enemies closer type of thing. Maybe people like the bad guy. Maybe people think if he was a criminal he would be in prison. Just a few ideas.

I am personally a "enemies closer" kinda guy. Sorta. I joined arcade harnesses, threw out a few crazy theories on KLOV, and was approached by Travis Reynolds. We had a quick chat on messenger, but I do not allow him to join facebook groups I control.
 
I always try to point people to Ken Falta when harness discussion on facebook arise. Sucks to have such a solid guy making great products and have him lose business to that sketchpad.
 
A friend ordered a Sinistar and mystic Marathon harness from him. Took over a year to get them(lots of messages). I believe a few pins were wrong on the sinistar. Hopefully there is no issue that would screw up our mystic Marathon pcb.
 
A friend ordered a Sinistar and mystic Marathon harness from him. Took over a year to get them(lots of messages). I believe a few pins were wrong on the sinistar. Hopefully there is no issue that would screw up our mystic Marathon pcb.

Electronics don't work on "hopefully". Either it is wired right, or it isn't. No magic involved with simple copper.

Mystic Marathon is a rare PCB so if you don't do end-to-end checks on the harness, then you are gambling. Please check it first. It's not my property, but it would make me a little sad to hear that it fried.

And.....If it does fry the board, good luck getting any sort of compensation.
 
we've already spoken about this in another thread.
keeping up with nick names vs real names isnt exactly easy. especially when you deal with so many people. after purchasing the harness from travis reynolds, i was pm'd by several (3) people reminding me of who he was. I have since removed him from my group.
Im trying to run a drama free group, obviously thats not always possible.
 
If only people would pay for legit harnesses.

I may go back to my plans and make a few extra defender and joust harnesses as I have 2 machines to deconvert.


But yep. I was banned from a group earlier this year for posting that the guy was a scam artist.

They sided with the supplier of their harnesses.
 
If only people would pay for legit harnesses.

I may go back to my plans and make a few extra defender and joust harnesses as I have 2 machines to deconvert.


But yep. I was banned from a group earlier this year for posting that the guy was a scam artist.

They sided with the supplier of their harnesses.

When you say legit, do you mean original or NOS?
 
I always try to point people to Ken Falta when harness discussion on facebook arise. Sucks to have such a solid guy making great products and have him lose business to that sketchpad.

He's the one who liked Travis's cover photo in the photo above so I don't think he's that upset
 
He's the one who liked Travis's cover photo in the photo above so I don't think he's that upsetI

I know this is a old post, but just found this thread and wanted to reply to your comment.
I did yes like that photo way back when I had no idea who he was. I was thinking hey someone else is doing harnesses, and wow thats a neat looking wiring
board he posted.

I of course had heard of Ram Controls as I have some good friends scammed in that whole thing.
But I had no idea Travis was the same person.

Once I found out, I have to say I was a little shocked and wanted nothing to do with him of course.

Of course I hate to lose business to someone, and him being a scammer I hate it even more as I get messages regularly from people
being screwed. I know he does harnesses I do not make, but I am working at fixing that! :)

I try and stay out of things if possible and just keep my head into working on harnesses.
Anyways just wanted to reply
Thanks
 
Sorry guys, but i cant understant what is RAM Controls :) does anybody can explain me?
Thanks
 
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