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Ive bought tons of stuff from him before knowing that he used images without permission. But I gotta say, price aint bad. It's nice to be able to get all the little stuff that makes a proton pack look like a proton pack, especially if its from the same person. One of my orders, I had ordered multiple items, so he just put all of it into one box and refunded me the money. That's classy right there.

And I have ordered his ecto goggles, not screen accurate but I was impressed.

Purchased a set of brass barbs off him the other week. excellent seller. Quick delivery to the UK just over a week from him receiving payment through paypal.
Ordered a few more items bumper shock mount and gun/trap dixie cup holder which im just waiting to arrive.
Exellent seller on ebay

I would advise people not to buy from this guy. Picked up a ion arm metal detail and he drilled the hole in the wrong spot for the wire and just filled it in with hot glue.

Also grabbed one of his traps and pedals. The pedal can be saved but the trap looks like a dog and has to be completely replaced. Waste of money on my part.

ya Ive gotten a few thing from him as well... very good work i would recommend him too!

I know I havent been posting for very long, but I bought the ecto goggles from him. They are FAIRLY accurate, but by no means 100%. I just liked the light scheme he had, and I kind of wanted something different anyway. It seems as though he has some good, accurate pack parts however.

As with any seller, there are going to be problems here and there, especially since he seems to make a lot of the parts himself, or so I understand. Overall, I would say he was pleasant to deal with and I was satisfied.

As far as him not being a member of the community, it is what it is. That's a personal decision for you all to make on whether to buy from him or not based off of him having a screen name here. I can understand not being willing to buy from someone not from here, though.

shock mount and dixie cup holder turned up way before xmas. Very fast shipping. Only downside was i ordered 2 items from him which came in the same box but the shipping was not combined so i had to paying the shipping prices for both items as i had to purchase them seperatley off ebay. Also he has not left any feed back for any of the items i purchased off him.

Just bought some stuff from him very pleased... good prices on product and shipping.... better then I have found most places.

I've purchased prop parts from him twice and have been quite pleased with the product and service. sbonse, if I may ask a question: did you request a combined invoice before sending your payment? No criticism, just curious about your experience with him!

Do not buy from Zombie Amusements...he is a recaster!

I have been selling on Ebay for years, even before my MMM website and for the longest time I was one of the few sellers of GB parts on Ebay. Along came Zombie amusements and started selling items to compete with me, fair enough, thats just business and honest competition is fine. Even though his main mode of operation was to undercut and claim to have the lowest prices on Ebay or GBfans.com

I had bought some light kits for the gun and for a slime blower and noticed he was plugging his website on Ebay (big no-no) so I had a look, to my surprise I saw what looked like my gun grips being sold, i then had a look back in my records and discovered I had sold him grips in 2009 as well as some other items. I usually instantly recognize my work as most others do so I ordered a set from him (used my MMM address and Paypal acc.) and waited for them to arrive. A few weeks passed and they arrived today. As soon as I opened the box I immediately knew they were recasted MMM grips...without a doubt.

Here are pictures prooving that
MMM grip in white on the top


He tried to cover up the MMM engraved in the back side by grinding it out



There is an elongated groove on my grips and his recast matches all the features exactly on mine



He then tried to dremmel the grooves to alter their appearance, really sloppy too


So there you have it, I'm 100% convinced. You be the judge



Has anyone else purchased grips from Zombie Amusements? If so I'd like to see them for comparison

Colin
MMM

What a scumbag! Well, that answers the long running question of why he doesn't sell on GBFans. I'm sorry to hear that Colin

Told ya. Hell, at least he sent you the grips. I never got what I ordered.

Thats ok Vince, he'll get whats coming to him. Give em' enough rope they hang themselves

I actually ordered some parts off of him recently "before reading all of this" I will say this his work seems very rushed/sloppy and I ended up buying a gb 1 ribbon cable off of him and it seriously has to be the smallest gb ribbon cable in the world I would totally stay away from his cables.

Wow Colin, sorry to hear that!

Your photos are pretty convincing to me though. It definitely looks like he half-assedly tried to disguise your grips as something else.

What a turd.

But "assedly" is my new favorite adverb.

There's also this



This minute scratch is on my casted grips and it also appears in the exact same place on his re-cast of my grips

How terrible. That totally sucks that someone is profiting from the work that you did. All your stuff matches up to his..or rather, all his stuff matches up to yours. Lets keep an eye out, next thing we know hell be selling your guns

That's a damn shame. I really liked this guy's metal parts, but now I have to wonder where he's getting them, not that I'd buy from him again. I had my eye on his gun kit too....not so much.

Hello, I was asked to post some pictures of the Zombie_Amusements GB1 Ribbon cable I purchased to show how small it is compared to a normal sized ribbon cable so you can see for yourself.

these are the knobs and trigger tip I purchased from him incase anyone wanted to get a look at them

Wow, that trigger tip looks awful.

Hrmmmmm...def wrong gauge wire fo the ribbon cable

What a bunch of crap!

Awful cable, awful metal, and a recaster? Wow, awful person.

Zombie, we are not amused.. Go throw your trash in the dumpster where it belongs

I confronted him about the recasting and he basically denied it, I have asked him for photos of his masters which he claims are all made from machined aluminum..we will see what he comes back with if anything. To top it off he also plagiarized his "terms and conditions" from McMaster-Carr's website and used it on his website but made one mistake and left McMaster -Carr in one spot where he forgot to put Zombie Amusements

http://www.mcmaster.com/mcm/openhelp.asp?browserOK=true&sesnextrep=79848850038945&helpContext=termsconditions

http://www.zombieamusements.com/terms-and-conditions.html

Awesome. He should have just used iTunes terms and conditions.

No it's not.. http://www.uspto.gov/

OTHER PROVISIONS

NO OTHER REPRESENTATIONS OR WARRANTIES
WE MAKE NO REPRESENTATION OR WARRANTY THAT PRODUCTS OFFERED FOR SALE ON THIS WEB SITE ARE LEGAL, AVAILABLE OR APPROPRIATE FOR YOUR PURPOSES OR FOR USE IN YOUR COUNTRY OR REGION. YOU ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR COMPLIANCE WITH LAWS GOVERNING YOUR USE OF THESE PRODUCTS. THIS WEB SITE IS PROVIDED "AS IS" WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED. YOU HAVE THE SOLE RESPONSIBILITY FOR ADEQUATE PROTECTION AND BACKUP OF DATA AND/OR EQUIPMENT USED IN CONNECTION WITH THIS WEB SITE. YOU AGREE TO HOLD MCMASTER-CARR HARMLESS FROM, AND YOU COVENANT NOT TO SUE Zombie Amusements FOR, ANY CLAIMS BASED ON USE OF THIS WEB SITE.

pure Scum just trying to profit from someone elses hard work !!!!