IMPORTANT MESSAGE FROM BILBOZO DECALS

[techcomm]

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[NYPD1009]

I knew that there was something wrong with this guy!!

Because he has the Bilbozo exlusives and a lot of the Florida Sheriff's departments I was searching for, I've ordered some decals (2 was Bilbozo exclusives: CHP Recriutment and Florida Capitol). I payed directly and after 4 weeks I want to know whats wrong because I didn't receive my order. This "nice" guy told me, that he was out of town and he can't understand what's the problem - 4 weeks and not even shipped??? I take a look to his valuation - as special to his replys. It was terrible - if you have a problem you can be sure that he attacks and insult you brazenly. If someone like to take a look to his negative replys at ebay, it's very informative.

Because my order came 3 days later (with some bonus decals for the delay) I decided to give a positve valuation - I thought that maybe he really had some "mental-problems" and it's o.k. - just to be sure to get some of Bill's exclusive items in the future.  After a first look to the capitol police and the CHP decals I was wondering about the blue paper - and now the master question to Bill: did you made the exclusive decals on that blue paper or is it a copy too??

You can be sure that this was my last buy at this shop!!!! But I hope that the exclusive sets can be ordered directly from you or our dealers from now on.

I hope you and Chris show him that he goes to far!!!

Tom

[Bilbozo]

Hi Tom:

Thanks for the post.  Just so you know, Bilbozo Decals are NEVER printed on blue paper, but also Max has been known to counterfeit with white paper as well but prefer's the blue.  I finally made a complaint to Ebay and am waiting for a response.  His little venture was massive...  Ebay asked me to send the listings in violation, and I came up with over 200 individual listings with my decal designs on them....each listing says he has at least 10 of each to sell.  I'm not sure how much money he's made from this but it's into the thousands of dollars worth definately.  I have been going to every Police Diecast Site and trying to inform everyone I can, and each time I do, I get a whole slew of horror stories from angry customers. 

His pricing is double that of what I usually charge as well.  Max is definately making a fortune off of hard-working people with cheap fakes.  (Many of them are LEO's at that !)  That's where I find what he is doing is so stupid.

[CoreysCruisers]

Well one sure way to get him into trouble would be the US Revenue Service (if thats the proper term). Wonder if he is paying taxes on his little fraud venture on eBay. An anonymous email/call to them about this guy and the extent of his venture I am sure would attract some kind of attention. Hello mr audit guy....please take the position for your rectal exam.

[code3]

Hi Tom:

Thanks for the post.  Just so you know, Bilbozo Decals are NEVER printed on blue paper, but also Max has been known to counterfeit with white paper as well but prefer's the blue.  I finally made a complaint to Ebay and am waiting for a response.  His little venture was massive...  Ebay asked me to send the listings in violation, and I came up with over 200 individual listings with my decal designs on them....each listing says he has at least 10 of each to sell.  I'm not sure how much money he's made from this but it's into the thousands of dollars worth definately.  I have been going to every Police Diecast Site and trying to inform everyone I can, and each time I do, I get a whole slew of horror stories from angry customers. 

His pricing is double that of what I usually charge as well.  Max is definately making a fortune off of hard-working people with cheap fakes.  (Many of them are LEO's at that !)  That's where I find what he is doing is so stupid.

Bill,
Keep us posted on what ebay is going to do fro you. Hopefully it will all turn out for the best for you three.

Corey

[SCPD]

Hello all,

I'm a new member here and have been making 1/18 custom police diecast since 2000.  I just read this and had to register and repsond.  It is funny because back in October, I order 1/18 decals for Illinois State Police and Louisiana State Police from Govcars.  I have used the Bilbozo in the past and was disappoiinted 1/18 scale was not made anymore.  I found them from Govcars on ebay.

Yesterday, I finally opended the package and was going to put them on a car.  I noticed the were terrible and figured they were copied.  Even the license plates looked like crap.  I used the LA State Police Decals, but not the ISP.  

Bill if you want the ISP decals, I can send them to you.  

Also on a side note, I order Monroe County FL Sheriff decals from Govcars last week, I have not received them yet.  Whoever originally had these made, please contact me.  I am going to be leaving feedback for Max Caulfield on ebay.  Look for it, my user name is car-nut-18.

Derek

[Bilbozo]

Derek.  Thanks for sharing your information.  Indeed Max has been dragging my reputation through the mud with his poor quality fakes.  After contacting Ebay, I also gave them this thread to monitor, so if anyone has any similar experiences, by all means please post it in this thread as I am hoping that Ebay investigators will be reading it for information.  As for the decals, if anyone can part with any of them for me to use as evidence, it's much appreciated.  Unfortunately he's sold so many I'd likely go out of business just replacing the many he has sold.  Scanning them and sending me a copy would be OK as well.  Below is my contact information for this.  Cheers !

William J. Smith
5091 Hammond Bay Road
Nanaimo, British Columbia
Canada  V9T 5B6

Emails:
bill.smith@shaw.ca
bill@eyemean.com

[coolcopcars]

If anyone has seen the "Area 51 Alien car" that this guy had on ebay.  Those decals are Steve's at Signal 1.

Tom J

[coolcopcars]

Sorry, Ron

[Troy]

Just to show how this loser cares about those of us who have wasted time and money on his decals.  Here is his response to negative feedback that he gets on ebay.

still waitin for my decals i purchase bad bussines practice plop7033 ( 5 )  Nov-07-08 03:28
 Reply by witsecmax (Nov-07-08 11:14):
ATTENTION: PUSSIES & CRYBABY'S GOVCARS IS A NO WHINING ZONE! DON'T COME BACK!!!!
 
  POLICE 1/18 DECALS ORANGE COUNTY SHERIFF ORLANDO FL (#290269607466

[dso109]

I wonder if Ron and Steve from Signal 1 would be interested in what he is doing? I still havent heard anything from ebay yet on my case that I turned into them yesterday with him stealing my designs, as soon as I hear something I will post their response so everyone can read it.  SCPD I think the Monroe Co decals you are refering to came from Signal 1. If anyone has or had contact with Ron or Steve drop them an email and see if they might be interested. James did you turn in a complaint as well like Bill and I?

[daddypopo114]

I used to get my decals designed and made by Ron, but unfortuantely Ron passed away about a month ago.    I don't have a contact for Steve

[motorcade1]

That is indeed a shock.!!!  I had lost contact with Ron but sent him an update on this situation just a day or so ago to keep him informed.  This news deeply saddens me.  Ron was a stand-up guy, he was always there and always willing to go the extra mile when Steve up and dropped everything. This is truly sad news, Ron will be sorely missed...   



This is probably why that SCROTE is using Signal 1's designs because he figures no one will do anything to him... What a F'n Leach...!!!   

[motorcade1]

Bill...

As of a few minutes ago that SCROTE'S site is still going...    I sent you an e-mail a day or so ago telling you about my experiance (re: Honolulu Police).   If you want those decals I will certainly send them to you. Do Not Replace them either.  I will get with you later and order some REAL BILL BOZO replacements.   I support you completely!!!   

For those of you out there, just so you know the quality of Bill's character... I had asked Bill if I could purchase the Honolulu decals from him.  I had seen those decals and didn't know they were exclusives.  Bill stood by his agreement to that Pile of Fecal Matter and directed me to purchase the Honolulu decals from GovCars due to their exclusivity agreement. 

My point is, Bill Smith (aka Bill Bozo) has both Honesty & Integrity (not to mention great decal and art skills  ).  Bill Smith is someone you can count on and is Tops in my Book!!!!

[Bilbozo]

Wow...Ron's passing was news to me too.  A sad loss.  I believe you may be right in assuming he's selling them because no one will do anything.  If that's the case, that is very lowest of low. Max told me a month ago that he had purchased the rights to Signal-1.  Personally I don't believe it. The man has told me enough lies for a lifetime.  

[code3]

Bill, Chris and James

I was thinking of something that will probably be a pain in the butt to may help to prevent situations like this from happening. Have you noticed on important documents when you make a copy of it some how "copy" shows up in the image? Maybe there is a way to add this to your decal sheets with out ruining your decals

I found this site ( http://ghost.radified.com/norton_ghost_1.htm ) but not to sure if it will work completely to add it to the decals.

Hope this helps
Corey

[dso109]

I used to get my decals designed and made by Ron, but unfortuantely Ron passed away about a month ago.    I don't have a contact for Steve

Damn, I had no idea that Ron had passed away. I dealt with Steve mostly, I bought my first custom Road Champ from him off of ebay back in the day. Thats sad news.

[dso109]

This is the response I got back from ebay


Dear Chris,

Thank you for contacting the VeRO Program. If you believe that a listing or item posted on eBay infringes your intellectual property rights, the Verified Rights Owner (VeRO) Program may be able to assist you. As you may know, eBay does not buy or sell any items. We act only as a venue that helps buyers and sellers to do so. We neither see nor inspectany items that are offered for sale on eBay. However, we recognize that some posted items may infringe certain intellectual property rights. Forthis reason, we have created the VeRO Program, which enables intellectual property rights owners to identify and request the removal of allegedly infringing listings. The many benefits of participating in VeRO include: - Direct access to a support team dedicated to addressing rights owners'requests and processing Notices of Claimed Infringement (NOCIs)- The ability to request the removal of listings that infringe your intellectual property rights by using the NOCI form- The ability to request detailed contact information for sellers who post listings that may infringe your intellectual property rights  How to File a NOCI ReportThe first time you file a NOCI, you will need to download, complete, andsubmit the document to eBay by fax. If you need to submit subsequent NOCIs after your initial fax has been processed, you will be able to do so online.

[Bilbozo]

Hey Chris.  Looks like our hands may be tied so to speak.  I have some permissions to use certain logos and media to create decals for certain departments by their intellectual property division by written letter.  Of course we aren't really the property rights owners.  So the only recourse would be to inform the departments of the infringement and hope that they might do something about it, which probably would be slim.  I guess the only avenue would be to try to inform everybody who buys decals about the copies being made.

I know this may sound whimpy, but after reading a recent story, I have a feeling this guy is a really bad seed and frankly his background scares the crap out of me.  Here's an interesting footnote I found on a story in the Broward-Palm Beach New Times.  No telling what this guy is really like or capable of, so I most likely will have to let this go...I have a wife and 3 year old daughter to worry about and care for.

"Caulfield has been through a lot in his life. He was an informant in a Mob case in Chicago that led him to the Witness Protection Program (his real name isn't Max Caulfield — that's a federal fiction). He was kicked out of the program on a technicality and during the two decades since has worked as a private investigator. In that time, one of his partners turned out to be a spree killer and another a crack-addicted stalker.

Through all the madness, however, he'd never been the subject of a felony stop — and nothing could have prepared him for what was about to happen."

Here is the rest of the story for those interested. http://www.browardpalmbeach.com/2005-10-20/news/a-tragedy-of-errors/

[CoreysCruisers]

The guy sounds certifiable. I would do an anoymous tip the the IRS about his undeclared income. A nice audit will fix his caboose.

[Silver_Soldier]

He really is a strange individual! But curious if he is worried about giving up his alias or "Witness Protection", why is he talking about it?

Bill, I really wouldn't worry about this guy, we now know where to get our decals from and we will keep it that way. You just may have to keep them more readily available so some people do not stray back to Mr. wonderful.

[code3]

thats the kind of stuff i was talking about earlier but arent those ones stickers? cant the person just peel it off?

[SCPD]

Hey, go to ebay and check out the feedback I just left for Maxie Boy.  I know there are mispellings on the feedback, but that's what a few Thanksgivng Eve drinks will do!!!

Happy Turkey Day!!!!

[code3]

Dan,

I like the idea of that, but just as a test I threw this together real quick to show how it might get used against them and people still buy into the scam. attached is the photo of decals I have made with the hologram on it the catch is that all I did was save the hologram picture and edit it into the photo so that it seemed that it already had it on there. Now if this is how it will really looks when it is scaned or not I dont know.

Im sure how everyone is coming together on this topic since most of us use there decals we can come up with something to make sure this wont happen and we dont get ripped of by douches like max again.

[Garrett]

If somehow you could get one of those stickers that you could put on the actual decal and have that dissolve in water and not harm the decal that would be very challenging to copy.

[dso109]

Hey, go to ebay and check out the feedback I just left for Maxie Boy.  I know there are mispellings on the feedback, but that's what a few Thanksgivng Eve drinks will do!!!

Happy Turkey Day!!!!

Nice    

[dso109]

Bill,
  I think we are still okay on this, police cars are public property there for I do not believe that they are covered just as long as the design work is not copyrighted itself, (ive only done 1 police car for a dept that had copyrighted art work on the car and they gave me permission to do so since they wanted cars made) If you want you can take the design that he has copied that are nothing more than a stripe with the text POLICE on it. I'll make a few phone calls to make double sure, this prick needs to be stopped, he's giving all of us a bad name by selling crap on ebay and ruining it for the rest of us who actually care about the stuff we put out. I'll give a call on Mon, thats when the feds come back to work from this holiday weekend.

[Bilbozo]

SCPD  Wow. Can't wait to see how he'll respond to that in his feedback.  That made his Thanksgiving for sure. 

Chris - I agree, he's definately has to be stopped. Hopefully some of your Fed contacts may come up with something for us.  I have an appointment with my attorney today as well to update my will, and I am planning on asking him my options for this situation too.  Will let you know what he says.

[smalltimepatrols]

Hi Bill  I've been out of the loop for awhile and didn't hear about this until today.  There is a great group of people involved in modelling.  The word is out for all of us about this bad a--. Glenn Thomson

[techcomm]

Dan,

I like the idea of that, but just as a test I threw this together real quick to show how it might get used against them and people still buy into the scam. attached is the photo of decals I have made with the hologram on it the catch is that all I did was save the hologram picture and edit it into the photo so that it seemed that it already had it on there. Now if this is how it will really looks when it is scaned or not I dont know.

Im sure how everyone is coming together on this topic since most of us use there decals we can come up with something to make sure this wont happen and we dont get ripped of by douches like max again.

Just a suggestion......cannot each decal sheet be watermarked behind the decal graphics. Sure it means that the legit modeller must close crop the decals to get rid of the "copyright" markings. From our perspective, high quality workmanship dictates that the graphics should be close cropped anyway to give the real painted on look.   

I am sure that some fraudster will not sit there     and photoshop every image to get rid of the one inch spaced copyright markings that are across the entire background of the image. The hologram is a good idea but doesn't really solve the problem as it can be easily covered and the resulting "outline" of the masking can be photoshop'd out.