Big Dawg Fence This scammer tried to sell me low quality knock-off items as brand name items. Holiday Florida

I was shopping for some very specific and hard to find items for a project. I called several places and nobody had them in stock or at a reasonable price. When I called Big Dawg Fence, I spoke with Vince who assured me he had the parts I was looking for. I asked him to please double-check to be sure they were the exact ones I was looking for, and he responded by acting like my question was not only ridiculous but also offensive. I felt stupid for asking at that point and figured that he knew his own inventory like the back of his hand.
I told him that I would be driving from the other side of Tampa, which is over an hours drive away, so I needed to really be sure. Again, he assured me he had the items in stock. As I was driving there a classic Florida rainstorm hit. So between the rain and beginings of early rush hour traffic, it took just about two hours to get to his place in Holiday.

When I finally arrived, he took me into his shop and in the back here there was a sealed box on the counter. He said the that the parts were in it and ready to go. Something about the blank and non-descript packaging didn't seem right to me. So I asked if I could look in the box first. He said he didn't have a way to open to box, but I had a box cutter in my car. I went and grabbed that and came back to open the box, and he was acting a little weird.

So I start to open it up and he gets a call on his cell and walks away to deal with that. When I get it open and look in the box, I see that the parts are NOT the ones I wanted and just drove two hours in the rain in rush hour to buy. Instead they were low quality generic knock-offs. The parts I was after cost around $400, and the ones he was trying to sell me for that price were barely worth $100, if that.

I went up to him, being highly annoyed at this point, and he rudely said that if I didn't want the parts then someone else would. Then with that he turned around, walked back into his office, and slammed the door. Not only is this really bad business practice to lie, decieve, and attempt to scam a customer, but then he handled the whole thing like a spoiled child when he angrily stormed off.

So yeah, he wastes a good portion of my day, my time, my energy, and my gas, by lying to me and trying to rip me off, and then he has the nerve to act all offended when he gets called out on it. That is so ridiclous I do not even know where to begin. Talk about immature. Wow. And then after all of that nonsense, I had to drive back home. Luckily the rain had stopped, but by then rush hour was in full effect on wet slick roads.