i just orderd this in 8 and 10mm
8mm is 0.314
ill get back with review when they arrive
Last edited by JonB_in_Glencoe; 01-03-2020 at 02:31 PM. Reason: removed ebay link
In a later thread that I started after this one, I posted about Marty's arms. He is not a fraud. I currently only own a 000 buck mold from him. It is a great casting mold once you learn the technique. I found it likes to be plenty hot, then pour into each individual hole in one continuous pass. The mold has two cavities connected by a trough, but i found if you don't pour directly over the hole, you will not get a filled out mold.
I am very happy with the mold, I'll be buying more.
I had a member above state Marty tends to be slow on orders the company that does his billing has fined him $45 for this transaction result and his piss poor email to me without ever responding to my contact attempts it seems he is real enough but has a habit of not filling orders. they are also reviewing whether to keep him at all as a store.
I can tell you if he responded saying he needed more time I would have waited it was nonresponse that triggered inquiry .
When I think back on all the **** I learned in high school it's a wonder I can think at all ! And then my lack of education hasn't hurt me none I can read the writing on the wall.
That's understandable, I hate the feeling that they took your money with no response. I don't know when I ordered mine, but it was shipped rather quick as I recall. I also asked in the past about custom sizes, and did get a response.
Maybe you guys are onto something. I sent a message through his website last week. I then sent a second one, then a third with a different email address. No response. Today I sent a message by Ebay, and got a response in about an hour.
It turns out his listed sizes are the size of the mold cavity, if anyone is interested. My 000 buck mold is great. I just ordered a .740, hoping to drop a .737"-.738" ball. We will see how he does on a large size.
Ok, I got in contact with Marty, and indeed there was a problem with his website. He should have it figured out now.
I hope so he will not stay in business the way things were He never replied to my last message responding to his message .
When I think back on all the **** I learned in high school it's a wonder I can think at all ! And then my lack of education hasn't hurt me none I can read the writing on the wall.
It was a tech problem, it happens. Use this email to get a quick response. martin@ringinator.com
To late now for my buying from him if he had not called me names in a email that would be a different thing altogether. It was actually Shopify that had enough of him not responding to customers and refunded my account same day credit card company would have waited 5 business days. Shopify Fined him $45 plus he had to double pay shipping as mold was here in my town when he recalled it .
Frankly I was wondering if he just did not want to take the black Friday sale price of $84.?? delivered ?
Shame to as I have read good about his molds .
When I think back on all the **** I learned in high school it's a wonder I can think at all ! And then my lack of education hasn't hurt me none I can read the writing on the wall.
Purchased marty arms mold online a lil pricey but great mold once I figured it out. Shipped direct to canada no issues.
You placed an order Dec 4th, during the busiest time of the year. An order for a custom sized mold that had to be custom made. As it says so on the website, some molds take longer to make/ship than others. I am a one man shop and everything is handcrafted from scratch. Molds are not my only product.
Once you placed your order I never received a single additional message from you. The only message I received was from shopify, the company that hosts my webstore, stating that you had called your bank and filed a chargeback dispute. What especially annoyed me, was that you did that AFTER you received the tracking/shipping information that was emailed and texted to you.
I dropped off the box Dec 22 at the post office, along with a bunch of other orders; I get an email the 26th that a chargeback has been filed. Exactly what a scammer would do. That right there is a giant red flag when it comes to fraudsters and fake orders.
For those of you that have never sold anything before, a chargeback is when the bank voids a sale on behalf of a customer complaint. Usually because the card has been stolen and used fraudulently.
When they do that, they charge the merchant a non-refundable fee, usually $45. As the merchant I am stuck paying that no matter what. Whether the dispute is in my favor or not.
So I got scammed, whatever. Online business is like that. It's not a question of if, but when.
I got lucky though, its xmas and the post office is running slow. So it took longer than the normal 2 days to deliver the box.
For a $15 fee, the post office can stop a package in transit and ship it back to the sender.
https://www.usps.com/manage/package-intercept.htm
So I did just that!
I am not going to be scammed, lose out the money of the sale, the chargeback fee, the postage, AND give you a free mold. Ha!
So I did a redirect and had it returned to me. (Now I'm out a total of $45 + $15 + $7.50 postage + $7.50 return postage = $75.)
You, (or the card you used), received a full refund, just as you asked your bank, and that was the end of it.
Or so I thought. Now I run across this post and see YOU are calling ME the scammer?!?
When it was YOU that behaved in the most scammy of ways!
Regrettably, after a year of me making these, and 150+ happy mold customers, you have the displeasure of being my first negative transaction. :/
Good answer Marty! It helps to hear the other side of the story.
I hope you stick around, I'm quite happy with my mold. Soon to have two, I ordered a .740" a few weeks ago. I'm also thinking of adding a .180" to cast bismuth shot too.
This is just a suggestion, but it may be better to make your molds so that they drop close to the listed size, within reason of course. I have a few ball molds from JT molds, which are also built to your specified cavity size. It seems most molds drop a ball .002"-.004" smaller than the cavity. It's not a big deal, but my .360" 000 buck mold drops about .356". The only place anyone would care is if they were trying to use these in gallery level 38 special or 357 magnum loads, and expect a .360" or so ball. Some more examples are from JT molds. My .632" cavity mold drops a .628" ball. My .735" cavity drops about a .733" ball. My .782" drops a .779" ball. These are all with clip on wheel weight alloy.
It's not a huge deal at all, but if your 000 buck for example mold had .363" cavities, it might save some headache later. Make this clear in the custom order options. You make a very nice looking mold that works well.
Marty has not told the truth here as stated above I tried contacting him 4 times he never responded at all so i contacted Shopify on Saturday they told me that to get the correct vendor I needed to file complaint with credit card . On Sunday I got an email that Marty had printed shipping label It was Tuesday before it shipped but it was Monday he did send nasty note . My credit card company put a 5 day review on the charge Shopify from there own words said they refunded my account as I was not the first to complain?
I had no knowledge I was refunded for over a week as I told Marty in response to his second email I would have sent him a check if mold was delivered I had not seen the refund yet at that time .
It was indeed Marty that did not keep up communication that caused the issue and he is lying about me being first unsatisfied customer I have talked to others now.
My guess is this is a side business probably done on equipment where he works and he let things go to long.
Shame Because I really would like the mold but being called a scammer because of a persons incompetence is not a good way to treat a customer or to stay in business.
P.S. if you look in prior posts you can clearly see I was not the only one having trouble getting a hold of Marty and his continued untruths do not make things better .
Last edited by firefly1957; 02-03-2020 at 09:02 AM. Reason: P.S.
When I think back on all the **** I learned in high school it's a wonder I can think at all ! And then my lack of education hasn't hurt me none I can read the writing on the wall.
Here's the thing I can't figure out. You placed an order on the 4th, and presumably before the 21st you were already disputing with the credit card company. I can understand the lack of email, we did figure out he had a technical problem with his website. You said "I had a member above state Marty tends to be slow on orders." I went through the thread again. Nobody besides you is reporting a problem. On top of that, you ordered a custom mold. Why would you possibly think it would be done in less than 2 weeks during the Christmas holiday?
I just received my .740" mold from Marty's arms. It is exactly one month from the order date for a custom mold. It's a beautiful mold, just like my 000 buck.
Let us know what diameter it casts at with your alloy - I hope it's right at .740 or better
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