Brickley Roscowicz Engineering

First the background:

In around 2002 or 2003, when I frequented Bricklink chat, I had an argument with user Harvey Henkelman (then known as ferroequus) in chat about firearms. It wasn't particularly heated, but I decided to put him on my stop list due to his attitude. He has had several username changes since, at the time I published this page it was BoneValleyALCo. Since he seems to enjoy changing his username fairly regularly, you can always find his current one here.

Around the same time I learnt of an order he placed with Bricklink user LegoHead that went sour - I won't post any details of that here.

In January 2005, I received an order from user Temporary (now de-registered), you can read about it here. As you can see, as soon as I mentioned to user Temporary that I thought they may be Harvey Henkelman, they changed their name and address to obviously fake ones.

There are a few things that lead me to believe user Temporary was indeed Harvey Henkelman:

1. The email used by user Temporary was This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it - seaboardft is a username that has been used by Harvey in the past both at Bricklink, and other sites. I believe it is related to the Seaboard Warehousing company based in Florida.
2. The original name given by user Temporary was Harvey Parquette - From various non-authoritative sources, I believe Parquette is his mother's re-married surname.
3. Of the 3 orders placed by user Temporary, 2 were to people I know Harvey Henkelman has had negative dealings with in the past.

Now obviously none of these is conclusive. But the 3 together were enough to file a problem report giving the reason "Member has 2 or more profiles on the system". The comments regarding the submission were:

This buyer setup a "temporary" ID to cause grief with some members he didnt like. The temporary ID was "Temporary", and initially had a name of Harvey Parquette - Parquette is Harvey Henkelman's mother's maiden name. After being alerted that we knew who he was, he changed the name and address to bogus ones.

I request that the 2 IDs be merged, so that the negative feedback he received as "Temporary" can be seen on his current record.

Thanks

(Yes I realise I mistakenly referred to Parquette as his mother's maiden name).

Unfortunately, on the first report I omitted to supply a link to the details of my problem order with user Temporary, so I filed a second problem report which was identical, with the following addition in the comments:

See here

Unfortunately, I then mis-read / mis-interpreted how the problem reports worked, and over the next few days I filed 3 more for the same thing. This was a mistake (and I later apologised for it) but it appears the Bricklink Admin saw it as bullying and made the whole affair public.

So then began an email exchange, which I include below (AU local times):

08/10/2005 8:23am

Problem Member Report for BoneValleyALCo

Hi Ross,

You have submitted this request now for the 5th time.  When the status of the request changes to green, that means that the request has been acknowledged and action may or may not been taken.  What are you trying to do ... to keep submitting the same request over and over again in order for me to finally give up and do your requested action?

08/10/2005 10:18am

Re: Problem Member Report for BoneValleyALCo

Sorry, Admin.

I misinterpreted what the status meant. Glad to know you're looking into it,
and I will not send any more requests.

12/10/2005 7:21am

Re: Problem Member Report for BoneValleyALCo

Attached: BrickLink Order #323976 - Harvey Parquette Buys LEGO® From Ross Crawford.eml

Oh BTW, some more info regarding this, the email on the bogus order (attached) was This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it . User BoneValleyALCo had SeaboardFT as a username in the past, maybe even at the time the bogus order was placed, but not sure (can you check the username history?). And Harvey Henkelman worked for Seaboard Warehouses in Florida for a time.

12/10/2005 8:18am

Re: Problem Member Report for BoneValleyALCo

Hello Ross,

OK I did not yet check whether the username reported belongs to the person reported but let me tell you this:

I already punished this seller not long ago by merging their old username into their new username and it would make no sense to penalize them yet again.  I don't know the details about why he did what he did (maybe he had a reasonable cause) but he is a long time member and obviously it looks like he wants to put his past behind him so it would not do any good to try to punish him some more.  If we tried to punish everyone for what they ever did on the site then there soon wouldn't be anyone left.

12/10/2005 8:40am

Re: Problem Member Report for BoneValleyALCo

Well, yes, I would like to see him punished. But that's should not affect the merging of the 2 usernames - in the TOS you state:

"Each individual or firm is eligible to have only 1 profile on this system."

This user has (at least) 2, and while I would prefer them to be merged, one of them should at least be removed, don't you think? I don't understand your reason not to punish him - he has done this on purpose to Bricklink users, just because he didn't like them. And when he was caught out, thumbed his nose by changing his name & address. I think that's worth -3 feedback on his record no matter what he's been punished for in the past, don't you?

BTW for details of what he has done I suggest you contact the other 2 members that received bogus orders from user Temporary. I know what he did to LegoHead, but not the other user cromulent. For myself, all I did was argue with him in chat about his opinion on private use of firearms.

12/10/2005 9:09am

Re: Problem Member Report for BoneValleyALCo

I just checked the profiles and they don't prove the 2 usernames to be the same person.

Say, to prevent these kinds of problems from happening in the future and to prevent them from affecting business on the site we could consider closing the chat entirely.  Would you want that?

12/10/2005 9:26am

Re: Problem Member Report for BoneValleyALCo

This isn't about chat, and it wasn't really a heated argument anyway. But he chose to take offense, and I'm *assuming* that's why he chose to place the bogus order, as it's about the only dealing I've ever had with him. Regardless, I think creating a duplicate username and using it to place bogus orders with people, regardless of his reasons, should be on his feedback record.

I can provide no absolute proof they're the same user, but for me, the matching email, first name, mother's maiden name, and the people he chose to place orders with, are enough. Why don't you email both BoneValleyAlco and Temporary, and ask? As I mentioned before it would also be illuminating to contact the other 2 users that he ordered from as user Temporary, to see if they can provide any more information.

12/10/2005 10:06am

Re: Problem Member Report for BoneValleyALCo

> Why don't you email both BoneValleyAlco and Temporary, and ask?

It's not like you're the only one who has an issue.  Of course there are limited resources in the site's administration.  This is how things work:

1) You report a problem

2) When the status changes to green that means that the issue has been looked at and action may or may not have been taken.  The case is considered closed.

I already explained this to you once and I think nicely.  If you are not going to respect it and are going to continue to agressively press your point then you will get thrown out and I don't care if you're on the GlobalAFOL leader mailing list or if you just joined yesterday, you will be punished so you learn the hard way to respect the rules.  Since you did not join yesterday and are on the GlobalAFOL mailing list then I think you should know better and am really shocked at the way you're acting.

12/10/2005 10:19am

Re: Problem Member Report for BoneValleyALCo

Do what you must. I don't believe I have been aggressive at all in this, except my initial multiple reporting which I've already explained was due to my own misinterpretation.

I have pointed out what I believe is a blatant break of your site TOS, given several pieces of admittedly inconclusive evidence, and pointed out ways in which it could possibly be substantiated. The rest is up to you.

I thought that was the end of it, and was happy to leave it at that, but then I read this post (note the time 10/12/2005 6:46:00 AM, is 12/10/2005 9:46PM in AU), in a totally un-related forum thread, totally bullying and threatening to terminate my membership unless I stop "throwing things at (Admin) to make (Admin) succumb to (my) request at penalizing another member".

And this post, again replying to somebody else, referring to my "bullying tactics".

Whatever. My store is now closed indefinitely. I don't need the money that badly. The message on my shop door is: