What's going on with Yoda?

[Lobeznoyyo]

All I can say about my experience with Michael is that he has always willing to help everybody here.
In my humble opinion , I consider M. like a big brother of this forum.

I understand the people who are waiting for their watches without any or few news from M ,
but I have experience with this kind of illness with some members of my family and the world stopped for us ,
nothing else mattered , only this.
I was sure that M would fulfill his obligations as soon as his health permitted.

Michael , is very sad to read that you will leave this forum when you finish your obligations.
All forums have good and bad things.
The good part is helping each other without any interest ( like you do ) and the bad part is that the more people there are, the more likely there are to be this kind of unfortunate comments due to fear or lack of empathy.

Please think about this ( of course if you still enjoy this forum), it would be a great loss for all of us.

My best wishes are with you M and thanks for all your help.

[RideInStyle]

Any news about Yoda?

Any update regarding the work he promised to do for the members?

I have my 6152/1 grail build from NW with a R618 incablok movement, a Pam 979 and C616 movement (total worth 5.000 USD) sitting in his workshop since 3 years without having heard anything from Michael.

Any advice how to handle this situation?

Did I ask for this being shipped to me? As far as I remember it was sent to me by one of our seasoned builders and something was/went wrong in the shipping/building process.

M, no reason for being grumpy.

We know each other since years, had so many chats about life, cars and watches and I'm considering you as a friend.

For the record:
Yes, you asked me to ship it over to me.

We've talked about this special watch, and I've mentioned that I experienced some issues with it.
At this time I was offering a winding pinion of a 240 movement for 100 USD on HF, and we agreed to a deal, that I'll give you the winding pinion in exchange for the work on my R618 movement. I also told you that I have an issue with my Pam 979 with the hands being not properly adjusted (hour and minute hand laying not over each other in a 12.00 position. You told this is an easy fix and I should ship it with the 6152/1 watch with the R618 movement.

This was on 27. October 2020.

I've shipped the watches on 18. November 2020.

You may also remember that I shipped both watches in a Diesel Jeans, so that if somebody opens the package he only see a Jeans and hopefully wouldn't find the watches in the pockets.

After a while you've contacted me to tell the CP has too much friction, which I told you before and you've find that one of the gears in the movement missing a tooth.

I suggested to contact Jorge to ship over a new CP in exchange to the old one, but you've told that you didn't want to deal with Jorge.
Instead, you've suggested that I ship to you a spare fully working C616 movement and that you're sure that you can use some parts of it to fix the R618 movement and if we're lucky, you might still be able to get the C616 movement working.

I've shipped the C616 movement on 06. March 2021.

The last post I've got from you was on 21. March 2021.

You clearly can see that I'm a patient and easy going person. You also know from various conversations we've had that I always try to send you some positive energy to deal with all the struggle you had with your pain.

But after 3.5 years of waiting for any response from you, my frustration about not hearing anything from you leaded to my post on HF.

I'm sorry if you are feeling offended by my post, but I think I have done nothing wrong.

Christof

[SDREW1976]

How about you guys all deal with this via direct message....it's just mud slinging at this point. Fucking toxic as hell.


You guys want to get watches serviced right and back in a reasonable time? Pay a local independent and don't be cheap, instead of praying on the kindness of a man with a terminal illness that tries to help out of kindness. The lack of self accountability in this hobby is laughable. Only difference here is the guy you are all demonizing actually has a completely reasonable excuse....a terminal illness, one which he has been very open about on the old forum and new forum.

[RideInStyle]

How about you guys all deal with this via direct message....it's just mud slinging at this point. Fucking toxic as hell.


You guys want to get watches serviced right and back in a reasonable time? Pay a local independent and don't be cheap, praying on the kindness of a man with a terminal illness that tries to help out of kindness. The lack of self accountability in this hobby is laughable. Only difference here is the guy you are all demonizing actually has a completely reasonable excuse....a terminal illness, one which he has been very open about on the old forum and new forum.

Better think before writing a comment.
There is no way to contact M.
Can't see any mud slinging.
I know M since nearly 10 years, how long do you know him?
You're not involved and therefore not welcomed to comment in a discussion between M and me.

[SDREW1976]

Funny because he was just saying the same thing. And everyone is part of it on the forum if it's publicly posted. It's a forum and so you can message him here and wait if you don't want a public discussion. Oh and I'm an old forum member, so around 15yrs....

You could of done this in the VIP section too. Just didn't need to air your dirty laundry.

[RideInStyle]

Well, again, better do some research before commenting...

(1) You can't send him a PM. PM function is blocked.
(2) I've opened a thread in the VIP section first, but got no response

[SDREW1976]

Yeah you got no response on VIP because he is so ill, so then you go here.
Personally I wouldn't send anything to anyone if I couldn't contact them. So......I mean who does that? Not me....this is where self accountability comes in. I don't direct message Yoda because I wouldn't send anything to him knowing his situation.
I would never get myself into the situation you all find yourselves in.

[SDREW1976]

I hope this all works out for everyone and everyone involved learns from it.

[RideInStyle]

In 2020 and 2021 M was feeling better and has been very active here without any issues to get in contact with him.
He also wrote in one thread that he is preparing for doing a new mission related to his old job.

Again, you definitely don't know all facts, but seem to have a strong opinion.

[RideInStyle]

I'm 100% confident that we will get this sorted out.