On Feb 17, 9:55Â*pm, Tim wrote:
On Feb 17, 11:51Â*pm, Chuck Gould wrote:

On Feb 6, 12:33�am, "dennis" wrote:

Interesting read...

http://www.king5.com/topstories/stor...irage_boats_KS.....

dennis

His other trademark is a more appropriate warning for his potential
victims, (er, I mean cutomers).

http://www.jollyrogerboats.com/

I thouI thought it was interesting that when I went for a dealer
search, that it popped up a questinaire that wanted my name address,
phone # e-mail etc.

Nah... I'll pass

Here's a link to some local discussion about this guy. One poster to
the board seems quick to defend Phillips, and responds to one person
complaining about treatment by saying "You finally got a more
expensive model than you paid for!" That inspired a comment that the
defender must be suffering from "some sort of liberial (sic) mental
disease!" My gosh, it reads almost exactly like rec.boats :-)

http://blogs.king5.com/archives/2008...p-builder.html

Among other accusations, Phillips is accused on the board of
"splashing" Bayliners to create molds for his Tiger Trax line of ski
boats. That's not the first time I have heard that mentioned.

Apparently there is a direct link between Mirage Boats and Southpaw
Marine in Des Moines, WA. Southpaw is the one and only dealer for
these boats. Supposedly the previous owner, current partial owner, or
somebody somehow connected now or previously with Southpaw is the
production manager who got stiffed for several thousand dollars in
back wages. Sounds like Southpaw is just another victim, and not
really a co-conspirator.

White collar crime goes largely unpunished. When I was in the car
business, I got stung by a counterfeit cashier's check. This was years
ago, before the practive became common. I found out from the cops that
a group of people had
gone through Seattle on Easter weekend and purchased about $100k in
used cars, jewelry, electronics, etc with these bogus checks. At that
time, I was told that there were a total of *three* cops in the
Seattle Police Department assigned to investigate check fraud. "All we
can do is take the report. If the people get arrested for something
else, we will bring these charges to the attention of the porsecutor's
office at that time." (I got that particular car back when the perps
parked it in an "impound zone" down in Portland, Ore. Cost me a $200
impound fee, a day's time, and train fare to Portland but that was
better than being out a
fairly late model Buick Regal).