Should you go to Mexico to have your Vanagon Painted? – Mexico Paint Part-3
I traded posts with Shane on FB and I thought I’d post his comment here. Today 10-12-21 Shane has not made good on the offer below. It was, like everything with him, a strategy to look good on social media. I continue to find issues with his work. At this stage, I would want him to give me ALL my money back. He made my Van worse. His work is so bad it’s hard to comprehend. I will add pictures and video soon as I am able.
I hope I have saved at least one person the pain of dealing with this grifter. Instagram is not reality I watch every day as he deletes comments and blocks posters. Until you see a Van in person you can’t understand the quality of the work. Video and pictures don’t really show reality. Shane appears to have upped his game in response to my going public. It looks, from Instagram that he did a 100X better job on my friend’s Van than he did on mine. I will look it over when it comes back and post what I see. That said even if he does better work now what about me and my family’s Van? What about my resale value? What about the broken top and holes through the body?
Shane as I emailed you. I’ll take your offer if you can make good on your claims. If you can take ownership of a project and deliver without my complete oversight. I will post everything for the public, positive and negative following that. Until then I will do my best to save other families from what you did to me and I will continue to do everything I can to extract $10K from your business. I say what I mean and I mean what I say. I don’t know how someone doing Van restorations can have no public reviews aside from mine. No reviews is not good reviews and you’ve been doing this for years.
But even if you make my Van show room you took the $6500 instead of being a stand-up business owner and human being. That is who you are.
Also, for anyone reading this know that I have heard from ALOT of livethevanlife customers. None are happy but most had Vans that were in rough shape so even though the work is bad those Vans still look better. It is worth knowing that Shane also sold his big scamp truck and that poor sucker did not even get it home before it blew up. Notice that all the Scamp Pictures and posts are gone? Don’t you wonder why?
Shane Jordan “Hey everyone, I’d like to take a moment and address this head-on. The business Justin is referring to is mine. I live in La Paz Mexico and folks have been bringing their vans here to me to assist them in having them painted for the past year or so. People bring me their vans, and I work alongside several shops here in town whom I have found generally do good work , and I act as a project manager of sorts. Among other things, my job is quality control. As some may know, the price of work here is great, but it can be of varying quality. I attempt to remedy that by building relationships, teaching the paint shop employees, and catching mistakes and having them fixed before a client like Justin picks up their van. I catch a lot, and I have a lot fixed. Sometimes, as is the case with Justin, I miss some things. That is inexcusable and I am sorry. Justins Van was picked up by him late afternoon on a Saturday, and he departed to drive back home before sunrise the next morning. Justin inspected his Van with me and we walked around it together before he drove away. A few days later, after returning home, he contacted me upset with a few of the things he found. I listened, I apologized, and I offered him a few solutions to fix what I could, including me flying up there, renting a car, and working on the van at his home. Had Justin brought these issues to my attention while he was here in La Paz, I would have and could have easily fixed every issue. It was unfortunate for us both that neither him or I had that opportunity. I, personally, did not put drywall screws, or do incorrectly any of the other things Justin brought to my attention, regardless it is my job to make sure these things are caught and rectified, and I take full responsibility for dropping the ball and allowing it to be picked up with these mistakes. I continue to want to do right by you Justin, and so I have an offer. Drive your Van across the border to Tijuana (Justin lives in San Diego), drop it off with a shipper that I have arranged, who will load it in a shipping container and send it directly to La Paz, I will repair all of the issues you have raised, I will document everything here for all to see, and then I will load it back up, and ship it back to you. The cost is approximately $1000 each way which I will cover. Folks, I’m imperfect, but when I make a mistake, I own up to it, and do my best to fix it. I take every situation like this and try to learn from it, and I’m taking the lessons here and applying them going forward. I have wanted, offered, and am offering to do my best to fix this for Justin. Justin, please get in touch with me privately to make arrangements for the repairs to your Van. Thank you and sorry again for the trouble.”
I reached out to Shane immediately following this post. It took quite a while for him to get back to me. Take a look in the next post where it becomes very clear Shane Jordan never intended to fix my Van.
