thank you for the info I was not aware of this taking place. I have used him in the past, and was actually going to order again. I will use someone else.
Kai is pleasant on the surface but has disdain for Americans. He has customers send payment using RIA to India/Pakistan part of the world.
For a long time he sold mostly PCT stuff as an Int source. He had some issues with Customs and closed up shop for awhile. He reopened as a domestic source using re-mailers. Started off with a condensed version of his original list. He slowly added items and then added a full line of oils and tabs with a counterfeited brand of a once very popular international ugl, Axio.
Axio died when the founder and owner was assassinated as he slept next to his wife in a posh gated Community in South Africa.
Our then President Obama had labeled Brian as a Kingpin which put the spotlight on him by way of a multimillion dollar bounty on his head as well as penalties to those who decided to do business with him.
It was called an assassination and not a robbery or anything else as nothing was taken and his wife was unharmed as she lay next to him in their bed.
I've read msg's kai sent the guy who beat him for the $$ that set off the chain of events leading to the email hack.
Kai posted on meso acting as if he was scammed out of gear like a few of the members here. That never happened.
The member who scammed some also washed bitcoin for kai. The member had substance abuse issues and decided to keep all the bitcoin kai had given him to clean, not just the agreed upon fee.
Kai said the devil had been unleashed and that he couldn't be held responsible for what he does when someone steals from him.
Well, I can assign blame whether or not he accepts it isn't important.
I let things go pretty quickly back then. I had just gotten home after 10 months off the grid and was busy getting my feet underneath me.
I contacted a good friend who is a respected staff member on a few boards and gave him the abbreviated version of the story. My friend was a bit overwhelmed at the time with a parent falling gravely ill and then passing. I told myself that I'd revisit the situation at a later date. Its the kind of thing that can be dealt with anytime.
I don't see any excuse for what he did. I see kai around on other boards that I belong to. He should be banned as far as I'm concerned.
If the incident had happened on any other board I believe kai would have at least been dealt with. Kai could've been banned here and it wouldn't have mattered to him at all as he doesn't sell here. He registered with the sole intent of gathering info and tracking his former employee.
As a source he should've kept the issues with a guy formerly in his employ off meso. I suppose he did, role playing as a member who lost money in a gear deal. Fuck him.