Hero Restoration, Anyone know the latest? 24 24

[Dr. Balls]

On 1/15/2024 at 3:53 PM, jimjum12 said:

Note the purchase of the RV.

[bc]

On 1/15/2024 at 5:54 PM, Dr. Balls said:

More likely, he's getting out of Dodge.

-bc

[Domo Arigato]

On 1/15/2024 at 3:32 PM, Buzzetta said:

Can he finally be nominated to the Hall of Shame at this point? 

With the current rules....as long as at least one "transaction" took place when the book owner and Mike were both board members, then Mike can be nominated to the Probation List or the Hall of Shame by the offended party.  The Hall of Shame addition would have to be decided by a poll (created by someone who is not me).

Also, before someone inevitably asks....according to Rule #1, Section d....(which would also apply to the Hall of Shame):

"A Transaction between board members is not confined to the CGC Message Boards. Any transaction between forum members, regardless of the venue, is eligible for inclusion in the PL."

 

Edited January 15 by Domo Arigato

[thehumantorch]

What an absolute mess.  I'd like to suggest we change his business name to Zero Restoration.

This latest information has to be passed onto the authorities as quickly as possible.

[DeadOne]

Good Lord. 

Is it possible to be shocked, appalled, and not at all surprised at the same time? 

[unclezebo]

It's like 2 trains with loads of burning dumpster fires ran head long into each other. Seems like anytime I thought it couldn't get any worse. HR would say "Hold my beer."

[bc]

On 1/15/2024 at 2:03 PM, brute_nm said:

Here are the recent sales.  Anyone recognize their book(s)?

Over $30K of books converted to cash in the last few months.

-bc

[brute_nm]

On 1/15/2024 at 5:10 PM, bc said:

Over $30K of books converted to cash in the last few months.

-bc

And that cash converted to alcohol and meth smoke (allegedly) 

He could've just rolled up the books and smoked them ... cut out the middleman

[bc]

On 1/15/2024 at 7:15 PM, brute_nm said:

And that cash converted to alcohol and meth smoke (allegedly) 

He could've just rolled up the books and smoked them ... cut out the middleman

Well, he did get an RV out of it as well.

-bc

[bc]

On 11/23/2023 at 3:53 PM, CJ Design said:

Again no skin in the game...a sad situation all around. When I mentioned to my Wife...she said..."He probably has sold some books..."   That really hasn't been mentioned here.  

-bc

EDIT: If you look at the sales dates of the books, your wife was correct.

-bc

Edited January 16 by bc

[Dark Knight]

Damn getting basically free money out of customers books and yet no mention of Mike hooking up with hookers?  He's doing it all wrong

[CAHokie]

On 1/15/2024 at 10:52 AM, KindaMistyish said:

Hello all, 

I have the answers to what you want to know (with proof)!

Ok, first off I met Mike Dechellis for the first time on December 22nd 2023 right after he got out of jail. Mike was in jail with my husband (who is still in jail by the way). My husband told me to get ahold of Mike because he told my husband that if I drove him to the impound lot to get his things and then to his office that he had the 2000 to bail out my husband at his office. My husband also said Mike could help me get my website/online business up and running finally. Mike told my husband that he could help because he was running multiple businesses and was a good business man. So after he got out of jail I picked him up from Linn County Jail and drove him to Corvallis to run his errands. We finished and i parked in front of the building where his office is. He told me he would be right back. 45 min later he comes down and says his money hasn't hit yet. I asked him what he meant. He tells me the money from eBay hasn't transfered  to his bank yet. He tells me he would just give it to me when we do my website the following day. A few days later Mike finally texts me to come to his office to start my business website. He said it would only be a "few days task" of getting my business running. So I drove to Corvallis to meet him at his office. On the drive to meet him he sent me a text asking if me or my husband knew of anyone that bought "expensive comics". I didn't but I told Mike I would ask my husband the next time he called me from the jail. A few hours later my husband gave me a number to pass along but Mike no longer wanted the number. I found out why the next few times I was in his office. This guy was on eBay and talking 200 words per min then he was helping me get my business up and running. Like an hour into me being at his office he had to leave and go look at an RV that he got for a great deal of $10,000. And he asked if I would drive him to go pick it up and he would pay me for my time and gas. He told me it was in Brownsville about 25 min away. About a mile from the Brownsville exit he tells me the one he's getting is in Woodburn. 35 minutes later we got to the RV lot and I was just thankful I didn't have to listen to him talk anymore. He asked me to wait until he gets the keys before I left. Just in case the sale fell through. Over 2 hours later he finally is driving his RV out of the lot. He texts me and tells me to meet him at his office and we'll do more work on my website and he'll give me the bail money for my husband and money for driving him to get the RV.  I got back to his office and by now it's almost dark. I text him that I was there and it was getting late and we could work on my website the next day and that I would just like to go bail my husband out of jail. NOTHING... I finally figured at 11pm he wasn't coming back there. And yet again I left back to Salem. On December 29th 2023 I drove up to Corvallis where Mike told me to meet him at his office at noon. A little before noon I texted him to let him know I was outside. Mike finally texts me back at 2pm to let me know he would be to his office shortly. He finally showed up at 3:50pm then we went up to his office again he went straight on eBay. I told Mike I just wanted to see what my website looked like and I had to get to Albany because I had a visit with my husband at the jail. I also asked him I he could jump my car because I drained my battery waiting for him. He hooked up the jumper cables the wrong way and fried my battery. Now I was stuck. He said he would buy me a new battery but it wouldn't be until the next day. I ended up sleeping in my car annoyed and mad. The next morning I texted Mike about the battery. He didn't respond for a few hours and said he was headed to Walmart to get my battery and that he needed 6 batteries for his new RV. Its new years eve and everything was closed. So I was stuck in Corvallis again. Mike showed up to his office after 6 pm and asked me to go up to his office because he had some questions about my website. As im sitting in his office and he starts talking to me I can smell the alcohol. He was drunk. Before we could even talk about my website. He starts telling me things that blew my mind. Mike starts telling me how he was selling his clients comics on eBay because he didn't care and hero restoration was already closed for business, then he tells me that he's been addicted to METH for the past 2 years and he went to jail for drugging his x-girlfriend without her knowing and kicking in her door. He then started saying inappropriate things to me like he had the date rape drug and was going to put it in my soda, tie me up and do sexual things to me. I got the hell out of there an went down to my car and locked the doors. I started my new year in my car freaked out about what had happened. The next morning Mike knocked on my window and says he has a new battery for my car. I opened the hood of my car and he put in the new battery. I told Mike as soon as my husband calls I'm going to tell him what he had said to me and that he was a a nasty creep and I was going to expose him. 

 

Obviously this is a huge bomb of a first post, so a few questions.

How did you know to come here and post this?

Do you have anything to confirm this information?

Can you let us see the dates and times that the messages were sent? Obviously with no numbers, dates, or times showing, the above screenshots could have been made this morning.

Sorry to be a skeptic but this type of thing would be tempting for some trying to rile things up.

[Mr. Zipper]

On 1/15/2024 at 7:55 PM, CAHokie said:

Obviously this is a huge bomb of a first post, so a few questions.

How did you know to come here and post this?

Do you have anything to confirm this information?

Can you let us see the dates and times that the messages were sent? Obviously with no numbers, dates, or times showing, the above screenshots could have been made this morning.

Sorry to be a skeptic but this type of thing would be tempting for some trying to rile things up.

I could be wrong, but I am skeptical. The story is so over the top and perfectly scripted to throw red meat at every previous speculation. 

[CGC Mike]

On 1/15/2024 at 4:40 PM, KCOComics said:

On 1/15/2024 at 4:32 PM, Buzzetta said:

Can he finally be nominated to the Hall of Shame at this point? 

I believe he's band from here. 

Currently, there are no restrictions being applied to his account.

[LudaToke]

Does this mean that the chickens are OK or that they never existed in the first place?

 

[Domo Arigato]

On 1/15/2024 at 7:26 PM, Mr. Zipper said:

I could be wrong, but I am skeptical. The story is so over the top and perfectly scripted to throw red meat at every previous speculation. 

The way it's laid out.....I'm leaning towards it being real.

Also, this person mentioned that Mike was offering a book up for sale to them.....then said it was off the table because that one had to go back to "someone else"....so he had another one to sell instead.

THEN.......Sauce Dog comes in two hour later and posts that Mike is finally returning some books to customers.

That's a bit too much of a coincidence for me to think it's not real.

 

Edited January 16 by Domo Arigato

[seanlinc]

Man alot of new posts here, i could read them but i think I'll just wait for the Netflix mini series.

[Nick Furious]

On 1/15/2024 at 6:55 PM, CAHokie said:

Sorry to be a skeptic but this type of thing would be tempting for some trying to rile things up

 

On 1/15/2024 at 7:26 PM, Mr. Zipper said:

I could be wrong, but I am skeptical. The story is so over the top and perfectly scripted to throw red meat at every previous speculation.

 

On 1/15/2024 at 7:43 PM, Domo Arigato said:

The way it's laid out.....I'm leaning towards it being real.

Yeah, it's too crazy to be concocted out of thin air.  I'm not skeptical at all.  Early in this thread Mike was posting 3 AM rants.  I had my suspicions then.  Thought it was booze and pills, but this makes sense.  

[Sauce Dog]

On 1/15/2024 at 8:43 PM, Domo Arigato said:

The way it's laid out.....I'm leaning towards it being real.

Also, this person mentioned that Mike was offering a book up for sale to them.....then said it was off the table because that one had to go back to "someone else"....so he had another one to sell instead.

THEN.......Sauce Dog comes in two hour later and posts that Mike is finally returning some books to customers.

That's a bit too much of a coincidence for me to think it's not real.

 

 

Don't read too much into me posting suddenly as some big conspiracy.

I was personally NOT posting new updates for one very specific reason: Mike was calm and actually making good on mailing books back while I was taking to him for the last few weeks, and so I didn't want to rile up the thread again which might distract him away from that. I was waiting until all the survey customers had their books mailed and confirmed delivery before posting anything new here. Returns to customers were happening, and things were moving in a positive direction. I only chimed in because I saw a bomb going off and most here expect some sort of comment to come from me since I've been the unofficial wrangler of updates regarding Mike's status.

As for the bad news, I've confirmed that the Amazing Fantasy #15 posted in the chats above is a customer book - and in fact that exact book was one that was packaged up and ready to be mailed the day that bomb post dropped...which now has that customer worried even though a tracking label was already created prior to this  Four other customer orders were also being addressed and possibly ready for shipping later this week.

I still hope that he is still going forward with his plan of mailing back books to those who filled out the survey, but I have not heard from him since last week.

Edited January 16 by Sauce Dog

[ZappedMoose9995]

On 1/15/2024 at 7:10 PM, bc said:

Over $30K of books converted to cash in the last few months.

-bc

Started an account here just to respond to this. 

Yes, I do recognize my book. Tales of Suspense #57. It has a date handwritten at the top, making it very distinguishable.