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Buyer Beware regarding Trident Cycles Landlord Caleb Jacksons “dump and run” sale at 103 Mill Rd, Helensville.

 

A person by the name of Emily Dickson has posted a “crazy, crazy, crazy” post on the Helensville Community Facebook page regarding a sale at the now defunct Trident Cycles at 103 Mill Rd, Helensville.

The biggest concern is that the Chinese owners of Trident (Pang Bei investments) are shutting up shop in NZ, so anyone who buys a Trident bike will be unable to claim on any supposed warranty, and they won’t be able to source any parts if their bike breaks down, as there won’t be any NZ agency to contact.

The sale is a classic “dump and run” exercise that businesses do when they are exiting a territory or country.

The Trident bikes also do not meet NZ manufacturing and safety standards – Pang Bei simply imports them and then loads them onto Trade Me – well, they did, until I was able to get their Trade Me shop shut down.

It’s buyer beware out there Helensville – buyer beware.

Update 6/2/16:

It appears that the bikes have been re-possessed by 103 Mill Rd Helensville owner and Landlord Caleb Jackson, and are being sold to recoup lost lease costs.

In 2013, I attempted to warn Mr Jackson about leasing space to Grant King – I was told by Mr Jackson to go away.

In the District Court trial in which Grant King was convicted, Mr Jackson stated under oath that when he took on Grant King and Trident Cycles as a tenant, he “didn’t care who the tenant was, as long as I was getting my money”.

It sounds like Mr Jackson didn’t “get his money” after all, and is now yet another victim of “GNK Syndrome”.

http://offenders.sst.org.nz/?archive_template=search.php&s=grant+king&post_type=offenders

Grant King – Convicted Sex Offender.

Grant King Offender Timeline 1982 – present-day

Grant King Media Articles Library Summary

Trident Cycles Facebook Page

Trident Cycles Trade Me Page

Grant King High Court Public Examination 2014

NZ Gazette Notice of Grant King Public Examination

No Cowboys Rating for Trident Cycles

No Cowboys Rating for Tern Marine Ltd

 

 

Grant King appealing his District prison sentence Judgment – Auckland High Court, Friday 5/2/16, 9am

 

Prison life can’t be agreeing too well with Grant King.

King has filed an appeal against his jail sentence, and this appeal will be heard tomorrow, 5/2/16, at 9am, Auckland High Court, Waterloo Quadrant.

King has filed his appeal from behind bars, having been denied both bail and grounds for an appeal at his December 2015 sentencing in the Waitakere District Court.

Update 5/2/15:

King was escorted into Court by a Security guard (King having first been delivered to Court from Mt Eden Prison) and appeared for an Appeals Call-over today at 9am.

King is wanting to appeal his sentence, and his bail refusal.

The Judge has set down a 1 day hearing for Monday 22/2/16 for Kings appeal.

On leaving, King sullenly declared “I’ve already spent 2 months in custody”.

Kings current release date from prison is September 9th 2016, after which time he will spend 9 months on Home Detention with an ankle bracelet, completing the 18 months sentence he was handed on 9/12/15.

Gee – 2 whole months already.

Diddums.

http://offenders.sst.org.nz/?archive_template=search.php&s=grant+king&post_type=offenders

Grant King – Convicted Sex Offender.

Grant King Offender Timeline 1982 – present-day

Grant King Media Articles Library Summary

Trident Cycles Facebook Page

Trident Cycles Trade Me Page

Grant King High Court Public Examination 2014

NZ Gazette Notice of Grant King Public Examination

No Cowboys Rating for Trident Cycles

No Cowboys Rating for Tern Marine Ltd

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After dropping over $300k into their Grant King-led businesses and achieving just $5838.00 in sales, the Chinese investors finally give it away: Goodbye Wei Li, Jun Ma, Stone Shu, Candy Tang, Pang Bei Investments, Tern Anchor, & Trident Cycles.

We have our next entry into the catalogue of businesses who have suffered “GNK Syndrome” when allowing their business interests to have anything to do with the now-jailed Grant Norman King.

I guess we know who now has the blue Crewman, judging by the photos below:

Tern Anchor & Trident Cycle Removal from 103 Mill Rd Helensville

Well done GNKASS Network: that is now 4 illegally managed businesses being run by Grant King that we have been able to meaningfully contribute to shutting down 🙂

http://offenders.sst.org.nz/?archive_template=search.php&s=grant+king&post_type=offenders

Grant King – Convicted Sex Offender.

Grant King Offender Timeline 1982 – present-day

Grant King Media Articles Library Summary

Trident Cycles Facebook Page

Trident Cycles Trade Me Page

Grant King High Court Public Examination 2014

NZ Gazette Notice of Grant King Public Examination

No Cowboys Rating for Trident Cycles

No Cowboys Rating for Tern Marine Ltd

Mike Edmonds & Karina-Mihaka Edmonds (Grant Kings long-term stolen goods receivers) make the news, using stolen money and products to claim “self-sufficiency”.

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Sarah Harris from Stuff should dig a little deeper into these two, and she would discover that they are both:

  • Bankrupts
  • Thieves
  • Con artists
  • Tax cheats
  • Multiple current debtors (especially around “home renovation” projects).
  • Have a mutual history of domestic violence (especially Karina – very, very fond of her hands, is Ms Mihaka).

As a former client of the Mihakas has written:

Mike Edmonds claims to be a builder, but has minimal abilities in this field.

What he does have is the gift of the gab which makes him sound convincing.

Do not give him unsupervised access to you home – he and the “workers” he employs will help themselves to your property.

Don’t be fooled by by his stories, it’s just him trying to gain your confidence.

What building he does really doesn’t impress the Council Building Inspector.

He’s not beyond doing plumbing, gas fitting, and electrical work, all well below par and will need doing properly by registered/qualified trades people so it is compliant and covered by your insurance.

He likes to circumvent any regulatory authority and passes the so called “savings” onto you, when in reality he charges less because he’s not worth much more than the minimum wage, pockets 100%; pays no tax on this cash income and you’ve become complicit in something illegal.

Meanwhile he siphons off building materials from your job to others he has on the go.

His terms of endearment are not at all flattering, nor is his breath which suggests he’s full of sh**t, because that is what it smells of!

Karina Mihaka has the balls and bash in their relationship.

Apparently, she controls Mike on a shot leash that can lead to the odd black eye if he stands up to her.

She runs a 2bit company called Troubleshooting Builders which like the name, leads to trouble – sub contracted to Spencer Henshaw doing maintenance and repairs on Housing NZ homes.

How does a bankrupt do this? 

Better still how does a Company doing Goverment (tendered) contracts fail to do their homework on sub contractors?

They now have another company Off the Grid, their foray into self sufficiency and accompanying publicity is just a front to advance their business.

They may offer guarantees but the reality is will they be around in a year or two?

Doubt it.

My advice to anyone with the idea of dealing with these two Muppets on any level is to run, run, run because if you don’t it will cost you dearly in the long run, one way or another.

YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!

Editor update:

Sarah Harris from Fairfax Media, and Spencer Henshaw Builders have now been advised of the situation at hand – I trust they will take care of their Consumer populations appropriately, and not allow the Mihakas to create even more fraud victims.

Editor update 1/2/16:

It seems the Mihakas are a wee bit upset about this post (well, Karina is, and being the mouth AND the trousers in the relationship, she has, in true Karina Mihaka style, completely lost the plot – thanks to my “eyes in the sky” for bringing this to my attention, and please see the “Reply” section of this post for some truly vintage Mihaka prose):

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