Thread: Southern Star Campers

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It is another forum that has people suckered by SouthernStar Campers.

Oopps... My fault. Sorry.

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Hi everyone. My wife and i have been keeping an eye on this thread for about a week now. We own a Johnno's Camper Trailer franchise in Gippsland and we too fell for his scams. This poor excuse for a human contacted our Geelong Agent looking to hire 6 trailers for his employees to live in while doing work on a pipe line in Ouyen. Graeme, our Geelong Agent sent out emails to all Vic Agents to see if we were interested in hiring a trailer out for at least 6 months. Couldn't knock back that sort of money so we agreed to supply one of our hire trailers with a wall kit as well. Anyway, he ended up only needing 4 trailers so took delivery of them and payed deposit by cheque. Turns out it bounced like a ball and then the he said he wanted to buy them. Long story short(ish) he never intended to hire our trailers and he stole the 4 of them and apparently on sold them on the side of the road. We have since found one on eBay and it's in police hands. Unfortunately for me it wasn't ours and it had been heavily modified. We got hold of Consumer Affairs (Phil- thanks to this site for his info..) and they put us in touch with a Detective Sargent Steve Daniliuk from Altona North Police - 03 9392 311. We spoke with Steve yesterday afternoon and he informed us the the lowlife Scott has been officially charged with theft of 4 Johnno's Camper Trailers and 2 Shipping Containers from Sydney. His hearing is on July 7th but not sure at which court. I think Det. Sgt Daniliuk would be more then pleased to hear from anyone with MORE info on Scott.

I can tell you all, I'm not a happy man at the moment!! Lets hope he sees the inside for all this.

Originally Posted by dazzler

Woo Hoo

What he said!

Hi Everyone, thanks for the call today Glock it was interesting. I strongly encourage anyone that has been scammed by Graham Mackinnon or Scott Mackinnon or grahammac (Ebay username) in regards to any type of fraud including camper trailers or Makita 18V LXT Lithium-Ion 15-pc. Combo Kit to come forward now. Momentum is extremely high now, and if at the least you want justice for these conmen act now. Again send all your details to the ASIC site scamwatch and follow it up with a call to Werribee CIU (03 97429444) they know all about it and there is a Detective assigned to this issue.

G'day All.

Very interesting conversation with a Detective @ Werribee CIU this morning.

I informed him of what we have been going through and where we are at as of this point in time.

I also rang and spoke to username: McKinnon (Matt) today. Again a very interesting conversation. The level of lowness that Scott has sunk to is beyond belief.

We have completed the Scam online form as listed in a post above.

I urge anyone that is in the process of taking action against SouthernStar Campers to Contact Matt on his Mobile or his email and have a yarn.

The Werribee Police are going to Contact me when they know anything of interest. I urge everyone to contact the Werribee police and state your position.
I don't have their phone number with me here. But I googled "werribee police" And got the number that way.

Thanks.

You may like to check out and join the Altona Lacrosse Facebook site I joined a week ago, but I have a feeling it will get interesting soon. If you cant get in let me know and i will post details.

Cheers Matt

As all information seems to have been put forward this thread will be closed next Friday the 25th of June.

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G'day .
As the starter if this threat, I'd like to sincerely thank, you and the other moderators of this forum for allowing this thread to continue to the point it has.

When I started it, I never realized that there were as many similarly affected people out there.

Over the time this thread has been running, I have conversed with virtually every poster here. Some have gone to extreme measures to try and recoup their items, owed by Southerstar Campers. The tyranny of distance has played into the hands of the individual at the heart of the problem. Because we (the shafted) are spread all across this country, he is isolated from 99% of us venting at him, face to face. I know some have traveled for days on end just to confront him, but alas, to no avail.

We, the posters here, seem to be only a small number of people that have been wronged by this person (I use the term "person" extremely loosely). The many forums based on outdoor activity also have similar threads as this one. Threads where people have been taken to the cleaners by the operator of Southerstar Campers and also his dealings on Ebay selling other items as well.

I (we) hope that now that the individual in question has been charged for crimes in the state of Victoria (This is a fact. The detective at Werribee stated that he has been charged with numerous charges) the truth may come out as to his shonky dealings over the last 12 to 18 months.

We have been through the correct channels for trying to recover our lost (stolen) money we paid for a Camper trailer. Consumer Affairs is the biggest waste of public funding in the country. They are toothless tigers. Full of talk but zero on action. The NSW Con Aff don't talk to The VIC Con Aff. Why the hell Con Aff is not an Australia wide single body is beyond me. Afterall in this day and age, interstate online trade is the norm, not the exception. We as comsumers, should be yelling load and clear to our elected members to give teeth to Con Aff on a national level so as to limit the type of fraudulent activity that has been perpetrated on us.

So in closing, I'd like to ask anyone that reads this thread after has closed it, to please contact me via PM if you still need any info. I will not be starting another thread on this subject, as I too feel it has run it's course.

I wish everyone well in their endeavors to reclaim what is owed to them. I feel we will not see a red cent of this however. But I an prepared to be corrected on this.

If anyone does get what is rightfully theirs, Please PM to let us know how you went?

Again, thanks to the Moderators for allowing this thread to remain active. Even when the thread gets locked, it should still be available to read indefinately (, Am I right in saying this?).

The Detective I spoke to at Werribee CIU stated that they are going through this thread, reading every post. Thus I assume they would also like the locked thread to remain visible for further reading.

Thanks again to all involved.
All the best.

I have been reading this thread with a lot of interest, and some horror, since it started. I have not been directly affected by this person, but have felt a great deal of compassion for those of you that have had their lives so badly disrupted.

I understand the reason for the thread to be closed, but request that someone can inform us of the final outcome of the court case(s).

Best wishes to you all.

X2 all the best everyone!

It's a sorry tale and my sympathies go out to all those who've been ripped off.

The following comment may be little comfort to you but for the record, I bought a 2nd hand CT from knot_gillty and got excellent service and advice. It's a sod that his small family business got ripped off as well.

Originally Posted by dazzler

Woo Hoo

Thats great news and i hope everyone gets on board. Yes the lacross site was interesting given that the Mckinnons names are everywhere and phone numbers. I rang Grahams number (scotts dad) but like always no answer.

Junior Coordinator

Graham Mackinnon

0409110505

[email protected]

I found out that Scott opened up a business name on under KC tools wholesales and the address that is registed to it is 9 gloucester ctr, Altona, Victoria 3018.

Lets hope that he will be stopped from ripping more people off in the future.

Sounds like a pointed exercise in legal civil disobedience at that address might be warranted.

Originally Posted by chrisb691

I have been reading this thread with a lot of interest, and some horror, since it started. I have not been directly affected by this person, but have felt a great deal of compassion for those of you that have had their lives so badly disrupted.

I understand the reason for the thread to be closed, but request that someone can inform us of the final outcome of the court case(s).

Best wishes to you all.

I agree Chris. I've followed this sorry tale with a kind of sick fascination that so many could suffer at the hands of one person.
Good luck to you all,
Cheers,
Jim