Blakes Remanufacturing Services

I just stumbled upon this and I was an employee at Blake's Reman as well. Dan Bendever gave me an opportunity to work 5 years ago when everyone else was turning their back on me.

He worked with correctional re-entry programs and over 20 years gave people 2nd chances that others weren't willing to give. Dan Bendever took in the homeless and let them sweep up and get paid so they had food and shelter over the years. He gave back to youth sports programs and helped the community substantially over the course of time. As people have wrote the last 2-3 years were difficult and because of it he wasn't able to help financially in the community.

But I can tell you the same as the commentator below we never quit trying and fought to the bitter end in hopes of turning things around.

I know Dan was both embarrassed and humbled by having to turn the keys over to the bank. And as below my thoughts and prayers are with everyone.

To March 5,Feb 25, still no excuse for building people engines and shipping them with broken and incorrect parts. Where was the QC.

As the owner of a small business myself. I stand behind any mistake me or my people may make and rectify it for the customer at any cost even if the customer wants a refund that is what a honest owner does, which we know Dan is not. Here are you people saying Dan lost this, Dan lost that, I had to borrow the money from the bank that he screwed me out of. The bank doesn't care about poor Dan no there coming after me and I don't have a engine that works to make that money back what am I supposed to do.

Now I have to figure out how come up with another engine if I can. Maybe Dan should go borrow some money and refund all these junk engines he has out there. But no the guy goes and opens another outfit in Florida and still advertises with pictures he used at Blake's so he's still selling junk.

So why doesn't everybody that has not been ripped off by Dan quit making excuses for the crook.

Sir more people go out of business than stay in business every day. This was a company that was in business for 44 years and helped thousands of people.

What your reading here are facts not excuses. Dan didn't open up an outfit (you make it sound like he has huge company with machinery and employees) in Florida. He's reselling parts.

But your right Dan made a few mistakes maybe he should put a bullet in his head and quit trying to take care of his family. No other company in world has ever had the unfortunate situation of filing for bankruptcy.

You are correct, Dan did not open up a business in Sarasota, FL. His wife did.

Wow it's literally been two years since Blake's has closed. God has blessed the 3/12 commenter with a business that has continued on in spite of an unfortunate obstacle.

Good luck sir and may God continue to bless you and your family for many years. And may God Bless Dan and his family as well.

I can shed a little light on this as well. I worked in at a inside position at Blake's.

I was there for the good times and bad. What you won't read here is how Dan took what was left of his retirement/401K and used it to make payroll. And how he sold personal assets to pay vendors so we could try and finish the jobs we had in house at the darkest time. Until now there are only 3 people aware of this.

That would be Dan, his wife and myself. The company wasn't perfect by any stretch of the imagination the last 3 years and or shortly after Dan got taken for the 175K during a failed and horrible partnership. But I was there and I can promise you it wasn't due to a lack of effort. We had operational issues caused by a lack of Capital and personal.

We were trying to do the work of 40 with 20 at the end and we never stopped trying until the Bank came in and took the keys away from Dan. It wasn't anyone's intention to hurt or be hurt.

And as with the Feb. 24th commenter my thoughts and prayers are with everyone.

Out of curiosity - who was the "bad" partner that resulted in the 175K loss?

This happened in 2010. It's 2016 now.

And I'm certainly not leaving names on this forum or any other. It doesn't help anyone.

We acknowledged that Blake's made a mistake and got into a bad partnership. No need for name calling here or calling out names.