Warning Fraudulent Buyer! Beware

omg i cant believe how immoral some people can be! i cant even sleep if i win an auction and pay right on that moment and look what they have done!! i am so sorry and hope you get your refunt back real soon. i will keep an eye for that user and will let you know if i come across her on ebay ..

 

i agree tht the scammer is very likely to "jump back into action" sometime in the future, seeing how he/she never fail to do so before. they must seriously be disturbed in the mind. it just saddens me so much to see how we are able to trust less and less people. hopefully this works out and tht guy get some consequences for his/her actions. wht comes around goes around

p.s. i knew i was right never to trust ebay and paypal >.>

 

I trust ebay and paypal.. its sellers I'm wary of.

 

I can't imagine what I would do without eBay and PayPal! I don't think I could survive!! Thank goodness most of the sellers and buyers are honest. Out of hundreds of transactions I have rarely had any kind of problem.

 

Yes this is one of the few profiles he/she forgot to delete.
I have ALOT more info, but im not going to post it publicly.

 

The address posted is current I really dont undersand why the cops arnt breaking down the door. I wish I had money to travel...

 

Oh and what baffles me... is he/she HAS seen this thread, I bet gav's reading my posts and laughing hysterically.

 

Holy Shnikies. I should really start checking the good/bad trader forum more often, or... uh... ever. Because usually I rarely buy/sell anything of value, I don't think I've ever looked in this forum before.

However, as my choice of summer stock theatre jobs have all fallen through, it looks like I'll be staying local for the summer and, you guessed it, making bjd clothes. And of course the bulk of it will probably end up on eBay. Now I'm paranoid! But being paranoid will hopefully keep me from getting burned.

I'd like to say thank you to wickedstitchery for keeping tabs on this guy as closely as possible, and I'll be on the lookout in the future as much as I can when I start selling things. I've already had a strict policy on low-feeback bidders, and now it's about to get even stricter. How enraged I imagine you must feel - good grief - this has been going on for nearly a year and nobody with power has lifted a single finger to stop it? And they even know a solid address for the creep? That's rediculous that such a rat hasn't been arrested and put behind bars.

I've been on eBay since 1999, and have made over 280 transactions (as pezfairy). I remember back in the days before PayPal when personal checks and money orders were the norm. Probably 40 or so of my transactions involved one or the other. Out of all of my dealings, I've been screwed over 4 times - 2x by sellers, and 2x by buyers (with a 5th screw-over on a bootlegged dvd set on Amazon Marketplace, who did nothing to help me - which tells me it's not just eBay.) - but with the buyers it was never more than simply not paying me (and me therefore not sending them their stuff, and relisting.) One of my sellers was a Canadian lady who sold animation cels - who intentionally took my money, claimed they got lost in the mail, and then had the guts to relist the cels just barely more than 3 months later, so that my auction was no longer on record with eBay. Amazingly though, the person who bought my cels on the second auction actually did receive them. Tho' I wasn't the only one who was screwed over by her, there were at least a dozen of us with higher dollar cels that she kept claiming got lost in the mail. Hah...no. I took much the same approach - e-mailing past and future business partners, hounding eBay, harassing her, and nothing was ever done to stop her - she eventually changed her name and kept on screwing people over for a long time. So I can't say as eBay's non-action suprises me. I don't much like them, but since they're the biggest internet marketplace, they've become one of those necessecary evils in my life. I just don't anticipate that they'll ever do anything to help me out.

On a happy note, if this guy's re-selling things that he has stolen, and he successfully does it 2x or more (within a 10 year period), I think he might be eligible to be prosecuted under RICO - which has to do with a pattern of racketeering - which is 2 or 3x stricter than even what he would get for the numerous federal crimes he's already comitted! Granted, I'm not sure if he qualifies because it's geared more towards corporations (and the mafia) I think stiffing people on the bills with the intent to resell the merchandise (and doing so) counts. If he thinks that once they actually catch him that he'll get in and out of (federal) prison relatively fast - think again.

Edit: And some more thoughts. From my experience with eBay/PayPal/Amazon, etc. I think I have learned one thing more than anything - and that is that it is important to act quickly when you think you are going to get screwed over/do get screwed over. I now state in my auctions that after 7 days of non-payment, I will file a non-paying bidder complaint. And I have done so on several occasions. It's probably the only reason I've gotten paid a couple times. And from now on, if an auction is over maybe $50 or so, I'll be requiring payment for insurance or delivery confirmation. From my last big batch of (non-doll) sales in Nov/Dec. it was amazing how many people did not read the requirements of my auctions before bidding, and then seemed angry that I required them to pay within a week, that I wouldn't sell to them if their feedback was under 5, and that I did NOT take personal checks, ever. I gotta say, eBay has gone downhill tremendously since they started the huge marketing campaign, and everyone and their trained monkey has started shopping on eBay. Also, the universal limit on chargebacks with Visa is 60 days after purchase, and 30 days in some cases. I will no longer do pre-orders for high dollar items that take more than a month to be shipped, because if they NEVER ship, I'll get burned. Again. Also, you can only leave feedback on an auction that ended in the last 90 days, so once something bad has happened, get that negative feedback in asap, also to protect future buyers/sellers.

 

Does this mean we can write to him personally here and he'll read it? Great. That saves us the effort of having to seek him out. (Not that it'd be hard, since we already know where he lives. )

 

I thought you had to have a registered email with ebay? I didn't think you could use hotmail or yahoo or things like that, someone correct me if I'm wrong?

 

You can use those if you register a credit card on file with ebay to prove that the email address is truly attached to a person.

 

That is truely...dumb.

 

Not really. The service here is not in my name so I don't have an email account with the service. But I do have card and I can sell on ebay.

 

Wow. This is terrible. I hate that people can sleep at night knowing they scam people out of money and hard work. I live in San Antonio and am seriously contemplating hunting down that address. > _ <; If only people would be honest.