Buyer Beware / Bad Traders List (FORUM MEMBER ALERTS ONLY)

Wreck

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This thread has been created to provide insight for folks trading and buying. Sometimes knowing that a guy/gal has some or MANY successful trades/sales is good peace of mind.

IF THE PERSON DOESN'T HAVE LOTS OF GOOD TRADER RATING FEEDBACK, AND YOU DONT KNOW THEM, THEN PRIVATE MESSAGE a Trading Moderator. We can try to get you the info you need to feel safe and or make a safe trade/purchase!

As we all know, trading is at your own risk. However, we are able to stop many deals from turning sour if you enable us. We have one bad person who has been a scam artist at many HT/Blu-ray sites besides ours.
EBAY TRADER / BAD TRADER DISCUSSIONS - please visit this thread.


Bad Traders


Goatrider
Swallahjaxx
brambrowers
harrytheparry
shabba
evert
Jaxx
Cythlover
Underhill
Shellmaster
Erik Schellekens
Wodan
Cees
aklass
vrising
Telchar
HiltonH
Hilton
blubook
Glaurung
Gelanor
Gus79
Astaldo
Isis
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The above are all the same person - returned in Oct 2015 - Trading alert posted here

Other bad traders:

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MEDIAMEX - continued to delay shipments, up to weeks at a time. Would not reimburse members for items already received. Appeared to source OOP items, after trade was agreed upon.

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JEREMY13130 - member from France. States he has rare items for trade when he really does not. Be wary of members with no feedback that ask you to send first.

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OSCARLUCY - owed shipments to members here, delayed due to a number of different stories. Supposedly recently shipped items out to members, after 5+ months of delays.

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NELLYPLATINUM & YASAIRA1 - owed an item to a member here - trade occurred on another forum, had previously told trading mods he would make good on the amount owed. Never paid the seller.

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DLEAVEY81 - owed steebook (paid for) to user here. No response on forum or via e-mail. Also has an outstanding trade issue at AVF forums.

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SHONUFF6 - received items from a couple of members and has not visited this forum since the beginning of January 2013.

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JEZHEAD - received items from one member and a HDN secret santa gift from another - sent nothing in return and has not visited this forum since December 2012.

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93COBRA - also known as Fast Eddie - defrauded members on BD forums and you tube of hundreds of dollars of items. General trading alert posted here.

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Marty mcFly - member from France. Owes members here items and has been delaying shipment since in contact with staff for weeks, some traders have been waiting months.

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AMEN - sent a member here damaged steels and the wrong steelbook. Would not resolve the problem with the other member or respond to mod / staff requests for more info.

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Top_cat2-failed to complete numerous trades/communicate. Numerous traders waiting for items for several months (some since 2012).

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slackerz - failed to respond or to resolve a trading issue over months of promises to replace damaged items.

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TIGER - took funds for a "pre-order" of items not in-hand to one member and wouldn't refund, also failed to fulfill 6 steelbook trade with another member.

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Roverite - owes at least 10 members various steelbooks from GB's he hosted in 2013. Various attempts to communicate but to no avail.

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humperklonk - Lack of communication to resolve trade issues backdating to end of last year. Owes one member 7x steels which were paid for but never sent the items. Another member is waiting on 1x steel to be sent.

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Unisol1980 - Attempted to sell a High Value rare steelbook by randomly PM'ing members. This was after Trade Mods refused to approve his sales thread without him supplying the necessary references/info.

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MrKrabs2013 - Created multiple account, which is NOT allowed on this forum. All the following names are the same person and have been banned:

MrKrabs2013
mrhanky
mrhanky2016
ninja2015
joinus2000
kurdish2012
bremennord
steelfreaky
marvelhero007
germansteeler
steelbookcollect
gandalf
judgedredd
hideohhb
progamer1995
bluemansteel
steelcollector1
blueknight
bucelli
snakeeater

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Cobster - Owes various members £ and steelbooks - no communication + hasn't been online since 17th July.

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The posts below are from when this was a Good Traders/Bad Traders list ... from the date this OP has been updated ... this thread will only serve as a Buyer Beware and Hall of Shame for those bad traders out there. If you need info on good traders view their trader rating under their avatar in the post bit (to the left) or PM a Mod.

I suggest you PM a mod for any deal over $75 if you dont know the person, regardless if they have 3 successful feedbacks etc. This is YOUR community as much as it is OURS, and we'll make the time everytime to make it as safe as possible for all.

Added 1/23/2012:

Just a general reminder - If you are experiencing difficulty with a trade at our site, feel free to contact a Trade Moderator, and we can provide suggestions on how to resolve the matter, if the trade took place at our site.

If, despite repeated attempts to resolve the trade/contact the trader, you do not receive any communication, or items, etc, please use the Feedback system in place at the site, or the rest of the community will not be aware of issues with traders. In addition, you have a limited time frame to file Paypal disputes, so please familiarize yourself with that process, just in case, to further protect yourself. In addition, the Staff will take action against accounts for repeat offenders if absolutely necessary.
 
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Not surprised in the slightest.

One of the rudest, most dishonest members I've ever had the displeasure of dealing with.

Feel the opposite...before the ban he seemed like a pretty good member and reliable at the time. Even helped him out on a few posters he wanted sent from the US. But like I said "reliable at the time"...it went downhill from there and pretty much PM's took too long to get replied back. It's unfortunate how things are turning out right now and hopefully they get resolved soon.
 
could someone tell me how i can access the trade section? thanks

You are in the trade section. You have > 30 posts and hence you are able to post this here. Peruse the various sub-forums here and you will get up to speed in no time.

Enjoy!
 
hey folks, just a general reminder about "phishing" scams and the like.

Many types of members here may approach you about a trade or sale via PM. New members, established members and members just looking to offload their collection.

For example, someone may approach you about harder to find item that they are just looking to get their cost for. This may be legit, but this could also be a scam.

Please be cautious when paying any large amount of funds to a member here.

Remember these tips -
  • Pay with a regular paypal payment, and back that up with your credit card as well
  • Use our pending /active section for an active record of this transaction
  • Update your trade thread with any relevant details
  • Contact a trading mod or staff member if the trade goes on for too long or you haven't received your item when you think you should have
  • Don't feel a lot of pressure to get the "deal" before it's offered to another member. Please remember that you should review any "good deal" or "cheap price" with your peers and friends and see what they think.

Best of luck in all your trades and sales on the forum! :thumbs:
 
hey folks, it with some sadness today that I had to ban the member Tiger from HDN for the period of one month due to a trading issue I was made aware of with a large amount of funds changing hands and his unwillingness to refund this other member as the items he had tried to source had still not arrived.

please remember - new members and existing traders alike, we do NOT allow pre-orders to be taken on this forum unless it's from a group buy host.

you should NEVER pay with gift to a regular trader if you want to protect yourself in case the item does not appear in a timely fashion.

you should NEVER source items that you do NOT have for a trade. items must be IN HAND if you are not a group buy host.

our trading rules have been created for everyone's protection, but there is only so much we can do when something goes bad due to these rules not being followed.

if there are any other outstanding trades or problems with this member, please let me know.
 
humperklonk should also be added to this list...

I believe Naughtius was working with humperklonk at one point, but I don't have any info at this moment about him, and would need to hear what the latest is before we add him to the list.
 
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Added Roverite (perm) and humperklonk (1 month) to the list.

Please report (
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) any trades/sales (even GBs) early on if you're concerned about your agreed deal.

Remember that if those on the list resolve their outstanding trade(s) they are removed from the above list.

Thanks all
 
hey folks! a new member with no trade feedback was trying to sell a high value steel (original John Rambo, sealed).

this was member Unisol1980 has been banned from this forum.

to give you the abridged version - I had done a lot of conversing with this member over the last few days and he would not give his real details - I last asked for name and address for verification.

the ebay account he gave only had buyer feedback and his pictures did not have his name on them - and he grew offended when I continued to press him for further details (the price he wanted was over 1200 euro since he needed the cash).

I have since learned today, he was approaching other members of this forum via PRIVATE MESSAGE soliciting trades.

Thank you to David for forwarding this message along from a concerned member - it's ALWAYS best practice to ask us what is going on before agreeing to trades or purchases from new (no feedback members).

Stay safe out there!
 
Damn! I thought something like that! Unisol1980
Had a long pm conversation with him. He wanted to trade John Rambo vs Gladiator TW.
I send him pictures. But in the end we dont came to a conclusion.
After i made him a price he said to me, he wanna first sale John Rambo and after that he will buy the Gladiator Steel.
 
hey folks! a new member with no trade feedback was trying to sell a high value steel (original John Rambo, sealed).

this was member Unisol1980 has been banned from this forum.

to give you the abridged version - I had done a lot of conversing with this member over the last few days and he would not give his real details - I last asked for name and address for verification.

the ebay account he gave only had buyer feedback and his pictures did not have his name on them - and he grew offended when I continued to press him for further details (the price he wanted was over 1200 euro since he needed the cash).

I have since learned today, he was approaching other members of this forum via PRIVATE MESSAGE soliciting trades.

Thank you to David for forwarding this message along from a concerned member - it's ALWAYS best practice to ask us what is going on before agreeing to trades or purchases from new (no feedback members).

Stay safe out there!

I was wondering why I got no response from you , now I know - since he did not want to give his real name price...scammer should be ashamed of himself!

Thanks for going the extra mile and keeping "us" safe !!

Take care
John

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He has been bad since last summer. Unfortunately I was one who was scammed in a GB of his.

he scammed me too EEK!:emb::( I had bought something off him and had some members send stuff to him also for him to forward to me with the stuff I bought ... and that was the last I heard of him ...

Oh forgot , he did also ask me to give him a loan through paypal , that was before the deal - that worked out fine though...

Take care
John
 
Damn! I thought something like that! Unisol1980
Had a long pm conversation with him. He wanted to trade John Rambo vs Gladiator TW.
I send him pictures. But in the end we dont came to a conclusion.
After i made him a price he said to me, he wanna first sale John Rambo and after that he will buy the Gladiator Steel.
He wanted to sell me John Rambo (twice) and showed this thread (post #5)
https://www.hidefninja.com/community/threads/35675/

I replied to him...No thanks,I don't know who you are,and I'm happy with my JR steel.
 
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Ya because of roverite, I had 5 extra Mondos from SDCC but that worked out ok since 3 of them went to a few ninjas here ;)

Of all the dozens of PMs we exchanged, not once did I suspect anything foul...kinda scary when you think about it :ohno:
 
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