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

Wreck

Is Here To Serve
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Jan 26, 2009
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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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He is at other BD forum so hopefully legit as I bought some items from him.

Good luck - just thought it strange since most people don't have two copies of IM Media Markt or 3 copies of FNAC Hellboy 2 kicking around. ;)
 
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I have gotten stiffed only once on Ebay. I bid on an item and lost. Guy contacted me and said he had another and would sell it for the same price. I paid him with paypal but NOT through Ebay. Package came in pristine condition. Steel inside was crushed. My fault! So now I buy only through ebay with paypal, and I always check the bad feedback. You can usually tell whos the liar. No exceptions any more.
 
Good luck - just thought it strange since most people don't have two copies of IM Media Markt or 3 copies of FNAC Hellboy 2 kicking around. ;)

The items did arrive today, in a bubble bag with bubble wrap, no box!!.
Not what one would expect from an experienced Steelbook trader as he describes himself. Transformers was OK, but Iron Man DE slightly kinked when you look at ait edge wise. probably due to no box. Gave Iron Man to a friend.
 
Banned Trader - General Warning for all Steelbook Collectors / Traders

Hi folks - I think all our valued members here know that we try to make HiDefNinja a safe environment to trade and collect steelbooks. Today it has come to our attention that a previously banned trader from the Netherlands has returned.

This trader has gone by the following aliases on other forums.

Goatrider
Swallahjaxx
brambrowers
shabba
evert
Jaxx
Cythlover
Underhill
Shellmaster
Erik Schellekens
The above are all the same person.

This trader has again made the appearance on this forum as

Wodan

Fortunately it appears as though we found out about him prior to any damage being done here.

If he has any outstanding trades - as we are aware of only a couple successful trades, please contact one the mods - myself, DB or justintime2k.

Here's his locked trade thread: https://www.hidefninja.com/community/threads/11226/

This person has CONSISTENTLY and OFTEN scammed members on HIGH VALUE steelbooks across many forums - including copies worth hundreds of dollars - JOHN RAMBO included.

He recently indicated that he was looking to sell his entire collection, but wanted to sell them in large groups instead of selling them off individually or in smaller groups.

I won't speculate how much in total damage he has done in the past on other forums - but it's been a lot.

So, for all our members, please be cautious with any large value trade - but know we are doing our best to be proactive and catch any suspicious activity if we are made aware of it.

From his trading thread:

He is also a member of other forums - both BD and SBH under the following names.

Cees @ BD+ 2fb
Wodan @ SBH + 1fb

Feel free to spread the word to other forums if you are members there.
 
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I’m not defending anyone but I believe I need to share my info.

I had a trade over SBH past May for 2 Tangleds, no problems at all with Cythlover.

a Cythlover (+8 fb) on SHB forum, indicated is in Bleguim, rarely has a feedback from Wodan, recently feedback is 2 on June, 1 in July.

Some time ago I got from him as sale 2 new Star Wars Clone Wars SteelBook, in the transit time he got banned over SBH as Swallahjaxx but package arrived all in perfect conditions.

doing a search over SBH trade/sale section a Wodan (+_1 fb via Cythlover) from Spain has the exact same post blocked here.

I have sent a PM to mods over SBH about this.

I appreciate this notifications in order to be aware of some abusive people.
 
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Hi Buffalo-yes sadly, this "pattern" of completing some transactions, but creating many documented scams and aliases, puts everyone at risk. We're happy to hear you were not part of this-sadly many others were robbed:(
 
Hi Buffalo-yes sadly, this "pattern" of completing some transactions, but creating many documented scams and aliases, puts everyone at risk. We're happy to hear you were not part of this-sadly many others were robbed:(

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Thanks for your input Buffalo - just to add to DB's comment - he had a couple of successful sales on this forum, but it has been his pattern to get some decent feedback and then use that to steal from others.

It's been documented on other forums that this individual has stolen from many people under many different logins and names.

These were not unproven accusations, but rather documented thefts that involved large quantities of money.

By the way - I assume it must be one of the Tangled copies you sold him - it was recently sold for a very large premium to another member of a different forum - I'm just pointing out that his main agenda has always been for monetary gain - not to collect steelbooks because he enjoys it.
 
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I have done trade with him over at SBH as well but I was lucky to be the seller and couldn't complain as he paid me right away so I guess I was the lucky one who had positive experience with him, but still really bad to hear plenty of other collectors have been scammed by him.
 
Good to know that forum members here and elsewhere, do their best to look out for one another. I appreciate it.

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A "scalper" - and by the sounds of things a nasty one at that.

Sounds more like a thief.
 
I have just done a trade with him and everything arrived okay but it sounds like i was one of the lucky ones. A big thanks to apsmith and all the other mods who keep the site a safe place to trade, we appreciate all the work you do.
 
On one hand I'm thankful that I got my Reservoir Dogs through from him but also feel bad that my feedback may have helped them scam someone. Hope no-one was affected from this forum.
 
Yeah that is the same Indy he supposedly sold DK here a long time ago ... never shipped, took his money. Thankfully he was able to get refunded from paypal but I think paypal took the hit.