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

Wreck

Is Here To Serve
Staff Member
Jan 26, 2009
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USA
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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Hi

I received negative feedback from a member here.
He agreed to buy from me and then ignored my messages for 2 weeks.
I left feedback for him and shock horror he replied within minutes and then left negative feedback in retaliation.

Can I get a ruling on this?

Thanks
P

IMO, you shouldn't have left FB if the deal was not done...I.e. payment received and goods posted.

However, if I had the power, I would delete both FBs.
 
IMO, you shouldn't have left FB if the deal was not done...I.e. payment received and goods posted.

However, if I had the power, I would delete both FBs.

I usually don't but I feel it is useful to other members to know that there are members who will not honor commitments that they make.

How can I delete both FBs?
Who do I ask?

thanks
 
Hi

I received negative feedback from a member here.
He agreed to buy from me and then ignored my messages for 2 weeks.
I left feedback for him and shock horror he replied within minutes and then left negative feedback in retaliation.

Can I get a ruling on this?

Thanks
P

I wouldnt leave bad feedback for people that ignored me after we agreed a deal unless money or steels had changed hands, ive agreed deals more than once and the other party changes there mind or ignores messages, i havent actually lost out on anything so i wouldnt leave neg feedback. Im pretty sure we are not supposed to leave neg feedback in cases like this. Now you both have neg feedback for no real reason apart from a change of mind. :(
 
I wouldnt leave bad feedback for people that ignored me after we agreed a deal unless money or steels had changed hands, ive agreed deals more than once and the other party changes there mind or ignores messages, i havent actually lost out on anything so i wouldnt leave neg feedback. Im pretty sure we are not supposed to leave neg feedback in cases like this. Now you both have neg feedback for no real reason apart from a change of mind. :(

Well he has negative feedback because he changed his mind and didn't let me know (I wouldn't have left feedback if he'd stayed in touch with me - its the ignorance that warranted the negative feedback IMHO)

And I have negative feedback because he's retaliated.
 
Well he has negative feedback because he changed his mind and didn't let me know (I wouldn't have left feedback if he'd stayed in touch with me - its the ignorance that warranted the negative feedback IMHO)
And I have negative feedback because he's retaliated.

Did you purchase the particular steelbook for him? If you did and he didn't live up to his end of the deal: Negative feedback

Did he contact you and wanted to buy someting you already had in hand? If he then just changed his mind and stopped contacting you? Really annoying und uncalled for: YES, negative feedback though: NO
 
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Did you purchase the particular steelbook for him? If you did and he didn't live up to his end of the deal: Negative feedback

Did he contact you and wanted to buy someting you already had in hand? If he then just changed his mind and stopped contacting you? Really annoying und uncalled for: YES, negative feedback though: NO

Yeah that's what I normally do.

But then we have a community with members who can agree deals and then not honour them and nobody is any the wiser.

I held the steelbook for him for 2 weeks and lost out as others wanted it.
 
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Whilst I understand your predicament pmwhelan, feedback can only be left for completed transactions. Since no goods or moneys ever changed hands, this cannot be recognised as a transaction. Deals are often agreed upon and sometimes cancelled without notice. Personally I would note not to deal with the other party in the future rather than leave negative feedback which is not fair to the other member. Its like ordering an item then cancelling.
 
Whilst I understand your predicament pmwhelan, feedback can only be left for completed transactions. Since no goods or moneys ever changed hands, this cannot be recognised as a transaction. Deals are often agreed upon and sometimes cancelled without notice. Personally I would note not to deal with the other party in the future rather than leave negative feedback which is not fair to the other member. Its like ordering an item then cancelling.

What FF said in bold.

It's just basic MANNERS replying back to those you're trading with. If anyone ever goes through a similar experience and needs a hand please PM a Trade Mod, we'd be happy to help.

I usually don't but I feel it is useful to other members to know that there are members who will not honor commitments that they make.

How can I delete both FBs?
Who do I ask?

thanks

If you both agree to delete eachothers feedback I can arrange that, just PM me.
 
Whilst I understand your predicament pmwhelan, feedback can only be left for completed transactions. Since no goods or moneys ever changed hands, this cannot be recognised as a transaction. Deals are often agreed upon and sometimes cancelled without notice. Personally I would note not to deal with the other party in the future rather than leave negative feedback which is not fair to the other member. Its like ordering an item then cancelling.

The analogy isn't right.

Cancelling implies contact.
He never contacted me inspite of numerous emails.
 
Hey guys, as Frank stated, per trading forum guidelines, feedback cannot be left for any transaction if no funds have exchanged hands or if items haven't been sent.

View our sticked Rules & Guidelines thread here

Feedback in our itrader system (negative or otherwise) may not be left for trades where no agreement can be reached or if a party "backs out". Feedback may ONLY be left if the transaction is complete, or a trader cannot resolve an issue with the other party - in order to be counted as transaction - something has to have occurred. Funds changing hands, one person sending an item, a damaged item being received with no resolution, etc.

Feedback in our itrader system is ONLY for transactions that have occurred on this forum. We don't keep track of or police transactions on e-bay, other forums, newspaper classifieds or other online listing services.

Any further discussion about this subject should be done via PM - let's not clutter the thread for those that subscribe to this one to keep track of bad trader alerts (or scammers) on this forum.

Thanks
 
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Thanks...What are the other accounts created and now banned?

All his other accounts were created either yesterday or today:

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