Luis138
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I must warn everyone of a possible scammer among us.
I had this item for sale:
https://sideshowcollectors.com/forums/showthread.php?t=57042&highlight=screamin'
A member contacted me and told me that he had the Anakin box and if I was willing to trade. I said yes so we agreed to the box plus $40 cash from him. First he told me he would send the $40 with the box, after about three weeks of telling me he would send it he finally did. There was no $40 inside, he contacted me and told him to give him my Paypal info so that he could send the $40.
He did. We had agreed that I would not send anything until I receive his part of the trade as he is new in this forum.
I did take two weeks as well since the box arrived when I was leaving to Comic-Con and when I came back I found some family affairs that took my whole time, as some of you know. I contacted him and told him sorry for the delay, it has been shipped.
Here is where the scam comes in, about a week later, next thing I heard about this trade was an e-mail from Paypal stating that he had opened a dispute specifying that the item was not what I had described and he wanted a $30 refund, not the whole $40 he had sent. As I was reading that e-mail I received a second one stating that he had escalated it to a claim. Within 2 minutes, didn't even give me a chance to finish reading the first e-mail. Thankfully Paypal took my side and didn't issue a refund.
I have contacted him on three occasions asking him what is going on, what kind of scam is he trying to pull. He never bothered responding, always ignored my e-mails. I think that if indeed the item would had been different that what we agreed he would had contacted me demanding an explanation.
Now, the bad part is that I don't remember his user name. Honestly I don't remember if I deleted his PM, since we are only allowed 100 or if he contacted me only via e-mail.
I don't know if the mods have access to deleted messages and could probably find it there and get his user name. In any case, is name is Justin Holmes from PA. Obviously I have more information about him but that is all I am posting here.
There are always two sides to every story so I invite him to expose his side here and state why he never contacted me if indeed he felt that he didn't receive what he was supposed to receive. I just think that he tried to keep the model and get his money back.
I have done deals with several members here and they all know I am honest. These kind of experiences leave a bad taste in one's mouth. First I get scammed by Bronxbeast, now this
Hopefully people reading this will keep an eye open and avoid getting scammed.
Thank you everyone,
Luis
I had this item for sale:
https://sideshowcollectors.com/forums/showthread.php?t=57042&highlight=screamin'
A member contacted me and told me that he had the Anakin box and if I was willing to trade. I said yes so we agreed to the box plus $40 cash from him. First he told me he would send the $40 with the box, after about three weeks of telling me he would send it he finally did. There was no $40 inside, he contacted me and told him to give him my Paypal info so that he could send the $40.
He did. We had agreed that I would not send anything until I receive his part of the trade as he is new in this forum.
I did take two weeks as well since the box arrived when I was leaving to Comic-Con and when I came back I found some family affairs that took my whole time, as some of you know. I contacted him and told him sorry for the delay, it has been shipped.
Here is where the scam comes in, about a week later, next thing I heard about this trade was an e-mail from Paypal stating that he had opened a dispute specifying that the item was not what I had described and he wanted a $30 refund, not the whole $40 he had sent. As I was reading that e-mail I received a second one stating that he had escalated it to a claim. Within 2 minutes, didn't even give me a chance to finish reading the first e-mail. Thankfully Paypal took my side and didn't issue a refund.
I have contacted him on three occasions asking him what is going on, what kind of scam is he trying to pull. He never bothered responding, always ignored my e-mails. I think that if indeed the item would had been different that what we agreed he would had contacted me demanding an explanation.
Now, the bad part is that I don't remember his user name. Honestly I don't remember if I deleted his PM, since we are only allowed 100 or if he contacted me only via e-mail.
I don't know if the mods have access to deleted messages and could probably find it there and get his user name. In any case, is name is Justin Holmes from PA. Obviously I have more information about him but that is all I am posting here.
There are always two sides to every story so I invite him to expose his side here and state why he never contacted me if indeed he felt that he didn't receive what he was supposed to receive. I just think that he tried to keep the model and get his money back.
I have done deals with several members here and they all know I am honest. These kind of experiences leave a bad taste in one's mouth. First I get scammed by Bronxbeast, now this
Hopefully people reading this will keep an eye open and avoid getting scammed.
Thank you everyone,
Luis