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thundertoad
07/13/2005, 19:43
Probably this has been mentioned before or maybe I am not posting this on the right forum but if you feel like helping a fellow clixer please read this and answer my questions

1) What’s the current procedure to expose a scammer?

2) Is it effective ? Compared to the old procedure?

3) this is the last and longest question, basically the questions I posted above are because of the situation I’m about to describe. It goes like this, at the beginning of this year I negotiated with a very highly respected trader (both here and on eBay). I’m not posting his name yet because I still have some hope of a good end to this deal I’ll refer him only as the “trade guy”. With the trade Guy we had agreed on the following; I had to send him 6 le’s, some of them very valuable, he was supposed to send me a complete r/e/v set of a recent expansion plus the extra uniques he’d pull from his case and he guaranteed me a very valuable unique. The thing is that since trade guy had so many good references I sent the le’s before the release of the expansion. Trade guy says he did no pull the valuable unique and he would wait until he could get a hold of the figure and then he would send the whole thing. It has been more than 5 months since he received his le’s and still I’m empty handed. All this time I’ve tried to be patient, I’ve offered trade guy a solution but it didn’t work out. Once I threatened him with a BTT and he reacted very offended (though I still have nothing in my hands). This two weeks I’ve sent him various PM’s but none of them has been answered and I’m really getting the feeling I’ve been robbed.
Now that there are no BTT it seems that there’s no way of pressing this guy into honoring his part of the deal….
so the question is
What shall I do?


update 8/4/2005 Si nce this guy is not even answering my pm's heres' his HCRealms name: GOTHAM_KNIGHTX
avoid trading with him


Thanks for reading and I apologize for the lousy English (I’m still learning)

1164
07/13/2005, 19:58
Did I read it correctly, this has been going on since January? Dude, he ripped you off totally. I don't know what the standard proceedure to respond is in a case like this, but I doubt HCRealms will be of much help. Trade Guy may have a good eBay feedback rating, but that does not help you out here since there's no way to leave negative feedback on a trade, which is why I never do trades via HCRealms and why I think they should stop trading on the site for the very reason you state.

But, hey, that's just IMHO.

thundertoad
07/14/2005, 02:46
This deal started so long ago that it was back on the days of BTT so that was a tool I could rely in case of a scammer ... now I feel quite helpless

mr.immortal
07/14/2005, 03:40
You can try to start BTT on the trading forum. I guess one thing you can do is warn people about this trader if you see threads started by this person. It's gonna be tough trying to get your stuff back. Good Luck.

rock810
07/14/2005, 18:11
Best suggestion I can give anyone of potential scammers is save your PM's or e-mails, your post office receipt and then contact a moderator if you have not been able to successfully contain a situation by yourself.

thundertoad
07/15/2005, 02:32
Best suggestion I can give anyone of potential scammers is save your PM's or e-mails, your post office receipt and then contact a moderator if you have not been able to successfully contain a situation by yourself.


wow so I can contact a moderator? will contacting a moderator really help? dude thanks for that info, that's exactly what'll do, Ive kept every single pm from the negotiation with the bad trader and I'll see what happens

Rock810 would you mind taking a look at my case?

to everyone thanks for posting and I hope this can be of help for other troubled clixers

TeenTitansdude
07/15/2005, 02:55
You can always contact the authorities in the town where "trade guy" lives. It may or may not help but its worth a try. And there are various ways to report him for mail fraud and internet fraud. I always try and remain patient myself. You said it has been 5 months but how long has the expansion been available that you are supposed to receive? He may really be trying to get that unique. I have had a few bad experiences on here but no truly horrible ones. Really, my hcrealms trades have been more reliable than my ebay purchases. Good luck with your situation in any case.

thundertoad
07/16/2005, 04:44
You can always contact the authorities in the town where "trade guy" lives. It may or may not help but its worth a try. And there are various ways to report him for mail fraud and internet fraud. I always try and remain patient myself. You said it has been 5 months but how long has the expansion been available that you are supposed to receive? He may really be trying to get that unique. I have had a few bad experiences on here but no truly horrible ones. Really, my hcrealms trades have been more reliable than my ebay purchases. Good luck with your situation in any case.

to TeenTitansdude
thanks for the interest in my problem
to give you the exact picture about what's going on, here's the info. I sent over a month before the release of Legacy this guy GUARANTEED a complete rev set and the very sought after KC Green Lantern.. aparently he did not pull it from a case he bought, so we started having problems. At first we agreed that I would try to buy one in my country (Chile)and he would send some uniques to make it up to me, but the few that have surfaced here are not for sale (die hard fanboys). So I told this guy to honor his part of the deal. but the only thing he has offered is sending a unique that I'm not interested in at all and he claims that should cover for the KCGL. I told him to return the le's I sent him but his pitty excuse is that he has already traded them away .. by the way I sent Victor Creed and DR Doom Le amongst others

once more thanks

Oggs
07/16/2005, 22:28
Hi thundertoad,

my opinion is that you should post his name here if you eventually can´t come to an agreement by PMs. Maybe after exposure he can be more cooperative...

good luck!

Oggs

thundertoad
08/04/2005, 14:08
Ok
so I tried to work things out with this guy but he's not even answering my pm's
and now that everyone is asking for the name of the guy that ripped me off here it goes
so be warned of this guy

GOTHAM_KNIGHTX
I hope people see this thread and avoid trading with this petty thief