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it just goes to show, that if ebay DON'T do anything about it, then other ppl eventually do!

so beware jonb/ETC/f*ckwit-who-stole-my-money...one day your luck will run out and i hope you get hit where it hurts the most, in the hardest way possible.

Al

I have a few bids in on some items. If they don't show up, that is fine, since I will be in the Virginia area at the end of June.

Don't know if this is common, but I've just heard of an ebay thief in the UK getting a 12 month sentence, he was selling non-existent camcorders and mobile phones:  

BBC NEWS | UK | Wales | eBay fraud boy detained for year

Anyway, the judges summing-up rings true here: "....you obtained cash by selling goods on the internet site eBay and carried on this conduct for over a year despite the warnings."
Thats right, he was warned not to and carried on whilst over £45k was stolen, presumably never to be returned.

mbassoc2003 wrote:Until eBay is held accountable I think we all deserve what we get. Just like rock stars complaining about people ripping off ther music. We all know the risks of buying on eBay, and if we're ripped off now and again, that's just the way things are. You have to assess the risk, and don't pay money you're not willing to lose.

You're right, but it really hurts if you're a casual eBay user and you get burned.
If you're one of the "big guys", you can absorb the impact better and carry on, treating it as one of the pitfalls of internet business.  Maybe even write it off as an business expense?  Not sure but I'm betting there's some accounting option there.
If you're not -- ouch.  No money/no item.  Suck it up.

pleveich wrote:I just sold this very module to him a week or two ago. If someone buys it at that price I want a cut

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi ... %3AIT&rd=1

The first time this one sold...
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi ... 5184607556

Well, I'd pay $8 for it. I didn't see it the first time round.

reading this thread I've learnt something about jonb and now I only hope that "encyclopedia magica" and "Swords and spells" I've bought from him arrive. We will see ...
I'm a buyer (I'm not a reseller) and I have not your experience about ebay so I'm very interested in what you say.
Can you explain me how it is possible for an ebayer to erase a negative feedback? I've seen with my two eyes (four if you consider glasses) that jonb had some negative feedback, 3 if I'm not wrong, but now they are vanished ...
Moreover, if I read his feedbacks I find a lot of positive comments, some of them left by nicknames I can find in Acaeum forums.
In the end, is he a good person? Can I trust him or not?
thank you all

rosenkav wrote:

radagast wrote:reading this thread I've learnt something about jonb and now I only hope that "encyclopedia magica" and "Swords and spells" I've bought from him arrive. We will see ...
I'm a buyer (I'm not a reseller) and I have not your experience about ebay so I'm very interested in what you say.
Can you explain me how it is possible for an ebayer to erase a negative feedback? I've seen with my two eyes (four if you consider glasses) that jonb had some negative feedback, 3 if I'm not wrong, but now they are vanished ...
Moreover, if I read his feedbacks I find a lot of positive comments, some of them left by nicknames I can find in Acaeum forums.
In the end, is he a good person? Can I trust him or not?
thank you all

Seems like this jonb is the latest incarnation of a scammer who used (in another two cases) a remarkably similar method of "working":

Stage 1 - at first, presenting itself as a honorable ebayer, buying and selling things and delivering them in time to earn good feedback and confidence from the bidders.

Stage 2 - then, around feedback 100, beginning to show some problems in delivering - increased sales and traffic, so the items arrive - late, but they do.

Stage 3 - beginning not to ship items at all, instead finding every kind of logical and illogical excuse for this behaviour - floods, famines, deaths in the family, terrorist attack and so on. And after having cashed enough funds...

Stage 4 - disappearing altogether for a while to let all this clear, just to begin again in a couple of months.

From what I read, it's now reaching stage 2 of the plan, so u'd be FAIRLY safe for now. But the situation would worsen from now on. I WON'T do business with him - full stop - but if I was another, I'd be extremely beware of him.

I couldnt' state it better myself...that's the exact pattern this individual followed when selling at "The Eastern Treasure Chest" and "Game Emporium" previously.  Below is a link the the ending feedback of both names, unfortunately you cannot see the actual item descriptions  themselves, but be assured they were EXACTLY the same format and wording of the now JonB seller (which is what set off long timers like myself and others).  

feedback.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?View ... hest%21%21

feedback.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?View ... e_emporium

Now, it's is not a question in my mind this is the same seller.  What is up in the air, will he follow the pattern of what happened twice before and fold up shop, disappear after scamming some buyers?  If you pay attention to his latest feedback, he seems to be following into this pattern...now after a couple months his shipments have started arriving later and later, as evidenced by the "damning with faint praise" feedback he's now getting.  I still think you have a pretty good chance of getting your items..now.  Percentages fall each week the scam continues. Buyer Beware.

Mike B.

afoolandhis$ wrote:... even though the package was supposedly mailed about 1 month ago:

If I'm following along correctly, that information is from 2003, not 2005.

However, you bring up a valid point: this sort of "I can prove it!" desperation is common for sellers who are either unethical to begin with or who are in the process of crashing and burning. I believe ETC/GE used this sort of tactic quite a bit, i.e.: "Stop picking on me! Here's your (possibly fake) tracking number."

I've seen it with some other sellers, too (outside of D&D collecting). In the funniest cases, the buyers actually respond with, "That's a fake tracking number, a*****e." I mean, seriously, what's the logic behind sending someone a fake number? At that point, shouldn't you just admit to yourself that you're a worthless thief and stop logging onto eBay altogether?

afoolandhis$ wrote:Is that because the postal service purges its records after 30 days, or because jonb lied about shipping and tracking?

I've wondered this myself, but have been too lazy to do the research. How long can tracking/delivery confirmation information be accessed online? Is it, in fact, 30 days? 60? 90? A year? Anyone know this one off the top of their head?