I've started the very beginning of contacting winning bidders of his auctions to see if they would be willing to be party to a lawsuit against him.  So far, 100% are willing.  The guy is beyond incompetent and way into the territory of criminal.  

I've consulted with a lawyer friend of mine and will (soon) get some notes written down about what needs to happen.  I may send a copy to Deadlord so he can run it by his lawyer friends.

I believe TGE is in New Jersey.  I'm looking for an NJ lawyer buddy of mine I've lost touch with to make sure it sticks.

Basically, I think the damages here would be 3x the amount of money he's collected for non-delivered services, plus the promised services/items, plus legal fees.

He's so hosed already he might as well flee the country.

It's a real good thing that I've not been burned by this schmuck.  It also helps that I don't regularly traffic ebay for AD&D books...though I do look for other games.

The Game Emporium is an example of what happens when people get out of control and let their greed overcome good business sense.  The most common complaint given by those who left negative feedback is that the item was never shipped.  The Game Emporium responds in various ways, either by replying to the negative feedback with something along the lines of "we talked.  The item is on its way.", disbelief because he got a negative feedback for merchandise that he didn't deliver in a timely fashion, or by retaliatory negative feedback.  Every single response The Game Emporium makes shows an astounding lack of maturity.  I do not know the person(s) behind The Game Emporium, and really do not care who they are.  I have no respect for immaturity, and the signs of it are all there on The Game Emporium's feedback.

This crap of The Game Emporium not fulfilling its orders is totally silly, and absolutely uncalled for.  It's certainly not healthy for his business.  For every positive result, you get one person telling another about it.  For every negative, you get that one person telling ten.  And each of those ten tells ten of their friends.  Beyond that it's not really effective due to the way stories change as they're passed on from person to person, but the effect is like dominoes falling.  After all, at least 14000 people know how much of a wanker The Game Emporium is (conservative estimate, assuming multiple negative feedbacks by some buyers).  That's roughly 140 people telling ten friends each.  Now what happens when those 14000 each tell ten friends of theirs?

There's no excuse for shoddy business practices, and The Game Emporium is one of the poster children for it.  Pity I didn't go for one of his auctions...I might enjoy being part of a class action lawsuit.  In any case, the class action is the way to go here, to get this loser to fulfill his contractual obligations.  After all, a completed ebay auction is a legal and binding contract between buyer and seller.  What's good for one should be good for the other.

Did some research today … here is the complete list of the 57 eBay members that T_G_E has given negative feedback to.  This is just here for informative purposes, of course, for those who might be … curious.  Have fun!


albertopardo
angelicus_dmort
benwax
bob64smith
capncaveman1
captaincaffeine
cstogdill
darius_fo
dgnmstr68
draiden
erniep1
faker676
festinog
fishingcag
freelancerbagok
futuresuccess
galen_macbyrne
henbane_au
hkphooey1
hu11114
jd1627
johnny_chainsaw
keladrin
kgdolan
kimby_cbfh
klazymama1
lanceteryork
leonrn
likenthroup
mad_mozart
mebemg
mmacgregor
morrowrj
mrblonde9mm
nosemuffin
ocelotgames
patfalloon17
pjjones3000
raincricket
ralf_toth
raver_moksha
rick_tsdmdk
scottalanreed
smsdenny
syncevos
terresti
thufir77k
timereaver
tozaz
tsimons27
turboalexmulford
uglydog1969
urdlen
vacuum_time
verchulaka
wezzie77
zelgadis-greywords

The neutrals could probably be added to that list.

Sorry to hear about this mess.
Much appreciated for the clarifications behind the limited eBay feedback text.

A quick comment, aside, noting that the vendor in question was formerly a "Power Seller" on eBay...
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Given that eBay invite sellers to take up this status, and that the seller is requested to uphold "eBay community values, including honesty, timeliness and mutual respect" (eBay Seller Information Center: Selling Resources -- Top Rated & PowerSeller Program - Requirements), is there not an extra case to be made for violation of such agreement (seller->eBay), or possible deception of customers (by eBay's representation of a seller's apparent worthiness)??
(or (more likely?), in reality, is "Power Seller" a totally worthless concept?).

Just my 02 cents thoughts, anyhow...

Best wishes & hope you all can resolve this.

Gotta love this feedback:     My Book smells like weed!!!!!!! My parents confirmed it. BUSTED!!!!!   Buyer   packrat8484( 8 )    Aug-01-04 16:42   5905889658  

Hmmmm perhaps TGE is using the idea posted on this forum regarding using boxed sets to ship illegal herbal cataract remedies?

Who is Jason?  (Not that I care, really)

"Took a while, but item arrived once Jason was involved. A Man of His Word. "  item 5904729237

Reply by the_game_emporium: "DANG IT!! This is Jason, Just getting in from the weekend. Give me time to get.. "

Reply by the_game_emporium: "this sorted out!! ALL the Items are being sent MYSELF!! So PLEASE give ME TIME.."

Reply by the_game_emporium: "I cant FIX This in one or even TWO days
so PLEASE let me get my feet under me... "

Reply by the_game_emporium: "and get this fixed!!! I'm trying to fix a problem for a Friend that I didn't.... "

Reply by the_game_emporium: "CREATE......so AGAIN GIVE ME SOME DANG TIME...PLEASE!! Thanks, Jason "


Evidently, James has a split personality named Jason...?

(I am currently looking at page 83 of the DMG.  "Insanity"; specifically schizophrenia/ dementia praecox/ pathological-liar/ dipsomania/ paranoia...etc.  Now, I'm thinking he's wearing a cursed scarab of insanity...)

M

I don't know if any of you are keeping track, but after receiving negatives for the last 7 days in a row, it looks like he is going to finish today, (Aug. 4th) with no negs.  Either he is getting better, or someone is just waiting to hit him with another neg.

Ecthelion

EcthelionI wrote:I don't know if any of you are keeping track, but after receiving negatives for the last 7 days in a row, it looks like he is going to finish today, (Aug. 4th) with no negs.  Either he is getting better, or someone is just waiting to hit him with another neg.

Ecthelion

*g*. Can't help but observe that one of those feedbacks on 8/4 is from someone who purchased a "RARE!!!" "DEITIES & DEMIGODS W/CTHULHU" on 7/7 for $80 using BIN.

(Did I miss an exclamation mark, there?).

Oh well, it's official, no negatives for August 4th.  It was kind of fun checking his feedback everyday to see how manys negs he was getting per day.  Well, there is always the 5th.

Ecthelion