I think multiple people, myself included, has been scammed by this scammer, and yet his account is not banned and DP is allowing him to scam more people? That's quite incredible. NOTE: He changed his user name to loverslife2k right before he got banned. The user has been banned. Evidences that he has been scamming other people (I did not post any one of them): http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=2560497&p=18072634#post18072634 (got the money and ran away) http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=2574822&p=18130500#post18130500 (No further reply on the thread after his scam has been spotted) http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=2319266&p=16965706#post16965706 (Again got the money and ran away) http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=2572714&p=18140789#post18140789 (Again, got the money and ran away, for the third time at least!) And most ridiculously, he had one VB license (I am not sure even he does) that he has been selling for multiple times, every time he got the money and disappeared. May I ask the mods here, how many more times that this dude would scam people before he is banned to post here? Is DP a scammer's heaven? Thanks for the clarification.
Hi mate, I can't answer why a bottom-feeder like him hasn't been banned (I'm not a mod), but anyone who has been scammed by him should leave negative iTrader. At least then it's easier for other people to see he is a scammer and that he has a reputation for being scum. Sadly, sometimes people fear a negative iTrader in return too much.
I tried, and guess what? iTrader refused to let me leave feedback because that scammer did not acknowledge there has been a transaction taken place. Thanks for the suggestion though.
If you are asking us to ban someone for something they did outside of our own site, it's not something we do. You could have steal a car in real life and we aren't going to ban you because that has nothing to do with this site. That being said, if you see them doing anything that violates our rules ON our site, use the Report Post option and we will look at it.
Of course it's not allowed. But it sounds like you are assuming we are clairvoyant or something. If we read his advertisement, would we know it was a scam somehow?
I think I have presented evidence in the main post that multiple people on DP has reported this guy disappeared after collecting money from people, isn't that enough? And I am not saying you need to ban him BEFORE he posted, but now I have aggregated all the evidences, do you think this would be sufficient to ban this scammer? Thanks.
I think he simply changed his user name before he was banned...take a look at all the posts I linked to, it is now all pointing to loverslife2k, this guy is a pro @mods: thanks
I wish that were the case. The problem we deal with is that users will attempt to take advantage of everything we do. It would be great if everything everyone posted was absolutely true... then a couple users *saying* they were scammed could be treated as the "word of God" and we could take action. Unfortunately we are also faced with people taking advantage of us doing so and they get a couple friends together and they all come on and say you scammed them (as an example), but you didn't really... now what? Do we blindly ban you without letting you tell your side of the story because of something a couple random people we don't know on the Internet said about you? I'm not saying the guy didn't scam people, but you also have to look at the bigger picture. If we are going to start banning people because someone said they haven't responded to them fast enough and they think they might have been scammed because of that, we have all sorts of problems we are opening up for ourselves. The user was banned for other reasons... which certainly makes things a lot easier for us. Either way, my best suggestion for everyone is to never buy ANYTHING from anyone they don't know on the Internet without using an escrow service. Someone can't really expect us to try and protect them when they are unwilling to protect themselves to begin with.
He's a scammer and not going to pay $25 for that. Also s/he/it has different iTrader now. The guy/girl/neuter is a moron.
Thanks for the clarification Shawn, I understand your point, that's probably why we need to check IPs and so on, if all the posts I posted above were from people who live in the same city or within a short time span, say like 3 days, it is very likely that it is a few friends trying to post together, but in this case, the feedbacks/comments were clearly left by people spanning over a year (and you can probably check the IPs of the people posted in those posts and I doubt they are in the same city as me). I guess a lot of times it is really just common sense, after all we are all guys and who doesn't like doing some fun detective work once a while? I am glad that DP took swift action in this case and I appreciate you taking your time explaining the situation as well. It is good to know that at least DP cares and wants to deal with scamers like this.
It actually sucked for me because I worked pretty long hours that day, got home tired and that's why I did not bother to do a search before buying, and then all my hard-earned money went to the hands of this dude.
Tired buys are bad. I made a tired buy earlier (on 12 hours night shift), some expensive flowers for my gf. A stupid, tired, happy moment. Could have spent the money on something for me instead.