I wasn't going to post this publicly, however, PayPal has confirmed it, so I guess I better make it public knowledge... There is a user on this board who goes by the name of cobechanh. He purchased several items from me a little while back, totaling about $80 USD. Earlier today, I received 2 notices from PayPal stating "an 'unauthorized account activity claim' was recently filed against a transaction". What this means is that the person who sent me payment, was not the owner of the PayPal account s/he used. I am now out $80 since PayPal has reversed the charges... Beware. Do NOT do business with this guy. He is not legit. I will also be contacting the board mods about this as well... Just thought you all ought to know.
I'm surprised that you would do any kind of business on here with someone that has less than 5 posts and an iTrader of zero. Sure $80 aint alot to worry about but, cmon...this is the internet...there's jackals on every corner.
I sell digital items, and as such, I offer payment links with instant download (IPN). He purchased an item from one of my sites and then posted on a thread of mine. If it wasn't for him posting on one of my threads, I wouldn't have even known he was a DP member. The schmuck even gave me a positive iTrader, probably laughing the whole time too.
thats really bad, it hurts when you make loss will keep in mind about this trader, but other problem is such guys keep changing their ids, names.
Yeah, but Shawn has since rectified that and is no longer allowing forum user name changes (well, you have to have a REALLY REALLY good reason), so that should cut down on that crap... (doesn't stop someone from signing up with multiple accounts tho )
I resent that statement. Jackals are known for hovering around gave sites and being guardians of the dead, and honorable to boot, just a common misconception. If you want a crafty, heinous, and infamous creature: why don't you try... humans. Or bot flies. Bot flies are nasty nasty... Always check someone's itrader and look at the topics, check out the details, and be sure about them. Ask around, see if the previous folks liked their deals and such. Considering this dude had... none... I probably wouldn't have done anything worth more than ten dollars worth with him. I may not have much iTrader - but that's because once I get a customer I work to keep them happeh, and not try and boost iTrader from em (content writing, not site selling. Site selling and buying will get you more iTrader from different folks I assume).
$80 or $8000, money lost is money lost and its painful to loose it. I want to kick the a** of all such jackals.
Agree Money is Money may be it is $1 or $10000 watever today he scammed $80 tomorrow may be $800 we need to take care and Kick their @$$e$ before they get any big
Well I agree Money loss is money loss but its more painfull when you scammed by New members whos post count is less than 5.
Actually it would be more painful if you got scammed by someone with 6000 posts and an itrader of 30+ Notting
As previously stated, I had no choice. The guy purchased an item from one of my sites and then posted here on the forum. It's kind of hard not to do business with someone who has purchased your product and already received it before you even know it happened. (All my sites are IPN enabled)... I have contacted DP about this so he will be banned soon enough I am sure.