Serial Scammer

[mydiyau]

I had a very bad experience with a scammer, looking at his feedback he has a history of claiming "item not received" and "quantity less than ordered" to many sellers. In my case, I had both type of claims from him from different transactions and end up losing a lot of money.

It's safe to say he is a serial scammer. PM me if you want to know more. 

Save the tips on how to report him to ebay, I don't have the time and energy to waste on... I just want to help other sellers here.

[mydiyau]

Well well well another serial scammer caught, at my expense...

Fought about 2 weeks with this latest scammer, same story, same extortion, same "no capital letters" and "didn't get item please refund" one liner messages. The scammer at first resisted going to esclate the claim to ebay dispite repeated calls from me, in the end he wrote a tonne of bs, escalated the claim and got the refund, thank you ebay for supporting yet another serial scammer.

Tried all the tricks in the book and succeeded, even though I am experienced in dealing with scammers. This guy deliberately use a wrong suburb name to cause delays and claim item not received.

Anyway, here is his record, over 20 negs / neturals / extortion success out of 47 feedbacks he left.

[mydiyau]

Caught another serial scammer, at my expense again...

This guy's tactic is to find a good seller with lots of feedbacks/sales/reputation, most targets have more than 10000 feedback, he will slap a negative feedback then talk... 5 negs in the last 10 feedback left. Heaps of revised feedbacks from victims.

Check it out, what a nasty little beast.

[mydiyau]

Well time to update this post and expose another serial scammer / thug I recently caught.

Again, experienced good ebay sellers with 10000+ positive feedbacks are targeted by this thug. As long as he is buying and making money for ebay, I guess no one cares.

Sellers need to be warned when a trigger happy experienced ebay thug bought their item, say 10% of his purchases resulted a negative/neutral feedback. You can't choose your customer but a warning flag about past transactions could be very useful.

[springyzone]

That's up there with one of the worst records I have seen.

Quite honestly, if a seller complained to ebay about that, you would think ebay could see the pattern.

What's the old definition of madness? Knowing something doesn't work but keeping on doing it.

You have a buyer there with 54 transactions and supposedly not one of them worked out for him. You would have to question why any genuine buyer would keep it up if they felt it was not worthwhile.

The answer of course is it must be worth his while but even the best of service will only get a seller a neutral. On a good day.

[padi*0409]

springy, the OP is using toolhaus which gives only neuts and negs on the buyers FB left for others which doesn't take in the total amount of feedback left or when they were left, so it can be a false picture of the buyer's actions.

Try mine, for a total of nearly 3,900 FB there's 37 neuts and negs in there from day one.

So the results can be very misleading if not used correctly.

[mydiyau]

Toohus is much easier for me to get a overall look and do screenshots. 

padi*0409 you only had issue with 1% of your purchases. Most scammers I caught here have more than 10%, some of them 50%. 

[padi*0409]

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@mydiyau wrote:

Toohus is much easier for me to get a overall look and do screenshots. 

padi*0409 you only had issue with 1% of your purchases. Most scammers I caught here have more than 10%, some of them 50%. 

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Then go through "help and contact" at the top of the page and report them to Trust and Safety, by showing screenshots from toolhaus you aren't curbing their actions, and since it's estimated that only 4% of members come to the boards you won't be getting the message out to the eBay community anyway.

It may give you a nice warm feeling to find them, but if you take no action then it's all for naught at the end of the day.  

[k1ooo-slr-sales]

you may catch them, but that is of no use to me unless I can know their ID.

Have you put them on your "following" list?

[mydiyau]

eBay is shielding them by banning sellers leaving negative feedbacks and block buyer ID from other sellers, gives little or no penalty for repeated non-paying purchases, forcing sellers to offer free postage and giving full refunds. You will be crazy trying to fight ebay.