Let's get proactive about LEGO scams on eBay.

[metsrock507]

i set a trap for an ebay scammer and caught one red handed.

 

         so a fellow named REVERSALTRADER bought 5 41999 crawlers off me. as well as many other's from many other people. needless to say a fellow ebay seller contacted me a few days ago with this message: "I also sold a 41999 crawler to reversaltrader. Have they made a claim for a damaged package to you? They state mine arrived damaged and a friend of mine also sold them one and they state the same thing." thankfully he did not claim any items were damaged from me, but i did give this fellow seller some advice:

 

"bottom line is i would not take him seriously until he sends pictures of whatever damage hes talking about, bc he could just be lying to try and get a few bucks back. (have your friend do the same thing and see if he sends a picture of the same box to both of you, then you can just report him to ebay and not have to deal with anything)" this seller followed my advice and compared the picture's he received from reversaltrader with the ones his/her friend received AND THEY WERE PICTURES OF THE SAME BOX!! ?and get this the seller who contacted me has found a third seller who was getting extorted out of 100$ for a supposedly damaged box. so we are having seller #3 ask for pictures of the damage as well, and seeing if he also gets the picture of the same box. it looks like reversaltrader sat on top of his boxes and is trying to get money for it from all his sellers. so if you sold any crawlers to reversaltrader (i know some of you have posted that you did) beware of his damaged box scam, and if he try's it on you, report him.

[MartinP]

Great job catching the scammer. People are becoming more greedy these days.

[beeblet65]

Great Job! - i just sold one about 10 minutes ago and was checking to see if it was the same seller. Fortunately not, but i have a few others and hopefully he wont buy any of mine!

[DoNotInsertIntoMouth]

I only sold one - and it wasn't him, but I am putting him on my ignored buyers list for the time being.

 

Nice job by the way - the only way to combat scammers is to follow up when it happens and to be aware. I hate it when people let things go even if they are covered somehow for it.

[legopocalypse]

Good job. Looks like he's bought 16 of them already. I made sure to block his id just in case he were to buy from me in the future, I won't have to deal with him.

[Darth_Raichu]

THANK YOU !!! +1 to my Blocked Bidder List

 

So much for 512 feedbacks.  Here is one to the people who are sweating over selling to 0 feedback buyers. 

[Fcbarcelona101]

Ha, sold 2 to himher. Delivered a while back and no claim so far, hopefully it will stay that way

[justafrog]

Call eBay on this guy, and have all the other sellers call, too. He will get his buying privileges suspended for this sort of shenanigans, and he should.

[Diabolos80]

Whats ebay's policy if you guys refused to give him a discount and you told him to return it ar his expense?

[justafrog]

Whats ebay's policy if you guys refused to give him a discount and you told him to return it ar his expense?

 

Provided you don't have a different return policy set up (i,e that you'll pay return shipping in all cases), they'll back you on it.

 

This guy doesn't want to return anything, he just wants free money to fall from the sky. If every seller involved reports him, it will go very badly for him. I know there's a myth that eBay doesn't protect sellers, but if you take care of your end and have a good record with them, they absolutely do.

[Huskers1236]

Whats ebay's policy if you guys refused to give him a discount and you told him to return it ar his expense?

Not sure, but I guarantee you would get a destroyed Crawler back regardless of the condition he received it in so he could prove his point. 

[willy431]

How do you look up his buying history?  Sounds familiar--I think I sold one to someone by that name.  Was it something Chang?

[metsrock507]

How do you look up his buying history?  Sounds familiar--I think I sold one to someone by that name.  Was it something Chang?

name is kai chung.

[Fcbarcelona101]

How do you look up his buying history?  Sounds familiar--I think I sold one to someone by that name.  Was it something Chang?

Yeah something like that in California!

[metsrock507]

Yeah something like that in California!

yups san jose

[terrymc4677]

I have found this guy's profile, but can't seem to find how/where to block him from buying from me. can someone please point me in the right direction? looking at the feedback he has left for others, it appears he is quick to pull the trigger on leaving negative feedback for petty issues that the sellers seem to be blindsided with. I would prefer not to deal with this clown at all in the future if possible.

[Polar_Beast]

I have found this guy's profile, but can't seem to find how/where to block him from buying from me. can someone please point me in the right direction? looking at the feedback he has left for others, it appears he is quick to pull the trigger on leaving negative feedback for petty issues that the sellers seem to be blindsided with. I would prefer not to deal with this clown at all in the future if possible.

Here ya go. Good to do whenever you hear of a lowly excuse for a human such as this guy...

 

http://pages.ebay.com/services/buyandsell/biddermanagement.html

 

-PB

[Darth_Raichu]

I have found this guy's profile, but can't seem to find how/where to block him from buying from me. can someone please point me in the right direction? looking at the feedback he has left for others, it appears he is quick to pull the trigger on leaving negative feedback for petty issues that the sellers seem to be blindsided with. I would prefer not to deal with this clown at all in the future if possible.

Everyone should bookmark this link:

 

http://cgi1.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?bidderblocklogin

[El Guapo]

People like this ruin ebay and should be banned. I checked out his feedback history, and on the "feedback left for others" he left negative feedback on 5 of the last 6 sellers he bought from. Garbage. Nice job Metsrock, I hope this guy gets whats coming to him.

[stackables]

Wow, good job .  Hopefully he gets booted from ebay.

[terrymc4677]

thank you very much polar beast and darth raichu. plus ones for you both, as well as the OP. he is the first blocked buyer on my list. it's too bad there are idiots like this out there who ruin things for others, just for the sake of a few dollars. good luck to those who have sold to this a**hole. keep us posted.

[matt1147]

Did he already change his ID? I can't pull him up...

[metsrock507]

Did he already change his ID? I can't pull him up...

here is a link http://feedback.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewFeedback2&userid=reversaltrader&ftab=AllFeedback&myworld=true&_trksid=p2050430.m2531.l4585

[matt1147]

Ah okay - my iPhone was capitalizing the first letter or something. Got him now. Big mistake for him...

[nessieslc]

Thanks so much for the heads up!  He didn't buy mine but I'm blocking him just in case.