@iamalwaysright wrote:
Anyway, I'm not going to mention the efforts I'm taking to resolve this and remove the feedback. Because the interesting part is that I decided to Google the buyer. Yea yea, if you have issues about that you can get off your high horses. Turns out this buyer was arrested 3 years ago in Calif and went to prison for impersonating a police officer. He was found loitering around a shopping area for a few weeks and told employees he was an undercover cop. When the real police picked him up and arrested him, he had 3 Calif police badges and business cards of 3 officers as well as a badge belonging to a Phoenix police officer. He also had 4 loaded guns in his car. Three handguns and one rifle, two of them were reported stolen. They still aren't sure how he got those authentic police badges as I read the article.
Thanks USPS for endangering my life.
LOL, I never googled an actual buyer, but I did google my two worst scammers in eBay history to see if they had a rap sheet (their scamming was so blatant and bold that I figured they had to be criminals somewhere).
The first scammer spent some time in prison between his first and second attempt scamming me (first time he got me for $97 in coins, I was fairly new to doing eBay stuff so there's things I didn't know and I messed up... the second time he bought, on a new account, I refused to ship, he left the worst feedback ever which took me days to get removed because he was leaving a new one every day for each item he bought).
Anyway that scammer was a child molester in Canada... and after his first go around with the penal system, he was allowed back into teaching (his career) and got charged again for the same thing. Now he's banned from teaching for 25 years (at which time he'll be too old to be teaching anywhere). I decided if this scammer ever bothers me again, I'm reporting him to his local PD (being in Canada I can do that). He tried scamming me a third time, and I found out his GF is on eBay scamming people (got her ID, but she hadn't tried scamming me). Anyway it was an evening wasted getting dirt on my scammer.
The other scammer compared me to satan and stole a $45 coinset. Claimed empty box, then posted feedback calling me satan and said I sent the wrong date. (If the box was empty, how did he know which date I sent?) Anyway he has lots of civil charges in his state in the US and lost his business during COVID, at which time he went from being a regular eBayer to a scammer on eBay. eBay kicked him off. (Actually both scammers are kicked off, eBay told me report them with all their IDs and they'll take care of cancelling so I won't have to).
The best getting even I did with a scammer (when I couldn't really do anything really, they had my thing and the refund). He was in Argentina, and in his town I mailed a letter telling him what a beautiful town he lived in and all the great things i saw while I was there. I promised to visit to get my stuff back. (Which I wasn't going to do, but I'd love to have seen the look on his face when he found out I travelled all the way there). It was actually a coincidence that I went to Argentina a month after he scammed me... I was seriously just in the neighbourhood, but attempting to frighten him by being near by was the best I could do. I bet he wasn't expecting someone he scammed in Canada to show up a mile from his house!
C.
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