BEWARE on eBay draggin98sdime is seller

[gareterag]

I had to open an incident report with my police department earlier in the week and met with detectives yesterday to go over all the details and they have his name and address from the package....thats to say he used his actual address. The only problem was that the detectives were pretty negative about recovering money from scammers on eBay and said its pretty hard to get your money back in most cases.



I am hoping that eBay will come through for me and not allow this jerk to take my money and send nothing.

[bobbyw8469]

He responded to your negative by saying that you are the one trying to get over on Ebay. However, you can leave a "follow-up" feedback below his that will give you the last word if you so choose....

[T205]

Red Flag 1:
I'm selling bits and pieces of my grandfathers baseball card collection. This collection ranges from the early 20's to the mid 60's. most of the cards in the collection are in really great shape for as old as they are.

9 out of 10 times when a seller says that he is selling his gradfathers baseball cards that was found in the attic are a scam

Red Flag 2:
And for all you doubters that are going to tell me this card is probably a reprint....... I've taken this card to a very knowledgable card dealer in my area and he told me he's almost 100% sure it's real and he has already made me a very generous cash offer for the card.

He went out of his way to make sure that the buyer doesn't have any doubt that the card is a reprint. When I looked at it that was the first thing I thought. The whole story with it being found in a old 1951 newspaper doesn't help his case either.

Red Flag 3:
a 55 topps mantle card, a 54 bowman ted williams, and a few other less famous players. FEEL FREE TO MESSAGE ME WITH OFFERS AS WELL. I"M OPEN TO SERIOUS OFFERS

There is no such thing as a 1955 Topps Mantle card. The seller could mean a 1955 Bowman Mantle but someone who is selling such a high priced Paige should know the difference. He knows enough about the hobby to know that the Paige is a rare card.

Delivery confirmation and insurance will be included, and card will be packed EXTREMELY carefully!

Did you sign for the card when you got it? This could be used by the seller to claim that the card was delivered to you and after you opened it you claimed the package was empty.

Ebay might side with the seller on this one. Best of luck in your case

[lharri3600]

Originally Posted by gareterag

I had to open an incident report with my police department earlier in the week and met with detectives yesterday to go over all the details and they have his name and address from the package....thats to say he used his actual address. The only problem was that the detectives were pretty negative about recovering money from scammers on eBay and said its pretty hard to get your money back in most cases.



I am hoping that eBay will come through for me and not allow this jerk to take my money and send nothing.

be careful here. i believe you stated earlier he had a tracking #. ebay may say as long as a tracking # was provided he sent the item even if the package was empty.

[gareterag]

I will be glad to send eBay a tracking number as well and let them know I sent the package back to him.

[vintagetoppsguy]

Yesterday morning I emailed this seller about one of his other items - a Duke Snider autographed baseball - and asked him if he would accept a check as form of payment. I was hoping he would say yes and I would then click the BIN and ask him for his address. Then I had planned to PM the OP and give him the name and address to see if it matched what the OP had.

Anyway, he didn't respond to my email. This morning I went ahead and clicked the BIN anyway. Shortly thereafter, I received the following message from the seller:

"hahahah i just realized who you are. How about you DON"T buy my stuff when all you're trying to do is to get information for that guy that claims i scammed him out of a card he purchased. in fact let me help you out. somehow hes saying that he doesn't have access to my info which is total BS, but here you go.

Mike Babski
304 wall st.
hummelstown pa 17036.

He or anyone else that wants to assume stuff is MORE than welcome to hit me up as i have all kinds of documentation that his card was shipped and arrived just as it should have. and just FYI if you're not going to pay for the ball then i'll be sure to take the appropriate measures and have ur account suspended for lack of payment. thanks!


OH and as for the snap on wrenches. you can look them up on the snap on web site. 'm selling 2 (two) wrenches that sell for upwards of $70 EACH that's how "a wrench sells for $110) b/c there's 2 not one. read the add again"

If he knew who I was, then that means he is reading this thread. My guess is that he is/was a board member (or maybe a friend of a board member) at one time and that's also how he stole Ted's scan. After his email I requested his contact information through eBay and it matched the contact information in his email.

Tomorrow morning I will mail the seller an envelope with cash to pay for my purchase. I will send it with delivery confirmation to prove it was received (just as he mailed the OP's package). I sure hope he doesn't take my cash and not mail the ball. After all, I would have delivery confirmation that the payment was sent and that might warrant me leaving him negative feedback.

If anybody has an eBay account they're willing to sacrifice, I encourage them to do the same thing. Time to get this POS off eBay...and behind bars.

[D. Bergin]

Guess he didn't like my crack about his wrenches. LOL!!!

[vintagetoppsguy]

The seller is definitely reading these boards. After I posted the message, he sent me a message that says:

"I will NOT be accepting your "envelope of cash" for the ball either. Feel free to send it but payment is through PAYPAL only or certified check with 7 days to allow it to clear. If you try and send the envelope it will be opened at the post office with the postmaster present. if the envelope would be empty, fraud charges will be filed against you and will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law."

I can't believe that he would suggest that I would send an empty envelope.

[gnaz01]

Originally Posted by vintagetoppsguy

The seller is definitely reading these boards. After I posted the message, he sent me a message that says:

"I will NOT be accepting your "envelope of cash" for the ball either. Feel free to send it but payment is through PAYPAL only or certified check with 7 days to allow it to clear. If you try and send the envelope it will be opened at the post office with the postmaster present. if the envelope would be empty, fraud charges will be filed against you and will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law."

I can't believe that he would suggest that I would send an empty envelope.

David,

If he is reading these boards, how is it that the ADMIN's don't put a stop to this (unless you don't have to be a member to read the posts). It is VERY obvious to me the seller "STOLE" Ted Z.'s scan (which can be proven), and attempted to use fraud to get paid for something. If this can be proven, how is that not mail fraud as well??

Thoughts, anyone?? It is time we get SCUMBAGS like this off eBay

[tbob]

Originally Posted by lharri3600

be careful here. i believe you stated earlier he had a tracking #. ebay may say as long as a tracking # was provided he sent the item even if the package was empty.

A tracking number means nothing to ebay. Proof of delivery via a delivery confirmation means nothing to ebay. Ebay has become incredibly slanted toward the buyers now and honest and reliable sellers bear the brunt of this policy. It all began with that woman whose policy wrecked ebay while she was in charge, I forget her name but didn't she run for governor of California (and lost thank God).? Whitman?

[Butter]

eBay will almost always go for the buyer if you do it right. Did you send the package back with signature confirmation? eBay says that's needed with items over $250. Then again, he could always just not sign it.

[gareterag]

eBay said they will contact me on Tuesday and let me know what to do next. Surely they wont have me ship an empty box back to him.

[thadd]

I tried to search the seller and couldn't find anything. Did they get booted or did I not search it correctly?

Scratch that, I tried again after posting this and realized I was searching his ID as the item description so I moved it to the correct box and found it.

Good luck OP BTW, I hope you are able to get some resolution to this in your favor.

[vintagetoppsguy]

It looks like someone else left this scumbag a couple of negs. I got a feeling he'll be getting one from me too!

http://feedback.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAP...ab=AllFeedback

Also, I have an investigator friend of mine that is digging up all kinds of dirt on this POS. I won't say too much because I know he is reading this thread, but did you know about 10 years ago this POS was once on the Dean's List at his college? How do you go from Dean's List to scam artist?

Edited to post correct link