*** Traders to Avoid *** Updated 8/04/08

[TonyH]

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[Bionikk]

Thanks.

Nice site. Seems like you only deal with trolls where trading or money is involved. Is this true? I'm more concerned with ordinary message boards and forums- fan sites and such. My service is free too. Maybe someday, a long ways down the road, I'll ask for optional donations to improve the site.

Yes, wonderful thing you folks are doing for humanity!

[SiliconJon]

Ahhh, such a sweet resource this is. Right up there with ResellerRatings!

[CubKid]

This is taken from my TechIMO post , but Im posting it here also.


I have another deadbeat for you guys to watch out for. His name is Steven Landon, known on Applefritter as imacman, captainkirkstone, and iHardwareHack.



Im out $15, the cost of shipping, and a few RedHat CDs I sent because he claimed he couldnt download them because of him being on dialup. Now I know this isnt a significant (sp?) amount to me or others, but it seems he's trolled other people on that thread out of other computer equipment. Some of those users have posted threads about him there, and he claims to be in the middle of a move, or the other excuse was that living on Michigans upper penninsula makes it hard for stuff to be sent, yet it only took 3 days for my package to arrive there. Keep an eye out for this guy, he's definately no good.

Steven Landon
14062 N. Cooper St.
Apt 15A
Newberry, MI 49868

goes by
StevenLandonnx01 on AIM
email (if it even works):
phoenixcomputers1@hotmail.com



Watch out for this deadbeat. I had to learn the hard way, I hope no one else gets suckered by this guy.

[CubKid]

The saga is unfolding at the 'fritter. Heres my proof of this guys wrongdoing.

link

[oldwizheron]

Weathington, George W. III, AKA Ampman7, trades audio/stereo equipment on sites such as audiogon.com. BEWARE of this individual as he has committed fraud!!

George W. Weathington III
57 Hedley Place
Buffalo, NY 14208
(716) 510-1316
mycalsmark@hotmail.com

[No Tact]

Another horrible trader to add to the list.

Paid him for 2 DVD's on 12-02-03. He said he would ship next day. I waited 14 days and attempted contact with him. Pm's and email. He only replied after I posted personal information that I dug up on him and left a message on his cell phone which I also dug up....hehe. He pleaded for me to remove the info and promised me the world. I removed the personal information but after 2 weeks posted it again. He gave excuses about postage, etc. said he would ship next day. Refunded $10.00. I waited 10 days and again tried to contact him by email and PM and have still had no response. I called on his cell phone and he said he shipped on 12-27-03 which was 12 days from second promise to ship to me and 24 days from paypal receipt. Has yet to respond to email or PM on hardforums. College student that has f'ed up priorities,. Wopuld avoid at all costs. Have contacted paypal and trollhunters.

Relevant Link

Relevant Link

Information

User name on hardforums: kwlt
May also go by: scoates

His Heat

Tom Glogowski
314 Westforest Tr.
Kitchener, Ontario N2N 3J1 CANADA
Cell: 519-635-7553

tom@kwlt.net
paypal - pay@kwlt.net
tom@kwlaptops.com
mobile@kwlt.net
scoates@mobile.rogers.com
kwlaptops@rogers.com

Domains registered to him

kwlt.net
kwlaptops.com
strangecube.com
eurospeed.com

All domains seem to be one page attempts at storefronts of some kind.

Others are waiting for items purchased as well.

Here is a message from one:

Author Message
Oblivion|MC
Newbie Cheeze

Registered: Jul 2001
Posts: 36
Re: dvd's from kwlt

this guy has alot of balls..
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Dude, you will get your dvds, just hold on. You cant expect anything this week seeing how it is christmas week, and Canada Customs and some Post offices are closed or not operational.

Tom
>
> From: Piotr M Si**********<annullo@>
> Date: 2003/12/26 Fri AM 03:41:28 EST
> To: 'Tom G' <kwlaptops@rogers.com>
> Subject: RE: HARD FORUMS: DVDs for SALE
>
> So whats the story?
>
> How about my refund bro?

Will filing a claim with paypal actually do anything? I know my friend got screwed last year and they didn't do shit.

I sent him the money on the 2nd.. so day 30 would be today.

what do you think?

and then an email from another guy

Hey I saw your postings on [H] and wanted to let you know he's been ripping off other people for other things. He stole the domain name "eurospeed.com" from me about 2 months ago. I use to own the domain name strangecube.com but allowed to expire because I no longer used that name for game'n it just so happened that the eurospeed.com contact email address was info@strangecube.com so he registered strangecube and then stole eurospeed and now wants to sell it back to me. I've been fighting with this jerk for nearly 2 months my registrar is still trying to get my domain name back. I can't post on [H] for some reason but I just wanted to let you know he's a royal ass.

-Ryan

Thanks for your time and energy in fighting these villians.

[Kc2iLq]

I'm currently having a problem with Michael Tsao of Flushing, NY. He goes by the name Mltsao and his paypal account is a Mr. Leon Tsao. I would assume that that is his father, as he is but a child.

I sent Mltsao $35 via paypal for a TI-83+ calculator on Dec. 20 and it took him ten days to respond to my constant IMs. I tried to contact him though e-mail and PMs, but all to no avail. He claims to be on vacation and says that he shipped the item three days ago from North Carolina (where he is on vacation, I assume). I asked him for a DC number and he logged off AIM. More details can be found in this thread at Anandtech. My heat is under kc2ilq and can be found here. It's very difficult to get him to communicate and when he does, he does not answer any questions easily.


Name: Michael Tsao
His username on AT forums: Mltsao
His e-mail: Mltsao@nyc.rr.com
His heatware: Mltsao
His paypal: Mltsao2@yahoo.com
He also sells here: Hardfind

I have yet to receive the item yet and have heard from other traders that he lies about shipping dates and does not communicate.

Thanks.

-Kc2iLq

[tenax]

delay in shipping the item?:

http://forums.amdmb.com/showthread.php? ... genumber=2

[nork]

that trader has now been banned.
Sorry, i have to run, and i dont have time to get the link, but its prolly in the same link posted above this post anyway.

Mitsao has been banned at amdmb and i can only say that must be a great forum!!!!!!!!!!!

[ThreeDee]

Another Troll Alert: MagiusX on [H]ard Forums

I go by ThreeDee over at [H]ard Forums and my heat is under the same name

I guess better late then never to post on this guy ..It was only $33 , but its the principal of the matter I guess , but have had no responses from any attempts at contact attempts with pm's and email..here is all the info I have on him with paypal info , home address, heat and ebay info, and last pm he sent me:



Re: battlefield 1942 and road to rome
Sure do, $30 shipped. I will talk paypal or money order. I will ship as soon as I receive payment. My paypal address is
SMG40562@yahoo.com

mailing address
Jason Garver
5909 Cornflower Ln
Greendale, WI 53129

I have limited heat under MagiusX
Ebay feedback under Fanaticmechanic (Ignore the 6 negatives, they all happened at once, over 2 years ago, the week my dad had a stroke. The rest of my feedback has been flawless)

PAYPAL info:
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Name:
Sharon Garver (The recipient of this payment is Verified)
Email:
smg40562@yahoo.com

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Total Amount:
-$33.00 USD

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Date:
Oct. 15, 2003
Time:
19:48:58 PDT
Status:
Completed

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Seller Protection Policy:
Eligible

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Subject:
BF1942 & RtoR expansion
Note:
Battlefield 1942 w/ Road to Rome both have been used for like an hour. CD-Keys are still usable online. $30

I sent 3 extra dollars to cover paypal expenses ...silly me

Just aquired his phone number (414)421-0127 and just called this evening (1/1/04) and left message on answer machine


..just pretty sad that someone would steal from somebody in anykind of form ..

[Parvenus]

The subdomain http://forums.tech-live.net and http://www.tech-live.net are both my property. They have been my property since 1/31/04. On 1/27/04, the date of your message post claiming that some scam artist owned the domain, it was actually being purchased by me. Guess you're updates aren't really updated right away huh? lol. I'm sorry that someone has flamed you in the past. But it wasn't me. Is it possible to remove the above message containing the text, http://www.tech-live.net? I am attempting to put together a pc help forum for my local store front business. When I search for tech-live.net, this message forum comes right up and denouces me as a scam artist?? lol.

Many Thanks,

Joshua
Joshua@tech-live.net

[GBR]

Qwerty57, AKA Jason57570, AKA MickryMouse is now listed as a Trader To Avoid!

It took a while for this creep to be recognized as a troll....just like it took a while for Klamen to proved to be a Troll.....but they can't hide from the TrollHunters forever!

Qwerty57 stooped so low as to tell me he had sell his computer since he had to leave for military service in the Middle East..... a total abuse of the respect real soldiers deserve.

Qwerty57 probably did nothing except stay up late at his parent's house and run benchmarks.

I doubt Qwerty57 ever did more in his life than lie to forum members and try to convince himself of his worth by bragging about his 3D Mark scores!

I'm glad this despicable, lying little weirdo is now banned and labeled correctly as a Troll!

Major thanks to TrollHunters and to LutaWicasa!

[Hiwayman]

Justin Daves, is going under some new names, SaturnTR, SaturnDS and Saturn at sites like:

3DMaxx - Justin Davis latest scam site.

He's ripping people off for money and equipment to the tune of thousands of dollars now, for spurious projects which never happen and goods that never get sent. This little crook is one of the leading trolls around now. Avoid him at all costs.

The proof is here:

Justin Davis admits he is saturnTR

and here the end of the thread:

The thread end before it got deleted by Justin Daves

If anyone protests or posts that their money has been stolen, he takes over their account and posts that all is well, and then bans their ip range so they can't re-register.

And finally here is the reactions of site and (team) members when they found out who, and what, this sad little loser really is. Needless to say all this got deleted and the users concerned "converted" when he saw the thread, and took over their identities:

How 3dmaxx "team members" reacted to the news.

[aoLhaTer]

I believe Im currently dealing with xtremeathlonxp
I never got that name from him but doing a google search comes up with this info:
http://216.239.53.104/search?q=cache:UD ... n&ie=UTF-8[/url]

He emailed me from two email address:
doug [admin@vb3market.com]
Xtreme [xtremeforums@sbcglobal.net]

He gave me heatware under gdougjones and the email matches to the vb3market address and there are 5 positive evals that are recent

His paypal address is gdougjones@yahoo.com and his name registered with paypal is "Gilbert Jones"

He stated that he sent the item I purchased two Fridays ago but Ive yet to recieve it
Ive sent him two emails since yesterday neither being responded to


edit: also found info here
http://forums.2cpu.com/showthread.php?s ... meathlonxp
and
http://forums.2cpu.com/showthread.php?s ... meathlonxp


If you have an up to date phone number Id appreciate it

edit2: his Anandtech username is gdougjones
His profile there lists his name as Doug Jones from Sarasota Florida (most likely fake)