Ban gamersparadise.

RocketLawnChair

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Seriously, guys. :( He has at least 3 selling threads going at once, with 0 posts, 0 feedback, and no website. Everything he's selling is very expensive.

Please ban him before he scams someone.
 

fenikso

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ChairLocketRawn said:
Seriously, guys. :( He has at least 3 selling threads going at once, with 0 posts, 0 feedback, and no website. Everything he's selling is very expensive.

Please ban him before he scams someone.
Seems like one of those bots we always seem to get (at least his posting style does). Even if he wasn't out to scam anyone I've never really liked the noobs joining JUST to sell stuff, but I concur, he seems shady.

Link to the thread.
 

RocketLawnChair

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fenikso said:
Seems like one of those bots we always seem to get (at least his posting style does). Even if he wasn't out to scam anyone I've never really liked the noobs joining JUST to sell stuff, but I concur, he seems shady.

Link to the thread.
Yeah, I was thinking he was a bot too, except for this post here: http://www.neo-geo.com/forums/showpost.php?p=2379400&postcount=3 in response to ki_atsushi's comment. Maybe just triggered by keywords though, since his post contains "stupid dick". Ah well.
 

Ghost-Dog

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The PS3 bundles he's selling have to be a scam at the price he's offering. See thread. If it's not a scam it's stolen merchandise to be that cheap. No website and zero feedback are just the icing on the suspicious cake. Please get rid of him before someone "takes a chance" on his too good to be true prices and gets scammed.
 

neo_mao

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Agreed....said he would sell me a Samurai Shodown 4 for AES for $30 shipped from Malaysia, lol....but I had to pay w/ Western Union or Bank Transfer. When I asked for pictures of the actual item he said it was impossible to provide them as they would be shipped directly to me from the supplier's warehouse in Japan.

Here is some of the email responses I got from the seller:

Hi there,

We're actually based in Malaysia and our business is mainly retailing and wholesaling. We don't have a webstore or even a website yet as we're trying our luck to expand our business overseas if there's a possibility. We have a few trustworthy suppliers in Japan and Hong Kong to source all the rare video game items whether they're limited ones or those retro stuff. We're pretty well stocked to be honest. We do have another subsidiary under the name PC Zone, mainly dealing with pc hardwares, that's the reason why we advertised both threads in the Neo Geo forums, you can refer to some of the pictures taken with my digital camera during our weekly special sale.

Well, our prices are reasonable for all games and hardwares as we're getting them directly from Japan / Hong Kong without having to go through another party so our prices are definitely cheaper than other game stores and you can be assured that we don't mark up our prices sky high just because the games are rare. In HK, the Neo Geo KOF 2000 cart can fetch as high as USD300 to USD400 but we're mostly selling them at USD130 to USD150 the most depending on the price we have obtained from our suppliers.

I'll leave with the decision whether you wish to buy from us or not but you can be assured that it's a real deal for sure. All items quoted are inclusive of shipping and if the total shipment value exceeds USD200, we'll ship them by courier service. For small orders, normal air mail parcel service will be used instead.

We don't have pictures of the actual items in stock as the Neo Geo AES games are shipped directly to you from our supplier in Japan, we don't stock them on our end, we're stocking mainly popular retro consoles (mostly CD based) like the ones in the pictures attached here but rest assured, the games you wanted are available from our supplier's end in Japan.

As for payment method, we're accepting western union money transfer or bank transfer only as for paypal, we're unable to withdraw the amount of money from our account in Malaysia so it's pointless for us to use it. We hope you can understand our situation. We understand that western union or bank transfer might charge USD20 to USD30 per transaction but we can offer you further discounts on your order to make up for the extra charges incurred which is a win win situation for both parties.
 
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ki_atsushi

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ChairLocketRawn said:
Yeah, I was thinking he was a bot too, except for this post here: http://www.neo-geo.com/forums/showpost.php?p=2379400&postcount=3 in response to ki_atsushi's comment. Maybe just triggered by keywords though, since his post contains "stupid dick". Ah well.

The seller made 2 threads for selling the processors. In the first thread I warned everyone that this seller was suspicious, but the guy made another thread and stopped bumping the old one. So I reported the thread as spam, but the mods didn't seem to care.

What ever happened to the 100 post count limit to begin selling? It was such a good idea.
 

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ki_atsushi said:
The seller made 2 threads for selling the processors. In the first thread I warned everyone that this seller was suspicious, but the guy made another thread and stopped bumping the old one. So I reported the thread as spam, but the mods didn't seem to care.

What ever happened to the 100 post count limit to begin selling? It was such a good idea.

NEARLY EVERY THREAD MADE ON THIS FORUM GETS REPORTED TO US AS SPAM. PERHAPS IF WE LIMITED WHO HAD THE ABILITY TO REPORT THREADS, IT MIGHT BE A MORE USEFUL TOOL.
 

qube

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I've never reported a thread as spam...

Maybe I should start abusing the fuck out of that, just to fuck with Dredd :loco:
 

lithy

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I'm pretty sure I don't even know how to report a thread.
 

SpamYouToDeath

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Even if he can't be confirmed to be a scammer, he's still offering to sell pirated games in one of his threads.
 

Lochlan

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SpamYouToDeath said:
Even if he can't be confirmed to be a scammer, he's still offering to sell pirated games in one of his threads.

I've seen all kinds of MVS bootlegs for sale on here, not to mention CD-Rs as "bonuses" on modded systems. I guess explicitly selling pirated goods is probably a no-no, but it's not a faux pas that's ever been too enforced as far as I've seen (not that I've seen that much!)

Having said that, I think gamersparadise is obviously a scammer and should be banned just to prevent the possibility of a ripoff, even though he hasn't been conclusively outed as a thief..
 

Stellaking

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+1

Yeah ignore everyone's subtle well intended advice and keep
bumping... :buttrock:

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SpamYouToDeath

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This guy's obviously a spammer and/or scammer.
Look, he's just doing those fucking automated bumps, after he's been asked to prove his legitimacy or GTFO.
 

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Anyone in favor of making me market forum mod? I'm tired of these dipstick scammers gaying up our forums.
 

lithy

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Lochlan said:
I've seen all kinds of MVS bootlegs for sale on here, not to mention CD-Rs as "bonuses" on modded systems. I guess explicitly selling pirated goods is probably a no-no, but it's not a faux pas that's ever been too enforced as far as I've seen (not that I've seen that much!)

Having said that, I think gamersparadise is obviously a scammer and should be banned just to prevent the possibility of a ripoff, even though he hasn't been conclusively outed as a thief..

Usually that's a judgement rule. If you're some noob that comes in trying to sell boots for big money, you'll be out. If you're a long time member that ended up with a few boots and wants to get rid of them on the cheap, we don't care.

Personally I'm ok with that sort of rule enforcement.
 

neo_mao

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SpamYouToDeath said:
This guy's obviously a spammer and/or scammer.
Look, he's just doing those fucking automated bumps, after he's been asked to prove his legitimacy or GTFO.

if he wants to keep bumping his selling threads...fine, we should just respond to each of his bumps w/ a scammer alert and a link to this thread.
 

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I have to agree with what you guys are saying. Unfortunately, some new member may come along and take a chance on buying some of that merchandise, only to be screwed over. Since this person is so unwilling to send first, we should just go on and get rid of them. They have no intention on being a part of the community anyway, so it's not like it's a big loss. Since they only are here to sell merchandise, they should just go on over to EBAY.

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Zero Satori said:
Bump for WTF this guy still isn't banned. :lol:

I agree. In that past month, the mods have taken to banning Fighter123, Wankinov R, and Wankinov R version 2.0. Yet none of them were scammers. This guy is a scammer (which is a lot worse, in my opinion, than what the other guys did), and he is still here?
 

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interestingly, he sent me an email about a ps3 white bundle to sell for 400$ about 2 weeks ago...

i told him i wanted to see pics with a piece of paper with his name, he responded with 5 or so different pics with this request yesterday, after the customer brought the ps3 into the shop.
 

Lochlan

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A piece of paper with some shit written on it is a solid guarantee of a good seller.

If they can photograph some paper next to video games, they are ok in my book
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Takumaji

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PM sent to gamersparadise with request to shed some light on a few things presented here.

If you guys have anything else to add about him or his selling threads, please PM me directly, thank you.
 
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