After completing well over 100 smooth deals on this site I think I may have been screwed this time. Here's the story. Back in late June I agreed to buy a PSTOC from GetSumGame. I checked his refs, and though few they were gtg. On July 14th I sent him a money order for $170 and he said he had his wife send the bat. A couple of weeks went by and I went on a trip with the family for three days. When I came home there was no bat. Here's the confusing part. HE actually pm'ed me to ask if it arrived. I told him no and he offered to send back some money or something. I took it as a nice gesture and said wait a few more days, maybe she sent it parcel post. Sorry, I'm naive. The last week of july I went away for another week and when I got home, still no bat. Again, HE contacted me and said he was sending a second bat and I told him if I received two I would return one. He promised to send it himself and give me a tracking number. This was the first week of August and he pm'ed that he sent the bat but no tracking info. Here it is, 8/30, and still NO BATS! Even the Pony Express would have delivered at least one of them by now. I pm'ed him twice in the last two weeks but he hasn't been online since 8/15. Clearly, things are beyond scetchy at this point. I will post his name an paypal address later, but it looks like I've been had on this one. Keep an eye out folks... Dan Here's the sale post: http://forums.softballfans.com/showthread.php?t=330785&highlight=pstoc
way past the time for PMs and emails ....... you need to CALL him and get good communications established.
Oh Crap, the ole "my wife/ GF sent it out" routine. DON"T involve spouses or S.O's in business transactions. I am making a list of suspect members to deal with, and here's another....this list is getting way too long.
He still hasn't been online since 8/15 and I still haven't received any bats. Somehow I don't think he's coming back under GetSumGame again.
Time to go ahead and post his name just in case - If he is off the board, he won't know - and if he is on under another name, he's got some 'splainin to do
I sent a money order to: M. Smith 300 Liberty St. Ne. Fridley MN, 55432 Note: I had a different person's name listed here but that was the wrong person. Mel Smith is the person I had a bad deal with, NOT the person whose name was here earlier.
I also just sent him the following email: Mel, this is Dan Delgado. I bought a bat from you back on June 27th, a PSTOC. You may remember me as Hotcorner1268 from Softballfans. You said your wife sent one, and it has never arrived. The you said you were going to send a second one and provide shipping info, information you never gave me. That bat too hasn't arrived. The summer is now over and no bat, and you haven't logged on to SBF since 8/15. What gives? Please respond so we can clear up this situation and restore your reputation on the board, not to mention your dignity at completing an honest deal. Dan Perhaps that will garner a response. I'm not exactly holding my breath.
check out this thread: http://forums.softballfans.com/showthread.php?t=324909 I think me smells a RAT!!
Could certainly be the same guy. His location says "Somewhere near a softball field" or something like that. I have no idea if he's in Canada, USA, or Thailand, but I'd like to see him in a Siberian goulag camp.
I went back through my pm's and found the addy I sent the money order to. You may find this address familiar... M. Smith 300 Liberty St. Ne. Fridley MN, 55432
Uh oh, I thought I recognized the addy and sure enough http://forums.softballfans.com/showthread.php?t=267544 Another thread with a phone number http://forums.softballfans.com/showthread.php?t=324909
Yup, looks like I picked a winner. The thing is, I checked his refs and, even though there were only two or three, he was clean. Clearly he's been at this a while.
Hang on everyone, I have breaking news. Drumroll please... midnightrider0996@yahoo.com no longer works! I received this message from yahoo: Hi. This is the qmail-send program at yahoo.com. I'm afraid I wasn't able to deliver your message to the following addresses. This is a permanent error; I've given up. Sorry it didn't work out. <midnightrider0996@yahoo.com>: 68.142.202.247 failed after I sent the message. Remote host said: 554 delivery error: dd Sorry your message to midnightrider0996@yahoo.com cannot be delivered. This account has been disabled or discontinued [#102]. - mta198.mail.mud.yahoo.com Seems like he's really trying to cover his ass-ets
My post #10 has been modified and is now most appropriate! Good ole MEL SMITH again! How many user names does this address have associated with it?
and wouldn't you know it ..... SUPERFREAK09 is on GetSumGame 's GTG list. Posted that Superfreak09 ships fast.
oo oo! Is this your bat? It's looking more and more like SUPERFREAK09 may need to become your best bud as he may just be able to help get your bat for you!
yup, how about one more to add to it. sewyourown finally got his bat back, but it took a long while for the whole thing to get resolved. Honestly, I think all of these usernames are the same guy. Maybe I'm wronf, but it sure seems like it. http://forums.softballfans.com/showthread.php?t=250391
Daugherty, Stephen J & Kimberly I 300 Liberty St NE Minneapolis, MN 55432-1747 (763) 780-0266 I would guess this is Mom and Step-dad to scamsters Mel & Josh Smith. Give a call and politely point out to Step-Dad that it is HIS address that is going on the mail fraud report.
TTT get this BASS Terd... same guy multi comp. in house He is all three and superfreak and the guy who was backing him is not from FL and was found in MN also, this is a shady scam. I hate being from they asholes state, Like I said in another thread, My roommate went to Fridley and my other went to Brooklyn
WWWWOOOOOOOOOOWWWWWW!!!!!!! I Found Him Everyone!!!!! My roommate Played Football with the P.O.S, He was a year older than him. My roommate hates him and is more than willing to help out. He told me a little bite so far he is a computer nerd and knows he took every high school computer class. The reckless driving ticket that sonic found, my roommate knew about said he ran over 30 mailboxes on purpose but cops couldn't prove it. Tommorrow at our bowling league he said we would talk more and search for him threw his friends from high school
I hope you get it solved then. I just read all the posts about it and it sounds like he needs to get hit with a bat!
