Before reading this thread- my honest take was that my card was lost In the mail. But it would seem that several members here have had “issues” and I do believe smoke… is caused by fire.
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What a knob, sorry you had to go through this. It is completely shameful that some peoples integrity can be measured by such small amounts of money. I blocked both accounts.
The “afspa_002” name looked weird to me - I’m guessing the acronym stands for “autographs-for-sale purchasing account” - there also appears to be a afspa_001, 003, 004, and 005. It looks like this guy does quite a bit of buying. My guess is this is a Hanlon’s Razor situation–i.e., don’t attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by incompetence–but yeah maybe this guy is running a scamming empire based on $100-200 cards lol.
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Why do people have more than one ebay account? And why does ebay allow that?
Can you get Police involved?
In the UK you could take someone to a small claims (county court) court for civil disputes like this for a low cost. Unsure whether you something like this in your country? It looks like you have alot of evidence.
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This probably isn’t any help, but have you contacted PayPal to see what the seller protection is on their end? I know that eBay’s statute of limitations for a buyer to open a dispute is much shorter than PayPal’s (30 days vs 180 days, IIRC?). There’s a chance the same might be true on the seller end, although they’ll probably just tell you to go fuck yourself because both eBay and PayPal are 100% buyer-oriented.
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I believed it to be lost too, until I saw it surfacing on eBay with the exact serial. So there’s no doubt he knowingly received it yet opened a case against me because the tracking wasn’t updating & he knew it was an opportunity to abuse the system.
That’s a good observation. I’ve now since blocked 001 to 005.
My intention is just to inform people of this guy. I decided it’s not really worth the hassle to pursue this further. But, it seems cardboardaddition might pursue the matter & hopefully his pursuance can get me some resolution on my end as well.
I did. The response PayPal gave wasn’t really helpful as well.
So I finally have a little bit of time to detail my encounter with Mr.Mast.
I sold him a case of Unbroken Bonds booster boxes and shipped it through UPS from Canada.
I guess UPS decided to charge a brokerage fee and demanded the import tax charged as a C.O.D. request for about $20.
His story was that he received this UPS notice and didn’t know what it was for even though the tracking clearly states it was for customs/import fees. eBay, in their incompetence tells him to OPEN AN ITEM NOT RECEIVED CASE because the phone rep for eBay couldnt figure out the C.O.D. due was for import charges.
It was during my messages with his autographs-for-sale account that I realized his communication was severely lacking. At first he refused to provide me a picture of the door tag he received from UPS, making me ASK the eBay reps for the picture he sent them. However, he did end up paying the $20 due and receiving the product.
So with this shipping confirmation, I tried to ask eBay to close the case in my favor as he stopped responding to my messages even though he took delivery of the item.
After about 2 weeks of waiting for eBay’s 24-48 hour response, I emailed him directly and he actually responded saying that the case was not closed because he phoned eBay again afterwards when he opened the box and discovered the boxes were counterfeit. He says because the plastic wraps only had pokeballs on half of it that they were re-sealed and fake. He apparently also called about this and the eBay reps told him to dispose of the product. So this was why eBay was taking so long in his estimation. He told me I was SOL and that he was surprised I was selling counterfeit product.
Of course, the booster boxes are 100% real and I sourced them directly from a distributor so he’s either full of sh*t or he is a genuine moron.
After calling eBay 2-3 more times I finally got a rep to admit that there was no “counterfeit” issue logged on file and that I was actually missing a signature confirmation for my tracking because it was a item over $700. They decided the case against me but I appealed providing the email where he confirmed he got the item and the decision was overturned in my favor.
To sum it up. I cannot say he is a scammer 100%, but he is at best, to put it politely, a f***ing moron who can’t communicate for dog sh*t.
Put him on your blocked buyers list.
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Glad you got your money back!
I’m sorry but how is he not 100% a scammer when you mentioned he claimed a counterfeit product with pokeballs in it? He obviously was trying to pull something on you.
And to top that off if my case isn’t clear enough I don’t know what is. I actually emailed him before posting this thread when I saw my card on eBay, messaged him on eBay but he didn’t reply at all. Forget that, I even sent him a PayPal invoice previously showing him proof of delivery, he even viewed it but chose not to give me a reply.
Is this how someone with 4000+ feedback & a consignment director should act? I dunno man 
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