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This is the second time that this individual has been nabbed as a bad trader. He's not just behind in shipping or in over his head - all signs point to intentionally fraudulent behavior.
He is not telling the truth. I'm sorry to be harsh, but it's that naivety and greed on the part of potential buyers that helps guys like this bring scams to new heights.
If a deal looks to good to be true...
I'm not 100% clear on what happened the first time around, but there's a couple points I still don't understand.
True he is a bad trader by all accounts; I agree he has not told the truth about shipping anything (month + later, DC still doesn't work). What I don't understand right now is if he's an out and out troll or not. He had 30 some heatware as LF, mostly positive for a few months I think. Clearly he was paying for / shipping stuff for a period of time without any issues because his heatware evals seemed absolutely fine. Some people were even defending him before this whole issue ballooned out of control.
So he decides to do a 180 and just scam people out of $7000 for the hell of it? He stays in contact, refunds a few people their money thru Paypal, makes up excuses instead of trying to cut and run? I don't know the mindset of a troll, but if I were doing it, as soon as the money cleared my accounts I'd be gone.
The police officer in the Anandtech thread, Corporal Beasley, noted through Harvey, the Anand mod that "Sherifff's officers went to his home and found piles of boxes addressed to some/most/all of you who he owes. Corporal Beasley said this tends to support his claim that he did not intend to defraud anyone. If so, whether he has ALL of the items or just some of them may make a difference in the outcome of this case. ". Someone needs to confirm that this is true; those boxes were empty / filled with rocks; or that the police are lying. I would tend to believe that, unless they are empty / filled with rocks; the police are not lying and at least some of those boxes have our stuff in it. Am I naive to believe this?
Again, there has been one instance with the CPU where ppl got double USPS DCs, so that doesn't help Chris Chartier's cause. But the whole "boxes of stuff" quote makes me wonder.
Any updates on his incarceration / resolution of this debacle? Is he going to ship stuff? Has Paypal come through?
