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captnstabn

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Posting as a heads up. Paid him for a ratchet and he never sent it, nor communicated in any way shape or form. I see he's back posting again, after ignoring all my messages since paying him. I eventually got my money back through paypal.

Don't do business with him, you've been warned.

See thread Here

Here is his profile
 
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Tarheelgarage

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captnstabn said:
Posting as a heads up. Paid him for a ratchet and he never sent it, nor communicated in any way shape or form. I see he's back posting again, after ignoring all my messages since paying him. I eventually got my money back through paypal.

Don't do business with him, you've been warned.

See thread Here

Here is his profile
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Yep; it's the Holiday season and no better way to start it off by a scammer coming in and screwing over the fine folks at GJ.

Happens quite a bite of late.
 
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That *****. Glad you got the word out, thanks for that. If he did that to me, I'd follow every post he had and post right behind him letting the ENTIRE world know. Scammers don't like me, I always even things up, no matter how long it takes to do it. I've been through some really bad ones ,one took a month to prove it to ebay that I never got it. $270.00 on that one. A-hole sent a tiny box to a random address in my town.....the school district. USPS tracking showed it was delivered. Then, the same scam happened to me again. I proved that one as well. Latest ebay scam,I guess.
I bought a Snap-On CT4418 kit and something else from a fellow on here, it was a fantastic deal, he shipped quick,wrapped it well. You just never know.
 
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Thanks for the info.. I couldn't help but notice that all of his threads were posted in classified or general tool discussion. Sounds like he has an agenda.
 
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Gentlemen,

I hate seeing this as much as the next guy and this is part of the reason the 100 minimum post count was enacted. We, as Mods try hard to catch and ban guys like this.

I have deleted all his classifieds and perma-banned him. This isn't his first time doing this as he has done it before and has several accounts that were banned over the past few months. He is also on another site (using a the same banned screen name from here) claiming that he was broken into and robbed.

If you have an inkling that a member might be a scammer or done this type of activity before, please let somebody know. It's not being a rat or tattletale, it's like a neighborhood watch. You wouldn't want your friends or neighbors to get robbed, why would you want your fellow GJ members to get scammed ?


Thanks Eric
 
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captnstabn

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Thanks for the response. I realize I am new to garagejournal, but I'm not new to forums or online selling. I couldn't believe that he had the nerve to start posting again, after igoring me for weeks.
Not sure how his scam actually works, because PayPal will refund the money. I guess he hopes that people pay with PayPal gift so there isn't much recourse. I dunno, dude is a scumbag for sure though.
 
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whenever I see angry, abusive, or other aberrant behavior here on GJ, I put the username on a watch list - just went back and looked at the watch list, and sure enough, there is jdmstr (along with about 10 others)

I also keep another list of the most intelligent and authoritative GJ members, like if you had a difficult question or problem and could only ask 1 person here.
 
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That's a ****** situation. Glad paypal was able to resolve it for you. They seem to have great customer service, and promptly took car of me when I had an issue. Thieves are the absolute scum of the earth. Hopefully the classified can stay a good place to deal with decent people.

Greyson
 
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In case he shows up with another name, or on another board, here is info to look out for.

jsmstr is jdmstr89 on Photobucket.
A photo of something he bought in Feb. with the shipper behind it.



From the above photo, he ordered some tools from Epsteins.
The shipper under the tools in the photo says:


Octavio Delgadillo
1428 Brahms Ct.
Bartlett, IL 60103

[email protected]

Photos in his Photobucket account show a young guy.
Whitepages brings up this (Might have moved):

Octavio J. Delgadillo
301 E Sheridan Dr Bartlett, IL 60103-5037
630 372-7146
 
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wild cowboy said:
whenever I see angry, abusive, or other aberrant behavior here on GJ, I put the username on a watch list - just went back and looked at the watch list, and sure enough, there is jdmstr (along with about 10 others)

I also keep another list of the most intelligent and authoritative GJ members, like if you had a difficult question or problem and could only ask 1 person here.
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You sound like Santa Claus....:lol_hitti
 
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Can anyone make out what the handwriting says on his receipt? Looks rather amusing.
 
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captnstabn said:
Posting as a heads up. Paid him for a ratchet and he never sent it, nor communicated in any way shape or form. I see he's back posting again, after ignoring all my messages since paying him. I eventually got my money back through paypal.

Don't do business with him, you've been warned.

See thread Here

Here is his profile
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YUPP. Can't beat PayPal :thumbup:
 
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I bought a ratchet from him and I did get it, but he did ask for PayPal gift which I did decline to do and I did feel he could be dodgy, but its worth chancing it with PayPal and it worked out OK, but I was probably just lucky.
 
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wild cowboy said:
whenever I see angry, abusive, or other aberrant behavior here on GJ, I put the username on a watch list - just went back and looked at the watch list, and sure enough, there is jdmstr (along with about 10 others)

I also keep another list of the most intelligent and authoritative GJ members, like if you had a difficult question or problem and could only ask 1 person here.
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I have to give it to you Cowboy, you sure love Garage Journal :lol_hitti
 
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Better watch your backs making fun of him. You might make his list!
 
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I guess it depends on his definition of abuse is. So pretty much anyone who doesn't agree with his harbor freight love story. As well as all cheap tools and the opinion that you must be a fool for buying snap on or any other quality expensive tool or box. Then make a thread about what a good deal on SNAP ON box would be. Probably very soon after telling someone in another thread to buy 6 HF boxes instead of a truck box. Oh well guess I just made his list.
 
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Brownsfan said:
I guess it depends on his definition of abuse is. So pretty much anyone who doesn't agree with his harbor freight love story. As well as all cheap tools and the opinion that you must be a fool for buying snap on or any other quality expensive tool or box. Then make a thread about what a good deal on SNAP ON box would be. Probably very soon after telling someone in another thread to buy 6 HF boxes instead of a truck box. Oh well guess I just made his list.
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Welcome to the group :lol_hitti
 
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There should be a way to arrest these guys shouldnt there?

Bang his girlfriend...
 
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Sorry to hear about this, glad to know about it.

Of course my real reason to post is that the ******* pics are gone.
 
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wild cowboy said:
whenever I see angry, abusive, or other aberrant behavior here on GJ, I put the username on a watch list - just went back and looked at the watch list, and sure enough, there is jdmstr (along with about 10 others)

I also keep another list of the most intelligent and authoritative GJ members, like if you had a difficult question or problem and could only ask 1 person here.
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Impressive.
Sorry to hear about this OP, I had to find out about a scammer the hard way here as well.
Funny thing is they all do some good transactions then turn.
 
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Sorry you got took

Sorry I didn't look at the last two pics on his photobucket that got banned for violating the terms of service.

The effort scammers go to is mind blowing.
 
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