Anything the Admins can do to help stop a scammer?

[twistedsymphony]

http://zilvia.net/f/private-sellers/200275-97katurbosilvia-do-not-sell-guy.html

paid the guy $440 for a long list of parts about 2 and a half months ago... he only shipped ~$150 worth of the parts I bought.

Also he screwed over another member on a brake deal.

[twistedsymphony]

wow... not even a response

You know a similar thing happened on Nico not too long ago and the admins contacted police with the ip and other info, members local to the scammer provided some help, the community rallied support and the guy got his money back with a couple of days.

I told myself if anyone here managed to help me get my money back I'd use some of it to buy a premiere membership... I guess that's not gonna happen :-/

You know, I'm a staff member over on Xbox-Scene, that site is over 6 times the size of this one, and we handle scammers over issues less than 1/4 the size of this one...

I guess apathy triumphs again...

[mrmephistopheles]

wow... not even a response

You know a similar thing happened on Nico not too long ago and the admins contacted police with the ip and other info, members local to the scammer provided some help, the community rallied support and the guy got his money back with a couple of days.

I told myself if anyone here managed to help me get my money back I'd use some of it to buy a premiere membership... I guess that's not gonna happen :-/

You know, I'm a staff member over on Xbox-Scene, that site is over 6 times the size of this one, and we handle scammers over issues less than 1/4 the size of this one...

I guess apathy triumphs again...

Right, because completely banning that user from the Marketplace is no response at all.
http://zilvia.net/f/members/97katurbosilvia.html
All his threads are closed and he has no PM function.

Sorry we didn't reply to this particular thread, but would you rather have attention paid to you or to blocking the scammer?

[twistedsymphony]

I'm not trying to be a jerk but check the timestamps.
I wrote that post 2 hours before any visible action was taken.

And I thanked PHLIP (http://zilvia.net/f/private-sellers/200275-97katurbosilvia-do-not-sell-guy-2.html#post2263270) as soon as I saw he had taken action.

I do appreciate you banning him from the Marketplace, it will prevent him from using this site to scam anyone else. Though he did apparently sell his 240 so I don't know if he was planning on coming back here anyway :-/

[ThatGuy]

To be honest, I didn't even see your initial post. In the future, if you have a problem, it is more expeditious to just send the Mods and Admins a PM. We have quite a bit of forum to watch over here, and we don't always see everything. That is where PMs and "Report Post" button come into play to assist us in seeing the problems we may have missed.

[twistedsymphony]

Thanks, I'll do that in the future.