Ripped off by a member

Michael Farnell · Aug 1, 2013

Back in February, I made a deal with forum member 'ckeer' to buy some Prizm Basketball cards from him. After waiting over a month to receive the cards, they never arrived, and when I asked ckeer what the deal was, he then revealed they were sent by a slower shipping method to save money, which I was never told to begin with. After waiting another month, they still hadn't arrived, so I messaged him again, to which he agreed to re-send another lot of the cards I was after via airmail. Yet another month passed, and no cards. I confronted him again, and he agreed to refund my money. I waited again, and no refund. When confronted he said he was waiting for the paypal money to clear to refund me. I've now waited over 2 months, and have not received any refund, and he no longer responds to my messages. I've approached him on the Blowout Cards forums too, tried to get a reply from him in his own sales threads, and am just being ignored.

Whats even more frustrating is that he has 100% positive feedback, and cannot understand why he's decided to screw me, and me only over.

This may not be the right forum to post in, but was not sure what to do....

drobfan8 · Aug 1, 2013

That sucks. I am in the exact same boat with another seller on HK and BO.

It looks like I'm gonna have to say goodbye to the chance of getting the card and start a thread.

ozballer23 · Aug 1, 2013

That's a shame to hear mate, hope you can get it sorted.

Michael Farnell · Aug 1, 2013

Thanks, its just frustrating when you know they've seen your messages, and don't bother responding and ignore you completely.

I'm not so upset about not getting the cards, they were just base cards to complete a set (although a few extra Lillard's for my PC), would just like a refund after the frustration I've gone through for 6 months.

ozballer23 · Aug 1, 2013

Michael Farnell said:
Thanks, its just frustrating when you know they've seen your messages, and don't bother responding and ignore you completely.

I'm not so upset about not getting the cards, they were just base cards to complete a set (although a few extra Lillard's for my PC), would just like a refund after the frustration I've gone through for 6 months.

When was the last time he was active here?

Jaames · Aug 1, 2013

ozballer23 said:
When was the last time he was active here?

His last post was April 28th. For some reason it doesn't say on his profile the last time he logged in

ozballer23 · Aug 1, 2013

Jaames said:
His late post was April 28th. For some reason it doesn't say on his profile the last time he logged in

I have reported this thread to the mods. Not sure how much they can do, but I am sure whatever they can do, they will do their best to help you out.

Michael Farnell · Aug 1, 2013

Thanks for the help guys. The last time he messaged me on here was April 16th, and June 7th on BO.

Billyhoyle · Aug 3, 2013

you are not the only one this occurred to (http://www.ozcardtrader.com.au/community/threads/ckeer-steve.137510/), we tried contacting him without much success.

He is not banned as we hoped he would do the right thing.

I'd suggest trying him on other forums and seeing if they have an email option for him as well.

Michael Farnell · Aug 4, 2013

I have been trying daily through Blowout Cards, including posting to him through his own sale/trades thread (yes he's still trying to deal with other members), but he continues to ignore my posts. I have e-mailed him in the past with no luck, and have tried again today but don't expect a response.

drob50 · Aug 4, 2013

I have had some contact with him about sorting this out and was assured it would be resolved! Not sure what else I could have done?

By what I can do is offer you any Prizm base cards I have for free! I know I have a pretty big pile so I would most likely have a fair few you need?

Michael Farnell · Aug 4, 2013

I appreciate all the help everyone has offered. Definitely won't let this experience with ckeer deter me from dealing with others on the forum.

Thanks for the offer on the Prizm base, I have already had the very generous crackberry send me some of the cards I need, so will begin my set building again!

Michael Farnell · Aug 5, 2013

Well I woke up this morning and ckeer has finally refunded the money! Still haven't received any response from him about the matter, but the main thing is I got my money back.

Thanks all!

supertoad · Aug 5, 2013

Yay, good on it!

WoobieZarz · Aug 5, 2013

Always hate reading about these horror stories, but really pleased to see you've got your money back.

penny collector · Aug 5, 2013

Glad to hear you got your money back I bought a prizm set off him in November last year and after a loooonnnnggg wait and plenty of messages they finally arrived in late February. By that stage I had completely given up hope they were coming so was very relieved when they did show up. As I got the cards I left positive feedback even though I was pretty unhappy with the service! So don't think it is just you he has taken his sweet ass time with.

Raises the question about leaving feedback though I like to give people the benefit of the doubt that they were doing the right thing even if it doesn't feel that way at the time.

I would appreciate any other thoughts on leaving feedback in this kind of situation!

WoobieZarz · Aug 6, 2013

If it's a bad experience, it's a bad experience. Feedback should be true and accurate.

banzini · Aug 6, 2013

I bought prizm base cards off of him in january - sent him many emails and they arrived 2 months later.
we all are having prizm base issues and long shipping here / weird !!

Josh23 · Aug 6, 2013

Yeah he had a shirt tonne of prize base that's what I remember

Steve · Aug 16, 2013

I had big issues with him at the start of the year again over base cards and I sent a couple of autos and thought I would
show my thanks and added a couple of bonus cards as thanks. took nearly 4 months and I received some scrub player autos
so I left a neutral feedback will never ever deal with him again

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