[FS: General] Don't Buy Anything From Gemster 2: Electric Bugaloo

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PopCultureFanboy

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Well everyone, Gemster is at it again, and this time he got me. I posted a while ago looking for Kino Divalites and he PMed me offering his for $715.00 shipped, saying he needs the money for a new flash for a trip he is going on. I have had no bad experiences on here in the last four years so I agreed and sent the money via paypal and a few hours later, he refunds it and asks me to send it to his premier account, as he is having trouble printing a shipping label. After making sure the refund went through, I send it again and he says he will send me a confirmation number on Monday. It's Friday and he is not answering my calls, texts or emails. Normally, I wouldn't be so quick to assume that he's a scammer, but when selling me the unit and awaiting the payment, he was quick to answer texts, and sent several of them while awaiting payment. That combined with seeing two other complaints about him (which I didn't see until after I ordered the kino) is leading me to think this. It's really hard not to jump to conclusions in this case.

He's a young guy. Late teens/early-20s probably. My assumption (again, an assumption) is that when he needs quick money for something (like a flash for a trip), he answers ads for things he either inevitably doesn't want to part with, or doesn't have to begin with, with the intention of paying paypal back whenever they inevitably refund the buyer, maybe from an upcoming shoot or something. I'm guessing he wanted it sent to his premier account because he needed the money to clear asap so he could buy that flash. He's a broke young guy who's probably deluded himself into thinking he's scamming/borrowing from paypal, but not realizing how big a frustration this is for the buyer. Not to mention, some have a time-sensitive need for the item. My advice is to stay away from him, and to take a few seconds to search the sellers history, etc. I'm not sure why I didn't this time around, but had I have, I would have found out pretty quickly that he is not to be trusted.
 
Sorry to hear about your bad experience man. I assume you already went and filled the complaint with Paypal. Hope you get your money back.

One thing I don't understand how he wasn't banned from the forum yet? Maybe it's time to do so?
 
In the other thread someone posted Gemsters webpage. Took all of 30 seconds to do a reverse image search of a number of his pictures he claimed
as his. Results all came back as other peoples work.
If he is a fraud with that, I would urge people to stay away as well.
 
PopCultureFanboy said:
...My assumption (again, an assumption) is that when he needs quick money for something (like a flash for a trip), he answers ads for things he either inevitably doesn't want to part with, or doesn't have to begin with, with the intention of paying paypal back whenever they inevitably refund the buyer, maybe from an upcoming shoot or something. I'm guessing he wanted it sent to his premier account because he needed the money to clear asap so he could buy that flash. He's a broke young guy who's probably deluded himself into thinking he's scamming/borrowing from paypal, but not realizing how big a frustration this is for the buyer. Not to mention, some have a time-sensitive need for the item. My advice is to stay away from him, and to take a few seconds to search the sellers history, etc. I'm not sure why I didn't this time around, but had I have, I would have found out pretty quickly that he is not to be trusted.
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People go to jail for that. It's called wire fraud. Depending on how bored or busy the cops in his town are he could be in real trouble if you pursued it with the authorities.
 
Finally called me back today to threaten me - told me he was going to come and shoot me, kill my family, etc. It was kind-of funny hearing a kid from SC try his best to talk like a street tough and call me the N-word about eighty times but I'll still be contacting the proper authorities about it.
 
I sure hope you managed to tape it. Threats like that could put him away not to mention fraud. Keep us posted on what happens. Inquiring minds want to know. LOL

BillWojo
 
the whole thing of refunding the payment and saying he has to print labels, exactly same thing happened to me few weeks ago. for some reason my thread was closed and eventhough i got the money via paypal, i am not sure why is he not banned here by name and ip
 
Unfortunately as I paypaled him the money, I don't know his whereabouts in SC. Jipskydive, I can PM you some info if you want to put me into contact with any of your cop friends.

After he saw that I posted about him here, he called me angrily, acting indignant to the idea that I would post something negative (as if he has a reputation around here) He finally asked me my email and told me he would refund me. That was a few days ago, and he has not given me a refund. Obviously, I'm covered through paypal so I'm not too worried. His name is Bailey Sims, just so it shows up in the google search engine for anyone doing business with him in the future.
 
Jawad after reading your last thread I emailed the Mod who commented in that thread because there were people advocating to give him the benefit of the doubt. This is what I sent.

I noticed that you posted in thread offering concerns regarding GEMSTER. Did some online research and there are a lot of things that don't add up.

1) His website is Named ( Bailey Sims )
2) The profile photo and bio is of a person named ( Bailey Payne ) who appears to travel the world doing sport tricking.
3) All of the social media links on his site go to the template site www.portfoliobox.com
4) The twitter site for the "photographer" Bailey Sims is https://twitter.com/baileysimssc however the twitter for the actual person is https://twitter.com/BaileyPayne6
5) The photos on his website are essentially perfect which is unlikely for someone who has nothing online about him as photographer except for 2 photos with a camera around his neck. Also there is a photograph on his site that has another watermark in the top left corner that doesn't say his name.

He could be telling the truth but I really think it's unlikely.
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I've done very well on dvxuser (thank you all) but stuff like this makes me do lots of research before I agree to purchase anything anymore. I'm sure his mom said he's cool..
 
I strongly think there should be at least minimum 50-75 posts before new users are allowed to buy and sell on marketplace. Lots of other forums have those rules in place. It would make life a lot easier and trolls will not have time to post proper 50-75 posts
 
I'm sorry that this keeps happening to DVXUSERs, I buy and sell here. It would be great if there was a sticky, or something attached to the buying and selling sticky that had a list of people to avoid.
 
I mostly didn't think anything of looking more into the seller as I figured, "what's the point of scamming when the buyer has paypal protection?" not quite "his mom says he's cool" or whatever but I agree with others that there should be a post minimum here to prevent hassle like this. Since this transaction, I've gotten two other offers for Kinos at much lower prices (basically half-price and free shipping is really emphasized) from sellers/scammers in South Carolina with no post history. One from JamesPhotography and the other from JasonMoore. I wonder if he remembered he already hit me or if he just responds to so many posts that he forgot.
 
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If any new user contacts anyone with an offer to sell via PM (personal message), please report that PM to the moderators using the report PM function.

Users who have registered here must be a member 60 days before they can sell in the Marketplace or by responding to a WTB Marketplace thread with an offer to sell using personal messaging.

Both Reduser and Dvxuser have seen an increase in new members using PM to contact potential buyers, and several scams have been reported.

As one other web site has indicated:

PERSONAL MESSAGING REGARDING SELLING OR BUYING ITEMS WITH MEMBERS WHO HAVE NO POSTS IN FORUMS AND/OR WHO YOU DO NOT KNOW FROM FORUMS IS HEREBY DECLARED STRICTLY ILL ADVISED AND MAY GET YOU BURNED
 
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