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Market => Rumor mill => Topic started by: Madara on May 07, 2012, 04:27 am
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Last time I logged on there were about 2 pages on USD's thread and DaMan was still on the search for tony.
This shit looks exploded - what the fuck has happened these last couple days? Where are we at SR?
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Things seem to be calming down a little
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My guess is most of this will be settled off within a week or two and the community will just live with its scars. Hopefully the insane amount of trolling that has been going off dies along with it.
Tony will still be either a scammer or busted (with what's going on in the H scene locally out in Vancouver right now, my guess is that his connect probably planned to fuck off and he just said "fuck it" and ran with everyone's money - there have been bodies up that way recently over H and some serious shake-up of which groups get to move things). He could have been busted, but milking out his cash advance and putting SPR mid-high four-figures out of pocket, as well as migrating a buyer base off-site to his own private store and then shutting it down after tens of thousands in orders ran through don't stack up well for the busted case.
TheRealUSDirect will end up being a scammer or guy-whose-idiocy-burnt-buyers as well. He's shielded himself with his fan-base (those who received samples or the prelim product to build cred) by attacking one of the most reputable people/moderator on the entire Road (Nomad), claiming he was hacked and his coins stolen. The holes in his story are unfortunately gaping as it's one thing to phish a password but entirely another to get your hands on a PIN (which is also required to change the autowithdrawal address). The BTC amounts claimed to have been stolen don't check up either, as he's claiming $3400 was stolen by NB but people checking up are seeing less than half that hitting the donation address. Not to mention that it's impossible to actually prove those coins were sent without getting the transaction log from the account page and posting the amount and receiving address, which cannot be done and only DPR could release it (which would violate security).
To further place a close-range buckshot wound in his story, the items he marked shipped many days before he was "hacked" weren't actually shipped and he's been refunding his in-escrow stuff. I've had FE sheet buyers messaging me non-stop because I've been following and commenting on that thread, and they are telling me that they haven't received a refund. He's using a tormail addy with a brand new PGP key and I'm advising anyone and everyone to stay the fuck away from that because if you are a sheet buyer it's suddenly worth LE's time to come knocking once they've got your shipping information.
I don't think USD intentionally started out meaning to scam anyone, but what I do think is that he pre-sold a batch or two out and his connect fell through or shorted, in turn leaving customers flapping in the wind and out of pocket. In escrow buyers will likely get a full or partial refund (nothing to lose if he didn't ship what he said he shipped, right?), but FE's are going to be really hit and miss. And this is a best case. Deep down I think it was just a scam that didn't milk enough for him so he's trying to backpedal and keep his seller status.
Noriega also turned out to be one-who-is-without-testicles. Stay away.
After all of this, I'm still kicking. I was here long before any of these idiots showed up to try out selling on the road (which you have to treat like a fucking career if you want to do it right), and I will be here long after the their bullshit has dried out and blown away in the wind. There are some of us good dinosaurs left, but you have to look hard, and if you have any doubts don't FE (for me, included, even though i'm holding to my very long-standing policy on buyer stats).
We'll make it out the other side. Just have to let the trolls eat themselves and the gaping wounds heal up and scar over. Time. The great healer.