I had a few good buys with him and it was always extremely professional. I hope that TRRG is not dead or incarcerated, but it seems that his "vacation" and requiring everyone to FE indicates that this was a premeditated scam. This may be an unpopular view, but WE DESERVED IT. If you got ripped off YOU DESERVED IT! I DESERVED IT.Why? BECAUSE YOU SHOULD NEVER FE, NO MATTER WHAT! I have read it all over the road and in the buyers and sellers guide. More people should report sellers that ask for FE!I had a problem with a vendor who was keeping addresses (liston) and I got his ass banned after he threatened to send Schedule 1 drugs to my address and provide the addy and tracking info to various LE agencies. I was helped by Libertas and Scout, who I will always be indebted to, and in the multiple posts and conversations that we had, one thing that they said over and over, both in private and in the forum was NEVER FE, NO MATTER WHAT and if you FE and get screwed, then you are screwed.The Fake Ass Rick Grimes may be a dick who deserves to be face down in a ditch, but it is us who bent over and allowed him to make us his bitch. We all enable the few dishonest vendors and encourage this behavior. It is MY FAULT. It is YOUR FAULT. Every time you FE, you encourage the few dishonest vendors to just start another account, get a little feedback, then have some bullshit reason that we have to FE. Every time I would find some way to rationalize who I should FE at the vendor's request...and most of the time I have been treated very well and received my product.Doing this may be fine in our minds with vendors that we have dealt with and we think, I am including myself, that to FE has no bad side. But consider this, every time an unscrupulous vendor is cruising down the road as many of us do and they see "FE for trusted vendor" they are encouraged to hatch a scheme to leave with thousands of our dollars.Be smart, don't be a retart! I am a fucktard, just as any of you who got taken are, or at least for that instant that you were clicking the finalize link and singing his praises, as I as well as you did. We have to realize that this is tantamount to taking your new Lexus to the bad part of town, leaving the windows down with your key in the ignition and your wallet up on the dash with a few hundreds showing. Many who pass by will keep walking because they are honest or because they fear the consequences. The one who decides to take a joy ride and help himself to your cash and then burns the car and is never caught may actually encourage others who are prone to bad behavior, and walked right by your car, to be the jacker the next time the situation presents itself. Hey, they saw someone else do it and walk away so their balls are inflated and they do it as well. Think about this: The honest vendors are really the ones risking their asses! The guys scamming us and taking our money like the former Mr. Grimes are pretty safe after they do their deed. You think that LE cares that people rip off thousands of dollars from people attempting to buy drugs on here?This is not real life, it's the matrix. You do this in real life??? If I went around to all my friends and customers and presented them with this awesome opportunity or reason that I need the money up front, then I would get it from many of them, as I have gained their trust over many years. Then I just drove home and forgot about them and enjoyed their cash...I would need that money to pay for the surgeries afterward. This is not the case here. Mr. Grimes is a nameless and faceless coward and we are his willing victims. We didn't want to get ripped off, but we did leave our Lexus in the bad part of town, with the keys and wallet in sight with the windows down and the doors unlocked. I am sure that the MODS, at least two, would agree with me, as they have said not to FE. But we, as the rebels who say "FUCK THE SYSTEM" tend to not trust our parents who tell us not to touch the stove because we will get burned. We, especially myself, seem to have a insatiable need to feel the burn and experience the blisters and discomfort to reinforce the good advice we had already been given. If you see this in other threads, don't think I am spamming. I just want to help us keep our hands off the stove, not because we remember the burn from before, but because we learned the lessons of history that others, DPR, the mods, and the posted literature have taught us.I WILL NEVER DO THIS AGAIN AND I HOPE THAT YOU WILL JOIN ME AND PLEDGE TO NEVER FE, EVEN IF IT IS YOUR SWEET OLD GRANDMA WHO IS THE VENDOR!