Several PPC cards on Amibench

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I don't think we have his number yet.

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Guys, I've just found out his eBay username. It's "kralle900", and you can check out his current auctions listed. There's plenty of them. He's been listing them for the past few days. Why hasn't he responded to our e-mails yet, if he's regulary on the computer?

On a positive note, his feedback is 100% good.

So has anyone called him yet? :-)

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@sir_inferno:

Well I've decided to do a search for "Blizzard, Amiga, Phase" with Search in Descriptions option checked, in hope to find Bernd, that is if he existed on eBay, and luckily it worked. :-)

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He replied a few days ago saying that he'll take a closer look as to why I still didn't get the card. He asked for my address again to see if he made a mistake when writing it on the shipping box. That's about all the news I have.

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I told you CU_AMiGA, I've got executive qualifications. I just bought another load of PPC cards off Bernd.



What a 24 carat plonker you really are!

:-D

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It's not that we don't wanna phone him. We are just giving it more time as CU_AMiGA said, until the end of the month before we take further actions. I have received a reply from Bernd about 4 days ago so it seems that he is not running away or anything, for now.

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Guys, at this time, there are two possibilities here and I suspect that #2 is IT.

#1 He is a con

#2 He took the money but is still to acquire the cards from "somewhere". He is probably stalling until he receives the merchandise, but to keep us quiet for now, he claims that the cards have been sent already, and is slow to respond to e-mails.

Anyway, I will give it some more time (end of the month) and then I will personally call Bernd, and the German police, and do whatever necessary to get my money back.

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Handy probably means mobile, but my guess is as good as yours. :-)

Lemmink sent me a scan of a page from Bernd's Amiga related newsletter which was dated way back to 2001. That's how I got the phone numbers. I am pretty sure that that's all the info that Lemmink has about Bernd.

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@cgutjahr:

That would be great.

I guess we should see first if cgutjahr can locate Bernd Binder, and if he can, then we should forward cgutjahr our information as to what exactly each of us ordered from Bernd, etc., so he could straighten things out, if possible. :-)

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Update:

I've just tried to send money to both TTAmiga@gmx.de and Kralle1@web.de through PayPal. I used 1EUR just to see what sort of PayPal feedback Bernd has, and to check out if the PayPal account is still active, and I received this message:

"This recipient is currently unable to receive money."

Well, he either did this himself or PayPal has frozen his account due to complaints.

Either way, I think this about confirms it that he is a fraud in my mind...not sure what you guys think.

There's been too many things going on now in order for me to believe that this is all going to work out fine. Frankly, I don't believe it will and I am putting my foot down and calling this a scam.

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@All

More updates. I received another e-mail from Bernd. Here's what is says:

I sent today the receipt from the German post for the ppc board to you (in an
registered letter) - I don't know if you got the board yet, but I sent it to
all buyers, because some didn't get it yet. It's easier to me in this way,
because I'm all the time on the road (trucker).
If you didn't get it, go please with that receipt to your post and the will
look what's happened.

What do you guys make of this? Shouldn't HE be the one going to the post office with the receipt and checking out why the package never showed up? Anyway, let's see if I receive that receipt.

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 :roll:

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Even more updates. It seems that Bernd got arrested! :-o



Policeman: Herr Binder, sind Sie unter Anhalten für Betrug.
Bernd Binder: Oh, mein Gott! Der Empfang ist in der Post!

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@Cyberus:

http://www.amiga.org/forums/showthread.php?t=6331

What part of "I would like to thank everyone" did you not understand?

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I'm a dumbass, that's what.:lol:
It seems that I'll never learn.:-x

Ah well...this time next year, I'll get my PPC card.

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@JaXanim:

Oh, I'm not calling it quits. I will pursue this matter as far as possible. I'm just a little disappointed that I probably won't get to see the actual PPC card, but once AGAIN fight for my money back.