Watch out for this guy!!!

[FrankBrana]

kd7ota wrote:
That extremely sucks.

The thing you have to watch out for is where the card is being sold from. Chances for a PPC from portugal is a joke.  They are scammers and have no life.  :-)

Not stereotyping, but just stating the obvious that people with strange names and of course their location.

So by your post, yo say that ppl in portugal are scammers and that portugal is not a kindly place to get a PPC? Portugal still have amigans, didnt know?

Portugal is not a 3rd world nation ( where the chances of having an computer are a joke because getting something to eat goes first ) occupied by scammers.
In EVERYWHERE are black spots between white one, not only portugal.

Portugal is a country conforming the E.U. as well as, Poland, Germany, France or Spain.

I think you have to offer your excuses to our portugal folks.

PS: I have nothing to do with Portugal, but i have been a little offended with that statement.

[Tomas]

kd7ota wrote:
That extremely sucks.

The thing you have to watch out for is where the card is being sold from. Chances for a PPC from portugal is a joke.  They are scammers and have no life.  :-)

Not stereotyping, but just stating the obvious that people with strange names and of course their location.

Hmmm.... Not much can happen since they are from a different place far away.

Why do you say something like that? I am sure Amiga was just as popular in Portugal as in rest of Europe. I also highly doubt that there are more scammers there. You come of sounding like a racist or a person who know absolutely nothing about this country.

[weirdami]

yeah, i mean like, don't you know that portugal is totally like full of ports and gals? it's like i don't know you could be all "i need both chicks and moorings" and then go to portugal and get both.

[TheMagicM]

weirdami:
LOLOLOL!!!!!

[kd7ota]

@everyone

Sorry about the post. I just got on here again and did see some didnt like the post. I didnt mean to state that officially everyone from Portugal is a scammer.  Didnt mean to sound it out that way.  Just how he got scammed, something was up with the name from start and there just had to be some way to authenticate he had the card or not, like as him to email some pictures of the card with specific objects in them to very they are...

But even then its tuff that he could easily be doing that then score off the money...

Its just too hard these days to trust.  Sorry, but maybe I was thinking Nigerian scammers trying to get away with things like this or ripping people off.

Either way, scammers are from every country. I will stick with that k. Sorry for the offending post.  I woke up when I read this thread originally. :-)

[Leifern]

Yeah.. He did send me pictures, and they looked okay.. But the first time he said he had transferred money to my account, i asked if he could E-Mail me the reciept.. Then he said: "Do you want the reciept, or the rest of the money..? Just asking!!!" What a piece of {bleep}..!! Hehe... Sorry!

[cynkronyze]

Hey guys,

I was contacted by this guy Tiago Silva too and his msn id is inarmedrobbery@hotmail.com..and after reading all this post about the cheat...i think that email id suits him best...he and i used to chat and he was trying to sell me his BLizzard PPC 060 and i asked him waht is the garuntee that i get the product after i make the payment..well he didnt answer that question.....

Sorry that you ran into him too...

[Akiko]

What I find most extraordinary, is he's able to do the same scam again and again!

The common denominator here seems to be Amibench, so why can't there be like a hall of shame there to warn us about these repeat offenders.

[keropi]

actually amibench has a rating system...

[Louis Dias]

Damn!  Giving us Portuguese a bad name.  I have a cousin living near Lisbon (Lisboa)... but I don't think we could pay her to give him a not so friendly visit...

[sdyates]

This post has me feeling bad.... I sent a guy in the UK a package three weeks ago and it has still not showed up yet. The same day I sent threee packages to the US: I used the same surface option.

Well, apparently surface to the UK means by boat. I remember those posts complaining about a guy in the US taking up to 2 months to send a package.

What is the longest anyone in the UK has taken to received something shipped from North America? I'd appreciate your comments.

thx,
S

[kd7ota]

I am gonna create a bogus email account and see if I can mess with this guy and ask him if he has a PPC for sale or not lol. I will post up his emails and see if the same crap happens again. :-)

[Boot_WB]

Previous thread regarding this tool.

Sorry to hear you got ripped off by the well known portuguese Juan Kerr.


EDIT: Oooops - just realised this was the thread I was discussing this with Leifern months ago. Was thinking it was the OP who got ripped off.

[yogisumo]

What is the longest anyone in the UK has taken to received something shipped from North America? I'd appreciate your comments.

thx,
S

It took me 2 months to recieve a package FROM the UK to Canada a few years ago.  Got held up at customs.  The package had no return address on it so the sender had to contact the post office.  Contact whoever you used to send it...

[stopthegop]

sdyates wrote:
This post has me feeling bad.... I sent a guy in the UK a package three weeks ago and it has still not showed up yet. The same day I sent threee packages to the US: I used the same surface option.

Well, apparently surface to the UK means by boat. I remember those posts complaining about a guy in the US taking up to 2 months to send a package.

What is the longest anyone in the UK has taken to received something shipped from North America? I'd appreciate your comments.

thx,
S

8 weeks for me.  It was a McIntosh 2505 amplifier with a blown transformer that I sent "surface" to Northern Italy.  He, of course, requested surface shipping.  6 weeks later he impugns me with highly neg. fb.  Two weeks after that he got his broken amp.    

[weirdami]

What is the longest anyone in the UK has taken to received something shipped from North America?

The cheapest method for US post office from US to UK/Europe is 4-6 weeks. They call it Economy Parcel Post. It goes on a ship. I always ask people to let me know when it gets to them because it takes so long and I always make sure they know how long it's supposed to take. Gets worrisome when you have to wait that long for an A1000 to get to your buyer!

Turns out it's also 4-6 weeks to Australia. Go figure.