Possibly one of the most elaborate card scams ever?

nicktv08 · Dec 17, 2012

homerun28aa said:
I don't deal on there but have a couple posts (literally probably like 20) when stuff on here is really slow and I'm really bored, but I wouldn't put it past those guys on there honestly. My gut feeling is that I don't think that was the case (or don't want to believe that's the case) but your story definitely is just another mystery in the huge bag of mysteries in this case and against blowout in general. I feel bad for the guy that paid $5K, even if it's regular payment I wonder how paypal will go about refunding a super baller lot of unknown items. I think people should have saw this coming (although they could never forsee when he'd finally scam them) but the thought process doesn't make sense; if this guy is so generous and rich, give stuff away for free, PERIOD. If this guy spends $400 and sells something for $200 or spends $500 and sells it for $300 or sells an $80 for $10, that seems like he's setting something up for the future, which is exactly what happened

Good post right here. It did seem very odd to me too that he could sell so low, but I think people wanted to believe that he was genuinely a good guy with a lot of money that was just generous. We all try to believe in the good in people and its sad that guys like Haiku make it harder to do just that.

darkman · Dec 17, 2012

Don't know whats up with blowout but there are some ****** bags on that site...

nicktv08 · Dec 17, 2012

darkman said:
Don't know whats up with blowout but there are so many ****** bags on that site...

Fixed it for you. Lol. I know what you mean man. Everyone thinks his or her shi$ doesn't stink on there

Joshua.Roundtree · Dec 17, 2012

nicktv08 said:
Fixed it for you. Lol. I know what you mean man. Everyone thinks his or her shi$ doesn't stink on there

Blowout has just as many tools as any other trading card site. You think there are people here who don't think their shi$ stinks? It's the same everywhere. However, if you want to actually sell a card, Blowout is a much better option than FCB. They have the numbers. As for quality knowledge of the hobby and for actual baseball information, FCB is vastly superior. Post here, buy and sell there.

AmishDave · Dec 17, 2012

Joshua.Roundtree said:
Blowout has just as many tools as any other trading card site. You think there are people here who don't think their shi$ stinks? It's the same everywhere. However, if you want to actually sell a card, Blowout is a much better option than FCB. They have the numbers. As for quality knowledge of the hobby and for actual baseball information, FCB is vastly superior. Post here, buy and sell there.

Just because a site has numbers, doesn't mean it's a better option.

nicktv08 · Dec 17, 2012

Joshua.Roundtree said:
Blowout has just as many tools as any other trading card site. You think there are people here who don't think their shi$ stinks? It's the same everywhere. However, if you want to actually sell a card, Blowout is a much better option than FCB. They have the numbers. As for quality knowledge of the hobby and for actual baseball information, FCB is vastly superior. Post here, buy and sell there.

Yep it's nearly impossible to sell anything here, especially football

Joshua.Roundtree · Dec 17, 2012

55_marlins_sp said:
Just because a site has numbers, doesn't mean it's a better option.

The numbers help if you're trying to buy or sell. However, like I stated, the actual content of this site is vastly superior. Not knocking either one, just pointing out that since this site changed its format it is almost impossible to sell anything because of the lack of traffic.

homerun28aa · Dec 17, 2012

Joshua.Roundtree said:
Blowout has just as many tools as any other trading card site. You think there are people here who don't think their shi$ stinks? It's the same everywhere. However, if you want to actually sell a card, Blowout is a much better option than FCB. They have the numbers. As for quality knowledge of the hobby and for actual baseball information, FCB is vastly superior. Post here, buy and sell there.

This. But the very rare time I sell I offer to buddies on here. This place is much better for conversation and I don't have a lot of experience on that site but I can confidently say the members/mods here are significantly better

CatdaddysCards · Dec 17, 2012

Blowout can kiss my ads, after last week. Pitching, crying and rolling because I wanted eBay value on a Myers Chrome auto. Hell, I was actually a couple dollars under, and they showed their asses.

bobthewondercat77 · Dec 17, 2012

This sounds like a terrible situation, and this type of S makes everyone suspicious...

However in my opinion it is not too wise to post things like "the blowout mods might have been in on it, that site is shady". Accusing a large retail company of aiding and abetting a real crime just because it seems possible is a little quick to judgment.

I know this is the internet, and the message board culture can enable stuff like this, but if you were ever accused of anything online, news travels fast, people aren't always thorough about factchecking what they read... I know the blowout mods are a drag and I'm not saying there's no way they could be involved, but at least have SOME evidence before posting about your idea on a public board.

Just my 2 cents. Sorry to everyone that was scammed. If FCB could somehow put together a more scam-proof transactions board, that would be a big attraction, even if it had lower traffic than blowout.

cgilmo · Dec 17, 2012

there are no scam proof communities, ever

A_Pharis · Dec 17, 2012

Seems like to me that he was ripping people off on trades on one side of the scam. Possibly on other sites. He was then taking the net gains from those and turning them into "good deed" cards/items. Weeds through a few items to keep for himself - dumps the rest in cheap lots. My guess the reason why he refunded nick? The lot probably contained stolen card, and he realized real quick that if nick posted a list of what he got that he might be easily tied to the stolen cards in these lots. So what does he do? Refunds full amount and says keep the cards so that you don't bother listing them and complaining.
Finally, after netting what he feels like is a good stash and a huge rep - he pulls the big one.... selling big dollar mystery packs.

imac220 · Dec 17, 2012

Goodness sakes...48 pages?!

Y4NK335 · Dec 18, 2012

The whole situation is unreal. Wow

MallCopKJ · Dec 18, 2012

Continues to get worse
Haiku- Blowout Please Help Me - Blowout Cards Forums

this is a 20 year old kid who thought he was doing a big trade, got ripped off and the guy sold the cards to people on the same site for dirt cheap.

EDIT: After looking when people started bringing it up, this "20 year old" has hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of cards on Ebay. something isnt right with him either.

sportscardtheory · Dec 18, 2012

Oh man. That person pulled off one hell of an in-depth scam. Better get Jeffrey Lebowski on the case.

James52411 · Dec 18, 2012

Too good to be true
Fools and money soon parted
Hobby lesson learned

hoopster3977 · Dec 18, 2012

The wannabee hustler's got out hustled. Like I posted in the MT yesterday, I got flamed about my dislike of PWE's, and a few of the one's flaming me are entangled in this mess. LOL

I don't feel sorry for anyone there.

cgilmo · Dec 18, 2012

A_Pharis said:
Seems like to me that he was ripping people off on trades on one side of the scam. Possibly on other sites. He was then taking the net gains from those and turning them into "good deed" cards/items. Weeds through a few items to keep for himself - dumps the rest in cheap lots. My guess the reason why he refunded nick? The lot probably contained stolen card, and he realized real quick that if nick posted a list of what he got that he might be easily tied to the stolen cards in these lots. So what does he do? Refunds full amount and says keep the cards so that you don't bother listing them and complaining.
Finally, after netting what he feels like is a good stash and a huge rep - he pulls the big one.... selling big dollar mystery packs.

sports card ponzi scheme

MansGame · Dec 18, 2012

cgilmo said:
sports card ponzi scheme

This

Welcome to our community

Be apart of something great, join today!

Possibly one of the most elaborate card scams ever?

New member

New member

New member

New member

Featured Contributor, Collector Showcase, Senior M

New member

New member

Active member

Trade Moderator

Member

Well-known member

Active member

New member

New member

Active member

Active member

New member

New member

Well-known member

Active member

Similar threads

Log in