Similar thing has happened with one of my auctions. I sent a pm to theymos and he made the negative feedback default.
Why not just ban him?
This could bring financial harm to the OP here, who is legit.
A agree but it isn't what theymos does.
The Auction that Beastlymac is referring to is one where I got a PM from a scumbag called BEASTYMAC, (close but missing the L)
I replied the PM and paid the auction price not realising that it was not infact the correct user. My fault entirely for not reading the PM email correctly.
It really has me at a loss though, that a username who has been confirmed to being a scammer is not banned. I guess its just as easy for these assholes to just register another username. I would have thought that upon registering this username, whoever runs Bitcointalk knows the IP address or at least some identifying information that can be used to bring these scumbags to justice.
I guess that the protection of the buyers on these auction sites is not a big enough priority for those who have the power to protect.
One suggestion of not allowing new usernames be created that are extremely similar to already trusted members would be a freakin brilliant start to try to slow down these assholes.
Either way, at the end of the day, im happy to say that the real BEASTLYMAC has shipped my item and provided tracking info etc. He is in no way associated to the asshole who ripped me off.
Its a pity that the fuckin scumsuckin asshole has been given the go ahead to continue to operate on these forums though.
I wont be bidding on any other auctions hosted by Bitcointalk until the mods upgrade the protection for buyers from what appears to be an accepted level of threat.
CAVEAT EMPTOR I guess.
