Topic: User Jakers: Beware - page 2. (Read 7072 times)

http://I have had a similar experience with Jakers.  I am still a bit hesitant to call him a scammer, as from what I have read he takes an insanely long time to complete a transaction.

Jakers offered to buy from me a $25 dollar Best Buy gift card for half price (My initial forum post https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.1477557).  I got the card for free awhile back, and had not used in since.  I also have no rep to speak of, so trading, even at a loss, to get a decent reputation seemed like a good idea.

Here is the PM from Jakers making the request, and his reply to me saying sure (crossed this out as it was a bit hard to read it was conditional to me not having any other offers in the next 24 hours I said I would trade with him if I had no other offers within 24 hours)
https://i.imgur.com/f3Ljz8L.png




Here is the initial value of the card:
https://i.imgur.com/UM4qOs1.png




value obtained from Best Buy's gift card balance checker here: https://www-ssl.bestbuy.com/site/olstemplatemapper.jsp?id=pcat17043&type=page
A simple search of "Check giftcard balance" on the Best Buy site will take you to the same page.
After some time, I get this message: https://i.imgur.com/4Xt8M9g.png



I forget the exact context of it, as I wasn't saving all of my sent PMs.  But notice the time stamp, and lack of funds in this address: 1FyT3UQNRN9Ah1Bnp55LjoCNkDYqVzVfMH.

first four numbers blocked out for security stuff, and to keep myself from being accused of giving out the gift card number.
The PM's I have on record of me sending to Jakers:
https://i.imgur.com/3Mzubee.png?1


Here is the balance of the gift card now:
https://i.imgur.com/mbLyuHi.png


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I am still hoping to get a payment from him, but thought I should share the experience I had with this user.

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As per BCB's suggestion.  
Amount owed: 50% of $25, or about 0.7BTC to about 0.74BTC (depending on exchange rates).
Link to blockchain address for transaction: http://blockchain.info/address/1FyT3UQNRN9Ah1Bnp55LjoCNkDYqVzVfMH
Proof of promised amount: https://i.imgur.com/f3Ljz8L.png

EDIT: Made image viewable, downside is it is a bit hard to tell where text begins and ends.

This guy is a scammer and absolutely terrible at being a decent human being online. He has not being timely in returning my private messages, he will read them and then chose not to respond, and still has not sent the bitcoins. Although he is claiming he has to get them from several different places? We all know this is bullsh!t and it's comprabable to this user's attitude as well. He is an arrogant self-righteous a-hole who is a pain to deal with. I recommend anyone who is thinking about trading with not to do so.

I'll put this in all other threads concerning Jakers, this deal, or anyone else thinking about working with him.

Jakers

You need to find another hobby.

Are we going to go through this every time I do a fucking trade guy? Hop off idiot.


@ Kalm, I already told you VIA PM the situation. If you want to call off the deal go ahead. But like you said VIA PM you can chargeback the payment at any given time, so I'm making sure MY funds are 100% safe to keep that from happening. Go ahead and call off the deal, I'll forward you the email from Amazon.

In his defense, as I said I would give information as it came up he has responded. Apparently he still hasn't got all of his coins in one place to send to me. Like I told him I don't understand how someone would agree to a deal and not give that little tidbit of info to the other person(s) involved in the deal.

So that is where it is. And I saw that post, BCB, which is what has lit a fire under how quickly I wanted this deal to come to fruition. Seems like maybe he's just a bit disorganized and it's costing him a bit. 

Boy this jakers guy just can't seem to get it together.

https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.1470570

The user Jakers has attempted to scam me it would seem. He isn't responding to his private messages or on Skype. He attempted to flush this deal out for longer than was necessary, making it seem like an even sketchier situation and person. I'll update this with information when/if it comes in! Just wanted to give other honest traders on BitcoinTalk a head's up.