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thanks

Lori Gordon
Senior Field Producer
CNBC
lori.gordon@nbc.com

This seller offers many of her auctions in this format. I think others should be warned of her scheme.

Here's the sellers pertinent information:

Ebay id : barbscollectibles
Barbara Wilsey
Email: barbscollectibles@hotmail.com
Daniel Wilsey (Ebay shows the account under this persons name)
Ocala, Florida

--This person's Bad Trader Page--
http://www.traderlist.com/TammySmith.html

Estie uses two email address. They are tweety78@aol.com and itweety78@aol.com.

Donna

--This person's Bad Trader Page--
http://www.traderlist.com/EstieSawyer.html

Here's our correspondence:

Hi Bruce:)
How are you doing? I hope to hear a reply from you soon. If not, I will leave you negative feedback on SC and I will also report you to the Bad Traders list.

You entered 0391 0451 6310 0002 2670

Your item was processed and left our RICHMOND, CA facility on February 21, 2005. Information, if available, is updated every evening. Please check again later.

Here is what happened earlier:

ENROUTE, February 20, 2005, 10:18 pm, RICHMOND, CA 94804
ENROUTE, February 15, 2005, 8:16 am, JACKSONVILLE, FL 32099

See, she's sneaky. She gave me a legitimate tracking number, the only problem is that it was not coming to me. People, please don't deal with her. I've heard from other people that have had bad dealings with her. She is not to be trusted. All of this for a $5 beanie. Can you believe it? I thought about just forgetting about, but you know what... its the principal. No one should be able to lie and steal from anyone, whether it's $5 or $500.

--This person's Bad Trader Page--
http://www.traderlist.com/BarbaraPinto.html

--This person's Bad Trader Page--
http://www.traderlist.com/AmericanaCouture.html

--This person's Bad Trader Page--
http://www.traderlist.com/BarbaraPinto.html

Hi I was ripped off by Rob Balis and was wondering if there was anything I could do to stop him and get my money back.

Thanks

--This person's Bad Trader Page--
http://www.traderlist.com/RobBalis.html

Subject: masterpeddler

ebay auction was for a 30 day presell of the ty beanie babie "i love hawaii" from ebay seller, "masterpeddler". seller claims in several seperate emails that first her house was flodded (she lives in nevada), then her house was robbed and they stole all of her beanies. after which she claimed she would offer me a refund via paypal. she has yet to send either a refund or a replacement bear. she refuses to communicate with me and settle this like an adult. i have received her contact info from ebay and her phone number is actually a fax number and can not, or will not be answerd. i have left negative feedback for the seller and am sure that retalitory feedback will be left for me from this action. the auction number is: 5944459492 .

any help you can offer in this matter would be greatly appreciated.

steve

"Hi my husband said the beaine came back to our house. I am away so I am not sure what address is on the box can you resend me the correct address. My husband prob wrote the right address but he writes worse than a doctor thanks Barbara"

We promptly re-sent our address to Barbara and the wait began. When we had not received the bear by 2/14/05, I contacted Barbara to find out the status. She jumped all over me and told me that I had never sent her our address when she asked for it on 2/4. I then forwarded the e-mail to her, proving that I had responded promptly. After several back and forth e-mails, she kept refering to a confirmation number. I questioned why she needed a confirmation number if, as she said, we had not responded to her request for an address. ???? I have not heard from her since then and she has not responded to the last two e-mails I have sent. I think she has absolutely no intention of mailing and hopes that I will drop it. I realize that $5 is not a lot of money, but it's the principal. It's really sad when you can't trust someone for a $5 bear.

--This person's Bad Trader Page--
http://www.traderlist.com/BarbaraPinto.html

Subject: Tammy Smith (Treasuresfromtammy)
Email: Treasuresfromtammy@yahoo.com

I won an ebay auction (Item #5937531398) on Nov, 24, 2004 of Tammy Smith/Treasuresfromtammy, from Ocala, Florida, for a Pippo beanie baby, and as of today, Feb 17, 2005, I have not received the item or a refund. Payment of $16.40 was made thru Paypal on Nov. 26, 2004.

Last email I received was her was from 1/21/05, and she is no longer replying to my emails. I emailed her on Feb 12 requesting a reply and a refund if item was not shipped. I now notice she is suspended from Ebay. I also notice she used unfair selling methods, being she filled an auction (same item) won by another, a week after mine (feedback was left on this).

I have her address, as requested by me in November as I was planning to paying with a m.o. Her phone number was sent to me by ebay when requested, but another person who also has not received their item, tells me it has been disconnected.

At the time of the auction, her feedback was ok.. a few negative reply on shipping over 40 days... but she claimed to have filled hundreds and I would received mine....her reply on 1/21: "I have been able to ship over 650 of them so far. I am shipping as fast as they arrive, and I am sorry about the delay. If you would prefer a refund, please let me know. Please accept my apologies...." I replied I would wait.

I have left negative fb on ebay, have sent a complaint to ebay, and traderlist. Because the auction ended over 45 days ago, paypal can not help me.

I want to thank all of my loyal customers over the last 8 yrs and for all the patience you have had with me during the on going problems. I have sincerely tried every way I could to make this work and continue but I see no alternative at this point.

Any questions regarding orders etc can be addressed to my Atty:

Robert Ribarovski
110 W Fayette St Ste 1010
Syracuse, Ny 13202

Again , Thank you for your business. It was greatly appreciated along with all of the friends I have made.

Patti

Subject: Adrian Tudose
Email: EiBune@aol.com, EvBune@aol.com, Elecij@aol.com, LptSales@aol.com, deputada@aol.com,  VBecali@aol.com

I filed a complaint with you earlier about an Internet fraudster known as Adrian Tudose, and as a result many people have contacted me saying they have either been scammed by him, or were warned off trading with him after seeing my posting. So your site is clearly doing its job. (See posting Feb. 5, 2005)

I would like to add to the list of e-mail addresses he has been operating under, to help warn people off trading with him. He has used the following addresses:

EiBune@aol.com
EvBune@aol.com
Elecij@aol.com
LptSales@aol.com
deputada@aol.com
VBecali@aol.com

The contact details he generally gives to people have been consistent with many people who have contacted me about Adrian Tudose, and they are:

Name: ADRIAN TUDOSE
Address: Street Name: 1 Tei , Apartament 20C, Bloc 5, Sector 6
City: Bucharest
Country: Romania
Zip Code: 7000
Phone number: 00 40 723 001 036

One more thing - he is now using Western Union for payment, and is suggesting to buyers that they should transfer the money but not give him the MTCN code until they receive the goods. However despite this, he is STILL managing to get the money, so if you are reading this, please do not fall for this scam. I guess his local Western Union office are allowing him access to the funds with some proof of ID or suchlike.

Regards,
Neil

*All victims need to contact me directly in order for me to add a Caution Page to the Internet for this person.
Pat

Note from Mediator: We all wish Janie the best and hope she is well soon. She provides a wonderful service through her website and newsletter.

I have the email addresses of at least two other peope she did the same thing to if you need them.

Her name and address are:

Estie Sawyer
P. O. Box 9908
Moreno Valley, CA 92552-9908

PLEASE HELP!! These ebay sellers are geting away with murder!!

Donna

--This person's Bad Trader Page--
http://www.traderlist.com/EstieSawyer.html

After almost two months of being repeatedly lied to that payment had been mailed 3 different times from her, and my turning her in to TraderList, at which time she send me two E-checks though Paypal that had no funds to cover them that were no good, and being threatened repeatedly by her, today the bear was finally returned to me.

Thank You Grandma Pat & TraderList for all of the help you have given me with this very long and trying ordeal with this bad trader! My hats off to the work that You all do at TraderList to help keep us safe on the net!

I hope no one else will have to go through what I went through with this lady. Please use Caution when dealing with her and her many many ID's and email addresses.

When dealing with Anyone, I suggest that you keep every email until a deal is totally completed. Even trades/buys/sells that seem to start off nicely do not always end that way.

Thank You,
Gayle Young

--This person's Bad Trader Page--
http://www.traderlist.com/BarbaraPinto.html

Check it out at truebluebeansnews.com and click on the discussion board.

I was wanting one of the Beanies for a gift 02/11/05. I thought I would go ahead and send you all the information that I had on her so you might be aware of her. I will give her until Saturday to contact me back or I get the package from her. I will send you an email back Saturday if I do not hear from her and if not I would like some help. I have never got taken on the BBOT board before. I have always got what I sent for. At least if was not a lot of money, but it was a USpostal money order.

Thanks, Barbara

*No response has been received from Ms. Vethacke.

The money order was sent to Yi Zhang (not sure of City - NY ?) NY 11354

I sent the money order in an 8.5 x 11 Priority Mail envelope on Dec. 30, 2004 with a delivery confirmation # of : 0302 1790 0000 7664 7879 I tracked the package with the money order in it on the internet www.usps.com & entered the tracking #. It is confirmed that the package was recv'd on Jan. 3, 2005

I contacted the post office to find out if the money order was cashed or not - they told me that I had to wait 30 days to find out, so I did. Here then to find out he cashed the money order on Jan. 25, 2005 - I yet have not recv'd the cell phone. I have tried to email this guy several times & he first gave me the excuse that he was in China for a month and phone the phone would be sent out that next day which was about 2 weeks ago. Still no phone/ refund & no futher response.

I have purchased a copy of the signed (cashed money order) from the post office that I will be getting in the mail showing me a copy of the front of the money order & the back.

In the fall of 2003 i ordered a T shirt from Americana Couture as a Christmas gift for my daughter. After a few weeks i e-mailed A.C. stating that i hadn't yet received my order. They replied that UPS never picked up the order at the warehouse and she would put it in the system again...weeks later still nothing..i e-mailed again, which started the well known excuses about UPS workers stealing hundreds of orders etc. i kept e-mailing through the new year and getting all the typical excuses and the promise of a free shirt. i never gave up complaining. Finally in March of 2004 i did receive my order and the free shirt was enclosed. SURPRISED? i was too...i really loved the shirts and now believed all the reasons the Chisholms had given me for the past delays. i thought ..this could never happen again... So, i put in another order in April 2004 and so did my daughter as a gift for me this time. Well, it did happen again. All the same promises and lies started all over again. but this time nothing has come in ten months time and i know now it never will.

this is the last of 24 e-mails i received from Americana Couture starting on April 24th 2004 ending Feb. 7, 2005:

"Hi Brenda
We have filed a lost package form and hope to have either a rejected shipment notice or confirmation of final delivery this week. Will you please keep me advised if something happens on your end?

Kindest regards

Maryanne"

--This persons' Bad Trader Page--
http://www.traderlist.com/AmericanaCouture.html

Daphne Stauffer

--This person's Bad Trader Page--
http://www.traderlist.com/AmericanaCouture.html

Her ID on Addies Attic floridamommy, she has also used the ID Mommysunshines3 on BBOT and other email addresses.

Beware!! She is a BAD Trader/Buyer. She makes deals and does not follow through, she has mainly agreed to trades with traders and then leaves them hanging so I have learned to late for me.

We got a really bad ice and snow storm here and because I was expecting that payment any day, I went a head and mailed the bear to her, in case I couldn't get to the post office. I didn't want her to think I was stiffing her so to speak, if I couldn't get out. Little did I know she was stiffing me.

She received the bear.

Note from mediator..this is a long story, but to condense, the buyer said the payment was sent three times, and it was never received. PayPal has said the funds may clear by Feb. 16. An update will be posted if that happens.

Here's the note from Paypal:

As you know, we were working on your behalf to dispute the reversal of the following transaction:

Buyer Name: Charlotte Reed
Buyer Email: creed1@frontiernet.net
Case ID: PP-062-960-404
Amount: -$39.94 USD
Transaction Date: Nov. 4, 2004
Transaction ID: 9TV84769KS2727225

We are writing to let you know that despite our best efforts we were unable to recover the disputed funds. We encourage you to contact the buyer directly to attempt to resolve this matter or recover your merchandise.

Sincerely,
Kokouvi
PayPal

Neil, London

Recently, there was a post on Ty Talk purportedly from Ty Warner. What I'm hearing is that he is not even in town and doesn't even know about all the hoopla. Once he returns and hears what went on, this guy (the poster) will be possibly reprimanded. But until he returns and clears the air, let me just say that these prototypes were obtained legally and that the authenticators authenticated them as real. We have to be able to trust our sellers and our authenticators.

In all the time I've been in business, I've only sold genuine Ty products. I pay to have all beanies (with a value of $100 or more) authenticated so that collectors know up-front that the beanies are the real deal. And my sources are legitimate people.

Ty has given away prototypes for years. Take a look at beanie books and you will see pictures of prototypes. Ty, Inc. allowed that book to be published and never questioned about the whereabouts of his prototypes. That's because they are all obtained legally. In the same vein, sellers have been selling prototypes for years with no questions from the Ty Company. Not even now! No one has received any official notification from Ty, Inc.. No auctions have been cancelled! At the time of the post on Ty's website, I personally choose to temporarily cancel mine auctions until I further investigated and found that it is a disgruntled jealous person.

So rest assured that the sellers and authenticators involved in selling prototypes are all very reputable and would never put anything in the market that would hurt or jeopardize the intregrity of collecting Ty products.

Most sincerely,

Phyllis
Queenies-Beanies

I was reading this article and it could have been me that wrote it. I am so frustrated at this point I will do anything to help. Just some facts. I have all emails to back this stuff up. Original order February 13, 2004 Many excuses months later as to why I didn't receive my merchandise. Something about unforeseen circumstances, etc.

Well, I was patient to a point. Was given another delivery date. I was unable to ever track the USPS number. Promised many delivery dates.

At one point was told that credit was put back on my card. It wasn't.

Maryanne herself said that she was sorry for the inconvenience and combined my orders into one. Never received those items. The combined order was November 17th. She said that I would have the shirts before Christmas. Emails sent to them were for the most part never answered. The website link to check status didn't work.

No one ever answers the phone. The standard email reply is that they will reply within 72 hours but no one doesn't.  I really thought that this was a joke. I was also given 2 free t-shirts for the inconvenience but of course have never received a thing. I threatenend to call Consumer Affairs.

I was sent an email saying that anyone who threatens their company they will no longer do business with and they will show consumer's the receipt of my refund. I asked for proof of my refund and no answer back once again.

Help!

I didn't think that I was the only one in this.

Regards,
Annette Roman

--This person's Bad Trader Page--
http://www.traderlist.com/AmericanaCoutue.html

The rumors that are floating around on the “TY CHAT BOARDS” about the prototypes I am selling being counterfeit or stolen, are ridiculous. I’ve spent many years working hard to keep my 100% positive feedback. I would NEVER EVER risk my reputation.

Also, people need to lay off the authenticators. It is their job to make sure that an item is an authentic Ty product and nothing more. It is NOT their responsibility to notify Ty Inc. every time a Beanie comes in for authentication. Prototypes are not difficult to determine the authenticity on, if you know the product, and have studied and documented them for years, as the authenticators have.

Thank you, Steve Cohen Pacmanbeanies Inc.

New Jersey Daily Record Article concerning Seth and Wendy Lutz.

http://www.dailyrecord.com/news/articles/news9-beanie.htm

--This person's Bad Trader Page--
http://www.traderlist.com/SethandWendyLutz.html

The imaginary resort is named Inndulge Cancun Mexico, and the web site is www.inndulgecancun.com. Any help would be appreciated.

John Rosen