Complaints Against Luke Konrath-LK Collectables

Hartford, WI 53027 or Oconomowoc, WI 53066, Whitewater, WI 53190-2702

konrath@nconnect.net, barnum79@worldnet.att.net, walleye@nconnect.net, konrathlb23@uwwvax.uww.edu, collectibles1@visto.com, toybox20@hotmail.com, Collectibles-queen@hotmail.com

New:  oldies_but_goodies_toys@hotmail.com, oldies@lawyer.com, Toy Box

If you have questions about the complaint,
please contact the person who it was filed by.

Contact the Hartford Police at chief@hartfordpolice.org (Chief Jones)

On July 26, 1999 I was the high bidder on an Amazon.com auction for a MWMT Libearty with "Beanine" tag. I received a very non-mint Libearty. After numerous attempts (email & phone) Luke Konrath DBA LK Collectibles, he agreed to send me the correct item once I returned the first Libearty (at my expense). As of this date I do not have the item in question and Mr.Konrath has failed to reply to any of my emails. I sent him a MO for $204.11 and had to spend another $8.20 to send the first Libearty back to him.Since I have posted feedback on him, I have received several emails from individuals with the same or similar complaints which I can forward to you. I would just like to have him added to your Caution or Bad Traders List.  His full name is Luke Konrath. Email(s):konrath@nconnect.net and barnum79@worldnet.att.net
Mailing Address:Luke Konrath
DBA LK Collectibles
77 Highland Ave.
Hartford, WI 53027

I am not sure who you are but I will gladly tell you what is going on. When I recieved the beanie back I did not feel I could make nproctor@erils.com happy in any way with a new beanie. So I SENT him a refund Check which he CASHED. I have the cashed check in my hand. He then said that unless I gave him a new beanie and then another beanie valued at $45! I didn't even have that beanie in stock and told him that and he went crazy. So he has cashed a refund check from me and I have proof. He has been slandering my name ILLEGALLY, and I would imagine if you give me a bad trader name that would be not fair. As for anyone else, they have not contacted me, if there is a problem I always fix things, you can imagine with something like beanies there is always problems.I will try and fax the cashed check to you tonight. I only have a digital camera and use EFax.com but that should work. Also the $8.20 to ship back to me was not the amount is costs it only costs $3.20 plus shipping is non-refundable but I did send him the $3.20 shipping costs back. I will try and get that to you later.

The middle of July I won 3 of Luke's auctions. I was very excited about one inparticular, Brown Bear NF. He was going to mail them all together. I should have known right from the get go that something was wrong. I had to e-mail him several day's after the auction to see what was going on and where to mail my money order. I waited almost a month and e-mailed him again asking where my shipment was. Well he said that he was very sorry that he had been on vacation but cut it a week short because he had forgotten to mail some of his orders and would have mine out in 3 day's. After another 2 weeks went by I e-mailed him again and was informed that 21 of his packages had been lost!! But not to fear he would replace them. I e-mailed Luke several times in the next 3 to 4 weeks and the funny thing was his story was different every time. The packages lost dropped to 4. I think he had a hard time remembering who he told what. Finally the latter part of Aug. he e-mailed me back that my shipment had been sent. I did come a few day's later but there was no Brown Bear. Needless to say I e-mailed him again and he said that he was very sorry but when he was packing my box he noticed that BB was not in very good condition so he didn't want to send him out. He said that he would send me another one. That was about 3 weeks ago and I haven't heard a work from him. I haven't left any negative feedback because I didn't want to make him mad and not send my bear. I paid $57.00 for him. I had an idea that I would like to run by you. Luke doesn't put a reserve on his auctions so I wonder if a beanie doesn't go for what he wants he just doesn't send it. I thought $57.00 was a reasonable price for BB. Is there any way you can see if that is a pattern? I hope this all makes sense to you. If I can do anything else please let me know. Marge

One compaint from Jully? Come on I don't know what to say. I have an Ebay Feedback rating of 2003. I am an Ebay Power Seller. I have 300 sales a week at a minimum. I am not sure what happens to me if you put me on the bad traders list but I have well over 2000 happy people compared to 2 complaints. I think any business would think that is successful. Not all transactions go smoothly but if the person who won the Brown Teddy would of called me it would all be straightened out. I had no idea I owed that person a Brown Teddy from JULY!

He sent me a check for $100 "because that's all he could afford at the time" And that was only after he told me on 4 different occassions that the correct Libearty was or would be sent. And that's when I told him I wanted a refund including expenses, $204.11. $200.56 for Libearty & 3.55 for Priority, Confirmation.That's when he said he would make it good and offered a Libearty with "Beanie" Tag and for me to pick something I considered adequate "payment", if I had to go out and get a Libearty with "Beanine" tag. So I picked the 98 Teddy ($45) and he now tells you he didn't have it in his inventory,eventhough he had it listed. I chose 98 Teddy because on his listing he had Libearty for $245 and since I paid just over $200 I thought it fair to ask for the difference of the two. So, originally I was only looking to get my original bid amount & shipping costs refunded when he sent the check for $100 & said he would pay me the rest "ASAP". I have not had any further contact with Luke because Amazon.com has told me if I email him that I could be suspended from their board for harassing a user. So I have had to begin legal action against him and once I get the info of the other 30-50 we plan on contacting Amazon.com,Ebay & the Better Business Bureau in his area to see if any of them will do anything this time.I currently have 7 people who have emailed me regarding their experience with Luke and I advised them to contact you directly, so there will probably be more. And a lady who was "taken" for $149.65 has compiled a list of 30-50 people who have either contacted her or she has contacted and they also wish to voice their concern. As I said Amazon.com must have thought he was in the wrong or why would they send me a check? Check #0000001621 dated 9/23/99 Invoice #058-5802245-7564751. They must have notified him because since the 23rd he's posted messages on a German & a Japanese Trading Board that I was a thief,etc.The webmasters checked and removed his message and posted an apology on their boards. And most of the emails I got from his customers said he threatened them also. I'll contact them again to get them to email you. I REALLY thank you for all this help. Neither Ebay nor Amazon.com has done anything to "curb" his practices, so you were the lucky one to end up with this one. Sorry!

I am yet another buyer that had a terrible experience with Luke Konrath on Amazon. I purchased several items (appx. $300) from him over a 2 week period (while he had a good rating). It took 6 weeks and several "semi-threatening" emails on my part to get my purchases. My first purchase was for one item. I paid by check and received the item in a timely manner. My next 3 purchases were via credit card (through his website, at his direction). At the time I purchased these items, I also purchased other items on his website, and completed the transactions as per his website directions. He charged my credit card immediately for these items, and it was only after 22 emails and threats that I finally received my items. I then started receiving email from others that had bad experiences with him. This man gives auctions a bad name, and has certainly left a bad taste in my mouth. Thank you for your attention to this matter. Lis Cummings

You are taking this person's word over mine.you are falsifying my name. We don't know who you think you are but that is against the law and if I lose ANY business I will hold you personally acountable. Now, I don't have a fax machine but I expect you to give me your full name and address and I will send you a copy of the $203.20 check that they cashed NOT $100. Then I expect an apology from you and an apology listed on your site. I also expect this person to be put on the bad trader list. I also sent ebay a copy of the check and they have warned this person!! So send me your address!

I don't have any specifics except my name and number and some events... i'll answer any questioons you have aobut anything connected with this situation.my name is jane bischoff, my ebay user name is janeybee.I won three auctions from luke conrath back in early august. I won an auction for derby the horse (with no star), for about $14.50, batty the tye-dye bat for $8 and happy the hippo for $14 plus 3.20 for postage. it was sent to him on 8-18-99. and I have never heard another word from him... do you think it would make him act if I left him negative feedback? I notice he always responds in writing to his negative feedback. let me know what you think.I sent him a money order on 8-10 for about $39.70. no response, no beanies, no refund. I waited aptiently. I emailed him and asked them about the auction and the status of the beanies... no response, ( I could probably get the exact dates if I neded to...) I emailed him again, and again, no answer... I accessed the user information and called the number listed... I got an answering machine and left a message. and I haven't hear a word fom him since.... if you ned anything else, please do not hesitate to contact me... I WANT MY BEANIES!

I won an auction from the above mentioned, and never received the bear I won, but finally after many different stories, I did get my money order back. I will never order anything else from this person, and I see that he has done the same thing to many people. Thank you for any help you can give us all.Jeanie

I looked at your site and it seems that being on the BAD Traders list won't hurt me because my customers don't visit this site. However, I want to prove that I am right. Both Ebay and Amazon have BOTH warned this person after I proved to them, so I will have to spend the time proving it to you also. I will send a copy to you tomorow and then all I want is an apology. Ebay has warned nelson proctor. I sell over 400 beanies a week. Do you think that maybe there will be problems. Of course. If any of these people contact me I fix ALL problems. Don't you think I would be out of business by now? Now I ask you do you have any proof from any of these people that I am scamming them? No you don't. I will prove that I sent this person a refund check. Then I want an apology and I want THEIR name on your bad trader list. OK.  Thanks Luke

LK Collectables
Luke Konrath.
I was wondering what I should do, for about 2 months I have been having a problem recieving beanies I won in an auction or several auctions He sent me email to either go to his web page and fill out order form with auction numbers and payment info or fax it to him, after filling out the order page several times and him still saying he was not getting it, I faxed my info to him he then said it must not have gone through so we did it once again and from then I have not heard for him, we are awaiting our billing statement to see if he charged our cards. He was a 5 star rating but when I went to post feedback on him I noticed alot of problems he has had similar it has taken people months after he charges their cards to get the beanies and he refuses to return messages. He has also changed ihis email address again His web site is www.lkcollectables.com his last known email address is konrath@nconnect.com

Quite simply, my experience with him is that he poorly handled what SHOULD have been a smooth transaction. I bid on a Beanie Baby named Stripes ( a tiger), and he sent me a Beanie Baby named Freckles (a leopard). When I emailed him to tell him he had sent the wrong one, he insisted that I had called the Beanie "Freckles" in our correspondance (I kept all the emails and NEVER referred to it as Freckles -- even if I had, the seller has a copy of which items are won by customers and he should have checked that list before sending it out to me!). Quite simply, he messed up. He offered to replace the incorrect Beanie with the correct one, but said I'd be responsible for shipping on the items. Instead, I offered to purchase the correct Beanie from him at the same price for which I won it if he would waive the shipping charges on that item since the incident was not my fault -- rather generous on my part, I thought, since the mistake was not mine! That would have given him an additional sale just so I could have what I was supposed to have received from him in the first place. After that, he never replied to my email correspondance. At that point, I started checking out his Amazon.com auction feedback comments and found that, around the time I started bidding on his items, he started doing many similar things to many different would-be customers/winners of his auctions. I contacted several and encouraged them to write to sentinal@amazon.com to see if we might be able to do something about his business ethics online so other people were not going through what we did with him. The people with whom I have had contact were overcharged for the products, never received things after he told them they had shipped, received incorrect products, received no follow-ups to email/faxes about their won auctions -- the list goes on and on. Sure, he has lots of positive feedback, but the negative comments almost always reflect the same sorts of problems. And MANY of the positive comments are from "repeat buyers." I hope that you can keep him from continuing his unprofessional business practices online -- or at least to attach such a reputation to his name that people will think twice before they buy from him. Welcome to the wonderful world of Luke Konrath! *L*Thanks very much for everything you guys have done to stop him. Those of us who are out here to do this for fun will rest more easily knowing that he isn't out there to give us the run-around anymore.Sincerely, Chrissie Anderson

Oh ho ho ho ha ha ho ha ......I'm so sorry - I would have responded right away, but I've been laughing too hard to even be able to reach my keyboard!!!! "Luke says he is a good trader" Oh hoho ha ha....!This is Wendy, "iguanamom" on eBay. I have a 100+ rating....all positive. I have never had an unresolved problem of any sort - except of course with a thief named Luke Konrath. Yes, I am outright calling him a thief, and would be more than happy to sign any kind of affidavit to that effect. My involvement with him is outlined in my last email to him, which I will forward to you immediately following this email. The truth is I am sick and tired of dealing with Luke Konrath stuff. I have repeated my story so many times, and spoken to so many people.....I feel this 'man' has already cost me more than he is worth in time and grief. (And why the hell won't eBay do anything about it????? I have given them all the details, and so have a lot of other people. As Luke said to someone..."Do you really think eBay is going to listen to you? I pay them over two thousand a month in fees......") I won three auctions of his last April. Through numerous emails back and forth with Luke I ordered 2 additional items. I was very excited as it was my first purchase of an 'expensive' item. Two of the auctions I had won were for special beanies for my daughter's 11th Birthday in July. He knew that.  On May the 4th 1999 he cashed my money order for $149.65. I have a copy of it. He has not responded to any of my emails since. It's not even the money.......it's my daughter!! I still keep on politely requesting her beanies. In my last message to him, I said if he once again did not respond I would have to pursue other alternatives. My little girl even called him once. He didn't even have the decency to respond to her. Once I realized, by very carefully going through his feedback, that this is the way he operates with low feedback # people, I found a great number of eBayers whom he has cheated. Worse yet, many of them directed me to others who were not listed in his feedback! They would not post negative feedback, feeling they could not afford to have a negative placed on them when they were new to eBay. What has also surprised me was how many people were afraid of him. I was planning a group complaint, and many people refused to join - and advised me to be careful. Some people still have copies of the threats he sent them via email. Unfortunately I have also had a lot of computer reformatting to do (Can you say "husband"?) and lost all my information THREE times. I do have hard copies here and there, but not the time nor energy to follow through. Perhaps that info. would be better going to you - but I would much rather see it used in a lawsuit. Why can this man operate with impunity???? Literally hundreds of people know he's a crook!!! I run a business 12 hours a day; have a family; 6 pets; help run a Women's Shelter; and do beanies - therefore my time is very limited. I will, however, go to the ends of the earth to get this guy and all three of his user id's off of eBay permanently. After I heard from a really kind disabled lady on how he cheated her....that really did me in!! I am willing to help in any way I can. Please feel free to use my name and/or quotes from this email any time you want, for any reason you see fit. I have nothing to hide, and we all have a lot to gain. Please keep me informed, if you are able.  Wendy          Here is the email I sent to him: Wendy
To: konrathlb23@uwwvax.uww.edu
Sent: Saturday, September 18, 1999 2:04 PM
Subject: TRYING AGAIN!
Hi Luke,
This is Wendy from Canada again. The one who's money order from May 4th/99 you have cashed......but not sent the beanies. In all honesty, I can see how this might have been overlooked in the first place. I won three of your auctions, and after several friendly emails between us I also added to my order. Perhaps when you received my payment, it was difficult to figure it out. I had inadvertently transposed the last 2 digits of one of the auction numbers. You probably put the whole thing aside to be resolved when I called. I am not sure what has transpired since. I do know that I have contacted you several times.....but not very often, perhaps once a month, as it is not my intention to harass. You have never responded to me. The one point I will say I am upset about is that 2 of these beanies were for my daughter's birthday, and you were aware of that. I do find it disappointing that you did not respond to my messages when her birthday was drawing nearer, and I was getting panicky. That HAS hurt my feelings. Money can be replaced, beanies can be replaced, - my little daughter's birthday cannot. This time I have written a longer message to you, in the hopes it will not be as easy to set aside. I do understand that you are under the impression that eBay rules state that you must contact a person by phone before posting negative feedback or initiating legal action. The rules do not state this as a fact - it is what they "suggest". Just for the record I contacted eBay and had this clarified. Their position is that in cases of misunderstandings, it is sometimes easier to resolve a situation by talking to the other party directly. That position does not apply to sellers who choose not to reply. Nor do I feel it is appropriate for purchasers who have low feedback ratings to have to go to these lengths to receive their paid-for merchandise. This leads me to make a formal request of you to please respond to this message. I am also officially giving you fourteen days notice to send me my items AS DESCRIBED IN THE AUCTIONS AND OUR CORRESPONDENCE........collector quality, and mint with mint tags; AFTER which time I will take whatever further action necessary to receive my merchandise. Four and one half months is, I feel, ample time for you as a seller to amend your records to have rectified this situation. The items paid for are as follows:
AUCTION #96931534 - Goldie
AUCTION #96458577 - Bubbles
AUCTION #96456162 - Baldy
NON-AUCTION - Legs & Cubbie.
Thank you for your attention to this matter, and if you need any further clarification please don'thesitate to contact me.Sincerely,Wendy  ('iguanamom' on eBay).  

It is my belief that he is also running off of Yahoo!, as one eBayer he cheated said they ran into him there too. The way he operates is - if you've got low feedback, you might get no product. If medium feedback - dirty or damaged product. High feedback - you get proper/good service. If you post a neutral feedback , you may get your stuff. However, once he has targeted you to cheat he will not respond to emails. If you post negative - he threatens you and gets very intimidating. I have other suspicions too, because I watch his auctions. Way too many are for Libearty, Lefty, Righty, Coral, etc. Can they all be real???? I've seen him auction about 100 of them. Also, the stealing he does is for relatively small amounts, and he has like two pages of positive feedback, and then a really bad negative......then pages of positive, etc. It is very well planned out. I could not tell you how many stories I've heard!!!  Oh, and his names on eBay are Jordan101; Konrath; and walleye@ndirect.net. The last one is only from my memory, so may not be exactly correct. You'll see by looking at the auctions. Also sometimes the beanies come from different addresses I've heard. Also I wrote down another email address that I believe is Luke's, although he says it is his brother Jake's - who just happens to be living with him & just happens to sell beanies also: walleye@nconnect.net Thanks again,

I won one of his auctions for a beanie baby on Amazon. He never contacted me or answered my repeated e-mails. I finally left him negative feedback (something I am very hesitant to do). That's all. Linnea Horine

It was touch and go for awhile and maybe he got so busy with orders or something, but in the end my order did arrive but in a little rough shape so I would give him a medium rating.

I bid on a lefty and won from this person. After several days of not hearing from him I e-mailed for his address. I was e-mailed and sent payment next day. 2 weeks later I had not heard anything from him. After several e-mails I was contacted and said they would check into it. Another week went by and I got an e-mail stating I had won this auction and to send payment. After a few more e-mails I was assured I would be taken care of. The following week I received my check back stating lefty had a bad tag and they did not want to send it. After checking their ongoing auctions on e-bay and amazon I found 2 more auctions for lefty. It had been so long that when I tried to leave negative feedback time had expired. I would never deal with them again. I think they have so many auctions going on they can not keep track. Thanks for letting me vent. Cathy

I did have a transaction with Luke Konrath. It started out bad, But he did rectify the situation. I can say he is rather slow at responding to e-mails and doesn't seem to bother with certain situations properly. I guess as far as the bad traders list. I would leave that up to the people who actually were "mis lead" with his dealings. Bye

I was less than pleased with my transaction with Luke Konrath to say the least. I won a beanie baby on auction from him and paid by credit card the day after the auction closed. It took 4 working days to get confirmation of my payment and 4 or 5 days mare before I got an e-mail saying my package had shipped. 5 days after the e-mail saying my beanie had shipped I got a refund in the mail that was postmarked 2 days after the e-mail that said my item had shipped. He never contacted me to tell me that he was giving me a refund instead, just a note with the check saying the tag was bent and he didn't want to ship a beanie that was not mint. The beanie was a gift for my wife's birthday and he left me scrambling for a gift with only 4 days to find one and 3 of those days I was out of town on business. Pretty sloppy if you ask me. If I conducted my business this way I would be out of business very quickly. Hope this helps you to warn others about his sloppy business practices. Oh  yeah, once I posted negative feedback he offered to ship me the item I had won. needless to say I did not try to do business with him a second time. I think he was unhappy that I got the item at such a low price and decided he could make a better profit elsewhere.Thanks for your interest and I would love to know of another site where I could check trading records. Please let me know if your site is open to the public Thanx Jeff

I am not going to say to much...I had won 2 auctions from him on amazon...I paid with credit card...He says he sent the items 3 times...I only received the package once...he told me I was taking advantage of him and I ripped him off for the $150+ because he had already sent the order to me...I finally did get the beanies...and they were okay...it just took me almost a month and many e-mails to amazon and luke...I did research at the time and he was living with his brother and then was in the middle of moving...he said he had several recent packages "lost" in the mail...I don't deal with him andy more...I just urge anyone who asks to proceed with caution...he has made several people happy, but on the other hand...his business was growing fast and he might have just had problems keeping up...he never left feedback...i don't know if he ever does...those who do have problems with him, he seemed to handle a little on the rude side...there are two sides to every story and I am sure he has one...Thanks for your time...just proceed with caution....Thanks, Rachelle

The first time I bought an item of his on the auction, I waited a week and a half for him to email me with a total and address. In the meantime I notified the auction universe and gave him a bad rating. I felt at this time that he had backed out of the sale. When I finally heard from him, he gave me a tongue lashing about giving him a bad rating and wanted me to change it. I told him I would try. I did manage to get it changed to a 3, but I was not going to give him a 5. I was really worried about sending him the check and not receiving the beanie baby. So I down right lied and told him, when I emailed him that the check was on the way, that auction universe had said to let them know when I received the BB and that would put him back in their good graces. I did receive the BB, but also receive 2 more emails from him, letting me know that I had given him a bad name with the rating I gave him. I WOULD DEFINITELY NEVER EVER BUY FROM HIM AGAIN AND NEVER EVER RECOMMEND HIM TO ANYONE. Do what you want to do but watch him carefully, I do not trust him, this is another reason when I was having all this trouble, I looked up other people that were bidding on his items and emailed them about the problems I was having.Yardgranny

I "won" Sting the Ray from Luke for $77.00. Amazon.com directions say that he should have contacted me within 1 (?) week. (I can't remember now.) The week went by and then I went on vacation for 1 1/2 weeks. No email was on my server when I returned. I was extremely busy and kind of forgot. When I remembered, it was about 1 1/2 months from the date I had won it. Still, no contact made by Luke. I got the feeling that Sting the Ray had been auctioned off for less than he felt he should get, so he just ignored the sale. To make matters worse, it is for my nephew who is dying from leukemia. And I - being the trusting soul that I am - told my nephew that I had won it for him. We're both still waiting.Thank you for your concern. Lisa

When I made my first purchase with Konrath I was new to AMAZON auctions and he was maybe my 5th purchase about two months ago. I made the mistake of telling him so. Since then, I have had a perfect 69+ 5 star with Amazon and more of the same at eBay--all positive. I am also a seller/trader at both places myself. All I can figure is Konrath was angry at me because I had purchase at least 20 different beanies at lower prices than his extensive price lists he sent me every time I confirmed. He was also angry when I told him not to send me those long lists because I copy everything for my records and didn't want to keep printing his price lists.Now he recently contacted me after Amazon became involved with my complaint. It has been more than two weeks since Amazon told him to cooperate with me. He is under serious investigation that they cannot say anything more about. They say that I might be able to legally sue him besides file a complaint with them. They told me that they have excluded him from their community yet I still see his ads running from time to time--very low starting prices--hardly anyone bids on them anymore. I told him I could sue. I heard from him again pretending to not know who I was or what I was talking about again for about the third time. I wanted Amazon to wipe every trace of him from my account so he can't respond to my feedbacks. I think he has other accounts and gives himself false feedbacks by winning his own auctions. He lists every beanie imaginable and never has an endless supply of the hard to find ones. Maybe he does spam or gives my name out to porno spam too.I just wrote yesterday about sending the products to me first and then I would pay him for the 20 beanies he owes me. Feedback on his Amazon account stated that he was sending out fakes and I don't trust him because of the hard time he gave me. Again, I am hearing nothing and it's been over 24 hours. I had given my charge card number to him and it didn't work through his system and never was put on my charge account. He claimed it was a new system and they were getting the bugs out of it. Now he had my charge number and that really makes me nervous! I'm tired of seeing his name on my feedback needed accounts with him. I'm very concerned about the damage he will do to me if he decided to give negative feedback. This is the address that he sent to me. "Please make check or money order out to:
LK Collectibles
411 A Greenland Ave.
Oconomowoc, WI 53066
Sincerely, Mary

I won 2 of his auctions on Amazon. They closed on 9/21/1999 and 9/24/1999. I have sent email to send payment, but never got any response. These were both won on low prices ($1.00 and $2.26). You would think that most people would understand that an auction means that you could lose if you don't have a reserve price. I guess this guy just puts his auctions up and if you don't win at his winning price then you don't get the winning auction. I would recommend you looking at the feedback on Amazon before buying from this guy.

I sent him 68 dollars and waited and waited and waited.his email addy was not good for a time. then I finally got an email that he had family illness And I should not trouble him about the silly beanie. Well I am a disabled person and that much money is the difference between me and the poor house. But finally after three monthes I got my red digger. I was so relieved that I got something. that I left it alone.'but a person with the email addy Jar10 or 01 did notify me and I gave her my story. thank you for getting this person from taking other people like me.thanks Candy Thompson

My dealing with him was that I won 2 auctions and he did not want to send the beanies after he recieved my payment, claiming he did send and that he had proof of delivery but the date he gave me was for a Sunday (no mail on sundays). He did finally send me 2 beanies but one of them was not the one I paid for (sent strut instead of doodle). He was very nasty with his emails to me too. So I ended up losing in the deal. Donald Wright

The guy's a rat. He double deals you, runs an illegal operation using a university computer and a P.O. Box. He got me ob E-Bay. I complained to them and they said they were not the police. Someone who cares so little about fraud on their service doesn't get me business. I haven't hit E-Bay in 6 months. He also has several aliases. A lady that e-mailed me had tons of stuff on him and was dying to see some justice. If I can fin her e-mail address, I'll get back to you. He lies like a snake, and he had the nerve to threaten me with bad ratings if I told on him!

I am glad that you are going to do something about bad traders. We bidded on a beanie and never recieved it and then when we emailed him about it he kept lying to us about it being sent. After about a month of ths run around we left negative feedback for him he and then he turned around and left us negative feedback saying we were liars and we didn't follow the ebays rules which we did. As we had hard copy proof. We later then we got email from someone who said she had the same problem as we did. And also alerted us that he was using more than one users name. ANd that he had himself or a friend bid against you to bring the price up and he left his own feedback for himself. Thanks plammy

Several months ago, I had ordered a few beanie babies from him. Two or three of the ones I received were not in mint condition as advertised. Tags were bent or had watermarks. After several e-mails, we agreed that Iwould ship them back and he would send replacements, which he did. Though this situation was corrected, I would not buy from him again.

Months ago I had won one of his auctions and I sent him a money order and weeks went by and I never received my beanie. Him and I had some pretty bad emails going back and forth. Mostly him threatening me about turning me into ebay and so forth. So I finally got tired of it and told him I would contact the better business beaurea on him and then he theatened to sue me. And I told him before he makes threats on line he better make sure he knows what business the person is in he is threatening. A week later I received my beanie! Will never buy from him again! Deb

 I want to tell you about the horrible time I had with Luke. I just finished reading some of the complaints and the pattern is so obvious. The question I have is "how does he pick the people to mistreat & threaten?" I too won an auction from him on Ebay. I was so excited, it was my first auction win. It was for Derby w/ no star. I couldn't wait for him to email me so I emailed him to find out where to send my money order. Typical pattern followed- no response- this exercise in futility continued for over a month. I even sent a message thru Ebay's address system. I did not call him. At this point I left negative feedback. Within a day I had received negative feedback & threatening emails from him. He threaten all kinds of legal action, used the $2000 a month Ebay line and stated that he had emailed me but my email did not work. I told him he was stupid & that there was a paper trail for all my actions, including the fact that my email was working thru the whole time period in question. I was not going to be threatened by him. I pursued his trail & emailed other dissatified buyer's. I also recognized one of his email accounts was from a University ISP. I emailed them asking if it was legal to run a for profit business using the the school's equipment. They responded & stated it was against school policy. It could actually be illegal since the school is a state university, and therefore the taxpayers from Wisconsin are paying to run his business. When all was said and done, he changed his negative feedback to positive but did not admit any wrong doing. He asked me to change the feedback I left for him, which I have not done. He uses several names & email addresses. His brother is also working with him. One of the names I know about is "jordan101." I would warn anyone to stay away from him & and anybody who has an address in Wisconsin. Thank you, Judi Rich

I bid on and won a Coral the Fish Retired, ebay #67703926, and paid for i with postal money order #69840050073, dated 2/24/99. I received my beanie on 13 March 99. He contacted ebay and had me placed on a "deadbeat bidders" list. He tried to get a credit for the auction telling ebay that I did not complete the transaction. After several communications with ebay I had to place a tracer on the money order. I did this on 3/25/99. On April 10, 1999 I emailed Luke and told him that I had put a tracer on the money order and a "stop payment" would be put on it. I got a copy of the money order from the post office and it had been cashed on 3/15/99. Now, I received the warning from ebay on March 19,1999 only 4 days AFTER he cashed the money order. I was never given a chance by ebay to prove that I had completed the transaction. They dropped the charge and cleared my file. Luke Konrath said that he never used his college address to conduct business. I have my copy of the money order plus the copy that the post office sent me and his email to me. They clearly show that I sent the money order to:
Luke Konrath
Knilan's Hall Room 205
411 N. Prairie St.
Whitewater, WI 53190-2702
This is the address that Luke gave me to mail the money order. An email from the Webmaster at UW-Whitewater said that "running a 'for profit business' will be violating the campus electronic usage policy." I had to threaten him with mail fraud just to get him to send me the beanie. To this day I think that I received a fake beanie. I keep a watch on his auctions and was really surprised to see that on 8/11/99 that he had 8 Libearty, 5 Garcia, 5 Grunt, 4 Chops and I don't believe that I have seen one person have so many "hard to find" beanies. Even the next day there were several more Libearty added to his auction. It appears to me that he keeps listing the same beanie over and over. Whoever bids the highest gets good service and the beanie. He then collects from all bidders. Some get not mint beanies or no beanie at all. This is very evident by reading his feedbacks. I am the one that he told that "I give ebay over $2,000.00 a month and who do you think they will believe?" Ebay has failed to reply to any of my emails until I put a message on the suggestion box. Their reply was that they had "warned" him not to ever do it again. I asked them if they had read his feedback to see if their "warning" had done any good. Again no reply. Luke has gone by or goes by several names. These are the ones that I know about:
Konrath
barnum23
beanie23
jordan101
walleyed
I am sure that there are probably many more. I have told him that I will continue to watch his auctions and warn people of the way he does business.I will continue to do this. I think that he has broken and will continue to break many laws. This person needs to be held accountable for his actions and must be made to make restitution to all of the people he scammed. I hope that this hasn't been too long. I could go on forever, but I have tried not to dwell on it. I have better things to do than to lose part of my life with the likeness of this lowlife. However, I would be willing to send you any hard copies I have dealing with this matter. Thank you for taking the time to handle this matter.
October 13, 1999 Take a look at the bidder, donsscooter, on ebay. He started bidding in January when Konrath changed his ID. If you look at the bids of this person. He has bid on over 215 auctions and 17 feedbacks. He bids on Konraths but never wins. If you review the time of the bids, there is only a minute between his bid times,on multiple items.If Konrath bids on his own, can he go down the list and bid faster than the average person can? I can't do it. Maybe you can do some further checking. By the way, I attempted to locate Luke Konrath in the white pages under his name. No luck. I did find a Mark Konrath and a Sue Konrath in Hartford, WI with the same phone number as Luke. No Konraths are listed in Whitewater. Luke now has the address of Oconomowoe, WI. We have been unable to locate him with his email address.I will look some more at the bidders on Luke's auctions. He received another Negative on ebay (4 this week.).

In December 1998, I won 2 auctions, one for spooky the ghost and one for snowball, After 16 days of my money order being cashed and beanies not sent, we tried contacting Luke several times and he would not respond, when we started leaving negative comments then he became interested but not before he threatened me with his uncle who supposingly is a lawyer,he also told us that because we waited 3 weeks to contact him that he had no records anymore. I even had to pay to get a copy of the money order that he signed and cashed. I left negative feedback every day starting Christmas eve and Luke finally had ebay kick me off of ebay. I sent a complaint to ebays main offices and the postal fraud division. he kept telling me that he was gonna tell ebay on me leaving him negative feedback and that ebay would take care of me and they did i got thrown off for 2 or 3 weeks, till i finally pleaded my case, but still luke could stay on ebay and sell.Then he finally sent me my money back. With all the money ebay gets from him I think ebay should be liable also after all they are getting some of our money also. Ebay has deaf ears when we bidders have a problem and then they continue to let him sell. Totally unfair. From looking at his auctions it seems as though he might be double selling, where he has 2 of the same items and only honors one of the auctions that has the higher bid. I think he should never be allowed to sell anywhere or anything. (please check my rating on ebay 103 positives no neutral or negatives. Why must good buyers and sellers have to put up with people like Luke. Newportal - Albert Pontius

I can't believe that my husband and I are aren't the only ones that got  jerked around by Luke! I think it was back in August that we had one our first beanie from Konrath...it was actually our first time on ebay. We wound  up winning 3 different beanies and Luke responded right away telling us where  to send the $$$$. The following day our money order was in the mail as promised. Five days went by and we sent him an email making sure that he did get our money order and that the beanies were on their way. Well about 6 days went by and we didn't hear anything from him. I found out that when he originally sent us a confirmation letter when he had informed us that we won his auction he used 2 different email addresses....walleye and konrath....so my husband I starting sending emails to both addresses. A couple of days later we received an email from walleye and said that he didn't know why we were sending him emails because he was Luke's BROTHER and he had nothing do with it! he also said that Luke was on vacation and that he would get in touch with him. About 2 days later Luke sent us an email stating that he had to go on vacation early or something and will send them when he gets back...which would have been about 2 days later. Well about 2 weeks after that email and after many threatening emails on our behalf we finally got our beanies and he didn't even send us an email checking to see if we had received them or not!!! Luke says in his defense that he deals with 100's of transactions a week and what we are saying is rare. Well let me tell you something Luke...when things go wrong it's how YOU take care of it that is important. I have read other peoples stories and along with my experience I would never do business with you again...if you can't stand the heat get out of the kitchen and stop auctioning off sooo many beanies a week if you are having such a problem!!

I'M GLAD TO SEE THAT KNORATH HAS A BAD REPUTATION AND MANY PEOPLE KNOW. THIS IS MY STORY: ON 5-1-99 I WON 3 OF LUKES AUCTIONS ON EBAY. I SENT M.O. OUT ON 5-3-99 AND LUKE CASHED IT ON 5-10-99. I HAVE A COPY OF IT. I WAITED AND NEVER GOT MY STUFF. SO I MAILED HIM SEVERAL TIMES WITH NO RESPONSE. SO I EFT FEEDBACK ON EBAY. HE THEN RESPONED AS YOU CAN READ THAT HE DIDN'T KNOW WHAT I WAS TALKING ABOUT. SO I REMINDED HIM AND STILL MORE BULLSH-T. SO I REMINDED HIM THAT HE QUALIFIED FOR MAIL FRAUD. SUDDENLY HE REMEMBERED ME AND MY PACKAGE WAS DAMAGED IN MAIL AND SENT BACK. WELL THE PART DAMAGED WAS MY ADDRESS AND HE WAS WAITING ON ME TO MAIL HIM WITH ADDRESS. SO I NEVER GOT MY STUFF, BUT HE DID SEND A REFUND. I STILL FEEL CHEATED AND KONNED.I WANTED THE GOODS NOT M MONEY. I DON'T KNOW IF THIS HELPS, BUT I HOPESO. I STILL HAVE HIS EMAILS IF YOU WANT TO READ THEM. I ALSO CONTACTEDE EBAY. VERY VERY DISAPPOINTED WITH THEM. THEY DIDN'T AS MUCH AS ASK THE MAN ABOUT IT. SO THANK YOU FOR BEING INVOLVED. TELL YOUR SOURCE OF MY NAME I SAID THANKS. HAVE A NICE DAY!!

I did also have a run-in with Luke Konrath back in June on E-bay.I can't say too much, as this past week, he promised to make things right.What happened was,..I won an auction for a 'peanut' beanie for around $17.50, then he mentioned he had a listing of all the other beanies he had for sale.. I picked several and sent him a total of around $450. All the beanies I received, about 2 weeks later were fine except one...a 'Kiwi' I got for $100.I didn't have another to compare with at the time, but I found out about a month later that it had a fake hang tag. Several things wrong with it including all the copyright "C"'s were not circled as they usually are.I brought this and other errors of the hang tag, including very good digital pictures of a 'good' tag from Mary Beth's magazine, and his tag side by side..... to his attention and he said "NONE of his beanies were ever counterfeit". "And that I watied too long and he couldn't do anything about it". So I kinda resigned that there isn't much I can do after so a long a period...but, I was new to collecting, so I didn't know at the time.I did have it checked out and verified with 4 other dealers and they all agreed that the hang tag was a fake. So a friend of mine, and dealer, wrote to him for me a couple months later (last part of Sept.) and said she would report him if she didn't take it back and send another good one or give my $$ back.So I wrote him back and he said he would send me another one or a refund..my choice...so that is where it is at now.....I sent it (Kiwi) back last weekend and am waiting to see how fast he sends me $ or another good Kiwi. (Oct.12, 1999) Randy (Randall822) on Ebay with a perfect rating of 49

Update: October 29, 1999

Hello...I am happy to report that I received my 'Kiwi' today from Luke. If you recall my earlier letter, I got a bad one back in June. I complained  enough and he send me a good one and it arrived today. Randy Miller

I'm sorry it has taken me so long to respond to your E-mail, but I have been out of town. I too had a very unpleasent experience with Luke Konrath. I will try to gather all of the information I have and send it to you as soon as possible. I think he should be banned from all auction web sights, he is a crook and a con artist. Dione Louie-chinaaster@aol.com

His name has already been smeared as a bad trader and others alearted not to deal with him. My encounter was almost a year ago and was resolved after approx 6 week and 11 e-mails. I got the item I had paid for in proper condition.

On October 3, 1999 I was the high bidder on an auction offered by e-bay and the seller was Luke Konrath. It took 4 days and many emails on my part to get this person to respond to me. I was told how to send the payment by using my credit card on his website, so I did. As of today Oct. 22, 1999 and many e-mails later on my part again, I have no Manny Beanie in my hands but my credit card was charged. Now that Konrath has received payment I cannot get a reply at all. When I gave him negative feedback on e-bay he responded by email one time telling me "how dare I give him negative feedback" and that it was all my fault that I didn't fill out the order right when I payed by credit card. I have a copy of the order and it is all there. I sent him a copy of my receipt that his internet site gave me to prove that I did everything right and as of today Oct. 22nd I have received no response.

Like so many other people I was taken advantage of by Luke. He sold me 7 older beanies and forgot to send 3 of them to me. These were Flash, Splash, and Brown face teddy. When I emailed him about the mistake he was rude and nasty to me. He left me bad feedback on Ebay and slandered my good reputation. I found out he is a college kid and that he had done this to several people, but Ebay was still letting him sell items! I hope this will help you, he took me for over $200.00!!

I too am a victim of Konrath. Fortunately I had someone give me wise advice about what to do about getting my beanies. I ordered over $100 of beanies from Konrath on two separate auction sites in Sept.'99. I got all of them except two rabbits, which I immediately wrote and told him about, very politely, suggesting that a mistake had been made. I included the email I had sent him which I also sent with my payment. He requested my address again which I immediately sent and he replied they'd have to re-send. This continued for awhile and eventually I left bad feedback on him. He immediately responded to this, saying he had no idea that I hadn't received my beanies and asking what my problem was. I again sent him all the email and told him I was going to report him. He threatened to report me also and really had a fit about the second bad feedback I left for him. "Why didn't I just let him know what I was missing?" He responded to my feedback saying I was running a scam on him. He asked me to change my feedback when I got my beanies. I chose to rebut his rebuttal by warning others to check him carefully before taking a chance sending him their money. As I said, I finally got the two beanies he'd not sent. He followed his pattern in selecting me to be his victim. I had a low feedback rating at the time. Please DO NOT TAKE A CHANCE GETTING SCAMMED BY THIS MAN! I do have the proof in the form of email to support my story.

i won an auction on eBay for a Coral beanie. when he e-mailed me he added a list of his other beanies. so i sent $193.20 for Coral and a Kiwi the toucan. it took 6 weeks to recieve Coral. another two weeks to recieve Kiwi. when i recieved Kiwi, he had the letter 'G' written on his tush tag in ink. what really upsets me is by the time i recieved Kiwi, the original auction was no longer in eBay's database, so i could not leave negative feedback for him. i believe he does this on purpose. anything i can do to get him?? 200 bucks is too much to just let this go..thanks...

I understand possibly you can help`me. I won an auction on Ebay on Feb.5th and gave my credit card number via fax on the 6th for a Radar beanie babie. It was auction # 247085926. When I faxed the CC number, I also e mailed the seller asking for acknowledgement of his receipt of the fax and to advise when he shipped. I heard nothing. After 3 days I e mailed him again and I  received an answer the next day stating they were handling the CC orders that  day. Yesterday, I still heard nothing, so I e mailed him again and let him know I was really a bit upset, within the hour he answered me with another E Mail that stated they were handling the cc orders right at the moment. That really got to me so I E mailed him again stating that was the same story he gave me over a week ago and I was really disturbed that If I did not receive notice Radar was shipped and when I would report him to Ebay and go after him on a fraud point. Within 10 minutes I had an E mail stating "He checked and it had been shipped and I should receive it within a week", and there was no need for a threat. About 20 minutes later another E mail came thru stating to go ahead and report him to EBay, he didn't care as he isn't dealing with them anymore. He didn't bother to say they had suspended him. This mans name is Luke Konrath and his E mail address is Barnum79@worldnet.att.net.  Thank you very much for any assistance you can give me or at least point me in the right direction.

HELP!!!!!!!!! Hi again Trudy, This is Wendy again from Canada. I thought this crook was finally off of eBay for a while ... but not so. His userID of "Konrath" with its 27 negatives was finally deregistered. So is the userID he defrauded me with, "jordan101". I thought that might slow him down a bit. I have just been contacted by someone having trouble with a seller on eBay, asking me how I finally got my merchandise from him. I believe she contacted me because I am credible on eBay - lots of awesomely positive feedback, and nothing said about me that was not great. So if I posted that he is a crook - people have listened. Anyhow, I did not know the seller, so I looked it up. It is KONRATH!!!!! He has changed his userID from jordan101 a few times. Now he is "collectibles-king" and his email address is collectibles1@visto.com .Is there ANYTHING you can do to stop this man??? please don't forget to add link this new name to Konrath with your bad traders list. Some people will not know, with the new payment forms you don't have to send a money order to a name anymore. He is going to be harder to track in the future. Thanks again

I didn't find out until it was too late ... I bought a Libearty from him/them paid via Paypal and that was the last thing I heard. He/They are using eBay id Collectibles-King and surprisingly enough he/they have good feedback ... well, I am about to ruin that! $200 lost due to this guy ... I won't sit here and let it happen to others.

For those interested in Luke Konrath he has started to list auctions on Collecting Nations and has been suspended. His new handle is bigbuyer99 and has an e-mail address of beanies1979@hotmail.com with a mailing address of 411A Greenland Ave. Oconomowoc Wi. 53066. With all the bad trader complaints I just wanted those interested to beware.  Bill Markwordt

Bad Trader/Seller In Oconomowoc, Wisconsin

FYI...There is a reference on this site (under Bad Trader's) about a seller in Oconomowoc & other areas around Oconomowoc, Wisconsin. Just wanted to give you a few more e-mail addresses that he's been known to use. collectibles1@visto.com & collectibles1@hotmail.com He is still currently selling (successfully I might add) on Ebay under the e-mail address of walleye@nconnect.com I've notified Ebay but I am positive that they will do absolutely nothing about it.

This is in regards to an eBay auction held by eBay "POWER SELLER" walleye@nconnect.net (one LUKE or MARK Konrath) I was the winner of auction # 413586398 for a Garcia Beanie Baby. I sent payment on 9/1 and have yet to receive anything from this person. I just checked the Bad trader's list and guess what? I was right! He is one and the same...old eBay user ID KONRATH! Go to the URL below to read all about him. He was suspended from eBay once for stealing people's money, and he is at it again! He is going by a different 1st name now, but he has used the following e-mail addresses: walleye@nconnect.net <-----(he is using this as his ID on eBay now!)
konrath@nconnect.net
barnum79@worldnet.att.net
konrathlb23@uwwvax.uww.edu
collectibles1@visto.com

I WANT MY MONEY BACK! I am a single Mom w/ 3 kids, and I either need the money, or my Garcia. Right now, I am preferring my money! eBay POWER SELLER?

Is it still possible to get help recovering a loss due to a very dishonest Ebay trader? I am one of many victims of Konrath aka Luke Konrath. I have emailed him many times, and if I did get a response, he always had a different excuse. I am out $88 worth of Beanies, since January 31. He was suspended from Ebay, after cheating so many poor innocent folks like me. Please let me know if there is any hope of recovery. Thanks in advance.  Sincerely, Helene Drothler

I don't know if this went through the first time but it is worth repeating. I ran into this guy/girl on amazon. The libearty he/she sold me was COUNTERFEIT as per Peggy Galleger. I got no refund, I got no emails but 2 saying the problem would be taken care of. NOT Now I have no beanies no money. This guy/girl is a crook. He takes your money and runs. turn him in to the Hartford police dept. I did. chief@hartfordpolice.org (Chief Jones)

Subject: toybox@hotmail.com

I won 4 beanies on amazon on sept 1 and sept 4. 2 checks were sent to this person and I recived 2 beanies not 4. I have emailed them several times and they wont even answer my emails. So they got my money and never sent me my other 2 beanies. I have received several emails from people who also lost money with these people. So beware, as they will take your money and run, just like they took mine. Now they are selling on ebay, and they will take someone elses money and run. People like this make it bad for the honest buyer and seller. I worked hard for my money and I dont appreciate toybox taking it from me, No matter what they respond to on the complaint , just read all the other complaints they have, same thing, took their money and run, Thieves.Toybox you are being watched all over the net,. What goes around , comes around,. You will get ripped off one day, just like you did to all of us.

Subject: oldies@lawyer.com

traders_name: Oldies toys, Toy box, Comments: I won an ebay auction on April 10th for a Britannia buddy from oldies_but_goodies_toys@hotmail.com . The buddy he sent me was fake, and not the one pictured in the auction. He had good feedback but was a new user. I have emailed him about the problem and he won't get back to me. I checked your site to see if ther was anything on him and there is. I found complaints under Toybox20@hotmail.com and the adress he sent me is the same as in the complaints:

Toy Box
Hartford, WI 53027

So they have a new name, and a slightly new game (fakes), but they are still around. I thought I'd give you the new ebay name so people can check before they bid. When I bid there was nothing on that email, or ebay username.

Subject: oldies_but_goodies_toys@hotmail.com

traders_name: oldies_but_goodies_toys Comments: I won an ebay auction from this person. They stated that they beanie was mint with a mint tush tag and no hang tag. The beanie I received was covered in a pink stain of some sort. It was on the beanie and the tush tag. Also included in the bag was a hang tag for the beanie with the hole (for the hanger) riped completly out of it. I emailed many times with no response. Finally I emailed stating that I would be leaving negative feedback, they replied saying that I should not complain that I got a better beanie than I was suppose to! Since when is a stain covered beanie better than a mint one?? Will not refund money. With out a doubt do not deal with this person!!!!

Subject: oldies@lawyer.com   traders_name: Luke Konrath

Luke Konrath is at it again. Bought a Garcia from him on ebay. Was told to send payment to
"TOY"
P.O. Box 270064,
Hartford WI, 53027

Thought it was weird no name, but sent payment in good faith. Luke scammed me out of 97 Holiday Teddy Beanie a year and a half ago. He has changed his user name on ebay to oldies_but_goodies_toys@hotmail.com. I have notified ebay and this time I want something done. This man is a con artist and ruins ebay for those you buy and sell honestly. Last time I was scammed out of $30.00, this time it's for $67.50. Please help me to get my money back and get rid of Luke Konrath from ever trading again. Thanks.

Hi i recieved 3 fakes from oldies toys/ toy box/

oldies_but_goodies_toys@hotmail.com    oldies@lawyer.com

I had traded 6 smooches and 1 nipponia all authentic from authorized ty dealers for the following 1 garcia and 1 nipponia with this individual I have the 2 of the fakess with me and my common law husband can vouche that that is what I recieved. My friend in Japan has the other libearty as she had wanted it and I got it for her as a gift. This individual has told me that they are a lawyer and would prosecute me if i wrongfully slandered his name but i am the victim here. I have tried to resolve this myself and talked with them numerous times to try to get my beanies back with no result. What can I do about this please help as I feel very helpless and do not know what to do next. I have the envelope in witch the beanies were mailed and all the e mails from this person I never did get their name but the address from the trade is as follows

toy box
po box 270064
hartford WI  53027   usa

please help and thanks for your time     vee

Subject: oldies@lawyer.com
traders_name: Toy box/Luke Konrath

I complained about a fake britannia buddy luke sent me. I made a real stink, filed a complaint with his local sheriff, the ifcc, and traderlist. It worked; he refunded my money. He still has auctions up on ebay with the same picture that was used on my auction.

oldies_but_goodies_toys@hotmail.com    traders_name: luke konrath

won an ebay auction from this person 28th may 2001,i paid via paypal $23 on 31st may 2001,goods being ty flash beanie baby,my first email clearly stated it was for my childs birthday on the 8th june so vender knew this item was for an eager child collector,it is now 8th aug 2002 and the beanie baby still has not arrived no doubt due to the fact it was never sent.therefore you must draw your own opinions as to what sort of persons takes from a child,please also note that of the 9 emails sent only 2 received replies both of which would easierly fit onto a postage stamp,the rest were ignored,i have noted that this man has used a number of names and emaill address'es to carry on conning folk.eg;-

luke konrath
77 highland ave
hartford WI 53027 usa