Complaints Against Michelle Goldsborough
Crisfield, MD. 21817

firebug2000@hotmail.com

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

Thanks for the offer of help! We'll take you up on it. Whatever you can do would be appreciated! After posting my complaint on the list I sent her an email and told her that I had done so, and also told her Iwould be contacting the authorities. Miraculously, she emailed me today to say that she mailed me beanies today! Imagine that! There are a group of 5 of us who have banded together to fight this little battle, including Rhonda Snyder, whose post appears above mine. We'll keep you updated as to what happens. It's funny actually, after I posted on the caution list I emailed to inform her of it and that I would be filling out a postal fraud complaint form. Amazingly, she manbaged to email me back pretty  much immediately!! In fact, I received 5 emails from her in one day. That's more than I've heard from her in the last 5 weeks! We'll see if she actually  sends anything. She has already told 2 of the 5 of us that she has written  proof that they aren't going to pursue this further, so she claims that she doesn't have to follow through on her end of the deal. In fact here is what she wrote: "I do not know the exact date that I sent them to you. I am sending out Rhonda and Michelle's packages Monday morning, so those will be resolved. You and Patti will be the only other two who have not received their packages. I do not know why that is. But, the two of you will NOT have a very good case for one reason. I have in writing from her that she is no longer going to pursure this any further, and also a letter from you saying you would wait for the package. In that letter you also stated that if you did not receive it than you would count it as a loss and move on. " Sounds pretty devious doesn't it? We'll keep you updated as to what actually happens. In the meantime here is her email: firebug2000@hotmail.com.....her address is:
Michelle Goldsborough
4965 Tulip Ln
Crisfield, MD 21817

We need some help. There are at least 5 of us from www.collectorbee.commthat have been scammed by Michelle Goldsborough AKA:Peanut2000, her e-mail address is firebug2000@hotmail.com. Michelle and I made a buy/trade agreement on June 13th. The agreement was final on June 14th. I sent her a money order for $20 and a 1999 TY Signature Beanie Bear. In return she was to send me Osito and Spangle (New Release Beanie Bears). I have a copy of my money order I sent to her and a copy of the receipt that I got from the post office when I sent her package out on June 14th. I have e-mailed her SEVERAL times just trying to keep in touch. She responed to very few of my e-mails. She came up with this story that she got in over her head with trades and got confused as to what beanies went to who. I gave her the benifit of the doubt and gave her a little more time to figure this all out. I told her that I wanted my Osito and Spangle as she agreed to in my hands no later than June 30th. She agreed. I have saved all of our e-mail conversations. I called the 1-800 number on the copy of the money I sent her. The lady from "Financial Express Money Orders" told me that my money order had been cashed on June 28th. Michelle Goldsborough e-mailed me on June 28th and told me she sent my 2 bears out that day. I have e-mailed her several times since then. I have tried my best to stay in contact with her. I called the Post Master in my town and he said that it should take 3-4 days tops for a package to go from MD to MO. This is July 10 and still no beanies. In one of our e-mail conversations I asked her for tracking numbers and I would be more than happy to call the post office and see what was going on with my package. She was REAL QUICK to say she did not send my package with delivery conformation. At the same time all this is taken place, several people from www.collectorbee.com has contacted me asking if I was having the same problems with Michelle Goldsborough as they were. There are several people involved here. I have e-mailed her and so has others, with using the threat of Mail Fraud Prosicution. She says that I am lying and I have probably got my bears. If I am lying, then why are there others out there empty handed just like me? She says the threats of Prosicution don't scare her because it isn't Fraud if she sent out her beanies to us. I might be able to understand one package getting "Lost", but like I said it is just not me that don't have their beanies from her. There are several others out there who haven't seen any packages from her either. One person whom I have been e-mailing almost daily is Patty Peterson, e-mail address is berock@prodigy.net. You can contact her also. She has a list of e-mail address of the others involved. I have asked her to return my 1999 Ty Signature Beanie Bear in the same condition I sent it to her in and a money order for $20. She refused. Please help me and the others involved here. Any advice would be apperciated. Thanks, Rhonda Snyder

Michelle Goldsborough is a lair and thief. On the 12th of June we made an agreement I would purchase 3 Buddies from her for a total of $64.93. I mailed a money order the same day in the amount of $65.00. I received no message from her when my money order arrived. I have e-mailed her 10 times plus I sent her a registered letter. I have only heard back from her 5 times total.Diary:

MINE: June 12, I contacted her in reference to Buddies she had listed for sale on Checkerbee.
HERS: She thanked me for interest and gave me a total to mail her and gave me her address.

I SENT MONEY ORDER FOR $65.00 THE SAME DAY
MINE: June 17, I wrote checking to see if she had received my money order
HERS: NO RESPONSE
MINE: June 19, I wrote saying I was concerned as I hadn't heard anything from her and ask what was happening.
HERS: NO RESPONSE

ON JUNE 21, I POSTED A MESSAGE ON CHECKERBEE--ASKING "PEANUTS2000 WHERE ARE YOU?"

ON JUNE 22 SHE POSTED ON CHECKERBEE AND POSTED THAT SHE HAD GOTTEN IN OVER HER HEAD AND SHE WAS WORKING EVERYTHING OUT.

MINE: JUNE 22, I wrote and told her that people sometimes did become overwhelmed ask her to please keep in touch.
HERS: NO RESPONSE
MINE: June 22, I wrote her to e-mail me at home and to please keep in touch and that I hadn't gotten a message she had, supposedly, posted for me on checkerfbee
HERS: June 22,she told me she was overwhelmed and my items would be mailed out on Thurs. and also said she would let me know as soon as they were sent.
MINE: June 23, I wrote her that I would be watching the mail for the package and that my son was anxious for them to get here.
HERS: NO RESPONSE
MINE: June 26, I wrote asking if the package had been sent, told her I was on Social Security and couldn't afford to just hand someone $65.00 and not receive anything for it, ask if she actually had the Buddies I had paid for and if not to send my money back, also PLEASE let me know what is going on
HERS: NO RESPONSE
MINE: July 1, I wrote asking for my money back because apparently didn't have the buddies. Also that if I didn't hear SOMETHING by Fri. the 4th I would be going and talking with the authorities about the situation, also planned to file a complaint with the Postal Inspector.
HERS: July 1, said she was sending my package out tomorrow morning and would e-mail me tracking #
IT NEVER HAPPENED
MINE: JULY 1, I ALSO MAILED A LETTER CERTIFIED TO MICHELLE ASKING HER IF SHE EVEN HAD THE BUDDIES--DIDN'T SHE CARE WHO SHE HURT WITH HER BEHAVIOR--ASK IF IT WAS ALL A SCAM
HERS: July 7, she said she had sent buddies--it wasn't a scam--she planned on keeping my money--said she hadn't done anything wrong and there was no reason I shouldn't have my package
MINE: July 10,wrote that there were still no buddies--ask what date did she sent them--ask why she didn't e-mail to let me know they were on the way and where was the tracking #--told her I knew of several others who had not gotten their packages from her and that an attorney I had spoken with said we had good records kept for a Class Action Suite against her.
HERS: July 10 (fastest response ever) said she didn't know the exact date of my shipment--that she was shipping the first of the week to a couple of the people I also know had SLOW dealings with her and she said she was trying to work things out with another person which I know--she said she had cashed my money order and spent the money and didn't have $65.00 so spare at this time--she wanted to avoid any trouble if possible and if I hadn't gotten my package by Mon July 12, get a hold of her and we could see what we could work out. I don't know what if anything you can do about this person but I felt I had to let someone know about her. Thank you for letting me vent my frustration.

I want you to know what my experience has been with Michelle Goldsborough (a regular bad trader on your list). First of all I am part of the five person group that has been trying to get back our Ty products from Michelle since June of this year. You have been contacted by some of them (Karen Meyer-Logan LSLKAL@webtv.net, and others, I believe).I met Michelle around June 11 on checkerbee.com's bulletin board. She was extremely nice via e-mail...very chatty and interested in talking about other things besides trading beanies. She used the handle: peanut2000. She has since been banned from the site and I and others have complained about her there also. Our trade consisted of me sending her four buddies: Erin, Rover, Bubbles and Tracker, and Tiny, the beanie baby. She was to send me a Princess buddy and two Clubbyll kits. I sent my items, she never sent hers. She always sounded like she was going to or had already, but they never came. The last communication I had with her was on July 02 by phone. I took Gramma Pat's advice and called Michelle at home. I left a message telling her that I wanted my beanies and was involved with this group of people trying to get theirs back also. I mentioned contacting the Crisfield, MD police, the State Police, the Post Office and the Secret Service (which I actually did do).Because she has caller I.D., she was able to return my call shortly thereafter. She said she had sent the trades I wanted, Princess buddy and the two Clubbyll kits. She also said that if they didn't arrive the following day, she would send the ones I originally sent her. The following evening I received a rude call on my answering machine from what I believe is her father-in-law. He said I was harassing them, dragging their name through the mud on the Internet, etc., and that he would SUE ME for slander if I didn't stop my behavior. His tone was threatening and I have been very afraid of the consequences from him and his family should I contact them again. I still do not have any of the buddies or beanies involved in this trade. I was away for the following week. (By the way, I use a P.O. Box for my transactions, so there is no reason to think they could have been stolen off my front porch).I wrote Michelle after the call I received from her father-in-law and said that because of the threatening nature of the call I received, I would not be pursuing the matter any further, but that I hoped she would do the right thing and either send what she promised or return my property. I never heard from her. I have seen what she has said about me on your site..something about me harassing her family. This is not true. Luckily, she hasn't mentioned me by name. Also, she has told another person that since I said I would not pursue the matter, I have apparently dropped my complaint against her. She now feels she doesn't owe me anything. It is not worth the safety and security of my family (I have small children) for me to pursue this by contacting her directly. I really fear for the consequences. I live in the same state as she does so my home is more accessible to her. I also believe she is not playing with a full deck.I just wrote to my group asking them what they thought about helping me out. Several of them finally have, or will be, getting their beanies back from Michelle now. At least I know that our concerted effort and support along with the assistance from people like you have helped these folks resolve their situations. I thought maybe the folks on my list could write Michelle a group letter requesting she return my property since she returned theirs. What do you think? I have called the Post Master in Crisfield, MD and he is on vacation until next week. I don't have any problem calling him, but just feel I may be opening the can of worms again with Michelle and her family. Please write me with your suggestions. I am an honest trader with plenty of great references and I am sure the group I am involved with who were also scammed by Michelle will stand by me and my assertions.

You do not know the whole situation. I have read the postings about me and to my knowledge, the people are Rhonda Snyder, Michelle Cooper and May-Lin Robbins. If you would take the time to contact these people you will find out that I sent them confirmation numbers this morning for the packages that were sent to them noontime today.Thank you, Michelle

July 15, 1999
Response to cautionlist from: firebug2000@hotmail.com

I have delivery confirmation on both packages for May-Lin and Michelle , they both received their packages. I am not concerned about this any more. People can do what they feel is necessary, it does not bither me anymore. i have the proof I need so if they choose to waste their time, that is fine. But I do have some advice you can pass on. They will be wasting their time calling the Crisfield police Dept because i live outside of city limits and someone has already tried. Tell them to try the State Police located in Princess Anne,MD. If it does them any good:-)Thanks, michelle

I did in fact receive my package from Michelle, however, 3 of the others in my little group didn't. I have gotten so many emails from people who saw my post saying that she did the same to them. Many people have received their same beanies back, but no one that I have been in contact with has had their original trade fulfilled and no cash has been refunded. Please help us to do what ever we can to stop her! I was contacted by someone at smart trader the other day who said that they had been contacted to put Michelle Goldsborough on their good traders list. She had read our posts and wanted more info. That's all that we need is for her to end up on anyone's GOOD trader list! Thanks for your help! Michelle Cooper

I agreed a trade with Michelle,sent my beanie but have notrecieved anything in return,my only advice is DO NOT DEAL WITH THIS PERSON she is bad news!

I sent Michelle Goldsborough(firebug2000@hotmail.com) a MWMT Sting for rinc. Buddy, Fuzz buddy, Spangle and Osito. She says she receined mine and that she sent hers. She claims to have had the wrong zip code. If so, why hasn't the post office sent the package back to her. This happened in June and I even offeed to accept a few beanies as compensation. She refuses and no calls me a theif. Be wary of Michelle. Rich