IDM Mailing Archive

In a message dated 98-03-19 20:06:18 EST, you write: << Reply-to: petrescu@u.washington.edu (D. Petrescu) To: ambient@hyperreal.org CC: whitezone-l@lists.sonic.net I don't see what the problem is. If an interested buyer doesn't respond to your e-mails, and you don't receive money from him after a reasonable period of time sell it to someone else. You don't have to ruin peoples names over this for no reason. >> ok. these will be my last public comments on this subject. i by no means meant to start a flame war or another overblown list(s) controversy. first of all, "spawnohell" verified _three times over_ that he was sending $ for items i had on hold for him. not getting it and not getting it, i had to _repeatedly_ email him asking him what was up. after over a month of verifying the money was coming he finally wrote back saying he changed his mind. this was very uncool to string me along like that _for that long_, but perhaps i should not have gone public on _him_ (admitedly, i was a bit heated already over the below mr. gersham...) and perhaps spawn deserves another chance- especially after reading his "formal apology". HOWEVER, Gil Gersham is a different story. im not the only one who has had problems w/ Mr Gil Gersham. i have had MANY many responses detailing how the guy has screwed over many many people. he has a LOOOOONG history of this evidently.(i am not out to unreasonably blacklist anyone!) he is ruining his own name by his own behavior. my intention was to help the lists out by alerting people of his behavior and thus hopefully not allowing him to continue screwing even more people over! he has evidently promised money and goods to many others w/o coming through, taking others money and goods in the process. im NOT just whining that someone reasonably backed out of a trade here- im saying that he drags people along for months, keeping goods he never sent in kind trade for, failing to send promised money, etc. The list goes on and on, from what i ve been told in the responses ive recieved from other list members since posting my warning. He has owed LOTS of people both goods and money, and the people that _did_ finally get their part of the deal from him (NOT ALL OF THEM!) had to practically threaten to sue him for mail fraud. i am glad that this time i was smart enough to not send his stuff ahead of time (like i said this was a second chance from me to him- last trade i did with him, i sent his stuff before i recieved payment and it took me over three months to get my part of the deal from him, after constant emailing him/being ignored. it should not be this way! period.) so if you have had a good trade/purchase experience with him then, from both my own experience and from what im being told by others who have dealt w/ him, count yourself lucky. over and out on the subject- -thad