Calm down folks.
I've done more updates to the spreadsheet. I hope everyone had a good long weekend. I know tensions are high and surely some time to relax is nice.
The first thing I want to say to everyone is to calm down - there is a lot we can shout and yell at each other, but the important thing is what we end up doing.
So it seems as if we have some confusion on what the directives and incentives are with keeping track of orders.
Goal: To fix the problem of not receiving items. This is the underlying problem. This is the highlighted issue. Rootwyrm isn't the person who really opened up the whole investigation. I did. Because I got something wrong - I reached out to others who were local to see if it was a simple shipping mistake. Upon finding out what was a compounded number of incorrect orders, I took to reaching out to others overseas. That leads us to where we are now.
It was not to slander, defame, call out, target, fraud, or attack a given person. I wanted my stuff that I ordered, confirmed, and paid for. Plain and simple.
The escalation: In a transaction, there is inherit trust between buyer and seller. Even in a sale gone bad, or reversed, there is the understanding that there is an error in communication. There is an acknowledgement of wrong doing, there is an acceptance of the events. There has been nothing of the sort from beserkfan. What we have gotten is deflections, threats, and whining about what was apparently his negligence. Which leads me to the root cause.
Root cause: Negligence. Whether it was intentional to make a profit or not is not important. That is not the problem, nor does it entitle anybody to disregard their responsibilities. Case in point, MANY companies sell goods/services at a loss, willingly. But what they have in common is that they make sure the transaction is completed from start to finished. That is the key communication aspect. But like the saying goes, "judge me not by my words but by my actions." Beserkfan has generally communicated clearly with intentions to sell up until the point of his so-called "shipping". But his actions has been one of negligence in taking no responsibility for his sale or words.
The resolution: Refunds or rectified shipping. I have gone into the investigation hoping that we could solve the problem by having users ship to each other. Maybe it costs us a bit more, maybe it others lose out a bit. That is a given. it is simply not financially viable to have beserkfan redo shipping, that I understand. But since beserkfan has:
1. Not facilitated communication post sales;
2. Not facilitated refunds to standard;
3. Will not rectify incorrect shipments;
4. Has openly stated that he will not take responsibility for those that got more than they deserved (thus others missing out),
It can be concluded that matters will have to be taken by the individuals. This comes in the form of filing complaints and escalating to paypal. I myself has advocated as many people to do this as possible. Not everybody can do so because of Western Union or paypal gifts or moneygram. But those who can, should. If the problem gets rectified, you close the ticket, there is no direct harm. As it is, there is already an open police report in Singapore - a wrong/incomplete bank transaction is means for a police investigation for transaction fraud. Meaning: what Beserkfan did in Singapore is Illegal in Singapore. End of story, intentional or not.
Conclusion: There is an overwhelmingly large amount of evidence of Beserkfan's wrong doing. A single complaint is a singularity, several complaints is a coincidence. A spreadsheet of over $6000 of items either incorrectly shipped, missing, or unconfirmed is malice, intentional or not. By definition that is fraud, and by definition fraud is a scam, and thereby, a scammer.
I've read several times before that maybe I've jumped the gun, made the conclusion too quickly. I want to say that Rootwyrm and I have only started to advocate people filing claims once the spreadsheet had over 120 entries with several hundred dollars of items doublesold. Take that for what you will.
