I'm not of the belief Bunny scammed anyone...
Dead wrong.
He scammed people on Hyperfuse, he scammed people on Toxic, and he scammed individuals. He still personally owes epzy around $7.5k+ worth of keyboards that he was supposed to build for him; it's been 6 years.
There's been more than a few members on Geekhack who've done the same thing as Bunny. I'm not sure if anyone managed it as well as him though. The trick is simple: arrive in the community, be very generous and giving initially, and pepper people with compliments, money, and desirable items for good prices. Then, after you think you've cemented yourself properly, do a total 180 while being endlessly apologetic and full of excuses. What do you get in return? Simps for eternity, free defense, and the benefit of the doubt.
And in case you're thinking: Oh! Oh! Maybe he's just had a horrible 6 years, surely he'll get around to it eventually?
Nah, he's got enough time to help manage his good mate Bro Caps' orders (something he's very expert at). Pretty funny that Bro Caps even allows his involvement in anything, given the fact he's scammed people in this community for 10s of thousands of dollars, easily.
Did he scam them? I don't know...There is a difference between selling something and then running away with the money...and selling something, things going wrong with delivery, and other stuff, delivering a majority of it and then just giving up on it.
I'm sure people are pissed about it...and I'm not defending him as in, I think he should be allowed back into the community, that's he's a good guy, etc, etc, etc...but there is a difference...and I'm sure that only just throws fire on top of those that didn't get their Hyperfuse...but if his intent was to scam people, why deliver ANY of it?
I think rather than chalk this up to a scam..people should learn from his mistakes..and his mistakes weren't he tried to rip people off...his mistakes were in how he tried to deliver the GB..and the number 1 mistake was not getting them delivered as sorted..which would've cost like 8 dollars a set. Instead they tried to build each set and that ended up being a disaster.
Did the community lose 10s of thousands to him? Maybe...maybe he did scam people later...I don't know. I was only close to Hyperfuse so I'm only speaking to that. I just find it odd that if someone really wanted to scam the community, they'd actually not deliver on the goods and make more money...doesn't that make much more sense than actually delivering 90+% of a GB? Or is that not relevant?