TFans user Grimlock69 took $110 from me without sending me the item we agreed upon.  He also goes by this name on other Transformers message boards. 

 

I originally dealt with him because of the positive feedback he had recieved in the below link:

 

http://www.TFans.com/talk/index.php?showto...26entry517026

 

 

I contacted him through private message here.  He replied and agreed.  I sent payment. 

 

After not receiving anything for three weeks I contacted him again on the board.

 

No reply.

 

I then initiated a dispute claim on Paypal.  Grimlock69 never responded and the claim went went in my favor.  As of this time, it looks like Paypal will not be refunding me anything.

 

I would LIKE to give out his real last name in case he decides to change his username and come back to rip off more people, but I will not unless I have administrative approval.

The claim was ruled in your favor, but you're not receiving any refund or restitution?

Yes.  Here is what the final result of the Paypal claim states:

 

After careful review, we have determined that the seller is at fault but regret to inform you that we were unable to recover any funds from the seller's account. As stated in the PayPal User Agreement, recovery of funds associated with a Buyer Complaint cannot be guaranteed.

Your end will comes before you get administrative approval, go ahead and post his name, hopefully he wont scam anybody else here, I mean, everybody can change their screen name, but not the real one.

His last name is Liow.

Ouch. I was concerned about such a thing happening to me during the entire month it took to "process" my claim against a seller. The seller stopped using his eBay account but appeared to open another one with a similar name (both accounts had pointed to the same website which also advertised the items). I managed to get my refund but it took 33 days. So much for PayPal's buyer protection "guarantees"..