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Kriptonite Comics - Shane Canup, Anyone know where he is?
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Crew,
I am curious if anyone knows if Shane Canup, with Kriptonite Comics, is still around? A fellow collector asked me if I knew and I have not dealt with him in a long time. He used to sell awesome toned coins. I told the collector I would post a message here to see if anyone might have some information.
Many thanks
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You might contact him here-kryptonitecomicsinc@gmail.com Should be a good email contact.
But be very careful dealing with him. Buying coins from him may be OK but others have had problems getting their $$ when selling thru him on consignment. I'm sure these members will post here soon.
Last talked about he was having trouble paying people and kept going mia.
Did anyone run into him at FUN? He's somewhat local
Mark
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He is still getting a lot of feedbacks on ebay, over 100 a month. Last I heard he owes a lot of consignors a lot of money. http://feedback.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewFeedback2&userid=kryptonitecomics
I hope he is taking care of business, always seemed like a good guy.
Run into or over??
There were multiple enormous threads in the last few months detailing his business practices. They have been pulled by PCGS; I will simply urge extreme caution.
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I just ordered a coin from him and am waiting for it to be delivered. I hope everything goes well.
You should be fine. The issues were to those that consigned with him not getting paid. The coins went to the purchasers (keeps ebay happy that way).
I've been told I tolerate fools poorly...that may explain things if I have a problem with you. Current ebay items - Nothing at the moment
Except that if he didn't pay for the consigned merchandise, he actually can't deliver title to it.
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Good point. Under those circumstances it may be considered stolen merchandise and I don't believe you can transfer good title to stolen property.
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I broke my golden rule and bought from him a few weeks ago (he owes me over $950, been waiting almost a year).
The name on the return address and the PayPal owner wasn't Shane; it was "Roy Romig".
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Did you pay him or did he just take it out of what he owes you? Seems crazy to buy something from someone who owes you that much money.
Not this story again. I must have been the last guy fully paid off from Shane.
"Except that if he didn't pay for the consigned merchandise, he actually can't deliver title to it."
Have fun with that one in Court. Then have more fun trying to find the sold merchandise in many different states....
You'd have to make a Federal case of it.
Well, you are getting coins from a dead man!
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I'm wondering the same.
Did you buy your own coins back?
Very enlightening
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Using a dead mans name and address, even if it is family, is wrong on a number of levels.
crazy whats happening now....I used shane in the past with no problems, sorry to hear others are having issues.
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Hmmm I bet Paypal would like to hear about this. May also cause some problems for the dead guys estate if the amount is large enough (IRS problems?).
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Ditto for me too.
But it seems like a good way to recoup your money if you didn't pay him for your purchases.
What a better way for Shane Canup to eliminate his debt to you by ripping off someone else.
In all sincerity, I hope you didn't pay him.
That in my mind, would be a really dumb move.
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Or buy some stuff from him and do a credit card charge back... would that be terrible? lol
It is possible Shane is helping in the disposal of Romig's estate.
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Yes. It's possible. There is more to all of this than we know.
There is 0% chance he is going to 'take it off my tab'. In fact, he might just block me for asking and then I would have missed out on the $11 coin that I can turn into a $100+ profit. Taking it off my tab would literally mean he's just giving me someone else's coin, an I'm not going to pass my debt onto someone else.
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I'm sorry, but there is never a good reason for ripping off people by taking their goods, selling them and then not paying them.
Over the years, I've read many such situations, including this 'Shane' person.
Excuses or legitimate reasons such as illnesses, family problems, job losses etc are given and a handful of posters say 'he's a good guy and let's be patient' or 'let's pray for him'.
If it's done once and only once, then 'yes', we should give the person a chance and possibly the situation will rectify itself.
But as in this case, over time and more than once, consignors have been ripped off.
A classic case of "steal from Peter to pay off Paul' (and who knows if 'Paul' is still getting paid??)
I've been self-employed all my life and personally I have no use for anyone who conducts business in this manner.
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Ethics are key in any sustainable business. And life in general. Sounds like he was a good guy, or appeared to be, then turned to the dark side. Sad
I'd always found Shane to be personally a lot of fun, and a genuine aficionado of coins. But being a "good guy" doesn't mean other more injudicious traits aren't at work.
Here's a warning parable for coin collectors...
I had several good results with Shane over the years. Then a year or so ago he came up with what sounded like a plausible excuse when I inquired after two months without getting paid. He sold my stuff for around $900-I eventually did get paid but it took four months.
How is this guy still in business???
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I'm sorry about bringing this topic back up! I was just trying to get some information for a friend. I think we got some!
Mark, normally we see him at both of the TPG lunches at FUN and he was absent at both this year.
Best, SH
It would depend on Florida state law. More than likely, the purchasers are bona fide purchasers for value and protected. Also, the coins aren't stolen; the consignors turned them over voluntarily and authorized the pieces to be sold. If anything was stolen, it would have been proceeds that were supposedly held in trust for the benefit of the consignor. That seems to be a big difference to me.
Do you know why the threads were killed? They seemed pertinent and on point since he was a member here and regularly solicited consignments at one point.
I don't know why they were deleted, but I suspected they might be so I took screenshots of nearly every page of each of them and saved them to my computer.
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I don't think he made the show. Too many of us know Shane. I still have hopes he will step up and take care of everyone.
It's hard for me to imagine the items would be considered stolen merchandise in this scenario where the buyer does not receive title to to goods until the consigner is paid. If this was the case, it seems like all consigners, sellers and buyers would be participating in trafficking of stolen goods until the consigner is paid.
Breach of contract between the seller and the consigner seems more likely to me.
I'm not a lawyer so it would be good to get more clarification on this.
If you look at his last 200 eBay sales, most are baseball cards under $10 and a lot going for $1.99.
That's not a successful business model, but at least his PayPal funding payments are low.
Sugarcoat it anyway you want. If he is still operating he could make everyone whole if he really wanted to. Everyone can run into issues from time to time. How you handle yourself then says a lot. Sounds like he has improved as some of the past treads were about a lot of unpaid mmoney. This thread does not seam as bad. I hope things a better for those that were not getting paid.
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...period...once you start seeing his personal stuff for sale (clothes, tools, kitchen ware and home appliances) then, and only then could you suspect he is trying to do the right thing and pay his debts...but then again...maybe not. I can't believe that his eBay store hasn't been closed down to be honest.
I've seen it so many times over the years - a well respected dealer, popular on these boards, turns out not to be the person everyone thinks they are. I've seen it happen here in both the coin and sports card forums.
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I consigned some coins to him and still haven't gotten paid nor any further contact. Unfortunately for him I live nearby and will be contacting all the local authorities. If anyone would like to piggyback on my complaint, please PM me. It's time for this to end.
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