Former member Hunter Smith ("John Klein") on here as johnkleinmaus

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Azurescens
Azurescens Posts: 2,907 ✭✭✭✭✭
in Buy, Sell, & Trade - U.S. Coins

I don't know who to contact here about this, but this user is back here and actively trading. He tried the same scam on me as he did to a person on Coin Talk. Heads up and be safe everyone.

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  • Jim2359
    Jim2359 Posts: 281 ✭✭
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    Thanks

  • PerryHall
    PerryHall Posts: 47,760 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    with any new members with a low post count, I require that they send the coin or bullion first and then I send payment. If this isn't acceptable, no deal.

    Worry is the interest you pay on a debt you may not owe.
    "Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value---zero."----Voltaire
    "Everything you say should be true, but not everything true should be said."----Voltaire

  • CCC2010
    CCC2010 Posts: 1,997 ✭✭✭
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    @PerryHall said:
    with any new members with a low post count, I require that they send the coin or bullion first and then I send payment. If this isn't acceptable, no deal.

    Same practice in other forums and it should be the norm here as well...

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  • PerryHall
    PerryHall Posts: 47,760 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    When dealing with an unfamiliar new members it never hurts to ask for references.

    Worry is the interest you pay on a debt you may not owe.
    "Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value---zero."----Voltaire
    "Everything you say should be true, but not everything true should be said."----Voltaire

  • Timbuk3
    Timbuk3 Posts: 11,658 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Agreed, thanks for the "heads-up" !!! :)

    Timbuk3
  • robkool
    robkool Posts: 5,934 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    The circle of trust...

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  • ECHOES
    ECHOES Posts: 2,974 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Same guy???
    https://www.cointalk.com/threads/planman2014-is-selling-on-this-site-again.318653/page-2#post-3115195

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  • KollectorKing
    KollectorKing Posts: 4,820 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    @ECHOES said:
    Same guy???
    https://www.cointalk.com/threads/planman2014-is-selling-on-this-site-again.318653/page-2#post-3115195

    Yesssssss!!

  • cameonut2011
    cameonut2011 Posts: 10,914 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Thanks for the heads up!

  • acloco
    acloco Posts: 955 ✭✭✭
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    Long thread located here:

    https://forums.collectors.com/discussion/979010/a-warning-for-dealing-with-forum-member-planonit-hunter-smith-4-13-no-positive-update#latest

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  • Yorkshireman
    Yorkshireman Posts: 4,616 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    He approached me from a Craigslist ad.

    Yorkshireman,Obsessed collector of round, metallic pieces of history.Hunting for Latin American colonial portraits plus cool US & British coins.
  • CoinCrazyPA
    CoinCrazyPA Posts: 2,899 ✭✭✭✭
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    Thanks for the warning

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  • NLL
    NLL Posts: 34 ✭
    edited July 5, 2018 8:05AM
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    Hmm. I never knew this guy was on other forums. I know he was a problem on Cointalk for quite a while.

  • FHC
    FHC Posts: 333 ✭✭✭
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    Good to know.

  • MattTheRiley
    MattTheRiley Posts: 806 ✭✭✭✭
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    This guy (Hunter Smith) has been trying to "cold call" people in a bunch of the Facebook coin groups I am in (sending them PM's to sell them coins). He is a known scammer. Stay far away!

  • Yorkshireman
    Yorkshireman Posts: 4,616 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    He called and emailed me the other day. I asked that not contact me again.
    He said he would be willing to do business face-to-face, but seemed willing to leave me alone. He has pictures of nice coin, but the intel here makes him seem very unethical.
    Maybe he is trying to turn over a new leaf?

    Yorkshireman,Obsessed collector of round, metallic pieces of history.Hunting for Latin American colonial portraits plus cool US & British coins.
  • KollectorKing
    KollectorKing Posts: 4,820 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    @Yorkshireman said:
    He called and emailed me the other day. I asked that not contact me again.
    He said he would be willing to do business face-to-face, but seemed willing to leave me alone. He has pictures of nice coin, but the intel here makes him seem very unethical.
    Maybe he is trying to turn over a new leaf?

    Once a scammer, always a scammer. Stay away, far far away.

  • Yorkshireman
    Yorkshireman Posts: 4,616 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    @KollectorKing said:

    @Yorkshireman said:
    He called and emailed me the other day. I asked that not contact me again.
    He said he would be willing to do business face-to-face, but seemed willing to leave me alone. He has pictures of nice coin, but the intel here makes him seem very unethical.
    Maybe he is trying to turn over a new leaf?

    Once a scammer, always a scammer. Stay away, far far away.

    That is my plan.

    Yorkshireman,Obsessed collector of round, metallic pieces of history.Hunting for Latin American colonial portraits plus cool US & British coins.
  • giorgio11
    giorgio11 Posts: 4,271 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    @Yorkshireman said:
    He called and emailed me the other day. I asked that not contact me again.
    He said he would be willing to do business face-to-face, but seemed willing to leave me alone. He has pictures of nice coin, but the intel here makes him seem very unethical.
    Maybe he is trying to turn over a new leaf?

    A guy that you have to worry about is he "willing to leave you alone" is not the kind of guy you want to be dealing with in any way, Lee.

    Kind regards,

    George

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  • Yorkshireman
    Yorkshireman Posts: 4,616 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    @giorgio11 said:

    @Yorkshireman said:
    He called and emailed me the other day. I asked that not contact me again.
    He said he would be willing to do business face-to-face, but seemed willing to leave me alone. He has pictures of nice coin, but the intel here makes him seem very unethical.
    Maybe he is trying to turn over a new leaf?

    A guy that you have to worry about is he "willing to leave you alone" is not the kind of guy you want to be dealing with in any way, Lee.

    Kind regards,

    George

    George,
    Deep thought.
    I meant I don’t think I’ll hear from him again.

    Yorkshireman,Obsessed collector of round, metallic pieces of history.Hunting for Latin American colonial portraits plus cool US & British coins.
  • giorgio11
    giorgio11 Posts: 4,271 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    @Yorkshireman Be well, my friend.

    G

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