eBay Seller Scammed buyers and buyer is asking for contact info from me. What to do?

poorguy · May 12, 2004 10:59PM

GoldBlowout has scammed some eBay buyers and is now NRU. I had a transaction with goldBlowOut and a buyer who got scammed by GoldBlowOut is asking me if I can give him contact information to the bum. Is this illegal? I mean to give someone's address without the consent of the person who lives at the address. Please let me know so I can help this guy out.

mrdq · May 12, 2004 11:33PM

I'm SURE they can get the info from EBAY. Have him send YOU what he gets and compare them. THis guy's EBAY handle may have been hijacked.

CarlWohlforth · May 12, 2004 11:40PM

I'm interested to hear what others think. My guess is you can share that information. I certainly would want to help anybody who got scammed!

coinguy1 · May 12, 2004 11:48PM

Speaking for myself, only - I would feel free to share the contact information if I could verify that 1) GoldBlowout had been NARU'd and 2) that the person asking for the information had been involved in a transaction with him.

nOoBiEeE · May 12, 2004 11:51PM

Can you simpy just send him the link to get the Contact Info?

Placid · May 12, 2004 11:51PM

This one?

I tried both goldBlowOut and GoldBlowOut and both times get the same one.

Steve27 · May 12, 2004 11:53PM

Perfectly legal to share the info, but I'm with mark on this one,

Barry · May 13, 2004 12:02AM

<< <i>Speaking for myself, only - I would feel free to share the contact information if I could verify that 1) GoldBlowout had been NARU'd and 2) that the person asking for the information had been involved in a transaction with him. >>

I agree with Mark. He's always right.

ss350camaro · May 13, 2004 12:05AM

I personally would not give anyones personal info out. This is private information. I realize in your case it would be for a good reason but i still don't think it would be right.
This person needs to go thru the proper eBay channels so as to keep everything on the legal "up & up".

nankraut · May 13, 2004 12:59AM

Mr. Feld makes sense (as opposed to cents). I agree with him.

ms70 · May 13, 2004 1:04AM

The only thing about getting the info from eBay is that he might have registered with all bogus info.

coinguy1 · May 13, 2004 1:04AM

Poorguy, I can't find an Ebay member of that name who has been NARU'd or who has any feedback at all. ????

ss350camaro · May 13, 2004 1:07AM

You never know what kind of whacko you might be dealing with.
What if you give this person the info and they go out and kill the person/seller ?!? What kind of hot water do you think this would put you in?

dorkkarl · May 13, 2004 1:45AM

PASS!

K S

poorguy · May 13, 2004 1:54AM

Mark,

Here is a link to the profile of the seller that was NRU'd.

Seller Feedback

I can say that the only contact info as a name goes. He used GoldBlowout as his first name and GoldBlowout as his last name.

His shipping address was a P.O. box. He could have just dropped the P.O. box account and ran off. Don't know. I don't have a P.O. Box but I thought that is why paypal wouldn't verify them.

coinguy1 · May 13, 2004 2:10AM

Poorguy, you omitted the "prices" part at the end of his Ebay user name when you first mentioned it. I find it a bit odd/surprising that if he indeed scammed people, he has not received any negative feedback to this point.

The buyer who supposedly got scammed should be able to get the contact information through Ebay (and possibly a bit of help too). Have you asked him why he didn't get the information through Ebay? Either way, if the alleged victim can confirm/prove that he had a transaction with the alleged scammer through Ebay, I'd provide the contact information. I can understand that others might not feel comfortable doing so, however.

poorguy · May 13, 2004 2:20AM

Mark,

I will probably tell him to use the resources eBay has set up for this kind of problem. I am sure they have dealt with it before.

Anyways, like I said. I didn't even have the guy's name and only a P.O. box for an addy. Since my info wouldn't help as much as using the eBay resources, I will just inform him to contact eBay about this. No use in sending info that could get me into trouble if it won't even help the situation.

-Thanks guys.

K6AZ · May 13, 2004 2:38AM

Unless eBay has changed their policies recently, you can not pull contact information on a NARU'ed member.

This guy is a classic example of an eBay fraud. Built up a feedback of 13 purchasing mostly cheap auctions, then listed 400 auctions, most of which were private, one day auctions.

400 Auctions

fishcooker · May 13, 2004 2:57AM

I'd just mail it, from a drop box. You've got gloves to handle coins, right?

eBay Seller Scammed buyers and buyer is asking for contact info from me. What to do?

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