Beware of seller TJETSKI - 6 negative feedbacks within a month (now 9 as of 5/27/24)

[Brooky03]

I'd be interested in whether or not the phone # and PayPal he provided before April line up with the phone # and PayPal provided for the bad transactions.  Maybe somebody with a good transaction could share the last 4 digits or part of the PayPal name, either in this thread or in a DM, with a person who had a bad transaction and compare notes?

 

It's unlikely... highly, highly unlikely, but a hacked account could still be in play and that would eliminate or confirm one of the two ways this would have been done, that I can think of.

 

It's just so odd to have years and years with tons of positive feedback to just flush it all away in an instant  What's the motive?

- Quick cash grab?  Just to have to duck PayPal and at the expense of a bountiful selling account?  Short-sighted, at best.  I don't know what the recent items were selling for, but I doubt we're talking about a huge sum of money.

- Actually stolen packages?  There's no way a month+ of orders should all be going out at the same time.  It would have to be a coordinated/targeted effort by somebody at the 'warehouse' that the seller didn't bother to investigate the first couple times it happened.  There's video at the warehouse but nothing showing somebody move the boxes or walk out with them?  How?

- An actual hospitalization?  Being in the hospital is tough and life can get very messy very quickly, but it doesn't explain 2 months of ignoring people and all of the extra excuses/delays.

- Is somebody who knows him and has access to his stuff taking advantage of a hospitalization or death?  If the PayPal account is the same one that's always been used, this could explain why they wouldn't be worried about the consequences.  The best lies have some basis in truth.

 

I'm not Sherlock Holmes and when you hear hoofbeats you should think horses, not zebras.  This is just too bizarre for the mind not to wander.

[tigercolt77]

The original message I received from him was on 4/7. It was via text after a dm on here.  The last contact I had was on 5/7 which was after I opened a case for a refund on PayPal. My hope in leaving feedback was to warn other buyers. Little did I know that all you guys were already dealing with the same situation I had just gone through. My refund did go through pretty quickly, I hope everyone else gets their money back as well.

 

19 hours ago, hoselshot82 said:

This whole thing is so confusing and disappointing. 

On 5/29/2024 at 2:12 PM, Anser3 said:

 

 

[hoselshot82]

Update on my situation. The seller indicated he would send my refund for the gnome via Zelle. I downloaded Zelle and set it all up. After I messaged him again last night I awoke this morning with my money sent back via Zelle. 

[brew4eagle]

2 hours ago, hoselshot82 said:

Update on my situation. The seller indicated he would send my refund for the gnome via Zelle. I downloaded Zelle and set it all up. After I messaged him again last night I awoke this morning with my money sent back via Zelle. 

I'd be careful with that.  It may be possible to reverse the Zelle later(?).  I'd keep the paypal dispute open for awhile.

[T_Golf_23]

1 hour ago, brew4eagle said:

I'd be careful with that.  It may be possible to reverse the Zelle later(?).  I'd keep the paypal dispute open for awhile.

Zelle is a pretty final payment method. There even warning when you send a Zelle that once it’s gone, it’s gone 

[hoselshot82]

1 hour ago, brew4eagle said:

I'd be careful with that.  It may be possible to reverse the Zelle later(?).  I'd keep the paypal dispute open for awhile.

I was the guy that stupidly sent the money as friends and family on PayPal so my recourse was nothing. 

[brew4eagle]

5 minutes ago, hoselshot82 said:

I was the guy that stupidly sent the money as friends and family on PayPal so my recourse was nothing. 

Ahh, then that's great news

[Ted2]

22 hours ago, hoselshot82 said:

Update on my situation. The seller indicated he would send my refund for the gnome via Zelle. I downloaded Zelle and set it all up. After I messaged him again last night I awoke this morning with my money sent back via Zelle. 

 

Did he include that extra 10% he keeps talking about?

[hoselshot82]

8 minutes ago, Ted2 said:

 

Did he include that extra 10% he keeps talking about?

No he did not

[Anser3]

I didn't buy anything from the guy and was willing (for a bit) to give him the benefit of the doubt regarding his situation.  No more.  He is on my ignore list. 

[awtryau89]

On 5/30/2024 at 2:07 PM, Brooky03 said:

I'd be interested in whether or not the phone # and PayPal he provided before April line up with the phone # and PayPal provided for the bad transactions.  Maybe somebody with a good transaction could share the last 4 digits or part of the PayPal name, either in this thread or in a DM, with a person who had a bad transaction and compare notes?

 

It's unlikely... highly, highly unlikely, but a hacked account could still be in play and that would eliminate or confirm one of the two ways this would have been done, that I can think of.

 

It's just so odd to have years and years with tons of positive feedback to just flush it all away in an instant  What's the motive?

- Quick cash grab?  Just to have to duck PayPal and at the expense of a bountiful selling account?  Short-sighted, at best.  I don't know what the recent items were selling for, but I doubt we're talking about a huge sum of money.

- Actually stolen packages?  There's no way a month+ of orders should all be going out at the same time.  It would have to be a coordinated/targeted effort by somebody at the 'warehouse' that the seller didn't bother to investigate the first couple times it happened.  There's video at the warehouse but nothing showing somebody move the boxes or walk out with them?  How?

- An actual hospitalization?  Being in the hospital is tough and life can get very messy very quickly, but it doesn't explain 2 months of ignoring people and all of the extra excuses/delays.

- Is somebody who knows him and has access to his stuff taking advantage of a hospitalization or death?  If the PayPal account is the same one that's always been used, this could explain why they wouldn't be worried about the consequences.  The best lies have some basis in truth.

 

I'm not Sherlock Holmes and when you hear hoofbeats you should think horses, not zebras.  This is just too bizarre for the mind not to wander.

I’m local to him but don’t know him. I have some friends I play with that vouch for him. Supposedly a great guy and wouldn't think he would do anything close to this. Even so, something was definitely off here and you just never know what people have gotten themselves into that may push them into some bad stuff. Not taking any sides but it’s all just off kilter. 

[squishyy]

So as of 5/31/24:

 

- Seller has 11 negative feedbacks

- One buyer was refunded, for 100% of payment.

- One buyer was refunded via Paypal dispute.

 

Seller has gone AWOL once again, last communication was Wednesday 5/29. Still no refund as promised for other buyers.

[squishyy]

Update from me:

 

Paypal has closed the dispute in my favor so I have received my money back. I hope everyone receives theirs too. There's nothing more to add to this except to be careful when dealing with anyone even if they have high history or high feedback. This can happen to everyone. So far, the seller has been MIA once again and it doesn't look like he's very proactive at providing any resolution. 

 

Good luck to everyone who was affected.

 

@GwrxMod Not sure how you want to handle this seller going forward.

[hockeyplayer21]

Thankfully I was able to be refunded via PayPal without any issue but same story/events that everyone else had displayed. He replied to a WTB a masters gnome post of mine and that's how I ended up dealing with him. Tried to give the benefit of the doubt but alas - no faith left in humanity! Trust but verify. 

[hoselshot82]

57 minutes ago, hockeyplayer21 said:

Thankfully I was able to be refunded via PayPal without any issue but same story/events that everyone else had displayed. He replied to a WTB a masters gnome post of mine and that's how I ended up dealing with him. Tried to give the benefit of the doubt but alas - no faith left in humanity! Trust but verify. 

He replied to my masters gnome wtb as well. I was after the 2023 one. Here is the picture he sent me 

 

Edited June 3 by hoselshot82

[nsxguy]

On 5/31/2024 at 3:25 PM, awtryau89 said:

I’m local to him but don’t know him. I have some friends I play with that vouch for him. Supposedly a great guy and wouldn't think he would do anything close to this. Even so, something was definitely off here and you just never know what people have gotten themselves into that may push them into some bad stuff. Not taking any sides but it’s all just off kilter. 

 

Yeah, I'm kinda sorta with you.

 

IMO, I'd call it 80/20 against the guy as a lot of stuff sounds, well, "off-kilter".

 

But that's only a 1-in-5 chance he's totally in the wrong. Then again, 1-5 ain't exactly a long shot.

 

I'll be interested to see if he comes up with a FULL description of exactly what happened and when.

 

Storage site (or whatever he called it) being robbed would certainly be unusual, but it ain't exactly outside the realm of possibility.

 

I expect we'll hear more at some point. 

 

[MrTrue]

PayPal decided in my favor on the dispute as well. No contact from seller outside of the mass message that was called out by others in previous pages.

[J Bez]

56 minutes ago, nsxguy said:

 

Yeah, I'm kinda sorta with you.

 

IMO, I'd call it 80/20 against the guy as a lot of stuff sounds, well, "off-kilter".

 

But that's only a 1-in-5 chance he's totally in the wrong. Then again, 1-5 ain't exactly a long shot.

 

I'll be interested to see if he comes up with a FULL description of exactly what happened and when.

 

Storage site (or whatever he called it) being robbed would certainly be unusual, but it ain't exactly outside the realm of possibility.

 

I expect we'll hear more at some point. 

 

 As one of the buyers here would like to know how you see a 20% chance that the 7 (and counting, apparently some people were buying the same shaft) of us who gave him well over a month to ship were in the wrong??

[realmfg]

Also fishy how many were based on WTB ads.  My Swag HC was a WTB.  Easy to get a volume behind the scenes via WTB.

 

Paypal claim did pay me back.

[nsxguy]

39 minutes ago, J Bez said:

 As one of the buyers here would like to know how you see a 20% chance that the 7 (and counting, apparently some people were buying the same shaft) of us who gave him well over a month to ship were in the wrong??

 

I don't believe I said, nor indicated, any buyer was "in the wrong".

 

All I'm saying is that *I* believe there's ~a 20% chance there may be far more to the (seller's) story than what's been posted.

[bvmagic]

Regardless of the situation the seller had / stories / user history, the moral of the story is to always pay through Paypal goods and services.  Cannot let your guard down even if a user has great feedback from previous transactions.  

[ilikegolf26]

3 hours ago, nsxguy said:

 

Yeah, I'm kinda sorta with you.

 

IMO, I'd call it 80/20 against the guy as a lot of stuff sounds, well, "off-kilter".

 

But that's only a 1-in-5 chance he's totally in the wrong. Then again, 1-5 ain't exactly a long shot.

 

I'll be interested to see if he comes up with a FULL description of exactly what happened and when.

 

Storage site (or whatever he called it) being robbed would certainly be unusual, but it ain't exactly outside the realm of possibility.

 

I expect we'll hear more at some point. 

 

He was sending the packages out at his office. He’s saying 10+ packages sent out at different times were stolen but he kept sending them the same way even after they were going missing…

[nsxguy]

2 hours ago, ilikegolf26 said:

He was sending the packages out at his office. He’s saying 10+ packages sent out at different times were stolen but he kept sending them the same way even after they were going missing…

 

Sorry I'm too lazy to go over the whole thing, but OK.

 

But objectively there seems to be a number of things that don't add up and/or have been explained poorly. Wasn't a facility apparently looted ?

 

Anyway, I'm not taking sides here - I've just seen too many odd things happen over time. 

[ilikegolf26]

48 minutes ago, nsxguy said:

 

Sorry I'm too lazy to go over the whole thing, but OK.

 

But objectively there seems to be a number of things that don't add up and/or have been explained poorly. Wasn't a facility apparently looted ?

 

Anyway, I'm not taking sides here - I've just seen too many odd things happen over time. 

Well maybe read the entire thread and become aware of the facts and circumstances surrounding it before commenting then?

 

No, there was not a facility "looted."  That was not mentioned anywhere in this thread.  

 

Not taking sides?  There's only one side to take here and it's not even close.   To his credit, the seller even came in here and said everyone should get refunded.  

Edited June 4 by ilikegolf26

[J Bez]

"IMO, I'd call it 80/20 against the guy as a lot of stuff sounds, well, "off-kilter"."

 

Well if its 80/20 against "the guy" then that means its 20% hes in the right and the buyers are in the wrong.....

[hoselshot82]

9 hours ago, hockeyplayer21 said:

Thankfully I was able to be refunded via PayPal without any issue but same story/events that everyone else had displayed. He replied to a WTB a masters gnome post of mine and that's how I ended up dealing with him. Tried to give the benefit of the doubt but alas - no faith left in humanity! Trust but verify. 

I’m curious, what gnome was he going to sell you?

[Anser3]

14 hours ago, ilikegolf26 said:

He was sending the packages out at his office. He’s saying 10+ packages sent out at different times were stolen but he kept sending them the same way even after they were going missing…

 

Sounds like he should have, at the very least, quit sending the packages that way.  He also should have notified the shipping courier (UPS, FedEx, etc) in case it was one of their employees. Otherwise, he has a crooked employee stealing his mailouts.   That should be an internal investigation at his office complete with criminal charges should they find the offender. 

[third-times-a-charm]

2 minutes ago, Anser3 said:

 

Sounds like he should have, at the very least, quit sending the packages that way.  He also should have notified the shipping courier (UPS, FedEx, etc) in case it was one of their employees. Otherwise, he has a crooked employee stealing his mailouts.   That should be an internal investigation at his office complete with criminal charges should they find the offender. 

Its a moot point because it never happened and its a made up story.

[realmfg]

4 minutes ago, third-times-a-charm said:

Its a moot point because it never happened and its a made up story.

Exactly 

[Anser3]

2 hours ago, third-times-a-charm said:

Its a moot point because it never happened and its a made up story.

I suspect that too.  I meant if the story was truthful at all, those are the steps he would have taken (or should have)  and conveyed to every single one of his buyers in a timely manner.