Buyer Beware

[ODB]

This is a heads up for people on this auction:

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll? ... 1528wt_754

It says prototype but its highly unlikely to be one. The same seller pulled the same trick with the Star Wars community and all his prototypes were shown to be fakes. He then claimed everything from cancer to divorce to avoid refunds. Deffo avoid.

[SteveD]

Cheers for the heads up ODB. Not my kettle of ish but now he's turned his attentions to Joes it might only be a matter of time before AF ones start to show! I shall steer well clear!

[The Baron]

Got any links to the Star Wars forum warnings please, ODB?

[Golden Puma]

How come he has no negs on his feedback, and how did he create them?

[ODB]

Link from the Star Wars world, be warned it is long and people get very very pissed off:

http://threads.rebelscum.com/showflat.p ... 93&fpart=1

Puma, that is his second account on ebay but its the same guy and a lot of the deals were done outside of Ebay as at the time he was quite well respected on Palitoy items. Turns out all of his so called pre production stuff was nothing more than normal figures with the paint stripped off or custom bashed knockoffs. He also sold an awful lot of them for some very high prices and then disappeared when people wanted refunds.

[Thundershot]

Hope this guy doesn't start to pick on us collecting community...mind you we're such a small tight knit group would he make any or enough money from us to make it worth his time & effort?

[Golden Puma]

that is one hell of a mess, glad I'm not a massive SW collector, with repros floating about and all.

[The Baron]

I've posted a warning at Yojoe: http://forums.yojoe.com/bad-traders-sel ... per78.html