Can anyone help me out with this scammer on eBay?

[pcenginesales]

I'm having serious problems with a guy on eBay who keeps undercutting my prices. If I dropped lower, he would drop lower to a ridiculous level, I could make no profit, he could feasibly make no profit.
That is fair enough you might think, but check this guy's feedback.

http://feedback.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewFeedback2&userid=mikes-hobbies-zone

Yep, he just plain stopped posting out. He scammed a lot of buyers, got booted from eBay. My sales went back up.

Fair enough? Oh no, he came back: http://feedback.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewFeedback2&userid=reid8036

Note: DON'T put his stuff on your watchlist, don't visit his listings more than once (don't anyway as there's no proof any more to be found in them thanks to his listings on banned account being deleted) as all this will do is bump his interest levels and push my own items down in eBay's search.

Now I've lost a large bulk of sales to the scammer in the past fortnight because he came back with his lowest prices EVER, and he seems to be posting out OK at the moment so has built up some OK feedback. It's probably a blessing I had low sales this week as I was on a gruelling training course, but now I REALLY need to protect my future interests.

I'm working at only a little over minimum wage on these cables. I pay taxes, insurance, fees on a business account. He's not tax registered, sells OK for a bit then runs off with the money of anyone who doesn't know how to claw money back on Paypal. So obviously he can afford to undercut me.

When he came back he used the same pictures in his listings (though for a while he stole chaoticjelly's, probably to hide his identity, but cj reported him and the listings were pulled.) He uses the same large point comic sans font in blue, same listing layout, is selling from the same English county (small state like boundaries of England that are no bigger than a medium US city) sells the same items, etc etc which I reported to eBay. They have utterly failed to ban him. Now they've pulled all his past listings on the banned account (happens when you are perma banned on eBay) so buyers can't even compare and see that reid8036 is definitely the old scammer. Result of this is his sales have shot up.

THe only proof I have to you guys bar my word is this:

http://feedback.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewFeedback2&userid=mikes-hobbies-zone&ftab=FeedbackLeftForOthers
http://feedback.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewFeedback2&userid=reid8036&ftab=FeedbackLeftForOthers

Now as you can see he leaves the same bizarre phrase in feedback on both accounts. Both with blatant misspelling of "Carlsberg" too. I reported him again today to eBay with this fresh evidence but they won't do squat of course, this cheeky, brazen git is plainly selling on a friend's old account and IP.

Now reporting this guy is going to do squat. Sabotaging him would be stupid and put me in jeapordy.

If you can help, one way you can do it is find the listings of other legit sellers for these cables. Put them all on your watch list. If this is annoying, just put the four on that this guy is also selling (megadrive 1 and 2 SCART cables, Neo Geo SCART cables) What this does is pushes the scammer down in search. It doesn't stop him selling of course, but it might alleviate some of the damage done to legit sellers who rely on this for a livelihood.

Another way you can help of course is to never buy off this guy when you need a SCART cable, don't be fooled by the low prices. Spread the word as far as you can. 

I sold THREE cables yesterday. I usually sell 4-5 times that on Saturday. NONE were the same cable the scammer is selling. He has literally run off with all of my sales. Lowering my price is not an option and woud put me in the same position he put himself in (so many orders he has to run off with some money to break even.)

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Roger that Ill be sure not to buy from this guy! Ill put you on my fav sellers list and watch on of your items!....Whats your ebay name?

[pcenginesales]

Roger that Ill be sure not to buy from this guy! Ill put you on my fav sellers list and watch on of your items!....Whats your ebay name?

It's pcenginesales, like my ID here. Thanks a lot and remember favouriting the other sellers that are not this guy will help too.

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Roger that Ill be sure not to buy from this guy! Ill put you on my fav sellers list and watch on of your items!....Whats your ebay name?

It's pcenginesales, like my ID here. Thanks a lot and remember favouriting the other sellers that are not this guy will help too.

HEH...I went to add you and realized you were the one I was going to buy that Turboduo cable from....lol

I still need that cable...

You wouldnt happen to know if a PS1 Scart will work on a duo for converting to RGB on USA TV's? I saw a guy from JAP selling one with a duo and he said he wasnt sure about USA.

[pcenginesales]

Roger that Ill be sure not to buy from this guy! Ill put you on my fav sellers list and watch on of your items!....Whats your ebay name?

It's pcenginesales, like my ID here. Thanks a lot and remember favouriting the other sellers that are not this guy will help too.

HEH...I went to add you and realized you were the one I was going to buy that Turboduo cable from....lol

I still need that cable...

You wouldnt happen to know if a PS1 Scart will work on a duo for converting to RGB on USA TV's? I saw a guy from JAP selling one with a duo and he said he wasnt sure about USA.

I've seen those Duos converted to SCART and it's weird, they either install a Playstation type socket in the unit (why?) or an 8 pin to PS type plug converter. I really don't get it because making an 8 pin to SCART cable will suffice and be less work. I suppose it's a gimmick to draw attention to the mod they've done, replacing the 5 pin with an 8 pin doesn't look like a mod at all. I just don't know! Anyway a PS1 SCART will not work on a Duo that has not been modded with a playstation socket. Most aren't. You want a Neo Geo type 8 pin DIN to RGB SCART instead, now if you ask for these to be wired in any config you like to fit the mod you have that'll do fine.

Now if you bought the PS1 SCART modded Duo in the first place I see no reason why the mod won't work on an RGB to YUV converter, but it might depend on mod. I know my basic SCARTs with Duo-R's amp work, he has confirmed they work. Now my SCART with an amp inside is being tested by him when he gets the time.

So if you bought for now a Duo with amp inside from Duo-R, plus a Neo Geo SCART from me (make sure you tell me it is for Duo-R's mod) that would work. Can not comment on PS1 modded Duos, I don't know what amp circuit they are using or if it poses any potential problems.

[Arkhan]

just let ebay know its the same guy and theyll investigate his stupidity.

[pcenginesales]

just let ebay know its the same guy and theyll investigate his stupidity.

I have done this, many many times on many accounts with fresh evidence each time, I have even phoned the powerseller support line directly. eBay have done ABSOLUTELY NOTHING, like I say this person is clearly using a brand new IP, possibly a friend's old account. The only way to hurt his sales is to boost my own and try to increase visibility over his. It severely sucks and I don;t know why they don't accept identical listings, same pictures, same location same feedback phrases as evidence. All they will ban on is same IP, which I don't think they look into too closely (ie if he used it in the past, they probably just look at IPs he is using NOW.)

[Duo_R]

I have tried one of PCENGINESALES standard RGB cables for Duo, it worked fantastic for my internally amped Duo-R. I need to do a review on the special amped cables as soon as I get my next system 8 din "socketed." Thanks again Pcenginesales, damn straight I am not going elsewhere for RGB cables!