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Long Time suspected FAKE baggies scam / seller
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<blockquote data-quote="edd_jedi" data-source="post: 432691" data-attributes="member: 2"><p>As my name is on the list I feel I should explain my involvement.</p><p></p><p>First of all I am no authority on baggies - I know little about them. However in the last six months I have bought ten from Jeff both in person at FF and from eBay (in good faith may I add) and that is why I was asked to contribute my baggies as evidence. Of the 10 I bought, two are suspected to be fake.</p><p></p><p>As Frank said this is not a knee-jerk reaction, it is years worth of research affecting potentially hundreds of baggies almost all of which are 100% known to originate from the same person.</p><p></p><p>I appreciate peoples thoughts on the approach and with hindsight perhaps it could have been worded better, but due to the overwhelming amount of evidence I do think it was reasonable for Frank to make it public and name the accused. If this was just a few baggies here and there, sure it could have been handled behind closed doors. But this is on almost as big a scale as the Toy Toni incident with these being in the hands of dozens of collectors and having the potential to completely ruin a whole area of the hobby, so although there really was no nice way to deliver the news, I agree with Frank that it had to be done.</p><p></p><p>I wasn't pleased when Toni was outed in public either, I bought a significant amount of items from him over a 10 year period so was equally gutted to find out somebody I trusted was being dishonest. It's a **** sandwich whichever way you look at it.</p><p></p><p>It was posted on this forum purely so that there was a focal point for the evidence and discussion.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="edd_jedi, post: 432691, member: 2"] As my name is on the list I feel I should explain my involvement. First of all I am no authority on baggies - I know little about them. However in the last six months I have bought ten from Jeff both in person at FF and from eBay (in good faith may I add) and that is why I was asked to contribute my baggies as evidence. Of the 10 I bought, two are suspected to be fake. As Frank said this is not a knee-jerk reaction, it is years worth of research affecting potentially hundreds of baggies almost all of which are 100% known to originate from the same person. I appreciate peoples thoughts on the approach and with hindsight perhaps it could have been worded better, but due to the overwhelming amount of evidence I do think it was reasonable for Frank to make it public and name the accused. If this was just a few baggies here and there, sure it could have been handled behind closed doors. But this is on almost as big a scale as the Toy Toni incident with these being in the hands of dozens of collectors and having the potential to completely ruin a whole area of the hobby, so although there really was no nice way to deliver the news, I agree with Frank that it had to be done. I wasn't pleased when Toni was outed in public either, I bought a significant amount of items from him over a 10 year period so was equally gutted to find out somebody I trusted was being dishonest. It's a **** sandwich whichever way you look at it. It was posted on this forum purely so that there was a focal point for the evidence and discussion. [/QUOTE]
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