Imonly Playingdead

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If you don't want to hear about auction-type activity, or the selling of in-game items for real world cash, feel free to stop reading now. If, however, you participate in such activities, or just want to hear a good NAG, please, read on.

Many of you know me from my in game character, Imonly. Well, after almost two and a half years of playing, I decided to quit for a myriad of reasons, and figured that I may as well get something out of my time invested. So, I sold my character on that auction service (you know what I'm talking about ), and moved all my plat (100k) to my second account, which was basically a bazaar mule.

Sold the account with no problems, and moved onto selling my plat. Got a high bid from a fellow known by his playerauction ID of pezz120. Emailed this person at , and made arrangements to pick up the plat. He paid me via Paypal, here is the screenshot of the email confirmation:

home.attbi.com/~sgeffre/paypal.JPG

So, now we know that Mr. is the individual we're dealing with. I gave 's in game character "Rypper" a little over 101k, basically all the plat I had. I logged off, canceled my second account, and went about my business, pleased that I had recieved some return on my time investment.

This morning, I log into Paypal to see how long it's going to take to have the money deposited in my bank account, and lo and behold, the payment was reversed!! Here is a screenshot of the dispute:

home.attbi.com/~sgeffre/dispute.JPG

Mr. has decided that not only does he want his plat, but he wants his real life cash, too! Well, that didn't seem fair to me, so I emailed him. During the selling process, he was VERY quick to respond to my email, however, now that I have no money and no plat, John has decided to become scarce. How unfortunate.

So, I talk to paypal, put in my dispute, and start to do some looking around. I know that Rypper, being a level 55 necromancer with no guild is most likely not his main, so on a whim, I put his email address that I got from Paypal into google.com. You can do it yourself, but I've saved you the trouble with a screenshot of the results:

home.attbi.com/~sgeffre/google.JPG

Ho ho!! Well lookie here, Mr. is none other than Simon David! Well, being the skeptic that I am, I was not content to just rest on that piece of information, as we all know that accounts can be sold, and maybe Simon David is not owned by Mr. at all. So, I decide to look at some of his recent posts. You can do the same, but again, I've saved you the trouble with a screenshot:

home.attbi.com/~sgeffre/nevada.JPG

If you prefer, here is the thread that shot came from:

pub142.ezboard.com/fayona...4626.topic

Well, now this is very interesting. If you look at the first screenshot of Paypal information, you see that Mr. in fact lives in Nevada, Iowa, and so does Simon David! Since Simon David, AKA just made that post on June 17, I'm willing to bet he still owns that account.

So, now that we have established that Simon David is the person who has my plat, the only thing you have left to ask yourself is, "Self, how do I know Imonly REALLY gave him the plat?" Well, that is where the well of hard data runs dry, my friends. Being that the plat was on my bazaar mule, I had no logging on. You know how large logs can get when you spend all day and all night in the bazaar, so that is why I have no log. Also, having just sold my character in a very quick and painless auction transaction, I was not so overly cautious about this one, and naively trusted Mr.. My bad, I guess I should assume people are scammers until proven otherwise.

However, I will appeal to your logic here. Why would I, a person who doesn't play EQ, doesn't even have a main character anymore, come to an EQ message board, take the time to look up all the information I did, craft this lengthy and, dare I say, interesting read about a person I didn't know before yesterday, if what I have presented to you is not fact? I leave it up to you to come to your own conclusion, but believe me, everything I have presented to you is the truth. I did deliver the plat, and I did get shafted out of the money.

Simon, , whatever, maybe this is an honest mistake. Maybe you accidentally hit the dispute button in Paypal without noticing and haven't been to your computer since. If that's the case, please contact me and we'll make alternate payment arrangements. If you do, I will be happy to come back here and let the good folks of Ayonae Ro know that all is well, and everything has been cleared up. Until then, please be cautious of ANY dealings you have with Simon David, his alt Rypper, Mr. at (screen name for that account is John B).

Thanks for your attention!

Kanerian

Haha,Ebaying is your friend

Alyxzandra

gives it one hour before buyza54 respsonds

runno1munkey

didn't flame him like i wanted to but i give ya props on the research and good report on it all! I remember before ya were 60 leveling with you in Velks

KMA1234

Simon has always struck me as a fuckin idiot and that he'd stoop to that does not surprise me in the least..sorry you got scammed and hope his behaivor has consequences if only on this board and in game

Kadath Dreamfire

Please clarify: Is this characters first name Simondavid or first name Simon last name David?

While Simondavid is no longer in my guild, I can vouch for his honor and it would VERY much surprise me to scam anyone.

Kad

Gekster

The characters name is Simondavid, you can tell from Imonly's research from google and the post.

Kadath Dreamfire

NM, saw the screenshot.

I'd like to hear his side of things of course...

Kad

amidgit

Isn't there a way to do paypal where the person sending you the money can't do shit like this?

valorindel

Some times I really wonder the truth behind posts like this one. Not knowing either person, I can't make a character judgement. But I would say old simondavid has some 'splaining to do.