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USER SUSPENSION: gliderflyboy


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**This post is informative only. User responses have been disabled.**

 

Members of the USMF community:

 

Today the administration was forced to suspend the account of community member "gliderflyboy" (aka Blake).

 

gliderflyboy bought items from two separate USMF forums on two separate days. Each time gliderflyboy paid for the items with PayPal.

 

Within hours of receiving the items, gliderflyboy claimed through PayPal that the transactions were fraudulent charges on his account and asked PayPal to reverse the payments. PayPal reverse the payment gliderflyboy made. The PayPal message sent to each seller said, in part, "We recently notified you of a bank reversal filed by Blake Thomas for a transaction..."

 

These members immediately contacted gliderflyboy. gliderflyboy tried to blame it on his bank, but each transaction was canceled on a different day, within hours after he had received the items (Please note: each seller had used the Postal Service proof of delivery so they knew their shipments were correctedly delivered and when their shipments were delivered).

 

gliderflyboy was confronted. At that point, he came up with a couple of different stories about why the payments had been reversed. None of the stories seemed consistent with PayPal policies nor the notification emails PayPal sent to sellers regarding the reversals.

 

After a lot of back-and-forth, gliderflyboy ended up sending cash to one of the sellers. However, this was only after he learned that seller was member of the forum staff. The other seller has never received the almost $100 owed him.

 

Since the initial complaint was filed, the USMF Administration has also learned that gliderflyboy has reneged on at least one other agreement to send payment for items that he previously agreed to buy through the forum's FOR SALE section. There may be other such instances we are unaware of since he did post many responses in the FOR SALE section indicating his desire to buy items for sale.

 

He has made no additional contact with the USMF Administration.

 

In an interest to protect the members of this community, his account has been banned. Please use caution should you be contacted by any individual bearing this username gliderflyboy and/or the same or substantially similar personal information as provided by the reporting USMF members and/or found online:

 

Name:

Blake Thomas

 

Address:

1131 Pinewood Drive

Lanesville, IN 47132

(near New Albany, IN)

 

Email:

 

Online profile:

 

The FOR SALE section is provided for members as an easy way to sell among friends, since all of us here in this community are friends. For us to maintain that friendly atmosphere, we must make sure that members are fulfilling their obligations. Buyers are buying what they agreed to buy, and sellers are selling what they agreed to sell.

 

It is true that the FOR SALE section is operated under the principle that all transactions are between the buyer and seller. The forum and/or its owners cannot force anyone to complete their obligations nor can we be held responsible for the actions of either party during the transaction or before or after. However, we will (as evidenced here) take action if necessary when there are abuses.

 

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