Paid Venmo to a berserker Jan 8th.
$300 all in for a 2023 Micthers 10 rye.
He still has not shipped and I haven’t heard from him in a week.
Anybody know this guy? At what point do I get concerned?
Not a full name registration. Maybe Mods know full name.
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Joined in 2020. I would hope they have a good reason. Hopefully there is just a honest reason. Good luck!
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Did he have a sales post or solicit an offer via message? If the latter, I would be concerned.
He messaged me directly……. I was specifically looking for allocated bourbons and Micthers products. He provided pictures and everything.
It’s been a winter mess in the heartland and he said he’s been unable to get to ups to ship. Which is understandable. He swore he would ship by 1/18. That came and went and I haven’t heard anything since.
A red flag for me was his Venmo handle changed from Jeff Macdonald to a new name (after I paid), “Matt Cunningham”
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The email address looks like a possible burner
Venmo has some level of fraud resolution I thought?
I would run a reverse image search on the photos. If you can confirm that they were not original, it will provide evidence of fraud.
Nvm.
he was last here 7 days ago
IP address (not worth much, with server farms) is Indiana, registered from Columbus OH
Oof. That’s not a good sign. Thanks for sharing that Greg.
Venmo only has protection if you take their “Venmo Purchase Protection Program” which is roughly 2% of the sale.
Ironically. He really tried to get me to buy a 2018 George T Stagg at the same time. He took my first and only offer at $700. I told him I would buy it, IF the first transaction goes smoothly. He wanted to “ship together.” He gave excuses from his son’s 21st bday to the Winter storm why he hadn’t shipped yet…
I’ll include bottle pictures below. I did a google image search and nothing looked familiar. Maybe another tech savvy user will spot something I didn’t.
This sucks Matt, weasels everywhere.Good Luck!
Hope you get some resolution Matt. That’s why there is a 25 post minimum for CC although it really should be 10 times that imo. (I realize he pm’d you though)
We have someone that posted 25 in a day and then posted a gift card in commerce.
Buyer beware
The Venmo transaction protection is well worth it for these circumstances. I recently used it when making a purchase here on WB and just added the 2% to the final price. I consider it a buyers premium for WB.
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If that 2% is no questions asked, that’s a bargain. I’m an old guy that uses PayPal 
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I do too Robert. PayPal is easy for me. Although I do have Venmo too :). I hope this gets worked out.