Let’s get a good old fashioned CF mob together and get this guy!
Buying from Cycloneking
- Thread starter Milehighcy2
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Superfanatic bus ride to kick the dude's arse. We Will can have a lottery for $20 ticket to be the first to give him a good whooping.
Can't happen. The death penalty is illegal in Iowa....
I had a 2006 member who hadn't posted a ton but over 100 times screw me over at the last second on three Iowa/Iowa State tickets in 2019. Agreed on a price and then he sold them at the last minute to someone who gave him a better offer. Such ********...but I guess I should have known better.
Doubt it will come to anything but I did go ahead and file a cyber crime complaint with the FBI and sent them his Venmo/PayPal information
That's too bad, sorry to hear.
I've bought/sold over 100 tickets here in our ticket exchange over the years with no issues so this is definitely an abnormal situation.
I've bought/sold over 100 tickets here in our ticket exchange over the years with no issues so this is definitely an abnormal situation.
Is this an opportunity for some type of 'reputation' rating for those on the ticket exchange? Won't address those long time CF folks who are selling/buying for the first time - but could add a layer of confidence
Makes you think. I've learned from this never buy off a new member. Wonder if it's worth restricting posting privileges in ticket exchange to established members.
I got sucked out of a couple ISU/Iowa football tickets this past fall $250 for two tickets. Guy posted on here and started texting back and forth after I paid him and then the guy like ghosted me. Tried calling and his phone number wasn't valid. Go figure. I will only buy from "Well-Known Members" and maybe even from a "Publisher", but not a knew member.
The real ****** thing with scamming people in these situations is that a lot of parents want to "take their kid(s) to a game." Scammers could be breaking the heart of an 8 yr old, if the parent/purchaser is on a budget. That's a real, real, ****** thing to do.
These people are scumbags. They could care less about breaking the heart of an 8 yr old. No moral compass. Very sad.
I’m always willing to meet to get the tickets, wherever. I want hard tickets when I buy individually.
Yeah, the new era can be great (i.e. transferring tickets via exchanges like Cyclones.com has) but there also are LOTS of ways digital tickets can be bogus.
I saw someone post a couple of concert tickets on FB Marketplace and had the full bar code listed. I made sure i was right at the opening of the gates for that show.......KIDDING! I messaged them and let them know they should not post that part of the ticket...older person who didn't realize a simple screen grab and they are out of luck.
I used to take that approach as well. Unfortunately, hard tickets are exceeding rare to find. Everything is mobile or electronic now. A person can print the electronic ticket from their home computer and sell it to you. Of course, they could print the tickets multiple times and sell them to multiple people. The ticket brokers such as Ticketmaster, StubHub, etc. appear to be the only sure fire way of not getting scammed. However, the entities charge absorbent fees. Very frustrating.
I tried finding the old email chain for this one but can't, but I want to just tell this story showing how heartless people can be.
A few years ago I get a Facebook message from some random guy. I don't remember what the scam entailed, however after we fought over his scamming ways, we actually started talking about legitimate revenue streams on the internet.
So he send me a link to his 'legit site' as a revenue stream. The first story is about a teenager who raped and killed another younger boy. It was so poorly written and so very clickbaity. It's obviously a fake story so I set out prove it.
I eventually ran across the teenager whose pictures were being used (as well as his name in the article, irrc). The teenager and his dad had been killed in a car accident probably 3 years prior. I show him this and tell him that's fine if you want to make up stories, but can you please remove this kids picture and name from the article.
He basically laughed at me telling me to get a life, it's just the internet. We went back and forth, I reached out to the teenagers mother about it. The original guy started hardcore doxxing me so I decided to end the battle.
Found the letter to his mom, this was 2014 so story was a little different than I remembered.
2nd email.
And the responses from the scammer on Facebook:
And after lying about his family and being a normal guy.
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No doubt. I can only imagine my 7th and 11th grader are in school fidgeting in their seats right now for the game tonight......... which they are watching on TV. I can only imagine their lack of focus if we were going to the game. Then to pick them up from school and tell them change of plans. Yikes, that makes my stomach sink. Horrible.
