Hi folks,

It is with some debate and a bit reluctantly that I have to post a bad trader alert against Carl H. aka Bigcvideos.

I sent my end of a trade to him back in around the holidays, and he never sent me my discs in return.

He stayed in touch with me, letting me know he had family emergencies pop up and his workload. I told him to take his time. That was almost half a year ago.

He kept sending emails to update me. First it was that my discs were ready but he was away and would mail them when he got back. Next, it was he lost them somewhere in his home but will redo them. Then it was he adopted his niece and nephew. Then it was he was working overtime. But all the while, he stayed in touch. Which I was fine with, even though I very much wanted my end of the trade.

The last email I got from him was in April, where he said that he had time off and would have them off to me that following week. Then in May, I wrote him to ask if he ever sent them. I never heard back and have since written him several times.

Since he and I are both on Yahoo, I see automatically when any other Yahoo person logs in and out. He logs in several times a week, so I know he is still around. But he won't return any email.

As a member of the trading community, I thought it ultimately the responsible choice to let folks know to be aware.

Thanks, VIDeoJoe

thanks for posting, it is always helpful to have information like this.

yeah, the many excuses and logging in but not answering sounds fishy to me. occasionally, contingencies do pop up, but this many seems unlikely.

what was it he was supposed to have sent you? perhaps someone here has it and an arrangement can be worked out.

also, have you contacted the moderator?

Hey Wiseguy,

I haven't contacted any mods primarily because I am resigned to the fact that Carl isn't going to send his end of things, and as long as I've been trading I have come to the realization that sometimes this sort of thing will happen.

The reason I made any sort of fuss about it was so that other traders like yourself could be aware.

As far as what the trade was for, here it is:

1 - Gobots – 5 episodes w/o/c (1 disc)

2-6 - Private Benjamen 11 episode's ( 5 disc's more than half of these are w/o/c also includes an episode of mork and mindy w/o/c, disc's five in this set is full of shows series premiere's of gimme a break, up all night, Archie bunker's place, Joanie loves chachi, police squad, one of the boy's, and several others all original airing a few with commercials)

7 - Abc thruday night movie: 1987 alien w/o/c ( has tail end of the sitcom charming)

8 - The Mary Tyler Moore show – 9/3/77 “The Last Show”
rebroadcast w/o/c

9 – 10 - Mork and Mindy Animated Series - 22 Episodes (B-) (2 DVDs)

And then several discs worth of RFD-TV programming including Ralph Emery Live.

It wasn't a big trade, but it was the principal of it. And in the case of the RFD-TV, I did a three for one trade, so for every one disc he made, I sent him 3 discs.

I am sure that many folks have those first 10 discs in their collection, and I would be happy to trade for them. And if anyone has RFD-TV, I would love to be able to get Ralph Emery Live taped, and I would still offer the 3 discs for 1 on that.

Thanks Wiseguy for your concern!

Best, VIDeoJoe

I had the same problem with Carl. We arranged a trade last October, but his problems came in November. He last contacted me with an update on January 1, and I've, honestly, forgot all about it until now.

Yeah, I wasn't really worried about it until the communication stopped or each update was proceeded with no discs.

As an update to everyone, I just got an email from Carl. He said that he sent it out to me April 28 (yet he never told me he sent them, nor did he ask if I got them okay). Obviously, I never received anything, otherwise I wouldn't have posted about it here.

He says that he is going to redo them (this would now be the third time of making them) and get them off right away. I will keep everyone posted as to the outcome.

He e-mailed me today, as well, saying it'll be two weeks before he can send out my discs. Likewise, I'll keep everyone posted.

Hi folks,

Wanted to give everyone an update regarding Carl H aka Bigcvideos. He sent me an email on Sunday, June 20th to say that he dropped my discs in the mail that day. I waited all week. Nothing came. I contacted him at the end of that week and asked him how he sent them off on a Sunday. He said he just put a bunch of stamps on it and dropped it in the mailbox.

The problem with that is twofold. One, he claimed to have sent a package off in April that never arrived. If that's true, why would he send a second package off, guessing the weight by putting on a random amount of stamps, and then not put Delivery Confirmation on it? Especially if his trading reputation mattered to him.

Well, here we are July 1st, and still nothing. I have serious doubts that either package was ever sent and even more doubts that I will ever end up getting my discs.

I think when one considers the facts I laid out at the start of this thread, coupled with what anglemark10 has added, the picture is pretty clear that it's a series of excuses and then, if true, bad decision making.

If my discs ever show up, or if Carl H. ever makes good, I will let everyone know.

Best, Joe aka VIDeoJoe

Hi folks,

Wanted to give everyone an update regarding Carl H aka Bigcvideos. He sent me an email on Sunday, June 20th to say that he dropped my discs in the mail that day. I waited all week. Nothing came. I contacted him at the end of that week and asked him how he sent them off on a Sunday. He said he just put a bunch of stamps on it and dropped it in the mailbox.

The problem with that is twofold. One, he claimed to have sent a package off in April that never arrived. If that's true, why would he send a second package off, guessing the weight by putting on a random amount of stamps, and then not put Delivery Confirmation on it? Especially if his trading reputation mattered to him.

Well, here we are July 1st, and still nothing. I have serious doubts that either package was ever sent and even more doubts that I will ever end up getting my discs.

I think when one considers the facts I laid out at the start of this thread, coupled with what anglemark10 has added, the picture is pretty clear that it's a series of excuses and then, if true, bad decision making.

If my discs ever show up, or if Carl H. ever makes good, I will let everyone know.

Best, Joe aka VIDeoJoe


I must be lucky or something because the Post Office has delivered every one of my packages, everytime. I guess some people just have rotten luck.;)

Productive input Atlas. Thanks for sharing.

I don't have much of an update except to say that I've heard nothing from Carl since my last post.

I did have a trading friend on another board state that she asked for 6 or 7 replacement discs from Carl, because the discs didn't work. She got no discs and no response. Said she wouldn't trade with him again. So that's 3 complaints.

Yeah at this point I think other traders out there would be smart to steer away from dealing with him. And sadly, I think that he is probably done trading anyway.

When a guy gets 'over his head' in just squaring a small trade with someone like anglemark10 or replacing a mere half a dozen discs for your friend wiseguy182, it boils down to the action, or lack thereof, speaking for itself.

As I mentioned before, I have no faith in ever getting my discs, nor do I seek a moderator trying to help. I think that Carl H. aka Bigcvideos knows the score when it comes to what he owes people and how he has made excuse after excuse. It obviously doesn't matter to him. If it did, he would have made haste on people's packages after this latest awakening. He would have put DC on to protect his own rep. And we wouldn't have fallen out of communication with people as he has.

He even told me back on the 25th that he holds out hope that the package he sent me in April will still eventually show up. With that sort of logic, what can a guy do?

Yeah at this point I think other traders out there would be smart to steer away from dealing with him. And sadly, I think that he is probably done trading anyway.

When a guy gets 'over his head' in just squaring a small trade with someone like anglemark10 or replacing a mere half a dozen discs for your friend wiseguy182, it boils down to the action, or lack thereof, speaking for itself.

As I mentioned before, I have no faith in ever getting my discs, nor do I seek a moderator trying to help. I think that Carl H. aka Bigcvideos knows the score when it comes to what he owes people and how he has made excuse after excuse. It obviously doesn't matter to him. If it did, he would have made haste on people's packages after this latest awakening. He would have put DC on to protect his own rep. And we wouldn't have fallen out of communication with people as he has.

He even told me back on the 25th that he holds out hope that the package he sent me in April will still eventually show up. With that sort of logic, what can a guy do?


Sorry you had such a bad experience w that trader and hope karma evens everything out with a future trade that really rocks.

Productive input Atlas. Thanks for sharing.

No problem, anything I can do to help.:wave:

A small update (observation): Bigcvideos aka Carl H. was last on these board on the 29th of June, just four days ago. Yet he isn't responding to emails.

I think this sheds more light to the fact that all of the suspense that Carl H. has kept many of us in all of this time has less to do with his own personal issues and more with the fact that he's avoiding us.

He will remain a bad trader in my book, and I warn everyone not to trade with him, until I get my discs. And the longer it takes, the more the cement is drying.

there are alot of bad traders out there when i joined this sight there were alot more good traders but alot of them like myself have stoped trading becuase of the bad traders you do not know who to trust there was a trader that some how got my phone number and kept calling my house would not stop till i told him that if he wanted to talk to me do it with a email and he turned out to be a bad trader sent me a show he said he had turned out to be something else can not remember is name but after that i only traded with
traders that i trusted and now they are slowing down.

seems as if Carl H has been a bad trader since the 1990's

http://www.sitcomsonline.com/boards/showthread.php?s=&threadid=115591&highlight=bad+trader

Hi folks,

Well, I have a final update for everyone about Carl Honomichl aka Bigcvideos.

I started this thread several weeks ago, and after several weeks of excuses and claims that he sent the discs that he owed me a total of three times now, I got word from him that my discs were sent Sunday, from a local shipper, and that he had a delivery confirmation number for me but forgot it at home and would email it to me the next day (Monday).

I heard nothing and emailed him today (Wednesday) to ask for the tracking number. This is what he wrote back:

"Sorry about in a rush to get it out to you I mailed to myself. I got it back in yesterdays mail. any how I resent it late yesterday afternoon here the tracking info: 0309 1140 0000 8880 2826"

So, here we go again with his seemingly 12 year pattern of making excuses? I have to ask, have any of us here been so rushed that we end up mailing a package to ourselves? So I replied back and asked him for the original tracking number. After all, if he did indeed send it to himself, he would have a tracking number that would reflect a package delivered to the city in which he lives. Instead, he replied with this:

"Yes that's the correct tracking #. Like I said before you can believe me or not I really don't care either way. As far as trading goes I'm done, trading with 3 young children and the fact that my restraunt finnally picked up business I don't have time nor a desire to trade anymore. what ever people thinkof me is their opinon. I've always been honest with you in the past I don't see were it would make and diference now."

I went to write him back, telling him that I bet that the next story will be that he accidentally mailed it to his cat and his cat won't release the discs so he has to make them all over again. But the email bounced back. I sent it again from another email addresss and it too bounced back. So, he deleted his email account.

I know he is reading this so let me say Carl, from all of us here that have been burned by you: you're a thief and a schmuck. We all have lives and things that happen that take us away from the hobby or slow down what we can do. But when you have discs that other people sent you in good faith, have time to spend on Facebook, but can't reply to emails and do the right thing by folks, then people won't feel sorry for what may or many not be going on in your life. As presented by others on this thread, you obviously conduct business by making excuses. And not very good ones at that. If you run your restaurant with the same standards as you do your trading, I bet you are finding yourself constantly making excuses to your customers for the long wait but either a) you ran out of tomatos and had to fly to Italy to pick more or b) you were abducted in the kitchen by aliens. Either excuse would rank about as credible as the ones you've been dishing out to all of us.

Stick to your word: quit the hobby. It's traders like you that make people jaded toward wanting to participate.

And to everyone else, if my discs ever do show up, I will let you know. But don't hold your breaths.

VideoJoe,

I'm sorry for all you have gone thru with your trade! I hate to tell you this but I saw my cat watching "Gobots" yesterday so I think he sent the package to her :crazy:

Seriously though, I really hope it shows up for you!

Thanks Stephanie. And for the record, I will never trade with your cat again.:D

Hi folks,

Wanted to give everyone a postscript to my dealings with Carl Honomichl.

As it turned out, my long-awaited package from him arrived yesterday. Out of the 13 discs that he sent, 4 didn't work at all. Another two I had to reauthor in able to get them to work.

As I mentioned before, Carl pulled his trading website and got rid of his email address. So there is obviously no way to get replacements from him.

While it might be a moot point, I wanted to at least acknowledge that after endless months of hounding him and getting excuses, he eventually sent the discs. Even if several don't work or play.

I hope for the sake of the trading hobby that he stays away so that others don't get taken advantage of.

I always liked Carl, which is why it was hard for me to start this thread. But in the end, he didn't do the right thing by me and others here.