Bad Trader- Gothammaster

[stargate20]

Beware of this trader, her name is Patricia Shackett. She owes me a tape and money and has blocked my e-mail from her account.

She lives in Rutland, VT and has a website:
www.freewebs.com/videopages/

Do not do business with this person, she is a scammer!

Her address:

Patricia Shackett
PO Box 102
Fair Haven, VT 05743

[tdubel]

Hi ,
I am sorry this happened to you, this person is otherwise known as Richard Johnson, same address, pls use the following links and file real complaints against this idiot(he has ripped a lot of people):
1. Internet Fraud Center(they will contact the police)
http://www1.ifccfbi.gov/index.asp

2. USPS Mail Fraud Unit
http://www.usps.com/postalinspectors...dComplaint.htm

I used both avenues and I know it worked as I spoke to a police seargent from Vermont. I did get my tapes, of course they were crappola with a Capital C.

This guy/gal etc. is the biggest scam artist out there, again I urge you to file a claim/stmt with both sites.

Good Luck<
Tom

[Nan8]

I did some business with him back in November, but he was calling himself "Joe Geary" then.

I wanted The Electric Grandmother, Father Dowling, and The Phantom of the Opera (Schell/Seymour/York version). He said I could pay whatever I wanted to for them, so I guessed $30 was fair enough.

I was waiting to hear from him when I heard that there was an accident with a mail truck that it caught fire and destroyed packages and everything. I emailed him and told him that if he had sent the package, I wouldn't get it, so he was nice enough to resend it.

He said to write the check to Patricia Shacket for some reason (I can't remember now). I used the Vermont address.

The quality was very good, but the first 5 minutes of Phantom were missing; no big deal.

[ML21]

he might be big but not bigger than Pam Maples and her multiples personalities

[superbich50]

This person is still around? Of course, he did just recently post as 'Video Guy'. But watch out. When I ordered from this person on EBAY, I had the misfortune of looking at the feedback after the fact, which is one of my biggest regrets, for there was a lot of positive said about him, but there was enough negative feedback that left a queasy feeling in the pit of my stomach. You never know when you are the person they decide to rip off!

Strangely, the exact same thing happened to me not a week later, and I was juggling 2 con artists at the same time. The other person was named ANTHONY PECARO and he lived in San Jose, California.(Is that name familiar to anyone? I've seen him post on here before, but I met him on www.coolcollecting.com.) Anyway, after corresponding with him for awhile, I thought that I could trust him. I sent him a money order, and then he stopped writing after I pressed him for a time frame when it was already taking several weeks. Then the sickening feeling returned in my stomach when I spotted a negative feedback on coolcollecting. Someone didn't get what she had ordered from him, either, after several months of waiting. I have now seen several other posts about him. Needless to say, I never got what I had ordered, and never heard from him again, although, other people had said positive things about his level of service.

Okay, I am writing a novel now, but the point is, You've got to be careful with people who you never even see. I was far too trusting, and had paid for and received a hundred items, and always gave and got positive feedback before that. It was only when I started collecting videos that this started happening. Before that, I bought mostly books and Christian music, if that's any indication. In all, I was ripped off 4 times last summer, and lost almost $500 on account of overpriced videos.

So, BEWARE!! Especially of this person, who ripped me off for the most so far. I have other posts on this site talking about this situation.

[GMunster]

If you buy Christian CDs, why do you call yourself a superbich?

[Agent 13]

Originally posted by GMunster
If you buy Christian CDs, why do you call yourself a superbich?

I wondered the same thing.

[superbich50]

I was talking about bad traders/sellers, it is strange that that issue would come up about what I choose to use as an email address!

People are different all over the world, and no one knows me, really. I was really just trying to convey my feeling about being ripped off several times and how I would never say I had something I didn't, or make someone wait to get what they want, or overcharge someone for defective product. I would try to tell people exactly what they are getting. My goal in life (on this website) would be to give people what they want and vice versa.
I'm not even sure a religious discussion is allowed on this board, but looking at what I buy versus one word seems a tad judgemental. However, my life has taken many twists and turns over the years. I, one day, plan to compile all of lifes adventures into an autobiography which I am currently writing. Until that time, I consider my life to be no ones business. Trust me, at work I have to fend off impertinent questions and people's propensity to 'pigeon-hole' me and stereotype, and then make jokes that only they think are funny, because it's a persona that they have invented about me in their own imagination. For example, because I have bought Christain music in the past, some people think that's all I ever listen to, and make fun of me for it! For the purpose of this board though, I just want to be as honest as I can, and Help people complete collections, as I want to complete mine. By the way, some Christians think watching television is evil, and a waste of time.

You may remember a little album Amy Grant recorded in 1991 called 'Heart In Motion" which sprang to the top of mainstream charts, and all the singles went to #1. Shortly after, Michael W. Smith and Kathy Troccoli had some mainstream success. But the majority of these albums were not purchased by Christians, for they were spending all their time condemning her for 'going secular' and boycotting her music. (The same thing happened when she had bare feet on the cover of 'Straight Ahead' or looking too sexy on the cover of 'Unguarded') Meanwhile, another Christian diva, Leslie Phillips, separated herself from the industry in 1987, and with the album aptly titled 'The Turning' left Christian music in a highly publicized split. She shortly after started recording under the name Sam Phillips on a secular label, Virgin Records, With producer and husband T-Bone Burnett, who was also said to be a Christian, but never recorded on a Christian label. She at first was known to lamblast the Christian music industry for trying to make her something she wasn't, and forcing her into a tight, restrictive mold.

All this to say, that I am more of a fan of Sam Phillips, for her ability to say, we are all different, not the same. Nobody arrives at the same conclusions at the same time. Nobody is really on the same path. I believe that I am really not like anyone I have ever met.

Okay, this is starting to sound like a diatribe. I could go on, but I won't. 'nuff said.

[Agent 13]

"Judge righteous judgment." (John 7:24)

[Nan8]

I always try to be honest with what I have for trade/sale, too. I've gotten ripped off a few times, so I don't want it happening to anyone else. I've done a few trades, and have always gotten a positive response.

A few times, what I have gotten was damaged and my VCR spit it right back out. When I bought a CD from a place in PA, it wouldn't play; probably x-rayed or something. I wish people would PLEASE be considerate of others and put a notation on the box saying not to x-ray, electromagnetic media enclosed, and to insure it. I'm a big follower of The Golden Rule. I don't know how these people stay in business, the big companies or traders/sellers on this or any other boards.

[superbich50]

I see you now and then in dreams
your voice sounds just like it used to
I know you better than I knew you then
and all I can say is I love you

Thought our days were commonplace
Thought they would number in the millions
but now there is only the aftertaste
of circumstance that can't pass this way again

Treasure of the broken land
parched earth give up your captive ones
waiting wind of Gabriel
blow soon upon the hollow bones

I saw the city at its tortured worst
you were outside the walls there
you were relieved of a lifelong thirst
I was dry at the fountain
I knew you could see my shame
but you were eyeless and sparing
I awoke when you called my name
I felt the curtain tearing

I can melt the clock hands down
but only in my memory
nobody gets the second chance
to be the friend that they meant to be
I see you now and then in dreams
your voice sounds just like it used to
I believe I will hear it again
God, how I love you

Mark Heard was a contemporary christian musician. Mostly on the fringes because of the eclectic and poetic nature of his music. Some people thought he was visionary, or a prophet. He influenced quietly a whole generation of musicians, both christian and secular. In 1992, at the age of 42, he suffered a stroke in between concert sets. As he retreated to his dressing room, he fell into a coma from which he never recovered.

Last year, when my cousin died, I was playing this song when my sister called me to tell me the news. Suddenly, I fully understood what the lyrics of this song meant, and I played it over and over, as I cried, remembering also that my good friend Cathy Jenkins had passed away just two months earlier.

Now I am deriving a wholly different meaning from this song. Maybe it is not just about the death of someone close, but the deasth of a vision, or death of a potential friendship that you thought once was vibrant. I am telling you all this because I am so sorry I caused you to hate me, and I promise I will never bother you again.