HUGE SCAMMER "HighEndCigars" Ripping off people!!!!!! Wade Pleae BAN him

[WadeFillingame]

I've been on vacation for the last week and a half. 

I'll ban the account, but I'm not sure that it will actually be very helpful, and I'll do a little IP research and see what I can figure out from this one, but I'm not hopeful.

[coronacigar]

[quote author=XTR link=topic=32264.msg138190#msg138190 date=1424357571]
I've been on vacation for the last week and a half. 

I'll ban the account, but I'm not sure that it will actually be very helpful, and I'll do a little IP research and see what I can figure out from this one, but I'm not hopeful.


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Thank you Wade

[buckjr52]

This prick's M/O is tried and true.. I was had by Diesel awhile back as were others. Quite a few as I remember. For about 150.00..I bought from him like 2 wks. prior and all went well. Set up like a bowling pin. Then about 10 or so more got whacked... I haven't looked at the site for about 10 days I guess. In that time there are many new sellers in that short of a time.. One can only hope they're ligit..Also 4-6 good guys whom I've bought CC's from that I know to be reliable. Kudos to Co ro Steve for taking this like a man.I hope this pig chokes on the rock he's smokin!!!

[The Burn Ward]

[quote author=forgop link=topic=32264.msg138134#msg138134 date=1424295127]
I know the horse has been beaten, but everyone can accumulate a handful of good trades with regular stuff.  Where your BS detector should have alarmed like crazy was seeing such HTF/high end CC's out of nowhere with no history and nobody else to REALLY vouch for him outside of some run of the mill cigars.  That kind of stuff absolutely CANNOT be trusted outside of someone with MANY years of history and even then, without someone that is personally known by other long time BOTL's here or other cigar forums. 

I saw the post.  I thought to myself that a box of 2002 Sir Winstons would be awfully nice to have.  Then I examined the post and noticed key points

-NEWBIE
-10 year old Espy's that seem kinda below market given the age
-The additions...seems like "I hooked in some suckers, I'll add more to catch more fish"
-Working through CABINETS to come up with just 4 boxes with the added cigars being even higher $ cigars
-Listing some of the most costly cigars like Cohiba Sublimes/LE's
-If you literally have "cabinets", notice nothing was listed as common as say a box of PSD4's or Monte No. 4's. 

And it'll happen again because they know people want 10 year old Sir Winstons, Cohibas, etc more so than taking a period of hours or couple of days to do some REAL homework before handing over $1k. 
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I'm there with ya. Why would a guy come out of the woodwork with ONLY highly sought after/high dollar boxes. Now if he had a good rep on other forums it would be a different story.

Get some info before you buy if you contact the seller and ask legitimate questions and you were first in line to respond, there's a really good chance you'll get what you're asking for, especially if the seller is legit.

[hawesg]

I just wanted to point out that none of the good feedback mentions what was purchased, probably should have followed up and looked at the old for sale posts given the rarity of what was being offered but looking at feedback there is no way to know that he only sold regular sticks before.  Probably good practice to include details of the deal in feedback.

[lundens]

It looks like the michelle paypal acccount was created/verified on Nov 4th, 2014 and his account tied to his email is 2009.

Email: [email protected]
Status: Verified
Account Creation Date: Nov 5, 2014

Email: [email protected]
Status: Verified
Account Creation Date: Jul 15, 2009

[forgop]

[quote author=hawesg link=topic=32264.msg138355#msg138355 date=1424509299]
I just wanted to point out that none of the good feedback mentions what was purchased, probably should have followed up and looked at the old for sale posts given the rarity of what was being offered but looking at feedback there is no way to know that he only sold regular sticks before.  Probably good practice to include details of the deal in feedback.
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Searching old B/S/T threads is a good start. 

[hawesg]

[quote author=forgop link=topic=32264.msg138401#msg138401 date=1424555556]
Searching old B/S/T threads is a good start. 
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Agreed

[WadeFillingame]

[quote author=forgop link=topic=32264.msg138401#msg138401 date=1424555556]
Searching old B/S/T threads is a good start. 
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The problem with that is that I routinely (I try to get to it once a month) remove all threads in the TSBC that are over 30 days old.

[hawesg]

[quote author=forgop link=topic=32264.msg138401#msg138401 date=1424555556]
Searching old B/S/T threads is a good start. 
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[quote author=XTR link=topic=32264.msg138429#msg138429 date=1424574889]
The problem with that is that I routinely (I try to get to it once a month) remove all threads in the TSBC that are over 30 days old.
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Of course it seems to be gone now but earlier today I looked it up and he has listings marked as sold from November (when the feedback was posted) for cohiba EL DCs, 06 EL partagas, 03 partagas lonsdale, a few others. Maybe he sold a few high end things or maybe knowing that now someone might look at back posts he simply listed them then put them up as sold, still looking back wouldn't have helped.