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[Dr. Balls]

On 1/16/2024 at 7:26 PM, thehumantorch said:

Sigh, so a woman he tried to help stole from him and the books he had listed on ebay were listed mistakenly?   I'd like to believe Mike but considering all that's happened that's difficult.

[thehumantorch]

On 1/16/2024 at 3:33 PM, KCOComics said:

I think both things can be true. 

His life is chaos, but it's self created chaos.

And he is intentionally and deliberately stealing from people, selling their books and trying to buy time. 

To go a step further,  I don't believe anything he said about health problems. Covid,  a stroke.  Maybe those things happened,  but they weren't debilitating enough to stop him from drinking, possibly using drugs,  selling books online and opening a store front. 

He is a liar, a thief and deserves 0 empathy. No one should give him the benefit of the doubt on any excuse. 

He has lost all credibility. 

But but but , he's a businessman...

[CAHokie]

On 1/16/2024 at 9:41 PM, thehumantorch said:

But but but , he's a businessman...

To be fair he never claimed to be a good one!

[thehumantorch]

On 1/16/2024 at 5:44 PM, Sauce Dog said:

Okay, based on this...I think Jimbo is also on meth.

Anyone else here on meth?

Love the stuff.  I can't live without my fix

 

[Nick Furious]

On 1/16/2024 at 6:40 PM, jimjum12 said:

I know we want to bury heads in the sand, just CERTAIN Santa is coming down that chimney, but what if,,,, damn, I hate to be the one. I think our perp may have eaten Santa Claus. GOD BLESS ...

 

On 1/16/2024 at 6:44 PM, Sauce Dog said:

Okay, based on this...I think Jimbo is also on meth.

Anyone else here on meth?

2 hours later, still laughing.  

[shadroch]

I stand with Team He's A Lying Scumbag.

[ExNihilo]

On 1/16/2024 at 12:02 PM, Sauce Dog said:

GUYS THIS IS GETTING CRAZIER. Mike has contacted me! He can't get into his account here for the moment, so maybe a post from him later.

Apparently some of those sold listings were cancelled by him (but still appear as sold under ebay searches) when he noticed the mistake. Apparently he has his own comic collection, and with everything going on lots of them have been mixed up with customer books - so when he lists an item for sale he is 'getting books mixed up' but once he catches the mistake (finding the right copy he owns) he cancels the sale (which is what happened with this tales of suspense).

@ZappedMoose9995 Your book is still in his possession!!! I will get him your invoice and he will have it put together for return as your customer notes he lost on it.

Also, as I thought...the meth claim is false, and apparently well...better you read it from the horses mouth:


 

How convenient of him to turn this into some sort of alibi when it turns out the books are in fact missing.  Now he'll just plausibly deny selling the books because they were stolen instead.

[universal soldier]

I'm sure any drug haze contrived attempt at an alibi will be full of holes and not well thought out. Any investigation would likely see right through it.

[Domo Arigato]

[Buzzetta]

I fell asleep and just waken up otherwise I would have addressed this earlier. 

It was reported that he changed his eBay handle.  Yesterday it was geek something.   So for Mike, who we know is reading this, "uh uh", we got that covered.  

Here is the CURRENT account: https://www.ebay.com/usr/bluemoonalways.

If he changes his account again, keep in mind that his account may be found by going through one of the completed listings. 

Here is the copy of the AF 15 he sold as a 1.5 / 1.8 with Slight Restoration:

https://www.ebay.com/itm/256358948485

That will lead you to the item that was sold, which Mike cannot change, and then after that you can see whatever account is responsible for the listing or whatever he changed the name to or will change the name to.  From there go through all of the other sold material or go through the feedback. 

Hey Mike, because I know you are reading this, remember when you last PM'd me?  Yeah buddy, Happy New Year !

 

Edited January 17 by Buzzetta

[Chip Cataldo]

On 1/16/2024 at 8:02 PM, unclezebo said:

What the hell are you telling ME for??? @Buzzetta is the one that keeps the tabs.

[phretbored]

 

[wombat]

He doesn't have a personal collection. If he did he would have sold it a long time ago. Every single book he sells is stolen. Anyone not believing that may be the biggest sucker alive. 

[wombat]

One more point. Really big lesson learned here. You probably shouldn't put a lot of faith in the guy you met in JAIL. I mean, come on. 

[DougC]

On 1/17/2024 at 12:54 AM, wombat said:

You probably shouldn't put a lot of faith in the guy you met in JAIL.

[Sigur Ros]

On 1/16/2024 at 5:32 PM, Buzzetta said:

Right now there is a guy switching comics out of slabs in Kew Gardens / Forest Hills that is breathing a sigh of relief that the CGC Boards have a new focus for the week. 

Or...

He's upset because his source for replacement books has stopped taking submissions and filed for bankruptcy.

[jas1vans]

On 1/16/2024 at 8:13 PM, Dr. Balls said:

That was one of my first thoughts. Now, having trouble logging in here, but able to list on and change his f-bay handles. Hmmm.

I developed a theory early on in my service industry career: The longer a story goes, the more likely that it's false. The truth takes but a few words.

I hope everyone gets their books back or, if sold, a fair value; I hope this guy gets a punishment appropriate to what he's put people through; I hope he can get the help he needs or can muster the willpower to get his life back on track.

[CAHokie]

Interesting that she created an account here, dropped the bomb and never returned. She even knew enough to disable the recent visitors log / features. 

[Sauce Dog]

On 1/17/2024 at 9:14 AM, CAHokie said:

Interesting that she created an account here, dropped the bomb and never returned. She even knew enough to disable the recent visitors log / features. 

TBF all my contacts that ended up being legit also found the boards, but just never made an account (as they found my username first and reached out through other channels - such as creating social channels elsewhere to message me and only used them for that single moment) so I could see someone just dumping one post if they didn't know who to safely interact with and trust...that said, she needs to come back and seriously share the rest of those text messages. 

While lots of what she said is totally true (I believe he did buy an RV, he did sell - accident or not - a customers book which was FF52, and that AF15 pic is a customer book being shown off) us knowing the context and actual full discussion is key to how customers can proceed at this point and catch the lies that are coming from either side.

Edited January 17 by Sauce Dog

[Mr. Zipper]

On 1/17/2024 at 9:05 AM, jas1vans said:

The longer a story goes, the more likely that it's false. The truth takes but a few words.

Exactly. In my professional authentication I have learned that authenticity is often inversely proportional to the length of the story. Burying in BS is a common tactic to lend false veracity.

Mike could be selling books (intentionally or accidentally) and the story is 90% troll BS. Both of these things could be true at the same time.