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Just a heads-up to all shmups members:

Ebay seller yamatoku-shinyuku has been auctioning off a bunch of premium Cave PCBs and Neo Geo and PC Engine games, but does not ship items! Instead he files complaints with Ebay that the sellers did not pay their items!

I already thought the auctions were fishy, since the PCB pictures were stolen from YAJ auctions by starpine, and it appears he uses "yamatoku" in his name to make it appear as though he is connected with the respected import gaming store.

Luckily I didn't bid on any of his items, but some people from triggerzone.de got seriously fucked over.

The seller apparently lives in Japan and has a Dutch bank account, if you have any information who he is please tell me, so I can give it to the people who got ripped off.

This particular seller, yamatoku-shinyuku, doesn't have anything for sale on eBay right now according to the below listed link...and that's a good thing, don't want others to get ripped off -- is he trying to be like another Japhei wanna-be aka Casey McMahon?

If something is too good to be true, then it probably is...it's buyer beware!

Thanks for the heads up, CIT...

http://search.ebay.com/_W0QQfgtpZ1QQfrp ... 2dshinyuku

PC Engine Fan X! ^_~

F_cking c-ck smoker. Man for a second there i thought you were talking about the former Ebay seller (he has nice stuff)

Wow, I'm glad I got outbid on that Galuda II board. Didn't expect this from a high feedback seller

Mostly a buyer.

Hmm, isn't this our own DreamerNL? Check the ID history:

yamatoku-shinyuku Dec-05-07 Present
kami_no_yurikagou Mar-30-04 Dec-05-07
captain_nintendo Oct-17-01 Mar-30-04

And then on this forum post, where the link from DreamerNL to kami_no_yurikagou is established: http://altpop.com/stc/forums/viewtopic.php?pid=1528



Is there a link to the TZ post? The search function on their forum yields nothing.

The deals-gone-bad are being discussed in this thread:

http://www.triggerzone.de/forum/viewtop ... 5&start=15


I'm not going to comment any further on the identity of the seller, since I'm not personally involved, so I am certainly not qualified to make any accusations, although I am aware of the ID links you list.
I just felt it necessary to inform people excercise caution with the above Ebay seller.

Japanese seller w/ a Dutch bank account? I've had shits that smell better than that.

not that far fetched to be honest, Ken (same name on these boards) for instance is a dutch guy who used to live in japan, great trader and generally cool dude.

anyways thanx for the warning, i was oogling that darius alpha he had up but took down, if it shows up again i obviously wont bother.

Good find, Ganelon. I think it's really important that associations like that are made aware for others. I almost inquired about the Border Down he had for sale -- good thing I didn't.

I was under the impression he was posing as a Japanese person... if not, then yes, not hard at all. Before Paypal, I had people mail money orders to my parents in Texas.

This surely is a strange situation. I know Dreamer_NL (not in person, but he also regurlarly visits my forum) and I wouldn't expect something like this from him, but I will tell him about this. Because of the Dutch account it makes it easier to track people down, I will let you know if I find something out.

Hi, thanks for your help, I'm one of the buyers. Well, another part of the puzzle. I get more and more every day. Now would be a good time for Mr. Dreamer to explain what happened and to turn things to an good end. Maybe it's your last chance to stop the whole thing. I am still listening ...

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Has anyone here ever bought something from DreamerNL?
I bought ESP2 from yamatoku-shinjuku so I know his name and email address.
If anyone could tell me the name and email address from DreamerNL I could see if he is telling the truth or not.

I don't know if this forum is a proper place for a witch hunt/inquisition type of trial....

DreamerNL seems so sincere there, and People have to be considered innocent until proved guilty, and not the contrary.

I agree. DreamerNL stepping forward and being very open and approachable should be a good sign right? It would be a shame for an honest seller to loose his reputation over something that isn't his fault...

Well, it's very interesting that you deleted your complete "explanation" post. But don't worry, the police got it allready printed.

I know several people including me who made a report at their police station and the lawyers of Ebay are involved, too. Hopefully the responsible person will burn in hell for that scam.

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DreamerNL has bought off me in the past and i have had no problems (not that it means anything these days) I am interested to hear whats happened about all this.

Ah.. OK.. prehaps I should retract what I said in my previous post eh?!

did everything work out- or did people actually get scammed? What's the status on this?

We all got scammed, nobody I know got the money back. And it was a lot of money...

I followed the links to his feedback - that says people were paid back. Are you one of those people?

if some dickwad screwed me out of a couple of hundred $s id make the drive to holland and collect in person... youre in germany man, (i assume you still have his contact details?) ante up man!

spadgy old boy, thats hilarious!

Did anyone save the explanation for us late comers?

He said that he shared the ebay account with his flatmates, and that he personally hasn't been using it anymore for years.

Oh...so in other words its the "TODDI" defense.
The Other Dude Did It!

Yes, I am. I didn't receive any money back. Well, there are several things done by the seller to do this fraud, but I won't tell the details at this point cause I don't want to hamper the work of the police.


I'm not a member of the mafia, man.

Best Regards
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