shepd's Journal: Bryan Dennison is an ebay scammer

Bryan Dennison (aka Fern Dennison) is an ebay scammer.

Early today (August 18, 2003) I won two ebay auctions with no reserve for Playstation 2s.

Auction 1
Auction 2

As you can see on his user page, I have left him two feedbacks on the items. Here's a copy:

Complaint : Item won (no reserve) but user won't sell because "price was too low".

I received this email from him shortly after asking if I could pick them up and pay in person (I am wary about 0 feedback sellers, for good reason it seems).

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Subject: Re: eBay Item Won! PS2 + 100 Games (Item #3041320831)
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sorry since the price was too low they are not for sale

Seems he's making a lot of auctions (there were at least 20 systems for sale, bids of mine on them were cancelled just prior to my winning them) just to take the highest bid, and screwing everyone else over.

Well, Bryan Dennison, you've messed with the wrong 'net citizen. I'll be finding out where you live so the world knows not to buy from you.

My guesses: Essex, Ontario, Canada. Or perhaps: Windsor, Ontario, Canada.

If I have my way, you won't be doing business on ebay any more.

Here's the other items he sold. I've emailed all those users to let them know of my situation. I'll let you know what their replies are.

Auction 1
Auction 2
Auction 3
Auction 4
Auction 5

----------- Update! ------------

More feedback from Mr. Dennison:

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Subject: Re: eBay Item Won! PS2 + 100 Games (Item #3041320831) (fwd)
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i care

Yes, you will. Trust me. You will.

-------- More Updates! ---------

Some traceroute output:

shepd@gateway:~$ traceroute 64.228.129.96
traceroute to 64.228.129.96 (64.228.129.96), 30 hops max, 38 byte packets
  1 ip121-183.tor.istop.com (66.11.183.121) 7.975 ms 8.345 ms 8.132 ms
  2 66.7.129.217 (66.7.129.217) 21.442 ms 20.044 ms 20.481 ms
  3 nycmny2wcx1-pos4-2.wcg.net (64.200.86.209) 20.941 ms 19.115 ms 20.447 ms
  4 nycmny1wce1-pos5-0.wcg.net (65.77.98.29) 20.727 ms 19.940 ms 20.491 ms
  5 nycmny2wcx3-oc48.wcg.net (64.200.87.78) 115.993 ms 151.559 ms 223.998 ms
  6 chcgil1wcx3-oc48.wcg.net (64.200.240.37) 166.052 ms 134.309 ms 203.293 ms
  7 chcgil1wcx3-pos5-0.wcg.net (64.200.236.29) 45.850 ms 44.809 ms 45.166 ms
  8 chcgil1wcx1-oc48.wcg.net (64.200.103.70) 44.395 ms 45.195 ms 43.711 ms
  9 bx2-chicago23-pos1-1.in.bellnexxia.net (206.108.108.169) 68.649 ms 69.697
ms 69.042 ms
10 core2-chicago23-pos10-3.in.bellnexxia.net (206.108.103.121) 69.235 ms 68.9
88 ms 68.511 ms
11 core3-toronto63-pos6-3.in.bellnexxia.net (206.108.103.113) 69.694 ms 69.71
6 ms 68.985 ms
12 core1-toronto63-pos0-1.in.bellnexxia.net (64.230.242.94) 70.468 ms 70.922
ms 69.018 ms
13 core2-windsor12-pos0-3.in.bellnexxia.net (64.230.235.118) 74.432 ms 75.158
  ms 74.461 ms
14 dis5-windsor12-Vlan12.in.bellnexxia.net (64.230.235.102) 74.883 ms 74.402
ms 73.956 ms
15 HSE-Sherbrooke-ppp98103.qc.sympatico.ca (64.230.220.4) 75.163 ms 74.268 ms
    73.945 ms
16 HSE-London-ppp207209.sympatico.ca (64.228.129.96) 86.744 ms 86.924 ms 87.
256 ms

And a little more:

shepd@gateway:~$ traceroute 64.228.130.8
traceroute to 64.228.130.8 (64.228.130.8), 30 hops max, 38 byte packets
  1 ip121-183.tor.istop.com (66.11.183.121) 8.318 ms 8.686 ms 8.415 ms
  2 66.7.129.217 (66.7.129.217) 24.573 ms 21.185 ms 19.517 ms
  3 nycmny2wcx1-pos4-2.wcg.net (64.200.86.209) 21.152 ms 19.986 ms 19.981 ms
  4 nycmny1wce1-pos5-0.wcg.net (65.77.98.29) 21.176 ms 22.557 ms 20.518 ms
  5 nycmny2wcx3-oc48.wcg.net (64.200.87.74) 45.466 ms 44.462 ms 44.882 ms
  6 chcgil1wcx3-oc48.wcg.net (64.200.240.37) 44.362 ms 44.571 ms 43.907 ms
  7 chcgil1wcx3-pos5-0.wcg.net (64.200.236.29) 45.302 ms 45.084 ms 44.620 ms
  8 chcgil1wcx1-oc48.wcg.net (64.200.103.70) 44.881 ms 43.914 ms 45.119 ms
  9 bx2-chicago23-pos1-1.in.bellnexxia.net (206.108.108.169) 68.506 ms 68.268
ms 69.728 ms
10 core2-chicago23-pos10-3.in.bellnexxia.net (206.108.103.121) 70.210 ms 70.5
62 ms 69.422 ms
11 core3-toronto12-pos6-3.in.bellnexxia.net (206.108.103.117) 69.771 ms 68.62
2 ms 69.744 ms
12 core1-toronto12-pos0-2.in.bellnexxia.net (64.230.242.193) 69.698 ms 69.252
  ms 69.550 ms
13 core1-windsor12-pos0-3.in.bellnexxia.net (64.230.235.114) 74.851 ms 75.865
  ms 75.444 ms
14 dis5-windsor12-Vlan11.in.bellnexxia.net (64.230.235.94) 74.650 ms 75.706 m
s 77.834 ms
15 HSE-Sherbrooke-ppp98103.qc.sympatico.ca (64.230.220.4) 75.404 ms 74.884 ms
    75.205 ms
16 HSE-London-ppp207375.sympatico.ca (64.228.130.8) 124.166 ms 128.486 ms 12
3.213 ms

My guess: He's in London, Ontario.

--------------------------> BIG UPDATE!

Bryan Dennison has his ebay account cancelled!

From [e-mail] Tue Aug 19 14:56:34 2003
Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2003 10:21:15 PDT
From: [e-mail]
To: [e-mail]
Subject: Important Message from eBay Loss Prevention Department

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We are writing to inform you that we recently ended all listings for seller bryan1166 on eBay. The seller^Òs privileges to trade on eBay have been temporarily suspended while we investigate this matter further. (The current account status can be viewed next to the user ID of the seller on the eBay site.).

Our records indicate that you were a participating bidder or buyer in this seller^Òs listing. You will need to use your own personal judgment in deciding whether to complete this transaction.

As described in our User Agreement, eBay is only a venue, and we cannot guarantee that sellers will complete transactions nor can we guarantee the delivery or quality of bought items. As a basic principle, a buyer should know with whom he or she is dealing before sending a payment to a seller.

Depending on the circumstances, you might decide to delay payment to a seller until completely confident that the transaction will be completed safely. If you decide to delay payment but already paid by personal cheque, you may wish to contact your bank to discuss whether it would be possible to stop payment on the cheque. If you paid with a credit card, you may wish to contact your credit card company^Òs security department to discuss this payment ^Ö many companies provide protection in certain circumstances. If you paid by money order, you may want to contact that money order company for information on how to stop payment.

Please note that the ending of the listings for this seller is a precautionary measure. The grounds for this suspension may be the result of a mistake or misunderstanding.

Customer Support (Trust and Safety Department)

Thanks for the heads up

[zedmelon]

Thanks for the alert. You'll probably want to contact ebay [pages.ebay.ca] if you haven't already, or see if their fraud protection page [pages.ebay.ca] has any info you'll be able to use.

PS: Dude, please let me know if I do something to piss you off.
;)

In all seriousness, he didn't get any actual cash from you, right?

Re:Thanks for the heads up

[shepd]

>PS: Dude, please let me know if I do something to piss you off.

No problem. Just don't screw me over monetarialy, and life is grand. :-)

I just get angry at punks like this on eBay!

>In all seriousness, he didn't get any actual cash from you, right?

No, he didn't. He's just abusing eBay and wasting my time, that's all. But I won't let that stop me finding his home address and phone number to post here!