Hi Astroben! By some stroke of luck (bad luck I think!), I contacted the same person who is now trying to sell his 7D + grip & 2 batteries.
http://www.clubsnap.com/forums/buy-sell-canon-equipment/984641-wtsell-dslr-canon-7d-bg-e7-canon-70-200-f2-8l-trade-canon-5d-mark-ii-bg.html
His nick now is Canonista:
http://www.clubsnap.com/forums/members/canonista.html
Good thing you let us know about him Astroben, cos I found his number familiar and when I did a search, your post came up! Kudos to you!
I didn't know initially and was discussing the price with him and when I found out, he kept saying he is a good guy and that there was a misunderstanding and such with Astroben (maybe he meant other people he scammed cos he never gave any names.). He kept insisting me to meet him in Toa Payoh but I refused and informed him that he have to prove that he is the real deal and come over to Kent Ridge MRT to meet me since his reputation is so bad. He gave a lot of excuses like his son's nanny is on leave and he cannot bring his son and the 7D to meet me and blah blah blah. Then he suggested we meet halfway and I was like OK since he sounded quite sincere and to believe him and wanted to make arrangement. Then he came up with the excuse that he have a shoot tomorrow and Sunday and want to meet me or Tuesday or Wednesday next week instead and tried to worm out of the deal he agreed with me by saying that he is holding out for a higher price and that anytime till we meet the deal might be gone and blah blah blah. He doesn't seem trustworthy and I told him the deal is off and that it is better to report to the CS Admin and get him banned!
Well It seems that his luck ran out further. This nick seems to be his main nickname and I googled his email and phone number and found out that he is a FT (Pinoy) working in Singapore and he side line as a photographer. His full name is Paul Michael Cruz and his website is below:
Contact - Mike Cruz
This thread shows that he is Pinoy. Look for a person called Mike with his phone number:
PinoySG.com - The Filipino Portal in Singapore - Forum
It seems that Astroben is not the only one scammed before cos from the thread below and if you see the number of nicks that was deregistered with his phone number, this guy is a serious serial scammer!
http://www.clubsnap.com/forums/consumers-corner/950322-warning-unsincere-aeroplane-seller-clone-account-dont-engage-his-services.html
I would encourage the CS Admins to ban him and also to ban his number. Maybe we can have a system whereby we can only input in numbers when we post inside BnS as opposed to "eight 2 1 One, 3 eight five 5" and other permutations. It will surely make things easier next time we want to do tracing of such scammers.
