Yet another returned card by the famous Joey Farino

[danmckee]

http://www.ebay.com/itm/1954-54-Topp...p2047675.l2557


Joey bought this card and returned it for no apparent reason. He is lexguy81 and italianz31 on ebay. I am not sure what he gains by buying cards and then returning them.

Just a heads up, I think Leon has talked to him by phone, but he seems to not go through on any large purchases. Though he does return the cards.

Strange MO for sure.

[Taxman]

Negative feedback threat in order to get the seller to lower the price is his mo and he uses the eBay bucks to buy items. Also believe he is using a credit card to make purchases. He was banned from the cgc comic board and was the talk of comic con a few weeks ago. He bought a Ruth signed ball a few weeks ago.

[Jaybird]

Is there any chance that he is getting high graded cards and then scanning them and returning them? I don't know why but could he be doing that in order to make fakes or something from scans of real cards?

[Leon]

I think I did speak with him once. That being said he had so much baggage (and aliases) he was banned from this board and still is. We just don't need those types.

[cobblove]

Looks like he spent like 20k this last month on ebay. I know ebucks gives like 2% or something when people buy somehting. If he returns the card does the ebayer still get the 2%? Thats 400.00 and would be a big loop hole in the system. Also dan did you have to pay the ebay fees once joey returned the Hank aaron card?
How does this all work?

[HRBAKER]

Aren't Ebay Bucks only awarded every three months?

[cobblove]

I think you are right. But at 400.00 in just 1 month means hes on his way to get 1200.00 for 3 months. Of almost $5,000.00 for 1 year. Im wondering if the guy who returns the card still gets the 2% from ebay.

[Davidbvintage]

Hey Dan, I feel your pain. Not long ago he purchased 2 very expensive cards from me. I never got payment and when I sent him follow up emails he said he wanted out of the deal because on a certain night his house was broken into and most of his valuables plus his collection were stolen. I thought this was very questionable so I did some searching. On the very night that he said his house was broken into he purchased a $3000 card and had many other purchases the following days. I also contacted some of the sellers from previous purchases by him and the funny thing is one of the sellers was told the same story but that was a week earlier than his purchase from me. He must live in a really rough neighborhood.

[Taxman]

Told me his grandmother died and his girlfriend got pregnant in the same month. Sounds like a lucky guy.