Anyone deal with boardmember "rain" recently?

AKA, Xenia Smith - more specifically, after SDCC 08?

I took her on her offer to buy some stuff for me at SDCC. She basically took my money and never shipped my stuff.

So, have any of you guys heard from her recently-ish, or bought (and/or traded) anything from her after SDCC 08, especially SDCC exclusives from Gargamel (Ojo, Tokoji, Zag tank) and a Bwana Jelly Factory figure?

I'm trying to get my money back, so any info you guys can provide would be of great help.

thanks in advance...

 

damn, I'm really sorry to hear that. She muled a tokoji from SDCC 08 for me, and I received it within days of the end of the con. I certainly didn't suspect any dishonesty. She even took pics of the tokoji while at the show to make sure it was the same one I was asking for. Unfortunately, I no longer have any contact information. Have you been waiting since last years con to get this stuff??

edit... hang on. checking paypal history...

 

You gotta be kidding me...

She muled (in theory) a bunch of stuff from Gargamel for me - Tokoji was one of them.

Please PM me any info you can, REALLY appreciated...

 

sent you a message

 

anyone buy a bwana sdcc jelly factory off her?

 

Sorry, I couldn't help myself.

 

Don't be, that was really funny actually...

 

hmmmm, she lives in LA. I used to see her at all the VPN shows.

maybe some of the LA guys have spotted her?

sorry to hear this as she seemed pretty nice.

dare I ask how much you fronted?

 

Well, she offered to buying everything at cost, but it was a lot of stuff - Tokoji, Ojo, Zag Tank, Globby, a Bwana Jelly Factory figure... so there you go.

 

I cant believe you've waited July to Feb.

Good luck!

 

How lame, I hope it gets resolved.

 

Well, I've been trying to contact her since August, through every mean possible... but yeah, shouldn't have waited this long. So many people vouched for her, I thought maybe she could be having real life problems.

Lesson learned.

 

im also waiting on a bwana jelly factory she picked up at sdcc.
she was a close friend, i guess i was wrong
carlos is out a lot more money than me so i hope this gets sorted.
any info is greatly appreciated

 

Hmm, is this the same rain from KR?
I thought she was totally legit and a big member over there?
Should I call her out over there?

 

Already did Joe - thanks for the offer. She's been MIA there too (coincidentally since the day I PMed her).

 

have you looked for her here? http://vinylrequiem.com/phpBB3/

 

They're not letting new people sign up there, but someone is already helping me out with VR. But she will probably follow the same pattern as she did on other boards - disappear when someone asks something about this matter.

 

If you paid with your credit card via PAYPAL can you do a chargeback?

 

I think the problem is that it's been months too long.

 

I was just thinking how the eloco thing went down and all those chargebacks were being initiated months after the sale, copperhead might be able to do the same. Now the burden of proof of delivery falls on the seller.

 

that's fucked up

 

I hope this works out for you carlos.
karma will get her if it doesn't.

 

i guess she's not answering calls. that would be the easiest way to sort it all out. otherwise, it's a call to the authorities.

 

I dropped her a PM s soon as I read your post . . . it might not be as easy to 'disappear' over there given she was one of the forum founders!

 

I'm kind of shocked by this, I too sent her a PM much earlier this morning when I had first seen this post, hopefully everything will get resolved shortly...