Folks. I may be going out on a limb here, but here goes. I think that "boatman11" and "TannerRG" are the same person and scammer that was working this forum and Android Forums classifieds a while back.
What are you basing this on? tannerd - over at AF is selling a phone that's on T-Mobile's network. Here at AC - TannerG has sold a few phone's -- both of which run on Sprint's network. I'm not revealing to you the specifics of how we do our IP address checks, but I can tell you there is absolutely no clear relationship between either member. Like you, I can make some assumptions, but they differ from yours. What we both need is something definite.
Also has aliases of tRobert, Garrett1, dtanner, Rudeco, and ColtonLane. "Rudeco"
With the exception of Rudeco, not a single one of these members is registered at AC.
It seems strange that boatman11 and TannerRG have about the same number of posts, and joined in the same month. Also, "Rudeco" was also posting back then in the LG Optimus V rooting forum. Guess where "boatman11" and "TannerRG" are posting? Also, look at the names. TannerRG is part of "dtanner", and the capital "R" and "G" from Robert and Garrett. Everything is just too coincidental.
Now you've brought boatman11 into this. Boatman11 has sold a Verizon branded phone at AC.
Just for you, I went through the process of registering an account at AF to see which classified threads boatman11 had started.
1.) I couldn't even find a member named boatman11.
2.) They do have a boatman, but that person has never posted in the classifieds section at AF, nor have they ever posted in their Droid M forums - which is the phone that our boatman11 is selling at AC.
3.) Our boatman11 sold an S3 10-days ago, and I have not received any complaints from a member (assuming it was even one of our members that bought it) that they have not received their item and/or been scammed. Their boatman posted 3 times in their S3 forums, and it was back in September in their Verizon release date speculation thread. The last time a member posted with the exact name of "boatman" in our forums was back in June.
4.) Regardless, there has never been a ban of any variations of boatman at either site.
You might not realize this, but all forums have registered usernames that are variations and/or partial matches of the same name. At AF there are 5 variations of Boatman & there are 14 variations of Tanner. It is not uncommon for a registered member to add variances to their usernames, if their username of choice is not available. You're making some pretty big
assumptions, and I'm not sure what you expect me to do with them.
The scam is to get you to send money by Paypal gift, and then you will never receive the merchandise.
Then stop making offers to those who are asking for Paypal
gifts, which BTW, none of the members have asked for publicly. This is a post transaction decision that the buyer has made.
Thinking so is not enough to make an informed decision.
At least check it out before you send money.
I would definitely recommend this common sense advise & this is where AC stops unless a formal complaint is filed about a specific member, and that member does not respond in a satisfactory way. Unfortunately, we cannot do this until after a member has agreed to purchase the item and the seller has not fulfilled their end of the deal.
UPDATE: No rebuttal from either? Looks like I am right.
I'm actually a little annoyed that you're accusing members here at AC of being scam artists when none of these names even match up, nor do you have any evidence that these members have done anything to rip anyone off. Not only that, you continue to make offers on items where the sellers terms is cash or PayPal -- the very method you've advised everyone else not to use -- for this very reason. On top of that I've just spent several hours of time researching your accusations -- which is something we've clearly stated is not something we are responsible for. It's your responsibility to make informed, cautious, and reasonable decisions. That's my rebuttal & it took me several hours of investigation to come up with a bunch of nothing.
Here's a demo of the username variations explanation:
If you were take a look at our search results, we have 124 variations of tanner, and 9 variations of boatman.
Edit: I mistakenly switched boatman and boatman11 in a few sentences. I fixed it, but it doesn't change the facts of what I've written.
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