General Forum

Someone who has home problems and posts about it will always get my empathy and patience. However to let us all know he is back home and receive trades but not honor his promise to ship or communicate is a thief and scammer. "showstorm" has continued to log in everyday and look for new trades while adding the stolen cards to his collection. He selectively completes some trades while the majority he cheats . He has attacked admin and his forum postings had to be removed. He believes in karma, his profile says "all things will work out the way they should". If that is accurate he is in for a large loss of I'll gotten gains. Some have told us to have faith and trust in him, but he has had cards stolen from me for 2 months. A trade he accepted 30 days after his post that the post of being back home. A traders promise is a promise to all of us if he fails with one of us he affects us all.

I’ve sent him some cards in a trade and am waiting to see my cards.  I’m going to be patient for a few more weeks, who knows what some people may have going on in their day to day lives.  

Keep in mind some people may just be logged in on a device. doesn't mean they are actively active 

While the optimism is very kind, the reality is that there were hundreds of cards added to collection lists on the 17th, thousands on the 14th, and five days in a row of adding to their lists over the last few days (and that's just when the "recent activity" stops due to sheer volume over that five day period. It's not accidental logging in. Maybe it's anxiety. Maybe it's disorganization. Maybe it's a thousand other things. But adding more transactions without catching up on old ones is wrong no matter what. This is why a feature stopping matches to people who are going through a situation like this would be a great idea. It's been brought up before.

Add me to the list of showstorm's "victims". Started the trade on 1/23/23. Had great communication. He countered back and I accepted and sent. He received my cards on 2/8/23 then sent a message that he overlooked sending my cards out and would get them out right away. He then changed the status of transaction from received to sent to completed and that's the last contact I've had. Sent a few messages because I know life gets in the way sometimes but seeing this thread and the feedback he is getting I'm thinking he is ghosting me as well and has just stolen some junk wax inserts and commons. Makes me feel almost bad for the guy lol' Live and learn eh? 

Want to end by saying that out of 70+ trades this will be my first negative experience/feedback so shout out to the rest of you!

I tredto see ifonecould search as lie ebay for a seller's name in case said member was selling your sent items but it isn't a feature. However if you sent a cad that would be likely sold, try cross-referencing a listing online for the card from the area he lives...(I have no issue with this nor any member by the way) but f the items were being sold, regardless of a high total value, the law changes a bit in favor of those who haven't received their items. Of course allow this is said nt knowing the person and sincerely hoping there is no serious issue going on to prevent it. But...if you can log on and add cards to your inventory today then you could, in theory, send a message or response to members looking for an explanation. 

   Good Luck and Good Health Everone!    Becky Elizabeth 

He seems to be well enough to request cards be added to the site as he put in an IR earlier today.

Sorry, ShowStrom, but if you can be requesting stuff like this, you can be answering the questions about whre these people's cards are.

At this point, I'd consider you nothing more than a common thief, and if anyone would want to press charges against you, they should. They have good reason.

Man up and show yourself.

Sorry guys, but showstorm needs to be banned from this site, and his profile deleted. How he is still a member, able to conduct trades (and I use the term "trade" very loosely), is just beyond me.

Honestly. What does a user of TCDB need to do before the he's held accountable and gotten rid of? I have trouble imagining worse behavior than this.

I mean, people continually posting to this thread and bringing his behavior to light is one thing, but obviously it has no effect on him. It does not appear that this guy capable of feeling shamed. He's still ripping people off. He refuses to spend his time to complete trades, but he's still spending significant time logging in and doing other stuff. He wasn't in a car wreck or anything awful like that, he's just a common thief. What more do we need? How the hell is this loser still allowed to be a member here?

Yeah this is getting ridiculous. I remember I first saw his username underneath one of his photos he posted to the site. I thought “well he’s new maybe he’s still learning.”

Then I saw all these truly sad forums about people getting scammed out of their cards.

vroomed said it best, if he’s well enough to be submitting IR reports, then he’s well enough to address the issues and take responsibility.

I got a feeling he won’t do this though… looks like Admin’s gonna have to step in.

I doubt I have many cards people ate looking for and since I haven't traded yet I don't have items for trade- that said, if someone was trading for more common cards to complete a story for a certain player and I am able to locate it quickly (I have some of my items in three places because of a move and I don't want them ruined etc) but I'd like to help anyone who gave up their items and received nothing. I don't know the guy and have nothing to do with the situation but this site and the members have all been so welcoming and patient with me over the last 5 or so years that maybe we could have a Freescale thread of the various cards that were supposed to be received and we could check to see if we have them? I am not asking for anything in return and don't want to violate any type of site protocol but want to help because all I do is talk about wanting to sell my cards etc and have just made too many excuses and need to get rid of some other than where I volunteer as many of those people don't have a place to keep these things :(

  Anyway- if possible let me know. I hope this makes sense as my earlier post is embarrassingly full of misspelled words due to using this cracked phone screen and not triple checking  my fast typing. Apologies. Best of Luck and Hoping to Help-

  Becky Elizabeth 

  Wilmington, NC