[King of the Farm]

had a good day farmer?

Yeah... It was a bad day yesterday and I had an especially short fuse.

Sorry for the rant & shit attitude Batt... Poke basically said what I was driving at, except he did it in a much nicer way.

[Lorrie]

we could use a list of guidelines for newer members to read before they ask certain questions. Some things are really obvious, but only once you've been a member of the SSDB for a few months.

For instance, I could tell you the guy is selling fakes just from his name. In this PC world you would call me racist, but you're buying on ebay, not at the local shop. As a rule, I don't buy from anywhere east of Germany. Thus, I've only been burned once, but knew I was burned before the kicks even arrived because even though they were listed as being in the US, they got drop shipped from China.

[Battosai]

Feedback isn't always an ideal guide anyways, as more often than not people won't have a clue what they are getting is fake. Before I saw the light and joined this site I bought a pair of fakes off a guy, had 100% feedback through selling Adi Dasslers and all sorts (I was buying NBA's), none of which I knew anything about until a few folk set me right!

Also, that guy was selling various sizes of Ian Browns and RHCP's, which is a red flag too.

That's very true, but before I got here it was one of, if not the only way (unless it's an obvious fake) to judge the seller and product before buying.

xizhenhuang is only selling 4 tops and a CK something or other.

[Battosai]

had a good day farmer?

Yeah... It was a bad day yesterday and I had an especially short fuse.

Sorry for the rant & shit attitude Batt... Poke basically said what I was driving at, except he did it in a much nicer way.

No probs. I figured what I said wasn't so bad.

[Battosai]

we could use a list of guidelines for newer members to read before they ask certain questions. Some things are really obvious, but only once you've been a member of the SSDB for a few months.

For instance, I could tell you the guy is selling fakes just from his name. In this PC world you would call me racist, but you're buying on ebay, not at the local shop. As a rule, I don't buy from anywhere east of Germany. Thus, I've only been burned once, but new I was burned before the kicks even arrived because even though they were listed as being in the US, they got drop shipped from China.

If a seller is in Hong Kong/China/Nigeria or some other notrious hotspot, I tend to agree with you. But if they base themselves in the UK, it's a little harder to tar them just for having a Chinese name.

If they hide their shipping thing with techniques like you mentioned above, then yea, you'll know you've been done, but if they send from the UK and I'm in the UK, I'm going to have a lot more faith, until the thing arrives and is a fake.

I feel you're stepping on a potential minefield there if I were to argue the point. No matter though, I do see the point you're making.

[seasidewolf]

Anyone bought from him or know if he's the real deal?

Not to mention, look at the name in his auction's photos: xizhen123

I ran the guys name through search engine here and nothing came up. Not to mention he has a score of 77 with a 100% feedback score, which gives no clues to whether the dude is a crook or not.

I did see the name on the photos, but snatching pictures from others is commonplace on there and I didn't want to assume just because he's apparently Chinese that he'd be a fraud - so I asked on here to verify my suspicions.

xizhen123 is mentioned already on here, I got him put on the ebay fake sellers list last month, due to numbers of Bape x adidas SS's he was selling!