Hold on a second! I was in on this with you and you haven't offered to buy me a drink (you know there's a tavern across the street from the shop). You can haul that beast down here but I'll need help from my assistant Jack

He is also active as laser_paradise on eBay. He must be quadropheniac...

Jose Maria
MV_cinema consulting
Cararte
laser_paradise

I guess we should just avoid everybody living close to Portugal.....

Just took a look at the feedback comments received by Ebay user laser_paradise:

'paid, but was confused. Too many names, too many email addresses'
'Took awhile to pay, but finally came through'
'Ignored every type of communication. Dead beat bidder! Stay away! Flaker'

Pretty much everything he was buying was sealed or mint too. This has got to be Cararte as it mirrors his pattern here.

Kind of tricky when his Paypal is linked to a New Jersey address

I think his brain is linked to a New Jersey address.

Careful, there might be people here from New Jersey. Hmmmm, didn't LaGuardia chase all the crooks out of New York to New Jersey???
Apologies to the folks of Newark

Kind of curious if reinbo finally got his player back.

Did you spot Satan ice skating to the office?

No he told me the player got lost in the post and he is getting the money back from the insurance..... Well, I can't wait to see my money back, but so far he has not shown any proof about this story. So my hopes are low. Will update you when I hear (or hear not) from him again.

As long as I do not get my money back, I'll be sure to warn everybody every few weeks about him. But when I do I will also let you know.

good luck with it, hope you get your money back.

Well let me give you an update about Ricardo Tomas.

He now tells me it got lost in the post and he is making a claim. And I have to wait till he gets the money.

Which ofcourse is b******t. If he can't deliver he should refund me my money right now. since I have nothing to do with the shipment or insurance. But I guess these are just more lies.

So please let everybody know not to go in business with this con artist.

Spread the word.

reinbo - If I am following this correctly, you sent the player back to him because it arrived broken and he still held onto your money.
Why didn't you just open a paypal dispute at that point and get it resolved that way?
If cararte wants to spend an indefinite amount of time trying to get it fixed, then paypal would have insisted he issue a full refund to you very promptly.
You could have left cararte spannering at his laserdisc player if that is what he wants to do.
As it is he seems to be holding all the cards now as he has the player back and your money with no obligation to issue a refund given so much time has now elapsed.
Of course his reputation is in tatters and I doubt he will sell another high end laserdisc player ever again but he is probably still laughing all the way to the bank as he thinks up his next scam.

I opened a paypal dispute, but they closed it, because he told them I he was fixing it. Somehow Paypall did not want to re-open because I had bought it outside Ebay and now too much time has passed.

Yes he is laughing, but I will make sure everybody is warned about him. I'm ripped off and not much else I can do about it.

Amazingly cararte is still conducting business on this site as there was four positive feedbacks left for him by another seller just yesterday.
I guess that rubs salt into the wound knowing he is still out there but remaining silent.

He's been emailing me again wanting price quotes on players
I won't reply. And Ricardo, Maria, whoever; if you're reading this I don't ship to Portugal
He's ruined it for his entire country

There is a problem with him and his selling crowd thought. It is a small group of people and hopefully his reputation will procede him when he tries to sell.

I just wonder how much it would cost to hire a bunch of portuguese hitmen?

Well, at one point Otakujohn was going to do it for free

Oh no, I got included in a mass-emailing to join Ricardo's Portuguese social network!



Julien

Well you can warn al his other 'friends' about him.....