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Note: I haven't determined in any way that he is a scammer/thief.
I can't do that as no transaction has concluded on here to say so.
All I've done is determined that the overwhelming feeling given the bad transaction on velospace coupled with highly suspicious behaviour on here gives no basis of trust for a transaction to take place.
It may well be the case that he is honest and the transactions do complete.
The problem is, he isn't acting like an honest trader and the level of concern is so high (lots of people PM'd me yesterday) that I'm not willing to give it enough time that if it's a scam that more people are duped into it.
We lack personally identifiable info, any provenance on what is being sold, any history on the web, and what we do see in attempts to delete traces and cover up things as soon as questions are asked set off a lot of alarm bells in everyone watching or trading with him/her.
It's important to know the distinction though... we are acting ahead of a problem based on what we currently know and the general past experience of this wild west trading system.