Ive had my little bout with BigBoyd in the past.
http://www.beckett.com/forums/thread-144...age-4.html
Here was his post.
Hello,
This thread was brought to my attention and I feel the need to reply. I am Terry Boyd, the owner of BigBoyd Sports Cards. I obviously don't frequent these message boards, but felt the need to defend my busienss. I'm going to try and keep this as brief as possible, but it might get long.
First off, we have had this ebay name since 1997. We have never had an ebay name suspended, and have never switched ebay names. We have been running our ebay business on this name for 14 years. Where you come to the conclusion that we get kicked off and switch names, I do not know.
We don't shill bid. We never have shill bid, and we never will shill bid an auction. I am so confident in this that if anyone reports us to ebay for shill bidding and they in fact find evidence of shill bidding, I will shut down our ebay business. I wil also donate $10,000 to your favorite charity.
We sell 1,000's of items per week via auction. Each day we have at least 50 items ending, up to 1,000 on certain days. We have many returning customers that bid on a lot of items because we always have items ending and they always sell as we start everything at $0.99. We tend to have a higher bidding % than normal because of all this. If you can't logically see this, then you don't understand how ebay works. We buy many items also. Spend thousands per week on ebay, and we buy primarily off the same group of sellers.
Lets look at this particular auction. I would provide the full ebay IDs of the bidders if were allowed to, but it is against ebay policy to do so, so I will put them here as you see them.
c***a (858) - $16.69 - this bidder has bought 3 items from us this year and paid for them all - they are located in PA
d***r (342) - $15.00 - this buyer has bought 45 items from us this year and paid for them all - they are located in CA
t***t (4382) - $10.66 - this buyer has never won an item from us
7***o (1325) - $10.00 - this buyer has bought 16 items from us this year and paid for them all - they are located in CA
a***t (30) - $4.00 - this buyer has bought 18 items from us this year and paid for them all - they are located in CA
f***r (840) - $2.00 - this buyer has bought 5 items from us this year and paid for them all - they are located in FL
To prove all these items were paid for via paypal I will print out copies of payments and either scan them to you or fax them to you with the buyers personal info (name, address, etc) whited out to prove the items they won were paid on. I will also provide tracking info proving this. I will provide proof for any item anyone asks for, not just this particular item.
We have nothing to hide, we do not shill bid. We just have a loyal customer base that obviously likes the way we do business. We have earned top rated seller status on ebay for a reason.
I still don't understand why this user did not contact us directly. We have not received any emails from them. I felt the need to come in here as 99% of the things said in these type of forums about us is false and comes on no merit. We can be reached very easily if anyone has any questions. I will provide as much proof as possible, about any claim, without crossing ebay's policy. Anyone can email me directly at bigboyd3@aol.com or give me a call at 513-779-2356. I am easily accesible. Everyone please have a joyous and safe Memorial Day holiday.
Terry Boyd
- BigBoyd Sports Cards
Guess this means Old Terry will be shutting down shop and donating $10,000 to my favorite charity! He left his number. Give him a nice call!!