Severe Issue With Vendor Budbroker

Hi all, Last week I was browsing Evolution and found a vendor, Budbroker, who had extremely appealing prices on product. I messaged him on Torchat asking about prices and what his shipping options were looking like. He responded that all torchat orders get upgraded shipping and extras and generally made it seem to be mutually benefiting. Because he had great feedback at the time and a high level on EVO, I decided to trust him and send him the funds. He gave me an order number and told be it should be at my door in 2-4 days (his exact words were thurs-fri). Since then he has gone completely MIA on both Evolution and Torchat, unable to respond to any questions or tracking requests by myself. I've been scouring up every bit of information I can about him and it sounds like he has been doing similar things to other customers lately. I am extremely nervous about being scammed as there is obviously no way to get my money back at this time, and no way to contact the vendor. I'm being patient and hoping he just lied about the shipping and it will end up coming sometime this week but this whole situation seems so insane, why would a relatively popular vendor suddenly scam for only a small handful of cash and then immediately drop off the radar for an extended time???

Any advice, comments, back-rubs, stories, or explanations would be extremely appreciated


Comments


[5 Points] shady_varchar:

If you get screwed, then it's your fault. Escrow is there to protect you, use it.


[1 Points] j2-d2:

Once upon a time there was a bear, a wolf came to say hello to the bear and decided he rather likes the bears style and he would like to run with bear.

Upon noticing that the wolf was following him everywhere, he became an angry bear, he stood on his back feet and roared!!! The wolf was startled but not one to be scared of a fight he growled back. The bear charged!! The wolf's survival instincts kicked in and he turned and ran as fast as he could.

Quiet..... The bear sat in his forest alone again and content, there is only one bear that can live in this part of the forest. On that note he had a snooze.

The wolf never came back and he learned a valuable lesson that day, Hes a wolf, a strong wolf, a survivor, but hes not a bear, stick with what you know and never pretend to be a bear.

And off the wise wolf trotted into the snowy mountains.

You asked for stories right?

Peace!


[1 Points] throwahooawayyfoe:

IIRC, Budbroker was one of the vendors that got taken down during Onymous. Would explain why he's MIA and you haven't gotten your package.


[1 Points] DADNM:

Always check at least this subreddit for which vendors are legit and which are shady at best. There are also forums which go into a bit more explicit detail as well.