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Market => Rumor mill => Topic started by: MrDdroMcGillacutty on February 24, 2012, 05:01 am

Title: HybridMike: This is what I know
Post by: MrDdroMcGillacutty on February 24, 2012, 05:01 am
Please everyone calm down. Through the grapevine, I've learned a little bit about our good buddy hybridmike. He has a lot of new changes in his life and not all of them are good. Mainly his health has been deteriorating over the past several weeks and it caught up to him recently. He got hit hard and quite unexpectedly. You wake up one day and POW!! You don't feel so good. THEN it gets bad  :'(   I will not go into specifics and he will EVENTUALLY get over it and get well. But for now he's hurting. ALSO, there are other circumstances in his life keeping him down. Recent car problems, ect. Life, right?

I am quite confident in hybridmike. He should to communicate better w/the community. Just to put the nervous at ease.  He will come through for everyone. I have faith in you hybridmike.  :D  Sooner the better.  But take your time and do it right. A late order is better than no order.

 I may be wrong, I have been before. But that was so long ago. I believe I am correct in this case. I believe he will come through at the earliest opportunity. I wouldn't be placing any new orders. But let the man work his end out and soon, all will all be forgotten, he will be back to normal and business as usual soon.

Get well soon and work out your personal life issues. I'll be checking your profile page for updates.
Title: Re: HybridMike: This is what I know
Post by: captxmas on February 24, 2012, 05:13 am
as much as i don't want to wish sickness on anyone, i hope this is the case. HM was a good vendor and a great person to communicate with. if this is the case, i wish him well and would be happy to wait as long as that means he will be back and make good at some point. if he comes back, fulfills his orders i for one would remain a customer of his.

i certainly hope to hear from him soon and wish him health--though i am quite nervous and have a lot out on him right now. maybe after a month i will write him off but until then i am going to continue hoping for the [best].

a slight digression here, i feel that if this was the case for a vendor and they return to make things right, fulfill their orders or refunds as people request, we as a community could be very forgiving, at least i hope.
Title: Re: HybridMike: This is what I know
Post by: watertiger on February 24, 2012, 09:45 pm
I haven't been around here lately and only today saw the threads concerning HybridMike and his supposed scam.

Anything is possible (that's why buyers should NEVER EVER agree to front the cash by "finalizing early"), but I would be really really surprised if HM turned out to be a louse and deliberately scammed all of the people currently stuck in limbo. I dealt with HM several times over the better part of a year and -- as much as you can in the virtual world -- think I actually got to know him a little bit. And unless something awful has happened (either to put him out of commission or to have turned him into a scammer/sleaze), I bet he'll reappear and try to make things right.

If not, then it's just another shitty life lesson in how you just can't trust anyone (even the seeming good guys) online.
Title: Re: HybridMike: This is what I know
Post by: betaraybob on February 24, 2012, 10:59 pm
i accept that might never receive my order from him but that's only because I had a small order. other peeps had big ass orders that i could understand serious concern. just to play devil's advocate though, he could have left his listings up and took more money in. if i remember right he took his listings down pretty fast. hoping for the best for everyone here.
Title: Re: HybridMike: This is what I know
Post by: RabidDog on February 25, 2012, 03:42 am
Please everyone calm down. Through the grapevine, I've learned a little bit about our good buddy hybridmike. He has a lot of new changes in his life and not all of them are good.

I'm dearly sorry to hear Mike isn't feeling so hot, but if you have a means by which he can hear back from you "through the grapevine" (or Mike, if you're reading this from a different account which you undoubtedly are), maybe you could ask him to return all that out of escrow money if he can't deliver the product?  I took a chance on this guy, first time I've dealt with anyone but Tetravort and it was purely to sample a different product.

What I really can't understand is why anyone with access to good coke (as many people on these forums claim he's shipped) would run off and scam?  You might net max $10-$15k?  That's so stupid it's laughable.  I guess to some people that probably seems like a lot of money but if you've got a supply of great coke to sell it's chump change.  If he had delivered quality to me he would have made a lot of money.

I think in the future I'll stick to working with professionals.

RD
Title: Re: HybridMike: This is what I know
Post by: Fah-Q on February 25, 2012, 08:50 pm
If this is all true. I will be understanding. And he will receive is 5 rating back and good feed back. If I eventually receive my order.
Title: Re: HybridMike: This is what I know
Post by: party2nite on February 27, 2012, 04:04 am
Well....I'm a patient person and I will also change my rating if I ever receive the product.  I dont think Ive ever had anything better than street quality cola so I would really like to try it without having to spend a fortune on it and this seemed like a pretty good deal.  Hope he gets to feeling better soon
Title: Re: HybridMike: This is what I know
Post by: bvretr3 on February 28, 2012, 05:38 am
Im not sure which is worse, HM being a scammer or HM being really sick to the point where he can not communicate. Either way, hoping HM finds a way to restore his position on SR. I understand shit happens and would be happy to change my rating if I receive the prodcut.
Title: Re: HybridMike: This is what I know
Post by: tcobambientAgain on February 28, 2012, 06:11 am
You never truly "Know" someone and that goes times 100 on the internet but I dealt with HM and had some nice conversations with him on SR.  He seemed like a really good guy.  I understand health situations also and know what it's like to be laid out for a few weeks.   I had double pneumonia in December and was in the hospital for a week and slept for about 18 hours a day for weeks after that and if I was a vendor there's no way I could have taken care of shit.  In my gut I think HM is a good guy and should be given the benefit of the doubt.  Then again, it's not my money on the line.  I just know I never had an issue with him when I used his services. 
Title: Re: HybridMike: This is what I know
Post by: jj47 on February 28, 2012, 06:46 am
What dro said is real talk. I respect his opinion. That's about how look at it although it ain't my $$ on the line. But realistically long term mike has much more profit potential bein legit than flakin off now. I think all will be well. Just my 2 cents...feel free to throw yours in and get a dollar back ;-)
Title: Re: HybridMike: This is what I know
Post by: bounderby on February 29, 2012, 08:26 am
Sure I can understand life getting in the way, but this seems too convenient and a little too husky of a morsel to swallow, ok if you're in bed can't you manage to spend 10 minutes online once every 10 days? Just to take a few moments out during a 10-day stretch to allay any fears and doubts that have been growing in the dark for nearly a month?  One thing is for certain I can no longer see his user profile, it merely brings up a personal message box and his user ranking is no longer in parentheses after his name.  I appreciate you trying to let us in on what is all going on in Mike's life but after 4 weeks his story starts to sound less and less credible and the odds leaning more and more towards a scam.
Title: Re: HybridMike: This is what I know
Post by: Blue Water on March 09, 2012, 04:16 am
Well, that's encouraging news, that there is the possibility hybridMike will get well and return to make all things right. he was my first real transaction, and i didn't even realize scammers, sicknesses, legal troubles caused vendors to disappear, but i guess it makes sense. i thought the only real risk was your delivery not making it, or the bitcoin world collapsing. silly me! good luck everybody, like me, who got caught in the HM disappearance.
Title: Re: HybridMike: This is what I know
Post by: northsidepk on March 09, 2012, 08:29 pm
right......he's going to get well and everyone's going to get there shipment and an apology




whens the last time that ever happened?
Title: Re: HybridMike: This is what I know
Post by: baxterbrew on March 09, 2012, 09:16 pm
right......he's going to get well and everyone's going to get there shipment and an apology




whens the last time that ever happened?

Hilarious
Title: Re: HybridMike: This is what I know
Post by: MrDdroMcGillacutty on March 10, 2012, 04:15 am
I can say with confidence that all outstanding orders will be handled in due time. HybridMike is not a scammer and has had some bad luck lately. Obviously.

For some people nothing will ever be enough. Should communication be better? Sure. But it's not and I'm keeping the faith. If HybridMike wanted to he could have disappeared w/a lot. He didn't. I do feel bad for the outstanding orders. Btc being tied up. Not getting your product. THANK GOODNESS FOR ESCROW. Everything will work out.
Title: Re: HybridMike: This is what I know
Post by: unbiased on March 10, 2012, 08:18 am
poof
Title: Re: HybridMike: This is what I know
Post by: voodoomonkey on March 10, 2012, 10:26 am
I think it's just a highly convenient time that he disappeared (the sale wknd). If he's not a scammer and is Ill then he'd have logged back on explaining....not just leaving everyone in limbo. He doesn't have to go into specifics, just a message for all those who placed orders and didn't receive....or if he's not able get someone to log his account, refund all escrow funds and make things good!

I didnt order from him and glad I didn't!
Title: Re: HybridMike: This is what I know
Post by: northsidepk on March 10, 2012, 02:27 pm
Hmmm....

Maybe the feds caught up with him

Pressed him to sell below sale prices to get as much buyer info/address as possible.

Maybe they doing that to Tony76 right now?????!!!!!

Many thats what happened to CFMF???!!!

 
Title: Re: HybridMike: This is what I know
Post by: voodoomonkey on March 10, 2012, 02:31 pm
Hmmm....

Maybe the feds caught up with him

Pressed him to sell below sale prices to get as much buyer info/address as possible.

Maybe they doing that to Tony76 right now?????!!!!!

Many thats what happened to CFMF???!!!

Nah I think the feds would rather catch vendors not buyers....and plus they're not bright enough to try something like that
Title: Re: HybridMike: This is what I know
Post by: leia99 on March 13, 2012, 09:31 pm
People are kidding themselves if they think he will be back and shipping. It's been over 2 months since he scammed me, but at least it was for a small amount. Mike is gone for good.
Title: Re: HybridMike: This is what I know
Post by: northsidepk on March 13, 2012, 10:03 pm
Gone for good....no....

Just a different vendor name....and repeat
Title: Re: HybridMike: This is what I know
Post by: Blue Water on March 14, 2012, 05:03 pm
Yuck! Y'all are doom and gloom! I prefer the first post of this thread!