Complaint Review: Www.trade-through-us.com Aka [email protected] Aka Cristophe Ruttens - Frankfurt Am Nationwide

Thanks to this site our company did not lose $26,000!

I received an email (see below) wanting to buy some of my products not through the auction or buy it now and he only wanted to use his escrow service and bypass the ebay and paypal process, which we have a strict policy that this is for our protection and yours that we use these services.

He directed me to an escrow service that he trusts, I actually signed up for it to see the process and it did not have any real security questions to verify if I was a real business or not. Just enter you name and email and you are done- real safe!

Below is a copy of another complaint that sums up what they found about this guy I do not have the time or resources to find out this information.

"I looked deeper into him, and discovered that he is registered with Ebay as a Canadian user even though he told me he was from Germany (possibly a highjacked account), looking at his email message headers, they conflicted with his email address. His email address is [email protected], headers have a liberian prefix.

I looked at the escrow company website he was trying to push on me and in the contact info, it shows the Manager of the company. The managers name is the same name of the person trying to get me to use the escrow service. I WOULD have lost over $15,000 to this person as the escrow service he wanted to use was his own scam escrow service.

Go to: http://www.trade-through-us.com/contac-us.html

To see a picture of the general manager of the above website and see his name, same as that of the man who emailed me.

Go to: http://www.uk-escrow.co.uk/contact.php

To see a picture of this escrow site's general manager who ironically is an identical twin of the man from trade-through-us...only with a different name.

I want to warn others of him. The domain was purchased only last month. " end of other users complaint post.

These are the emails that I received which are identical to the person above with a cookie cutter email where he dropped in my product info.

Email #1

Hello sir,

I am interested in the item Jesse James 357 26 inch Wheel Combo Truck Item number: 2437371185 you have for sale

I am located in Frankfurt, Germany and i run a small bussiness here

I own a car tuning shop and your price very good compared to the prices my providers have for me

First of all i want to know if you are willing to shipp it to me overseasand if yes how much will

the amount for the shipping be . Second which service will u use UPS or FEDEX. Personaly I prefere FEDEX ( i have used it before and everything worked out fine). But if u use UPS that's fine too.

And most important , if u have more units like the one i am interested in or other at the same competitive prices please mail me a list of them . Again I am very interested in doing bussiness with you sir.

For the method of payment i use an escrow service. It is the only way for me ..I have done many deals through them and I trust only an escrow service.

One last thing :I do not make deals over the phone. I just ensure myself in case of fraud i can use the mails for evidence.

I hope u understand and i look forward to hear from u.

My e-mail address is : [email protected]

Please let me know

Best regards.

email #2

i want to purchase 2 sets of the item Jesse James 357 26 inch Wheel Combo Truck

mail me the amount for the units +shipping charges

i will pay the escrow fees too

hello

the escrow service is www.trade-through-us.com

u simply have to register to them and initiate the transaction

u will be guided step by step it is very simple sir

my id is my email address

mail me if u agree to these terms

regards

email#3

i want to purchase 2 sets of the item Jesse James 357 26 inch Wheel Combo Truck

mail me the amount for the units +shipping charges to : zip 60316 Frankfurt am Main Germany

i will pay the escrow fees too

hello

the escrow service is www.trade-through-us.com

u simply have to register to them and initiate the transaction

u will be guided step by step it is very simple sir

my id is my email address

mail me if u agree to these terms

regards

That is it, I just did a search, found this site and saw that I was about to be dupped into the same thing as this other person posted about. Beware of anyone who will not use well known secure forms of payment

By the way, I offered to use the official ebay escrow service at www.escrow.com and he has not replied, doubt he ever will. It is not longer buyer beware, it is seller beware

Jared

Mattoon, Illinois
U.S.A.

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