Trader Testimonials

[Don Boyer]

OFFICIAL DO-NOT-TRADE LIST
The members on this list are hereby BLACKLISTED from trading at the Discourse due to failure to comply to forum rules and my request to correct their noncompliance.  YOU ARE ADVISED TO NOT BUY FROM OR TRADE WITH THESE PEOPLE.  If they should post new sales topics, please report them to me here and I will shut them down and delete their information.  A blacklisted member can only be removed from this list by contacting me and providing legitimate reason for their failure to comply with forum rules.

DO NOT TRADE WITH
feersumplaws
Flourishes
JWHMagic, a.k.a. WTFBlackMagic, a.k.a. Jorden W. Hamilton
kevinchew5634
titanictexas
zaganh

SUMMARY OF TESTIMONIALS (updated as of 11/28, 1am est)
Names listed in small print below a name in red or blue are previous trading partners who left negative or positive testimonials.
Unique means number of individuals leaving testimonials.
Total means number of testimonials left (including multiple comments from a single person).

Testimonial totals for any trader who has been inactive for at least twelve months will be removed from the chart.  The testimonials themselves will remain in place for anyone wanting to see them.

Name	Most Recent	+Pos. Unique	+Pos. Total	-Neg. Unique	-Neg. Total
52plusjoker Bhong	20 Nov 2014	1	1	-	-
Alex. (a.k.a. br♠xis, John Johnnyhoff, .xela) Don Boyer, MrMollusk, Kdklown, Nurul, Ronyo_faukx, Aptombstone Sparkz	5 July 2014	6	7	1	1
Angel_magic Aaron, NathanCanadas, Rainking187, LeonJL, KPopFever605, Munro159, Shade, DC, Sr15, Sinsandman, Benjam, The Quadfather, Kdklown, CordedTires, Bhong, Mydnyght, MrMollusk, Jwats01, Ricell	27 May 2015	19	23	-	-
Bhong JacksonRobinson, Angel_magic, Sparkz	21 Nov 2014	3	6	-	-
Brown_baggs MattRPC	18 Nov 2014	3	6	-	-
Cardfool Flyers303, Eddie Hughlett, Rob Wright, Justin O., Don Boyer	6 Sep 2015	5	5	-	-
Card Player Cardfool, Hankman	28 Aug 2015	2	2	-	-
Don Boyer Phantom1412, Joshua Robinson, Aaron, ZavLow, LeonJL, Wiepie, Sinsandman, Flyers3003, Yoelanshe, jwats01	24 Mar 2014	10	13	-	-
Evan flyers3003	27 Feb 2015	1	1	-	-
Fes KPopFever605, Magasaki, Justin O.	26 Oct 2015	3	3	-	-
Justin O. Fes	23 Oct 2015	1	1	-	-
KPopFever605 Fes	9 Feb 2015	1	1	-	-
Lee Asher Mydnyght, MrMollusk, HandSkillz, Ruicorrea, Fes	29 Sep 2014	5	5	-	-
Magasaki Fes	25 Feb 2015	1	1	-	-
MrMollusk Angel_magic, Lee Asher, Fanofyankees13	17 Aug 2014	3	4	-	-
Msp062 HankMan	01 Apr 2015	1	1	-	-
Mydnyght Angel_magic, HandSkillz, Lee Asher, Sparkz, halcyondaze, kdklown, Rob Wright, ruicorreia, John Spade, Sher143, PurpleIce, Shade, Lord Nikon, adhex5150, elephantturtle, Talisman, Joeblow, Cardfool	28 Aug 2015	18	20	-	-
Nurul (formerly Brownmagician) The Quadfather, JacksonRobinson, Blastercast, Kdklown, Lee Asher, Ivan, Rob Wright, CoolaFu, Magasaki	25 Feb 2015	8	9	1	1
Ozfan30 Talisman, Justin O., Cardfool, Don Boyer, Ricell, HankMan,	09 Jun 2015	6	7	-	-
Phantom1412 aka lalita Don Boyer, Dealingdeuces, The Quadfather, JacksonRobinson, Nurul	03 Aug 2014	5	7	-	-
PurpleIce Rob Wright	22 Nov 2014	1	1	-	-
ronyo_faukx Magasaki, Lee Asher, Hankman	31 May 2015	3	3	-	-
Rose Will W.	25 Nov 2014	1	1	-	-
Sher143 Mydnyght	18 Oct 2014	1	1	-	-

[Don Boyer]

PHANTOM1412

I recently completed the first half of a two-part deal with her for several decks of playing cards and some paper playing card roses.  The second half is in the process of being completed now.

Lalita is an awesome person to make a deal with, and is very diligent about keeping track of the complexities (we traded quite a few decks, practically too many to list)!  She's honest and answers messages sent to her very quickly.  Her valuations of items for trade are fair and I feel very satisfied that I got a good value for the decks I gave her.

[Don Boyer]

AARON

I swapped with him some Canadian Bicycle playing cards for some American ones such as Tally Ho decks and Cincinnati-made Bicycles.  Another fair trader, and we completed the deal pretty quickly.  I was happy with the results and would trade with him again.

[Don Boyer]

JOSHUA ROBINSON

We made a deal for some playing cards as well, and he bought some decks as well as making swaps.  I can't remember all of the details at this point, but I can safely say that I was happy with the deal.  The selection of playing cards in Australia is a little limited, but I never owned Queen's Slipper decks before and they're a proud addition to my collection.  I'd trade with him again.

[Don Boyer]

ALEX.

I made a purchase from Alex, our fearless leader, from his well-known "card shop" pinned to the top of the STISO board.  Got some vintage as well as new decks, all excellent quality.  It took him a little while to complete the deal, but in the end I consider myself a satisfied customer and would buy from him again.

[phantom1412]

Don Boyer

I traded a lot of decks with Don. He is really helpful in finding decks I want. I've got both 2 parts of the trade with him already. Now we are waiting for my second package to arrive him, which should be very soon. Decks I got from him are in excellent condition. Everything is great. And he is fast at replying message too.

[phantom1412]

Wilko

Actually, I traded with him at the UC. But since he joined this board with the same username, so I'll have a short comment here. Trading with Wilko is smooth, everything is great. And he always reply message within 24 hours. Even if his post here is still a few, but he is a grate member at the UC. His shipment is fast too.

[phantom1412]

xlacs

He is not much active poster at this board. I traded with him once and everything went smoothly. Decks arrived in good condition as the picture he provided.

[Don Boyer]

DANKTREES


Got some Tahoe Cartouche reprints from him, super-fast trade at fair prices, and he's got a lot still up for grabs.  I'd trade with him again, for sure.

[Joshua Robinson]

Don Boyer

Traded some Aussie decks with him for some decks I did not own (Tallys and Crowns) and arrived all in perfect condition with an exception on the Blu Crown deck, but was not caused by him, since it was under the Cellophane. I received mine and he received his a day or two after me. smooth trade!

                                            I RECOMMEND TRADING/BUYING WITH/FROM DON

[Aaron]

Don Boyer
He stated our trade above, and we have another in progress.

Kpopfever605
Traded him some canadian bikes for a 1st ed. Green Crown. Very fast and awesome Trader.

Curt
Traded him a Black Crown for 2 S&M V6 awile ago. He was awesome to trade with and both of us got our decks quick and in good condition.

Angel_Magic
Bought a S&M V5 from his shop. It was probably the fastest I have ever recieved something I ordered from anywhere. It took 9 days to get to me including weekends.

[Joshua Robinson]

LauR

I bought some decks from him on here and some stuff over email. he has pretty good prices if you want to buy from someone in Australia. He may add some money on top of the original deck price, but that is to cover some of the postage he paid. great dealing with him and would buy from him again. ONLY BUY FROM HIM IF YOU WOULD LIKE DOMESTIC SHIPPING IN AUSTRALIA.

[Joshua Robinson]

KpopFever605

bought from his New years blow out and won his raffle, he has very fast delivery. Even to Australia. brilliant service and loved the wrapping conditions, perfect protection. will buy from him again.

[ZavLow]

Wilko

Traded with him on the UC forum but since he have an account here i will do a testimony about him. I traded a Tungstene Deck for 1 v5 and 2 v6s during March and i shipped it out to him on the date we both agreed on. He have fast shipping so if anyone wants to trade with him, he is definitely a reliable guy.

[NathanCanadas]

HAZOFHORSHAM

Great seller. I bought 4 decks from him, all at great prices. Great communication, prompt shipping, was willing to keep the decks in reserve for me, and all arrived quickly and in perfect condition. 10/10

[NathanCanadas]

MUNRO159

I ordered 20 decks for him, all at great prices. He gave me a discount, free shipping. Great communication, fast shipping, all decks arrived in good condition. 10/10

[NathanCanadas]

DIGIPUNK

Sold me a deck of Black Bee Stingers for 25$ w/international shipping included. He put in an extra minigift in as well. AWESOME! 10/10

[NathanCanadas]

ANGEL_MAGIC

I bought 20 decks from him, got free shipping and a discount. All arrived quickly and in good condition. He also threw in an additional thing. 10/10

[Don Boyer]

Jason Arakelian - THE1EYEDJACK.COM

I'm not sure he's a member here, but most of us have at least heard of him if not purchased from him.  I've actually made trades with him before when he needed some Red Artifice decks and I wanted to flesh out my collection - I've received a large percentage of all the decks I own from him in these trades.  As a trading partner, he's very fair and gives a great value - I'd trade with him again without a doubt.

PS: don't expect him to automatically want whatever you've got to trade!  I'd suggest doing as I did:

• Buy something from him!  Be his customer.  Some of his merchandise is a little expensive, but some is cheaper than other dealers, so do some price comparisons and look for his bargains.
• Introduce yourself.  Say hi and swap a few emails; he's a friendly person and open to chatting about your mutual hobby.
• See what inventory he has, particular RARE decks, that he's still listing but has run out of or isn't even listing for sale.  "RARE" means rare - not simply uncommon, but hard to find and of high value in the marketplace; decks he's not going to find easily as opposed to something he can simply re-order.
• Politely ask if he's interested in getting a few of those RARE decks you have.
• If he says no, just leave it at that.
• If he says yes, THEN ask if he's willing to make a deal and give him your request.

He's been open to purchases from me, but you'll get more for your trade if you're willing to accept payment in his available stock, especially if you're trading for decks that he didn't have to pay an arm and a leg for in the first place (common and uncommon decks instead of "Holy Grail" decks).

[Don Boyer]

ZAVLOW


Executed an excellent trade with Zav, one Gold Artifact coin from him in exchange for a Nestorizer gimmick with DVD.  Fast turnaround, despite trading from Singapore.  I'd trade with him again.

[Don Boyer]

PHANTOM1412


Completed part two of a two-part trade.  I can't even remember all the sweet stuff we swapped back and forth anymore, but I was really happy to see it show up in my mailbox!  There were some S&M v6 roses, Friar's Club decks, green Tally Hos, S&M v4, etc.    I'd trade with Lalita again - in fact, I already am!

[rainking187]

Angel_magic

Ordered a card clip from him and it showed up very fast and in excellent condition.

[danktrees]

Zaganh

Just had a bad transaction with zagan hall.

-Back in end of February, I bought a v5 and tungstene from zagan, made sure to ask if they were sealed to which he responded yes. Decks weren't shipped for 2 weeks which is fine except for the fact that I never got them. Apparently he had someone else ship em and the guy just stole em.

-He tells me he doesn't have money to refund me for another 2 weeks and I said fine, just refund it 2 weeks from now and it's all good.

-2 weeks pasts, he tells me he doesnt have the money because he spent it on cards (bought cards, customs fees etc.). He tells me that he doesn't get much money every 2 weeks so he can't refund me. At this point I was starting to get annoyed. If you don't get much money coming in, don't buy stuff. Further to that, don't tell me you're going to give me my refund then tell me you can't because you spent the money on other decks of cards. if you spent it on food/bills/rent i'd be more understanding..but I don't like people telling me they cant give me my money back because they spent it on decks of cards.

- So I ask him if he'd be willing to send me his last tungstene and a v6. this is less than what i paid for since it was supposed to be a v5. but in the interest of finishing this transaction i offered to take less. he agrees, but because he has no money, he wants me to give him money for shipping (which is a bit ridiculous cuz i've already previously paid for shipping). He says he'll refund the shipping money later when he gets more money. I say fine whatever let's just get this over with so I give him more money.

-Decks arrive and as it turns out, the tungstene is opened, cards are damaged and it's missing 4 cards excluding jokers and extras. I let him know and he offers to remedy the situation by sending me the missing cards along with a david blaine gaff card of some sort that i dont even want. Either way this is absolutely ridiculous. It's ok if the tungstene is opened, but he charged me a price based on how much it'd be worth if they were sealed. On top of it all, they are damaged and missing cards. What gets me the most is that he never even mentions that they're opened and damaged. I don't think that's how we do business on this forum. Any deck sold on here is expected to be sealed unless stated otherwise and for him to not mention that (when I initially asked him if i was buying sealed decks and he said yes) is a joke. To make it worse, it's an incomplete and damaged deck.

-He also did not refund the shipping cost yet.

-I have all the pm's to back up what I'm saying, and as per a previous pm, he told me something like this happened to another guy that bought cards from him. But he refunded the guy so I guess that worked out. I should have just asked for a refund, but I wanted to give him a chance to make it right, instead he made it worse. Lesson learned.

I've already give him a chance to fix things and it actually just got worse as I had to pay more money and got even less than what was initially promised. It went from a tungstene and v5 to a tungstene and a v6. But what was delivered was even less. I feel I gave him more than enough time to fix the situation as it's taken 2 months for him to get 2 decks to me now so I'm about done with this. I'll just eat it up as a loss and never deal with him again. I would recommend that anyone dealing with him make sure to confirm what he's sending you before you finalize a deal. Cuz I've had 2 deals with him now and both times, decks that he sent me were missing cards.

[Joshua Robinson]

Zaganh

Just had a bad transaction with zagan hall.

-Back in end of February, I bought a v5 and tungstene from zagan, made sure to ask if they were sealed to which he responded yes. Decks weren't shipped for 2 weeks which is fine except for the fact that I never got them. Apparently he had someone else ship em and the guy just stole em.

-He tells me he doesn't have money to refund me for another 2 weeks and I said fine, just refund it 2 weeks from now and it's all good.

-2 weeks pasts, he tells me he doesnt have the money because he spent it on cards (bought cards, customs fees etc.). He tells me that he doesn't get much money every 2 weeks so he can't refund me. At this point I was starting to get annoyed. If you don't get much money coming in, don't buy stuff. Further to that, don't tell me you're going to give me my refund then tell me you can't because you spent the money on other decks of cards. if you spent it on food/bills/rent i'd be more understanding..but I don't like people telling me they cant give me my money back because they spent it on decks of cards.

- So I ask him if he'd be willing to send me his last tungstene and a v6. this is less than what i paid for since it was supposed to be a v5. but in the interest of finishing this transaction i offered to take less. he agrees, but because he has no money, he wants me to give him money for shipping (which is a bit ridiculous cuz i've already previously paid for shipping). He says he'll refund the shipping money later when he gets more money. I say fine whatever let's just get this over with so I give him more money.

-Decks arrive and as it turns out, the tungstene is opened, cards are damaged and it's missing 4 cards excluding jokers and extras. I let him know and he offers to remedy the situation by sending me the missing cards along with a david blaine gaff card of some sort that i dont even want. Either way this is absolutely ridiculous. It's ok if the tungstene is opened, but he charged me a price based on how much it'd be worth if they were sealed. On top of it all, they are damaged and missing cards. What gets me the most is that he never even mentions that they're opened and damaged. I don't think that's how we do business on this forum. Any deck sold on here is expected to be sealed unless stated otherwise and for him to not mention that (when I initially asked him if i was buying sealed decks and he said yes) is a joke. To make it worse, it's an incomplete and damaged deck.

-He also did not refund the shipping cost yet.

-I have all the pm's to back up what I'm saying, and as per a previous pm, he told me something like this happened to another guy that bought cards from him. But he refunded the guy so I guess that worked out. I should have just asked for a refund, but I wanted to give him a chance to make it right, instead he made it worse. Lesson learned.

I've already give him a chance to fix things and it actually just got worse as I had to pay more money and got even less than what was initially promised. It went from a tungstene and v5 to a tungstene and a v6. But what was delivered was even less. I feel I gave him more than enough time to fix the situation as it's taken 2 months for him to get 2 decks to me now so I'm about done with this. I'll just eat it up as a loss and never deal with him again. I would recommend that anyone dealing with him make sure to confirm what he's sending you before you finalize a deal. Cuz I've had 2 deals with him now and both times, decks that he sent me were missing cards.

I almost had the same thing happen to me... he was offering me a v5 and a tungstene and he told me $50. I then received a PM saying he sold it to someone else, and he tried to sell me some stuff not as good as that. He then tried to get me to pay $100! but I refused because of the price and eventually he tried to re sell me the original package with some standards at $100 (saying free shipping) and he sent me an invoice without my authorization and it said shipping was $10. He then cancelled that one and he sent one for the original $50, I paid it. And because he changed his email on the paypal, the money got lost and I had to deal with Paypal and I never received the $50 back, AND never received the decks!

I SUGGEST YOU DO NOT DEAL WITH ZAGAHN HALL, (sorry Zagahn!)

[NathanCanadas]

ZAGANH
Just like the two members above me I also had some troubles with Zaganh, although not as bad. I Pmed him saying I was interested in the sales he was making, but he changed the price a couple of times. I took a dozen of messages back and forth between us for an agreement to be made, since he was unwilling to comply and "haggle", as he said he would have done. Twice he sent me a payment, which he cancelled both times before I had the time to pay it, saying he lived (I quote) "In the middle of a field" and that he would send me another payment later when he will have the time to send me my decks. I didn't loose any money but trading with him wasn't easy.