General Forum

I have had Admin confirm an alias operating under a new name of AcunaBill, previously known as Schuber in various forms, and most recently outed as LithiaLion2 who is simply trying to get you to bite to his deception and give him your cards via trade. This, unfortunately is my second encounter with him and it's made me leery of dealing with any newbies. 

Apologies to those of you who are new and are honest and law abiding and are simply trying to enjoy one of life's diversions. This is not about you, but you may be affected by us who have been collecting via TCDB and its wonderful trade tools if members heed what has been stated before and I reiterate: Beware of trading with someone who has no track record with TCDB, because they may have a record as in the case of this scum who is the subject of this post, but it's not through TCDB that I'm aware of. 

I trade a lot. I've completed almost 300 trades all through TCDB - about 200 have left positive feedback and I have a 100% trading rating. I approached AcunaBill about a possible trade, but having had one taste without agreeing to a deal with LithiaLion2 recently left me a little gunshy trading with anyone new. So in this case my initial email asked if he was interested in a trade, and I added the stipulation that since he was new and had no record of deals with us if he'd be willing to mail first in a trade and I'd follow-up with mailing once I'd received his items. He responded by sending me a trade offer, a very ambitious one asking for a few modern RCs and some SNs that I have for trade. He offered several RCs to me in return, in fact he had three of the '89 Fleer Randy Johnson Variants and some others. It was very enticing, but I was skeptical. So I emailed him to ask if he'd considered my request to mail first because he'd not addressed that in his offer. He responded vaguely but affirmatively and went on to explain that he loved trading so that he could share his acquisitions with children with cancer at hospitals in the Atlanta area. He followed that up with an email asking if I could substitute cards I didn't have with anything else Trout, Albies, Acuna that was autographed, or jerseys.

I began thinking his benevolence didn't make sense to me since he was obviously wlling to trade prime cards to get some, and if he was giving it to children how could he have it to trade. So I responded by countering his trade with something much less attractive, yet still included a couple of RCs, but I asked for something of equal value, still pretty much less than $5.00 or so, and asked him if he was okay with the deal to accept and he'd have to mail first and...you get it.

He hasn't responded, but I believe he'll probably go after somebody else. Please be careful. I know it's just cards, but think about an evil person that's willing to use deceit to get something from you that you've worked hard to get. This is not charity! We do give to each other, and some give to those who aren't able to give here and in other parts of life. This guy epitomizes evil, and I wouldn't want him knowing my address.

So for me, if you're a new person to TCDB and you wish to trade, I'll indulge you, but you'll have to mail first and I'll have to physically receive whatever we've agreed to before I will send you what I've agreed to send. Once you've established a track record, then you'll benefit from good feedback which will open up more opportunities to trade.

Shame.....Stay away from Schuberscum and all the aliases. It's terrible this deceitful bum makes it bad for all newbies, I know I share the sympathy with the rest of the TCDB old guard. Nobody wants this site smeared by this a__wipe. 

Well-said, Joshua.  And thanks to Admin for exposing the scumbag.

Thanks for your post, Joshua. I’ve recently adopted the same policy when trading with members who don’t have a track record of successful trading and positive feedback and, like you, it’s because of this bastard Schuber aka LithiaLion2 aka AcunaBill. Unfortunately, I accepted a trade with him and a couple days later read the first posts of members’ bad experiences with him. As a result, I’m out three ‘92 Panini stickers (two Griffeys and a Frank Thomas) and two and a half weeks after marking his status as Package sent, the cards he promised me are nowhere in sight. Not a big loss to be sure, but it’s the lack of integrity and honesty that irks me. And to think he’s been using sympathy for kids with cancer to pilfer cards from honest members. That is lower than low. I’m not a fan of using forums such as this to rag on people, but this S.O.B. deserves every ill word directed at him. I think the suggestion he be reported for mail fraud is a good one and something everyone burned by him should strongly consider. DO NOT TRADE WITH THIS INDIVIDUAL!!

i think that's great advise.  my gameplan, when (if) i get to the point of everything is recorded and ready to trade, is to seek out the veterans to establish a good repoire with in order to establish myself as truthful and respectful.  

I just sent AcunaBill a chrome Judge card last night.  It wasn't a very valuable one, and it was a duplicate for me, luckily.  Should I expect to get nothing back? 

I wouldn’t be holding my breath if I were you...

On the positive side of things, I have been the first or second traders for several once new members here. I never asked for them to send first even when they offered. Some of it is inherent trust for most people on this site and some of it was allowing them a chance to prove themselves. I have yet to get burned by a new trader. I took the opportunity to help them with the trade tools on here so they understand what they are, how they work and how it impacts the process.  

I have been burned by another once bad boy on here though (not the one from the OP). Time passed and I have had 3-4 trades with him since without issue. I do thank those that are keeping an eye open for all of out here making sure that worms like Schruber (and all his names) are ratted out. Seriously, can't we ban his IP address or something? 

Here we go again i wised the hell up finally and stuck with bruno told me even though a lot of you don't accept 1 card trades its better for me so i don't go overboard like i did last time 

He was banned from Beckett many times with various versions of his name that he also used here. They banned him by his IP address, but it's partially b/c they also have a rule that a person can only have one ID on the site. So once he was banned the 1st time, they had his IP address flagged and could block him as soon as he made a new one. But then he'd move and do it again from a new IP address. Not sure how Admin can deal with same IP, but different IP's would be difficult to track until there is a problem.

The best way we can stop Schuber's samming is for everyone to be vigilant about this person and any names he may come up with. The problem now is that he's using very different ID names. The guy is true scum in the trading world and has been trying to scam people in any way he can for MANY years now and across all trading sites he can find!