Moggie61 transaction [Moggie's Toyshop]

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In light of the information that's been posted recently . . . elisabethflanagan, would you be willing to tell the rest of us when your visit to Moggie happened? I was taking it to be a fairly recent thing, but now I'm confused, after reading that no one is at the shop and that Moggie has been taking customers' money but not placing the orders with the companies for months.

 

Daris,
Call your credit card company immdeiately and ask them to do a charge back (or reversal) - you will most likely be able to get your money back.

 

I logged out of the thread to test it and it was still viewable. The Buying/shipping Q's and advice link is still accessible to nonmembers and members who don't have the required amount of posts. So don't worry about that. Members example of this who have posted include: HamstereLady70, and Daris.

As for Whitewings. Thats really bad and scary. Nothing there. This is starting to get scarier and scarier actually. I was trying to have hope that someone would find him *which im still clinging to for everyone that got taken advantage of to get their money or things*. I still haven't gotten a reply from the host master yet either. I really hope that they can shut the site down. I know yahoo can flag sites as harmful.

I think the best advice right now is to report this to your local police *give them a photo of him from his profile as well as his wife* and get a warrant out for his arrest. Get all information and copies of your reciepts etc to give to them. The more information you can give them the easier it will be for the cops to find him as well as investigate. I am not sure how Australia deals with these cases, but its how the US typically find it easy to find the person at hand.

Even if someone in your area has reported it already, do so again. In cases as these, the more complaints and people are taken advantage of is the probability and more likely to get the police to react sooner. Not to mention here in America the more they take advantage of the critical the punishment for breaking the law. I would add legal advice too*like lawyers*, but that should wait until Ian's found.

Innana needs to be found as well. Has anyone found her on here? Has anyone who has ordered from Moggie way back when before he opened up the online shop, and received their items, remember a different address? I know you would most likely throw that information away *like box packaging*, but if anyone knows someone who has had a successful order please ask them for the return address if they have it and see if it is different than one listed on the shop, either on receipt or kept box packaging. Has Moggie ever purchased items from others? If he has and used paypal to pay, the confirmation and sent money should have his shipping address listed. There should also be history in paypal that shows an order etc.

Has anyone who is part of other doll forums know if Ian has made himself present there?

I hope this helps for now. I am going to go sew and do some detective work to find Inanna. I am also going to pray for everyone too. -_- I hate when stuff like this happens to good people.


EDIT: I found their photobucket account and it is accessible. The last doll meet they were at and took pictures accord to the account is 2-3-08. unfortunately I couldn't see if any images were new or not because their are no dates listed. :/

Here is the link. http://s177.photobucket.com/albums/w220/moggie61/

I discovered that Innana does NOT have an account. Which I find strange... Ian would post for her.

HOWEVER I did find another transaction problem thread of people LAST year searching for Moggie. http://www.denofangels.com/forums/showthread.php?t=144335&highlight=Innana It seems disappearing has happened to him before... I wonder if something really bad happened now.

 

http://moggie61.livejournal.com/profile, this is his live journal, last updated 27 Mar

I don't know if this would be any help, but someone could possibly get in contact with his lj friends and see if they've heard from him or anything.

I don't have a lj so I'm not much help when it comes to that -_-U sorry

 

You rock! Seriously! Thanks for finding that!


EDIT Those who have lj's and ordered from Moggie try to contact Ashbet listed in his mutual friends area shes still active even on Deviantart if you have an account there too.

 

I'm one of his LJ friends, and I've been trying to contact him that way for months now. No answer.

 

I think with things like that its best to organise one person to contact them, instead of everyone going off on their own and asking the same person the same thing ten times over. While I understand everyone wants to know what has happened to Moggie and wants their money/items, mass messaging people not involved in the situation is not the best idea.

As for other questions: no, Inanna doesn't have her own account here, she does on another local forum but neither of them have posted for a number of months.

 

Also I searched the white pages and there is one other person with the same last name as him living in the same area. It's a long shot but they could be related and therefore be able to shed some light on the situation.

If possible maybe someone who is more involved with the case, seeing as I don't know all the details, could get in contact with this other person and polietly asked them if they knew Ian, they might get some information.

It might be a fairly rude thing to do but this is a serious case and people are being stolen from so I don't think it's too much.

PM me if you would like the number.


EDIT: I am going offline now and won't be able to reply right away if anyone PM's, though I will ge back to you today if you do

 

If you're going to ring people, I suggest you do it calmly and not mention him stealing. Because if this person is related to Ian then they're not going to hand over contact details. Just in case you're out to get him or something.

Just my 2 cents.

 

That's very true, if someone does decide to ring they'll have to make sure they go about it in the correct manner or else it could end badly =\

 

Eek, ok, I did some research myself since I noticed some of his "interests" on his LJ. Can someone that is directly involved in this and is willing to contact him please PM me and I can give you the information? It isn't *appropriate* for DoA...

Also... please be 'legal age' - 19 or 21 depending on your location... its *that* kind of inappropriate.

 

Thanks for the info and thats very true. Since you live there and I think you had contact with him once before, have you heard anything?

No Offense... but his interests shouldn't have ANYTHING to do with the situation. If you insinuating that he is Wiccan that shouldn't make any difference.

As for being LEGAL age. I do agree with that. Whoever does infact able to make contact... Let those know whats been up.

 

I have nothing against his interests and its not his faith. He is active on this other board - so if someone wants to PM me I will forward them all the information, I won't post about it on an open community with minors.

 

cudna is referring to a fetish forum where Moggie was active two days ago leaving a comment on someone elses post. Before that his most recent post was 9 days ago, and then 14 and 15 days ago.

 

I only talk to them at meets or on forums, so sorry, I have no other information that can be of help to you.

 

I don't know if it is appropriate or not, but is there anyway to get a message to him through that forum's mods? We're really running out of resources here.

 

If someone were to sign up you could message him or the moderators of that forum, but I am not sure what that would achieve, it appears that Moggie is actively avoiding venues like DoA and LJ etc where he might be confronted about these issues, and I would say he will probably ignore any further attempts at communication as well. As I am a Moderator I cannot get involved in transaction problems like this, so it would be up to someone who has direct involvement in a transaction with Moggie to organise the information and pass it on to the Moderators of this other forum, or probably more correctly to the local Police.

 

He posted 2 days ago,eh? Well I wasn't pissed off before, but now I am. It means he is actively not responding to our messages and has done a runner with all our stuff.

I'm going to contact the police. Do I call the Victorian police or can I go to my local station? It's time to face the facts: Moggie's scammed us.

 

I'd help but I only bought a pair of eyes and its not significant enough to do an individual report here. If anyone needs to collect transaction details, give us a hoot.

 

Hi Everyone,

I'm here and alive.

My apologies (not that they are worth much at this point) for this entire mess.

I am currently working on getting refunds to those affected. It may take some time but noone is going to lose their money. I know that you don't have any reason to believe me at this point and I don't expect that this promise will mean much to anyone at this stage.

A lot of things happened which snowballed on me and this resulted in a blackness which is still hanging over me and I doubt it will disappear any time soon. I am basically an honest person and I have no intention of ripping anyone off.

The denial period is now over and I'm here to face the music. Please do whatever you feel is necessary, I have earned whatever actions you take.