azb issue about me

yuri_b17

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I don?t know how to start this but I would like to apologize to everybody especially to the people that have been affected by the incident that had happen to me this past few weeks. I have been used, manipulated and dragged into this issue of defrauding my fellow azb members. Pool equipments were ordered under my name and even being sent to my home address without my knowledge and consent.
I have been a responsible member of this forum and had bought some of my cues here from fellow members and had great transactions with all of them without any problems. I have my fist cue here in azb from Dave Albrecht, got my Olney cue from Remy, Carolina Cue from JimL, and lastly another cue from Dave Albrecht, all of this transactions are flawless, I have never had any problems transacting with them, nor them with me. I have also had a cue on order from Kevin Varney, a rosewood/bem pj cue that was said to be finished about 1 year from my order date last May, I have made a deposit of 50% ($325) for this cue, haven?t heard from him yet though after my deposit, one from Bob Flynn of Denali Cues, a tulipwood/ebony pj cue that is almost finished, made my deposit and the rest upon completion, a jt-1 from Judd Fuller which will be due within 9 months, made my deposit of 20% too, and lastly an african blackwood/satinwood pj from Bryan Mordt which will be due on April, I was also lined up from MasonH waiting list for about 2 years but he had already scrapped my name from his list due to this incident. I have also one finished, bem/bocote PJ, and just awaiting pick up from Linds, a Philippine cue maker, that has already been fully paid few months ago. Why I?m saying this is because I myself is a trusting person and have a passion for this game. I legitimately buy my equipments without the thought of defrauding or stealing something from somebody, I am proud of everything that I have because all of this are fruits of my labor. I have been here in Hong Kong for about 11 years now and have lived at this same house ever since and had never have any problems until this Tim Hong stepped into my life.
I have trusted and sheltered this guy and all I get in return was all this, almost ruining my life, reputation and endangering my family. I have suffered great deals of stress from this incident, but I am determined to put everything in order, I have been cooperating with everybody that has been affected to sort everything out and assumed all responsibility in this issue, I have returned the packages that I was able to recover from their rightful owners, reported and got all this matter investigated by my local police. I will never turn my back on this matter for my hard earned reputation is at stake. I have already spent so much time, efforts, and money on this one and I will still do if I have to just to bring back my peace again. This is just my beginning to pursue this person that has done this harm to me and hopefully bring him to justice and never do this to anybody again. I have made a mistake of trusting a person, I?ve learned my lessons and learned it well.
Again, I am very sorry to everybody that was affected by this issue and my sincerest thanks to the people that had helped, suggested and stood by me in trying to resolve this issue.
 
What about Joe's (Bamacue) stuff?!? Unless he's gotten his stuff back very recently, I don't think he has. Whats going on with his stuff?

yuri_b17 said:
I don?t know how to start this but I would like to apologize to everybody especially to the people that have been affected by the incident that had happen to me this past few weeks. I have been used, manipulated and dragged into this issue of defrauding my fellow azb members. Pool equipments were ordered under my name and even being sent to my home address without my knowledge and consent.
I have been a responsible member of this forum and had bought some of my cues here from fellow members and had great transactions with all of them without any problems. I have my fist cue here in azb from Dave Albrecht, got my Olney cue from Remy, Carolina Cue from JimL, and lastly another cue from Dave Albrecht, all of this transactions are flawless, I have never had any problems transacting with them, nor them with me. I have also had a cue on order from Kevin Varney, a rosewood/bem pj cue that was said to be finished about 1 year from my order date last May, I have made a deposit of 50% ($325) for this cue, haven?t heard from him yet though after my deposit, one from Bob Flynn of Denali Cues, a tulipwood/ebony pj cue that is almost finished, made my deposit and the rest upon completion, a jt-1 from Judd Fuller which will be due within 9 months, made my deposit of 20% too, and lastly an african blackwood/satinwood pj from Bryan Mordt which will be due on April, I was also lined up from MasonH waiting list for about 2 years but he had already scrapped my name from his list due to this incident. I have also one finished, bem/bocote PJ, and just awaiting pick up from Linds, a Philippine cue maker, that has already been fully paid few months ago. Why I?m saying this is because I myself is a trusting person and have a passion for this game. I legitimately buy my equipments without the thought of defrauding or stealing something from somebody, I am proud of everything that I have because all of this are fruits of my labor. I have been here in Hong Kong for about 11 years now and have lived at this same house ever since and had never have any problems until this Tim Hong stepped into my life.
I have trusted and sheltered this guy and all I get in return was all this, almost ruining my life, reputation and endangering my family. I have suffered great deals of stress from this incident, but I am determined to put everything in order, I have been cooperating with everybody that has been affected to sort everything out and assumed all responsibility in this issue, I have returned the packages that I was able to recover from their rightful owners, reported and got all this matter investigated by my local police. I will never turn my back on this matter for my hard earned reputation is at stake. I have already spent so much time, efforts, and money on this one and I will still do if I have to just to bring back my peace again. This is just my beginning to pursue this person that has done this harm to me and hopefully bring him to justice and never do this to anybody again. I have made a mistake of trusting a person, I?ve learned my lessons and learned it well.
Again, I am very sorry to everybody that was affected by this issue and my sincerest thanks to the people that had helped, suggested and stood by me in trying to resolve this issue.
 
Very well said Yuri. Best of luck to you in resolving these issues. Please continue to communicate with everyone that you know of that has been ripped off by Tim Hong.

I can tell you that identity theft is hideous and especially when it's done by someone whom you trusted with access to your life. It happened to me in a different way.

Please don't back down from the hard questions and answer them all frankly and with facts. The worst thing for someone that has been scammed, next to the loss itself, is lack of communication and lack of information.
 
Good luck with everything. I am sure your red dots will turn green in no time, if everything you said was true. Hopefully everything works out for all involved.
 
It's a good sign that you've now come out and explained yourself. Next is to communicate and resolve the issues with the people affected. Good luck.
 
yuri_b17 said:
I don?t know how to start this but I would like to apologize to everybody especially to the people that have been affected by the incident that had happen to me this past few weeks. I have been used, manipulated and dragged into this issue of defrauding my fellow azb members. Pool equipments were ordered under my name and even being sent to my home address without my knowledge and consent.
I have been a responsible member of this forum and had bought some of my cues here from fellow members and had great transactions with all of them without any problems. I have my fist cue here in azb from Dave Albrecht, got my Olney cue from Remy, Carolina Cue from JimL, and lastly another cue from Dave Albrecht, all of this transactions are flawless, I have never had any problems transacting with them, nor them with me. I have also had a cue on order from Kevin Varney, a rosewood/bem pj cue that was said to be finished about 1 year from my order date last May, I have made a deposit of 50% ($325) for this cue, haven?t heard from him yet though after my deposit, one from Bob Flynn of Denali Cues, a tulipwood/ebony pj cue that is almost finished, made my deposit and the rest upon completion, a jt-1 from Judd Fuller which will be due within 9 months, made my deposit of 20% too, and lastly an african blackwood/satinwood pj from Bryan Mordt which will be due on April, I was also lined up from MasonH waiting list for about 2 years but he had already scrapped my name from his list due to this incident. I have also one finished, bem/bocote PJ, and just awaiting pick up from Linds, a Philippine cue maker, that has already been fully paid few months ago. Why I?m saying this is because I myself is a trusting person and have a passion for this game. I legitimately buy my equipments without the thought of defrauding or stealing something from somebody, I am proud of everything that I have because all of this are fruits of my labor. I have been here in Hong Kong for about 11 years now and have lived at this same house ever since and had never have any problems until this Tim Hong stepped into my life.
I have trusted and sheltered this guy and all I get in return was all this, almost ruining my life, reputation and endangering my family. I have suffered great deals of stress from this incident, but I am determined to put everything in order, I have been cooperating with everybody that has been affected to sort everything out and assumed all responsibility in this issue, I have returned the packages that I was able to recover from their rightful owners, reported and got all this matter investigated by my local police. I will never turn my back on this matter for my hard earned reputation is at stake. I have already spent so much time, efforts, and money on this one and I will still do if I have to just to bring back my peace again. This is just my beginning to pursue this person that has done this harm to me and hopefully bring him to justice and never do this to anybody again. I have made a mistake of trusting a person, I?ve learned my lessons and learned it well.
Again, I am very sorry to everybody that was affected by this issue and my sincerest thanks to the people that had helped, suggested and stood by me in trying to resolve this issue.
Rep points for you sir for trying to make the best out of something that went terribly wrong.

Keep up the HONEST work foremost. The rest shall come later!
 
Rep points to you as well, although there is some questions that i have about this issue, but since it has nothing to do with me, i shall not be a busybody. :D
 
i gave you green rep for coming clean and communicating. but keep it up and answer everyone as fast as you can. this place can be BRUTAL if you don't. best wishes on getting your life back from the dirtbag who stole it. that sucks, i'm sorry for ya.
 
thank you all guys, rest assured that I am doing my very best to be responsible for everything that has happened under my name. with regards to Joe, i am in constant contact with him, and i have assumed the responsibility for paying his cue since i won't be able to send it back to him coz the guy who did all this has already took it.
again, my sincerest thank to all of you guys and i greatly appreciate all your inputs about this issue.
 
yuri_b17 said:
thank you all guys, rest assured that I am doing my very best to be responsible for everything that has happened under my name. with regards to Joe, i am in constant contact with him, and i have assumed the responsibility for paying his cue since i won't be able to send it back to him coz the guy who did all this has already took it.
again, my sincerest thank to all of you guys and i greatly appreciate all your inputs about this issue.

Where is this guy? Is he still in Hong Kong? Is there a warrant for his arrest issued? What are the laws regarding international wire fraud?

Has he been arrested? Is he a HK Chinese citizen?

Is Tim Hong a pool/snooker player? Has he been seen in any billiard halls?

Very stand up of you to assume the debts created in your name. Hope Tim Hong gets caught and prosecuted if he isn't already.
 
For everyone, I am finished with this event. Yuri has been in contact with me several times and I think he is trying to make good on everything, the biggest problem right now is double chargebacks from Paypal.

Paypal originally did a chargeback on the Lam Yami charge for $249, then someone filed an unauthorized credit card usage with them, and they took the money for a second time (actually, $259 the second time...they charged me a credit card chargeback fee of $10, and I did not even know that a credit card had been used). Paypal has stated that they will get it all straightened out in a few days...we will have to see.

I appreciate everyone's concern and support through all of this.
Joe
 
I have been caught up in this scandel too, luckly the cue I sent out was by my secreratry from work and she did not fill out a customs form so the cue got sent back to me. I resolved the chargeback issue by replacing the funds so I have no loss except the $35 fee thank god.
My questions are to Yuri:
One:
Why has it taken you so long to come out with this information, I recived your story from another source over a month ago and begged you to come on Bamas thread and speek up?
Two:
How could someone that stayed at your house become so versed in the AZ billiard forum and figure out how to scam people out of cues and get access to your paypal account?
Yuri I want to beleive you and it seems like your actions have spoken loudly.
What I have taken from this whole thing is that Paypal is the easiest scam tool out there with huge loopholes.
Thanks for everyone's comments and help.
 
BigDaddy said:
Rep points for you sir for trying to make the best out of something that went terribly wrong.

Keep up the HONEST work foremost. The rest shall come later!
Wow....

Look what I started, he went from RED to GREEN real quick!!!!
Congrats, keep it real and make us all proud! :o)
 
about the guy, i have no idea, i supposed he is just somewhere here, i think the guy is foreign raised but i'm not so sure, but definitely a chinese, i have filed a case against him about this incident here in hong kong and if seen, arrest will be made by police, this case that i have is still undergoing investigation here. I am very passionate with this game i guess same as everybody here which have led me trusting somebody with the same interest not knowing that this will all happen to me. i have introduced this site to him knowing that this is the best place to buy pool equipments and meet many reputable makers since i bought and ordered few of my cues here.
I've had quite a few cues myself that i have bought all decently throughout the years and have parted with some of it, mainly because i wanted to try what is best fitted for my game.
I have made contact with all the people affected and have tried my very best in resolving all the problem that was done by this guy. I may have lost a decent amount of my hard earned money but it's all worth it for having this lesson learned on trust, safety and friendship.
I thank everyone for all your inputs and support about this matter.
 
patrickjuhlin said:
My questions are to Yuri:
One:
Why has it taken you so long to come out with this information, I recived your story from another source over a month ago and begged you to come on Bamas thread and speek up?
Two:
How could someone that stayed at your house become so versed in the AZ billiard forum and figure out how to scam people out of cues and get access to your paypal account?
One other question: What about the Mucci cue you had up for sale on another site? How does that play into all of this?

Very good questions, all completely ignored by Yuri yet again.
 
shinobi said:
Very good questions, all completely ignored by Yuri yet again.


Exactly, thats why this whole story is pretty much BS.
I guess he's keeping the Meucci that he proudly displayed as his own on this other website.
He doesnt answer this because he has no answer for this. He took pictures of the Meucci with the same camera and with the same back ground as he did with the Carolina and the Albrecht that are his, and now he expects us to believe he never had the Meucci, that this non existent guy Tim Hong has it.
Cmon now, you cant think that AZer are that stupid.
http://forum.bilyar.net/viewtopic.php?t=2844&sid=d3fa41ae28785934c3beae06a253f33d
Heres the Meucci that he claims he doesnt have. Proudly displayed on another website.
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And heres the carolina and albrecht that he does have.
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And i dont know why so many people are giving this guy green rep. if you want to give someone green rep, give it to his victims, starting with patrickjuhlin, one of yuris victims.
 
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