Negative Feedback for @EdDude for Non-Delivery of Paid Items ($200, Oct 27 Transaction)

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I am posting this because the community deserves full transparency about what occurred here.

I have purchased from @EdDude several times. That prior history is the only reason I trusted him again. On October 27th, I sent him $200 for a bundle he explicitly confirmed was available. He acknowledged the payment immediately and stated the items would ship “tomorrow.”

What followed was not a delay, not a misunderstanding, and not a one-off personal hardship.
It was a complete collapse of responsibility and seller integrity.

Verified Timeline of Events

Oct 27:
Payment sent and acknowledged. Shipment promised.

Oct 29–Nov 5:
Seller continues communicating but repeatedly fails to ship. Multiple “tomorrow” statements. No tracking. No progress.

Nov 5–Dec 10:
Seller disappears entirely. No shipping update. No tracking. No explanation. No refund. Repeated messages go unanswered.

Dec 12:
After more than a month of silence, seller reappears with another excuse. Still does not ship. Still does not refund. No evidence of any attempt to fulfill the transaction.

Dec 16:
As of today, nothing has been shipped, nothing has been refunded, and no credible effort has been made to resolve the situation.

Community Pattern

Since posting about this issue, multiple members have reached out privately to tell me this is not an isolated case. This pattern … taking payment, disappearing for extended periods, providing excuses instead of fulfillment … has happened repeatedly.

That history was not disclosed.
Buyers are left holding the risk, the cost, and the frustration.

Assessment

When a seller:

  • accepts payment,

  • fails to ship for 50+ days,

  • ignores refund requests,

  • breaks every shipping commitment they themselves set, and

  • provides no actionable communication,

that is a failed transaction. Personal circumstances do not erase the obligation to either ship the item or return the money. At minimum, they do not justify 50+ days of silence, broken promises, and zero accountability.

Current Status

This transaction is:

  • Unfulfilled

  • Unrefunded

  • Unsupported by evidence of any attempt to resolve it

Until the $200 is returned or the items are actually delivered, this stands as a strong warning to other community members.

I will update this post only if Ed resolves the situation.
At this time, the record is clear: non-delivery after payment.

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The title said everything we needed to know.

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One time it took him like 35 days to get me what i paid for. It sucks you’ve had to wait this long and I’m not sticking up for his actions but i would bet he will get you those throws. Part of the gamble on a BST i guess. Hopefully he’ll make it right

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I want to be absolutely clear here, because this keeps getting framed as if I’m sitting around hoping the throws show up someday.

I have explicitly asked for my money back. More than once.

That part keeps getting ignored.

This isn’t a situation where I’m waiting on a delayed shipment … it’s a situation where a seller took payment, failed to ship anything for 50+ days, stopped communicating for long stretches, and has not issued a refund after being asked for one. At that point, talking about “eventually getting the throws” misses the entire point.

And for what it’s worth, defending a 35-day delivery time as if that’s acceptable or normal in a BST environment is exactly how these problems keep getting minimized. A slow transaction that eventually arrives is one thing; a seller who disappears, ignores messages, and won’t refund is something entirely different.

Yes, the yoyo community likes to consider itself a family, but that only works if people are held accountable. A buyer asking for their money back after 50+ days of non-delivery isn’t being impatient. It’s the most basic expectation of any transaction.

This is not about waiting longer.

This is about a seller who has not honored the deal or returned the funds.

That’s the reality.

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This has happened several times with him and every time apologists come forward and say you will eventually get it and he’s a good guy/seller. Temu fulfills orders at a higher rate of satisfaction.

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Exactly this … and this is why the old “just wait, he’ll come through” narrative isn’t acceptable anymore.

When a seller has a documented pattern of disappearing, keeping people’s money for weeks (or months), resurfacing with a new excuse, and relying on the community to give him endless benefit of the doubt, that stops being an occasional delay and becomes a behavior problem.

And comparing this to “eventually getting the throws” completely misses the point.

A seller who consistently fails to deliver and fails to refund can’t be propped up by past reputation or wishful thinking. At some point the pattern has to matter, because buyers deserve better than “maybe you’ll eventually get what you paid for.”

This isn’t about patience.

It’s about a seller who isn’t honoring transactions, period.

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Are you an attorney?

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No … just someone who takes it seriously when a seller accepts money and then goes silent for 50+ days. What’s actually surprising here is watching people joke about it and even react with laughing emojis while a buyer is still out $200 with no shipment and no refund. If that’s entertaining to some, that says a lot more about them than it does about me. I’m here to deal with the actual problem: a seller who hasn’t honored a transaction.

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to be honest i think the problem is mostly your feelings of being wronged, not the money or ed’s failure to deliver a refund or a $200 toy.

if it was the money, you wouldn’t be publicly buying more yoyos several times a week and you would have initiated a fraud charge with your bank or paypal.

if it was about warning people about ed.. well, you were aware of this history and you chose to buy from him anyway, so apparently these negative feedback threads don’t deter buyers.

so we’re left with your feelings. sorry about ed’s behavior. sorry you didn’t get your yoyo. i apologize on ed’s behalf and hereby publicly scold him for failure to deliver.

i still hope he’s okay. he probably still is not okay. he might even be dead.

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Your entire comment is built onassumptions that don’t match reality.

This has nothing to do with “feelings.”

It has to do with a seller accepting payment, failing to ship anything for 50+ days, ignoring multiple refund requests, and disappearing for weeks at a time. That isn’t an emotional issue, it’s a failed transaction.

Whether I buy other yoyos in the meantime is irrelevant.

What is relevant is that Ed has my $200 and has not delivered what I paid for or returned the money. Purchasing something else from someone who does fulfill their obligations doesn’t erase the fact that he hasn’t.

And the idea that buyers “should’ve known better” because there were red flags is exactly how bad actors stay protected.

Warning people now is the entire point so others don’t end up in this situation.

You also missed the most important part:

I’ve repeatedly asked for a refund, not the throws. That request has been ignored, along with every commitment he made to ship.

So no …this isn’t about emotions.

It’s about a seller who didn’t honor a deal, didn’t communicate, didn’t ship, and didn’t refund.

Everything else is noise.

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Dude I laugh because you have written a book to say the same thing several times. Being out money isn’t funny but there is g&s to c.y.a

As far as what it says about my character? I laugh when people beat dead horses. Also laugh when old people fall or someone takes a shot to the groin. Life is brutal so laugh it off

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i promise i didn’t miss the part about you asking for a refund lol

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Why isnt ed banned.

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You have posted in his feedback thread. Did you read that thread? Why do you need to make another feedback thread just for you and post in his sale thread every few days giving an update that he still hasn’t delivered

you had great things to say about him after other people had gone through exactly what you’re going through and posted about it in the above thread. idk do whatever you want

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I think it’s kind of crazy the amount of stuff some people will let slide.

When I was going through chemo for the 2nd time from 16-19 years old, it didn’t stop me from honoring my transactions on yoyonation. And if couldn’t, I wasn’t selling anything.

I get that we have this wholesome image of the community in our heads many people want to maintain, but I honestly found it weird that people were still willing to give the benefit of the doubt after so many instances.

it’s basically just enabling behavior like this because people can use any personal life struggles as an excuse for doing stuff like this over and over.

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It sounds like he’s not dead thankfully, but I feel like one day we’re all gonna be on here chewing out someone who’s passed. It makes me uncomfortable.

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I literally had to do a chargeback on an admin of the FB BST group because he stopped responding as soon as I sent him payment. I made a post about it on there that got “approved” but didn’t get any interaction, which makes me think the other admins went out of their way to protect him by not actually making it visible.

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I’m playing devil’s advocate here, but I think it’s important to have enough perspective to admit that you don’t know other people’s struggles. We all know that buying on here always carries the risk of the seller going missing, but I think we’re a little too quick to jump to the conclusion that it would’ve been totally reasonable for that seller to just go to the post office. If you’ve experienced flooding, lost your home, or had to travel far away on short notice, then you might see how that’s not exactly true. And then, why would you want to come on and tell everyone to be patient with you when they’re already primed to tell you that you’re just making excuses? That’s not a fun situation to be in.

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Then don’t sell yo-yos

edit: it’s not like this didn’t happen before, there’s a history that pushes this past the point of being understanding.

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Honestly, YoYoExpert as the medium and facilitator of transactions here, needs to be stricter with rules and ban F&F all together. /r/hardwareswap and others on Reddit have clear and strict rules, such as enforcing PayPal invoicing for payments so you will be covered. YoYoExpert shouldn’t just sit by, enabling F&F transactions, set them as the norm, and just shrug and say buyer beware. Some responsibility falls on this forum. Change the rules to enforce G&S or invoicing on every transaction. Sellers will just need to bake it into their pricing if they want to.