gord l.

I signed up as a seller seeking an alternative to ebay. That's when strange things started to happen. First I received an email from a "Reverend Bill Christian" wanting to purchase one of the items I had listed there. Bear with me as I mention "Bill" because you will see it is connected to atoncer itself in a strange way. Now Bill didn't sound like a Nigerian scammer, after my questions he said he was a military veteran working for a US museum, the Bowfish in Hawai. He said he was an Australian turned US citizen. He actually sent me a rather detailed military background form which is more sophisticated than the Nigerian tactics I saw so far. He kept asking me and pressuring me for paypal info and didn't seem to care to have the item shipped to his "uncle" in Atlanta. The people at Bowfish museum said no such person exists there so I wrote to atoncer a scam alert. Here is the most bizarre part of this tale! I emailed *******@atoncer.com. Next day a reply came saying this incident was obviously done by a Nigerian and they had "refunded" their commission. Now read this carefully! The reply came not from *******@atoncer.com but *******@gmail.com. That is rather like having *******@yahoo or *******@hotmail addresses!

Did anyone actually sell anything here? I had several items for sale and none were cheap really and the "commission" atoncer was supposed to get if I went ahead and gave Bill my paypal would be something like $500-700. This doesn't look good but I'm puzzled how anyone else has not commented on this. Perhaps because not even a few people use this site. I discovered that the counter added each time I refreshed and none of the items had any visitors within almost a month.

I have one explanation for all this and you probably deduced the same if you read so far.
*******@yahoo.com