Reviews of baseballworld's investing and development group

kaposzta said:

He has hundreds of domains, so technically the money invested is not gone. I also lost $200 (minus $4 LOL), and I haven't given up on getting my money back. The problem is that he's off the map.

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Yeah, I'm also interested in getting my money back as this obviously was a scam.

Any updates from the group?

how much money did @baseballworld stole from you guys?

$200 per person, and around 10 people were in the group.

So he went rouge over 2K. I get the impression he didn't scam people intentionally, he just couldn't cash the cheques his ass had wrote so to speak. Shame cos if he had just put his hands up and said it was not going well he would probably still be here. All speculation on my part though.

What was the purpose of this club, this person was outside their means, if they were so successful they wouldn't need to scrape $200 per person. It doesn't make any sense.

UniflexDomains said:

So he went rouge over 2K. I get the impression he didn't scam people intentionally, he just couldn't cash the cheques his ass had wrote so to speak. Shame cos if he had just put his hands up and said it was not going well he would probably still be here. All speculation on my part though.

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I also have the feeling. If he says "I fucked this up, the money's gone, let's sell the names and share the money", I would accept it.

wwwweb said:

What was the purpose of this club, this person was outside their means, if they were so successful they wouldn't need to scrape $200 per person. It doesn't make any sense.

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It started as a group of people, who share their thoughts and build something together. You know, the 1+1>2 stuff. I felt there's a problem when he didn't involve in anything.

His plan kept changing. First he wanted to park the names and make money from that but with all those TMs that was a risk waiting to explode (not to mention parking is on a downward slide.) Then there was some kinda game dev thing and I think not long after that he disappeared after never paying anyone back.

Still wanna know why this guy isn't perma-banned after scamming a bunch of people here on NP.

creataweb said:

Still wanna know why this guy isn't perma-banned after scamming a bunch of people here on NP.

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His account is restricted until he fulfills his commitments. If his account was banned, it would be impossible for him to fulfill all of his commitments. Restricted is more than sufficient and also allows him to do what he needs to do to make things right.

well.. he's been saying alogn the journey a few times that all is going well and people making money. I asked for updated publically and its what I got.

so that sounsd pretty intentional to me.

how many np people joined and lost?

alcy said:

well.. he's been saying alogn the journey a few times that all is going well and people making money. I asked for updated publically and its what I got.

so that sounsd pretty intentional to me.

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I agree.

This is a dam shame. This guy been a member here for over a decade. He had enough time to fix this and he hasn't. Has anyone gotten paid back? Anyone at all?

imadoer said:

This is a dam shame. This guy been a member here for over a decade. He had enough time to fix this and he hasn't. Has anyone gotten paid back? Anyone at all?

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I think no one has been paid back, except $4 or so last summer. Was supposed to be te first share of the incomes of the group. I think at least another person besides me got this.

Wow $4 bucks..For a guy who bragged for years about how well he does at parking thats pretty pathetic. I highly doubt anyone gets any money back.

How many people are in the group?

UniflexDomains said:

So he went rouge over 2K. I get the impression he didn't scam people intentionally, he just couldn't cash the cheques his ass had wrote so to speak. Shame cos if he had just put his hands up and said it was not going well he would probably still be here. All speculation on my part though.

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I talked to BBW on the phone before deciding to invest. He was a braggart and avoided any suggestion about accountability so I passed.

I don't think this was an accident.

Any number on how mamy people are in this group?

imadoer said:

Any number on how mamy people are in this group?

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It is quite large! There were a SIGNIFICANT number of members who contacted me about being taken in the same scam but were too embarrassed to contact a mod. I had a tally that was literally in the thousands of dollars taken!

mr-x said:

I talked to BBW on the phone before deciding to invest. He was a braggart and avoided any suggestion about accountability so I passed.

I don't think this was an accident.

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I had strong suspicions right in the beginning, because he was not able to explain his plans properly and thoroughly. Since I had already used some cash on bad domains, I thought I'll try it anyway despite expecting that something like this could happen. It was still stupid from me, would have been better to donate the money for charity.

I guess I thought that someone with 10 years membership here (and thousands of Likes from word games) would not risk his reputation/name (Jared Burnup) for a sum that is not even life changing.

Well..speaking of life changing...maybe he is a drug addict and needed money for drugs and now he might be dead..who knows. After all he is a poor little human being to scam mostly ordinary people and then it's not even enabling him to retire for life (though this wouldn't make the scam any better).

If he wouldn't approached me like a cheap car salesman I guess I'd be also on board.

Even via pm he refused to answer any questions about the structure, setup, revenue sharing, legal structure, etc.. you know, all that important boring stuff beside "shut up and take my money".

In fact, after I expressed interest.. he put on pressure in several PM's .. "PayPal now or you miss the opportunity.. " .."when is PP coming?"

Not a single answer to any question.
Just phrases like:
"we have a great team" .. "it's all fine" .. "I'm a longtime veteran super earner member sharing my stuff.."

pretty much the same you already read here in this thread.

Finally I passed as it seemed way too spammy and scammy.

Well, he was arrested again last January for driving with a suspended license and I tried to warn as many people as possible to no avail. My posts were either deleted or I was temp banned for them. Saw this coming from my first interactions with him.

zurc.net said:

Well, he was arrested again last January for driving with a suspended license and I tried to warn as many people as possible to no avail. My posts were either deleted or I was temp banned for them. Saw this coming from my first interactions with him.

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To confirm, zurc.net did express concerns about this at the time, but unfortunately, when those concerns are voiced in a user's sales thread, they are considered sales crashing and have to be removed.

However, threads can be created for those concerns outside of sales threads, like in a review thread (which this is), in a Warnings & Alerts thread, etc.

I just wanted to let everyone know the options available for the future so that we can hopefully avoid any issues. We want NamePros to be as safe as possible, and that comes largely from the community helping each other.

Thanks,

Eric Lyon said:

To confirm, zurc.net did express concerns about this at the time, but unfortunately, when those concerns are voiced in a user's sales thread, they are considered sales crashing and have to be removed.

However, threads can be created for those concerns outside of sales threads, like in a review thread (which this is), in a Warnings & Alerts thread, etc.

I just wanted to let everyone know the options available for the future so that we can hopefully avoid any issues. We want NamePros to be as safe as possible, and that comes largely from the community helping each other.

Thanks,

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He’s right, some were in his sales thread. Also a post was made in either warnings & alerts thread or suggestions group, can’t remember which one, and quickly closed.

zurc.net said:

Also a post was made in either warnings & alerts thread or suggestions group, can’t remember which one, and quickly closed.

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I believe you're referring to the thread that was created in the marketplace by another member to poke fun at his sales thread. It wasn't a real marketplace listings (Which the OP made clear), so it didn't belong in the marketplace. Threads like that aren't constructive (it unfortunately wasn't designed to warn or to be helpful, it was designed to antagonize), and we don't allow antagonizing/unconstructive posts. I may be forgetting about another thread, but that's the only one that comes to mind.

Eric Lyon said:

I believe you're referring to the thread that was created in the marketplace by another member to poke fun at his sales thread. It wasn't a real marketplace listings (Which the OP made clear), so it didn't belong in the marketplace. Threads like that aren't constructive (it unfortunately wasn't designed to warn or to be helpful, it was designed to antagonize), and we don't allow antagonizing/unconstructive posts. I may be forgetting about another thread, but that's the only one that comes to mind.

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Incorrect. Think someone linked to it in this thread or another.