I was following an auction on Ebay for a Income Producing Website called YourTrafficSource.com. The bidding ended with the highest bidder not winning due to the fact that the reserve price had not been met. So I sent an email to Travis Zeh asking if he was going to put the website back on Ebay so that I could bid on it. He said he didn't want to do that because of all the work envolved to run the auction. But he said he would sell it to me for the price of his reserve which was $6500.00. He stated that currently the website was making $5,000.00 to $6,000.00 per month. I said I didn't have $6,500.00 at this time so he emailed that he would take 10% of a reduced price of $5,500.00.
After several emails back and forth he required that I overnight a cashiers check for $775.00 made out to Travis W. Zeh. On July 29 I overnighted the check and Purchase Agreement to his address in Smithshire, IL. He would then immediately send via certified mail and emails all the website assets encluding the transfer of the YourTrafficSource.com to my name and all other assets (encluding the source of the wholeseller's name where he purchases the traffic from) necessary for the operations of the business.
Initially he sent emails saying he was having problems with his internet connections and was very busy with family issues and couldn't speak to me on a regular basis... He did call me one time and one time only. All other contact was from emails with excuses why he hadn't sent the agree'd to business.
After several days of no contact I did a search on WHOIS to see if he had transfered my name. However, I found that he had in fact sold it to another individual. I called the name listed and found that he had also been made the same offer as I had only after my deal had already been agree'd to with Travis Zeh. He stated that he paid the full amount of $6,500.00 via overnight with cashiers check just as I had done.
I called my bank to see if the check had been cashed and it has been signed over to a Danielle Sours. After further investigation I found she had already been brought up on charges and ordered to pay fines and restitution to the Attorney Generals office for the State Of Illinois.
I have not received any part of what I paid for. And have had no further emails or phone calls from Mr. Travis Zeh if this is his real name.
Steve
West Plains, Missouri
U.S.A.
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