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Stung Again
« on: October 01, 2024, 08:14:29 PM »
I received a call today from a hunter who was taken for $6500.  Seems like the guy from Graham is still working the Shows taking money while delivering nothing.  I hadn’t seen anything on him for sometime.  The Hunter felt confident booking with someone at the Tri Cities Outdoor Show.  Seems the Show Management is not interested in helping.  I’m thinking this guy has changed his business name at least 3 times due to cases like this.  On private land I’m not sure what can be done. I doubt he has insurance or any type of business license.  The hunter has a Westside elk tag I tried to steer him in a good direction.  He told me if he was 10 years younger he would recoup a chunk of his $6500

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Re: Stung Again
« Reply #1 on: October 01, 2024, 08:36:37 PM »
Wow, that's sad and terrible. Sure hope he can find a way to recuperate his losses and that there are repercussions for the culprit.

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Re: Stung Again
« Reply #2 on: October 01, 2024, 08:51:43 PM »
Isn’t some kind contract being signed?

Geeeez I would think he could take him to court or get the attorney general on it. So this guy gets barred from offering hunts ever again.

What’s up?  You just give a guy 6500. On his word?
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Re: Stung Again
« Reply #3 on: October 01, 2024, 08:52:20 PM »
Tell him to file a complaint with the attorney general office. If enough people he rips off do this, it’ll catch up with him. Unfortunately suing someone like him is probably a waste of time & money. Most lawsuits that the plaintiff wins go uncollected.

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Re: Stung Again
« Reply #4 on: October 01, 2024, 08:54:47 PM »
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Re: Stung Again
« Reply #5 on: October 01, 2024, 09:58:43 PM »
He can't be that hard to find.  He obviously spends some time in the woods.  I would give him one chance to refund my money.....then.....well, we will leave that everyone's imagination.   ;)

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Re: Stung Again
« Reply #6 on: October 02, 2024, 12:11:56 AM »
There's a common phrase where I live - "We'll take him crabbing"

The trick this guy is pulling - if he's one and the shane I'm thing of -  is that he targets people who have much more to lose trying to recoup their money than he does fighting them for it.
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Re: Stung Again
« Reply #7 on: October 02, 2024, 06:18:34 AM »
Shane Barbour is a 💩 🎒

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Re: Stung Again
« Reply #8 on: October 02, 2024, 06:29:24 AM »
I still don't understand why anyone would pay this clown...or why show's allow him to set up shop. A simple Google search reveals his history.

For the OP
Was a hunt not provided as paid for..
Was a hunt provided but in his typical backyard of some neighborhood manner..
6k buys some really good Western hunts...but not with this dude.

Id also probably make a complaint with Fish and Wildlife.

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Re: Stung Again
« Reply #11 on: October 02, 2024, 06:59:37 AM »
Anyone got a picture of this guy??   It would help others to put a name with a face.   

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Re: Stung Again
« Reply #12 on: October 02, 2024, 07:12:27 AM »
He can't be that hard to find.  He obviously spends some time in the woods.  I would give him one chance to refund my money.....then.....well, we will leave that everyone's imagination.   ;)

He’s not hard to find. sits on the side of 264th staring at elk on private land a lot. Unreal how this guy gets away with this crap still
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Re: Stung Again
« Reply #13 on: October 02, 2024, 08:23:49 AM »
There's a common phrase where I live - "We'll take him crabbing"

The trick this guy is pulling - if he's one and the shane I'm thing of -  is that he targets people who have much more to lose trying to recoup their money than he does fighting them for it.

There's another saying. "RIP, take him to the train station."
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Re: Stung Again
« Reply #14 on: October 02, 2024, 08:30:25 AM »
Someone needs to take him crabbing

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Re: Stung Again
« Reply #15 on: October 02, 2024, 09:35:40 AM »
Who is being talked about and how do others learn to avoid him?


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Re: Stung Again
« Reply #16 on: October 02, 2024, 09:46:31 AM »
Who is being talked about and how do others learn to avoid him?


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See the links that LDennis posted. It is unreal that this guy is still scamming people, and that these shows are still giving him a space to do so

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Re: Stung Again
« Reply #17 on: October 02, 2024, 10:35:42 AM »
I can't find any pictures of this guy anywhere.  No web page, no facebook page, nothing.  Only thing you find about him is the negative reviews......This AMAZES me that anyone would give him money. 

I did find two accounts for a Shane Barbour Jr. in the general area he is in.  One shows he works as a taxidermist.  Is this him???  If so.....he doesn't look like a guy I would give money to for a hunting guide.   :chuckle: :chuckle:

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Re: Stung Again
« Reply #18 on: October 02, 2024, 11:03:42 AM »
I can't find any pictures of this guy anywhere.  No web page, no facebook page, nothing.  Only thing you find about him is the negative reviews......This AMAZES me that anyone would give him money. 

I did find two accounts for a Shane Barbour Jr. in the general area he is in.  One shows he works as a taxidermist.  Is this him???  If so.....he doesn't look like a guy I would give money to for a hunting guide.   :chuckle: :chuckle:
on one of those links that LDennis posted if you look around you can find a pic of Burnworth with his bull and a dark hair dude. Assume that's him.  Baffles me how people give others a lot of loot without doing some homework.  I'm not real good with confusers but I can figure that out
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Re: Stung Again
« Reply #19 on: October 02, 2024, 11:20:32 AM »
I can't find any pictures of this guy anywhere.  No web page, no facebook page, nothing.  Only thing you find about him is the negative reviews......This AMAZES me that anyone would give him money. 

I did find two accounts for a Shane Barbour Jr. in the general area he is in.  One shows he works as a taxidermist.  Is this him???  If so.....he doesn't look like a guy I would give money to for a hunting guide.   :chuckle: :chuckle:
on one of those links that LDennis posted if you look around you can find a pic of Burnworth with his bull and a dark hair dude. Assume that's him.  Baffles me how people give others a lot of loot without doing some homework.  I'm not real good with confusers but I can figure that out


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« Reply #20 on: October 02, 2024, 11:20:42 AM »
Those links....much commodious contemplation.


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Re: Stung Again
« Reply #21 on: October 02, 2024, 11:44:19 AM »
So Shane is the guy Jim is pinching in the picture?

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« Reply #22 on: October 02, 2024, 12:43:44 PM »
How does the scam even work? If paid electronically or by check you can just ask your bank not to honor it and reverse the transaction. If people are paying cash for something before they receive it..... its an expensive way to learn a lesson but some of the responsibility sits on the victims to not be duped so easily.
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« Reply #23 on: October 02, 2024, 01:27:53 PM »
How does the scam even work? If paid electronically or by check you can just ask your bank not to honor it and reverse the transaction. If people are paying cash for something before they receive it..... its an expensive way to learn a lesson but some of the responsibility sits on the victims to not be duped so easily.
I believe he uses Venmo which instantly transfers funds. There is no recourse once the transfer is made.
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« Reply #24 on: October 02, 2024, 02:21:10 PM »
How does the scam even work? If paid electronically or by check you can just ask your bank not to honor it and reverse the transaction. If people are paying cash for something before they receive it..... its an expensive way to learn a lesson but some of the responsibility sits on the victims to not be duped so easily.


If you read Ldennis link Shane auctioned off a “hunt of a lifetime “ on his Facebook page then after the winner “won” the auction he said bring a buddy at the same price. Doubled his money! Scammer big time
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« Reply #25 on: October 02, 2024, 04:33:38 PM »
How does the scam even work? If paid electronically or by check you can just ask your bank not to honor it and reverse the transaction. If people are paying cash for something before they receive it..... its an expensive way to learn a lesson but some of the responsibility sits on the victims to not be duped so easily.
I believe he uses Venmo which instantly transfers funds. There is no recourse once the transfer is made.
https://help.venmo.com/hc/en-us/articles/235171088-Cancel-Payment

Venmo absolutely allows you to dispute transactions and will reverse transactions with evidence that no goods or services was received.
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Re: Stung Again
« Reply #26 on: October 02, 2024, 04:43:38 PM »
Was he really on Western Extreme also?

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« Reply #27 on: October 02, 2024, 04:51:32 PM »
Was he really on Western Extreme also?
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« Reply #28 on: October 02, 2024, 04:52:07 PM »
How does the scam even work? If paid electronically or by check you can just ask your bank not to honor it and reverse the transaction. If people are paying cash for something before they receive it..... its an expensive way to learn a lesson but some of the responsibility sits on the victims to not be duped so easily.


If you read Ldennis link Shane auctioned off a “hunt of a lifetime “ on his Facebook page then after the winner “won” the auction he said bring a buddy at the same price. Doubled his money! Scammer big time

I read the post. This dude is scum no doubt about it, but being a bad guide and overcharging / deceiving people is not the same as taking the money and running. I’d  never willingly associate myself with somebody like that, but so far nobody has pointed to a crime.
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Re: Stung Again
« Reply #29 on: October 02, 2024, 05:31:03 PM »
yeah Burnsworth hunts with him and with Jarrod from Okanogan guide service who's also known for hunting others land and dumping giant piles of apples . good to stay away from any one in that bunch .

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« Reply #30 on: October 02, 2024, 06:37:33 PM »
How does the scam even work? If paid electronically or by check you can just ask your bank not to honor it and reverse the transaction. If people are paying cash for something before they receive it..... its an expensive way to learn a lesson but some of the responsibility sits on the victims to not be duped so easily.


If you read Ldennis link Shane auctioned off a “hunt of a lifetime “ on his Facebook page then after the winner “won” the auction he said bring a buddy at the same price. Doubled his money! Scammer big time

I read the post. This dude is scum no doubt about it, but being a bad guide and overcharging / deceiving people is not the same as taking the money and running. I’d  never willingly associate myself with somebody like that, but so far nobody has pointed to a crime.

Purposely deceiving people is exactly like taking somebodys money and running. Maybe not legally speaking, but morally it still makes you scamming garbage. Selling somebody a fully guided hunt on thousands of acres and then parking them on your buddy's 20 acre piece next to his broken down cars to fend for themselves is as good as stealing.

Its a bummer that Burnworth continues to give this guy a platform, I'm sure plenty of people have booked with him based on that alone.

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Re: Stung Again
« Reply #31 on: October 02, 2024, 07:09:28 PM »
Sounds like fraud to me

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Re: Stung Again
« Reply #32 on: October 03, 2024, 09:19:42 AM »
Well, I guess he hasn't scammed the wrong person yet since he's still doing it...

 


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