Balls_tothe_Walls (Heath Helton) is a scammer

DNAIrradiator said:
I’d appreciate an update from Balls. He’s been curiously quiet the last few days.

I’m going to ignore folks that somehow think myself and the other sellers that Balls bought from are somehow “scammers.” Maybe you should read this thread fully (and perhaps look at our feedback stats) before making comments. I’m in for double the money because Balls paid for my one knife twice, the second payment I immediately refunded. However I get the fun of being dinged for both transactions, and now two of these mystery fines. Again, not sure how this is any of our fault.

I guess I’ll ask one more time: can we please get an update Balls??
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dont think anyone thinks y'all who are affected are bad folks?

its holidays and all, but still.....one would think mr. balls being so engaged in buying and selling and affecting so many folks that the holiday stuff would go to the back burner and righting wrongs would come first.

hope y'all get righted.
 
Maybe this type of problem can be avoided in the future, by not attaching a high limit credit card to a paypal account. I use a debit card, with a controlled balance, and no overdraft protection.
By checking card account balances, and pending charges every few days, it can be an effective way of catching fraudulent activity.
The cyber thieves are getting better, and they’re here to stay.
 
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All I can say is if I was in BTTW's shoes, I would not be silent for so long, it casts a shadow of doubt on the situation.
 
timw1 said:
I had my credit card hacked/cloned once and used for PayPal transactions. I had to review all the charges and tell them which ones were fraud. Only the ones I identified as fraud were disputed, period.

Balls_tothe_Walls are you saying all the knife purchases here were legit and purchased by you? If the transactions on this forum were legit, I hope you clarify that fact ASAP.
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I was the victim of credit card fraud in the past also. My experience was like yours. Only charges I had identified as not mine were charged back to the merchants.
 
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LastRodeo said:
I was the victim of credit card fraud in the past also. My experience was like yours. Only charges I had identified as not mine were charged back to the merchants.
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That is how mine have gone also, but I do not know what went on behind the scenes and none of my transactions were with individuals(who would be more inclined to contact me with problems). I never took any further action, other then to sign a statement(I believe) to the truth/correctness of my claim. Others have had all their transactions charged back. I don't know why. Maybe has something to do with how they originally file the claim. Rather inefficient way of handling it IMO. Good are good. Follow up on the bad.
 
Peter Hartwig said:
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That is how mine have gone also, but I do not know what went on behind the scenes and none of my transactions were with individuals(who would be more inclined to contact me with problems). I never took any further action, other then to sign a statement(I believe) to the truth/correctness of my claim. Others have had all their transactions charged back. I don't know why. Maybe has something to do with how they originally file the claim. Rather inefficient way of handling it IMO. Good are good. Follow up on the bad.
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Zangadia said:
Hello,

I have had this issue with him in the past approximately three months ago, we did manage to get the issue resolved. This account here is new but you can also look up my account on Reddit and see that I'm an active person within the knife community there. Just as a heads up don't expect an overnight fix it does take a little bit of time. I'm also one of the many people affected right now, and I have full confidence in Balls that this will be sorted in quickest way possible. Please give him some time, and try to imagine the amount of stress this would cause any of you, and try to imagine how his inbox is currently feeling. I'd imagine it has been flooded with tons of messages asking what the hell is going on and hate mail. So give the guy some time to sort things out. This isn't a one click fix, but completely fixable.

Youssef
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Not only is the credit card company charging back the good, as well as the bad, they are continuing to do it months after the good transactions were approved/authorized by them (which was after the original fraud was reported to them and the credit card used for the fraud was closed).

I can tell you one thing, if on top of that I was charged a fine by that bank, I would demand to know what bank it is and report them to the Office of Thrift Supervison, Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, Office of the Comptroller of Currency and my states Department of Consumer Protection.
 
In and of itself it might not be a big thing, but I think it is telling that @Balls_tothe_Walls has not left any feedback for any of his transactions. Even more so that he has disappeared from this thread.
 
moshow9 said:
In and of itself it might not be a big thing, but I think it is telling that @Balls_tothe_Walls has not left any feedback for any of his transactions. Even more so that he has disappeared from this thread.
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I hope that he is busy “fixing” everything.
He hasn’t been here too long, although he started out well, with good feedback. Now he’s gone all clandestine, and is mostly unresponsive.
If a person was serious about getting the affected parties straightened out, they would just put a bunch of cash into their paypal account as neeeded.
Seems like he may have just wandered off.......
 
stonesell said:
I hope that he is busy “fixing” everything.
He hasn’t been here too long, although he started out well, with good feedback. Now he’s gone all clandestine, and is mostly unresponsive.
If a person was serious about getting the affected parties straightened out, they would just put a bunch of cash into their paypal account as neeeded.
Seems like he may have just wandered off.......
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If this were really what was happening, and it was me, I'd be really leery of depositing any cash at all to paypal. I'd be afraid they might seize that, too. And that's assuming I even had that much cash available.
 
Lone_Wolfe said:
If this were really what was happening, and it was me, I'd be really leery of depositing any cash at all to paypal. I'd be afraid they might seize that, too. And that's assuming I even had that much cash available.
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You are probably right. Paypal can be quite complicated.
 
He's still selling or offering to sell here on BF :rolleyes: - according to PROFILE POSTS on the Forum Page.

I hope you "old" guys are getting clear of his mess. :(

Ray
 
I can only speak for my own experiences. I've had several cards over the years some visa debit and some regular credit cards with fraudulent charges. One was $3,000.00 in an electronics store. I've never had any of the institutions do a mass charge back on all transactions. I scanned the charges identified the questionable charges and the fraud division took my information and charged back only the selected transactions.
 
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Well he’s on and still at least trying to sell on here. If it was me I would slow up on the selling and speed up on the fixing.
 
Thank you gonebad395 gonebad395 and @Boru13 for contacting me and making me aware of his situation.
I am really surpised to hear of all of this. I traded a knife with him a while back. My Herucus Blomerus ll15 for his Doc Shiffer. I contacted him immediately after receiving the shiffer because the action on it was just not right... He told me he had raffle my knife the next day after receiving it and the new owner took it home. On the positive side, He did make it right. I sent him the shiffer back and he paid me the sale price of the LL15. If what he is saying is true, and Fraud occurred. I would definitely keep a low profile and try to avoid any transaction until all of this clears out.
 
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