Stasch Kuras/MTGChicago.com and I will *never* do business again.  You can get your cards in a timely fashion, but only if you call his girlfriend listed on your credit card statement "contact info" and threaten police/bank fraud intervention and actually involve your financial institution in the dispute.

This guy is an insult to lazy card dealers.

And after all the bad blood he had with me earlier, he still has the gall to send me Zendikar advertisements.  heh.

Yeah, I've decided that maybe Stasch is probably more lazy than nefarious.  Still, the credit card contact number rings through to someone who has no idea who this person/business is.  That's a red flag, and anyone aware of the very real possibility of fraud/identity theft doing business on the Internet would be wise to avoid knowingly doing business with an operation that works in that manner.

It seems that while I was busy initiating a dispute with my credit card company and having my card cancelled, Stasch finally went to the post office and mailed me what I ordered (at least I assume he did; I haven't opened the package yet).  Now I don't want a genuine slacker being out the product; if any of you know Stasch personally tell him to contact me (he has my contact info) and I'll mail him back his unopened package.

And for the love of god, if any of you want to do business on the Internet, at least use a contact number where the person answering won't hang up on you.  That raises all sorts of red flags and automatically sends an honest-minded buyer to Defcon 5.

Yeah, it looks like I too just got scammed by the Stasch Kuras.   I was ordering off tcgplayer.com's integrated site.  Four Baneslayer Angels.  Luckily that was all I ordered from him.

The 847-749-4369 number rings through to a woman who answers "Service Department," and then hangs up if you make a single mention of M:TG cards.

That number is within the jurisdiction of the Rolling Meadows Police Department in Rolling Meadows, IL (outskirts of Chicago, apparently).  Anyway I'll be filing a police report with them tomorrow.  I didn't use eBay, I used his direct site.  So if I read the statutes correctly, that makes it interstate wire fraud, a federal offense.

Just doing my part, I guess.