Rejected 76561197996548232 Marshazzle (SR Scammer)

steamID: Marshazzle
steamID32: STEAM_0:0:18141252
steamID64: http://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561197996548232
customURL: http://steamcommunity.com/id/Marshazzle
steamrepURL: http://steamrep.com/index.php?id=76561197996548232

Hello Steam Rep. Today I will be discussing a very important event that has destroyed my Team Fortress 2 experience for years.

Recently, I was reported by Fat Penguin, also known as Metapoodle now. She claimed I had sharked one of her unusuals by falsely pricing Super Monday Night Combat. In this thread, I time and time again explained my uncertainty of the trade that she later followed through with.

However, this isn't the issue. Later in the thread, Diego had marked me for giving my middleman services to fellow marked scammers. I have been a middleman/pricechecker/server admin for years and have given my hard earned services to players and traders alike out of shear gratitude towards the communities. I have never once checked to see if whom I am middlemanning for is a marked scammer, because I am the trusted foundation in the trade. Though I may have reputation from marked scammers, this does not ensure I am one myself.

I have over 250 Steam friends, all of which mean something to me. A majority of them are server admins, close friends with Steam Rep officers, overall important people and people who make Team Fortress 2 a worth while game. I wouldn't waste my time scamming or sharking rather than tending to my community and giving my services to people who ask for them. I am also a competitive player, who simply enjoys every title VALVe has released. My friend, Moo I'm A Duck is currently in Washington State right now, getting a tour of the HQ and DigiPen College, which I hopefully will be able to do my senor year.

My point is, I have unrightfully been marked and have physical proof that I am a trusted buyer/seller/trader/player on Steam as a whole. I have many friends and aquaintences that have experienced the events and giveaways I host and wish for me to be able to enlarge my availibility, if only I was able to. I joined Team Fortress in 2007 as a youngster and moved onto my main account in roughly early 2008. I've seen the entire community change and never once was tempted to take away the freedoms and amazing qualities of the game.

Later on, the person who reported me added me and since we have been good friends. They admit their faults and I have admitted mine, but we both agree it was a misunderstanding and not a shark. I will provide confirmation of this statement later on.

The report thread can be viewed here: http://forums.steamrep.com/threads/report-76561197996548232-marshazzle.2357/

Also, I am very open and welcoming to any questions a moderator or appeal helper would like to know. I am also going to be very open in demonstrate the gratification towards my many hours dedicated to helping users and my trustworthy acclaim. My profile is a perfect example. None of the reputation was asked for, but a number of the users who have posted are marked scammers. This is not my fault.

Thank you all for being generous and taking the time to read.

Hopefully I can play Team Fortress as it used to be without the troubles.

That's not an excuse. As a middleman, you're supposed to help honest traders by providing a secure mean of transaction, not help scammers sell to people they normally wouldn't be able to.

I can easily change my function of middlemanning if that is the issue. Learning as I go is always helpful and I'm willing to improve under moderation.

Thanks for replying so soon.

To be honest, he's an honest trader, I've seen him do so much for the =USE= community, he's donated so much, as well as mm'd for big events when no other admins were on. He's a good man, and certainly not a scammer.

I middlemanned hundreds and hundreds of times. (if you are interested here is my MM rep http://www.sourceop.com/modules.php?name=Forums&file=viewtopic&p=433929#433929 )

I always checked for scammers in advance before trades took place and would warn the other trader of the other guy being tagged, and would refuse to middleman for any scammers ever. As a trustworthy middleman that is part of your job! By middlemanning for a tagged scammer, you are, in effect, exchanging with a scammer and that is a violation of SR policy alone. That also is part of the process of aiding and abbetting to scammer activity. Trade happens and scammer goes back for more.

No where in your post do you indicate that you would start checking or that you made any kind of mistake, saying you were unrightfully tagged. In summery, it is everyone else's fault but your own. Sorry, but as an experienced middleman I have to strongly disagree with how you middleman - with you still thinking it is ok to support scammers...

I do not in any way support or wish to appear as if I support scammers.

It was a simple idea that slipped my mind when middlemanning.

Also, in a previous response I promised to begin checking user's reputation immediatly to better live up to my middlemanning job.

If I could be monitored heavily if that's what it takes, I would agree.

All I want is a safe, friendly, community, where I can do my job right, which I agree to doing, now that I know the intricate methods.

If it slipped your mind and you middlemanned for scammers - that is a responsibility yyou messed up in then. So why to you claim that you were unrightfully tagged?

Unrightfully tagged in the sense that I have admitted my fault and wish to be forgiven and counted on for changing his ways.

I have hereby sworn to live up to the perfect ideal of a helpful middleman:

1) Middleman people who aren't tagged, have more than 10 tagged friends
2) Not middleman for bribes or people attempting to use another method of transfer
3) I'll start providing and saving screens or bits of information to have better proof of transfers

These are things I wish to do and promise to do if unmarked.

http://steamrep.com/profiles/76561198027016568

Traded with (PRTF2) Polartop on June 1st

Chat Log when he added me:

Never tell your password to anyone.
Hamie96 |OG|: hey
Marshazzle: Hey
Marshazzle: You were the one who evidently got me marked as a scammer on SR
Marshazzle: Now, I know Fat Penguin
Marshazzle: And she appologized
Marshazzle: And admitted it was a misunderstanding
Marshazzle: So all I'm trying to do is appeal the tag
Marshazzle: We're good friends now
Marshazzle: And I'm just a middleman
Marshazzle: I was wondering if you could have some grace and mercy
Marshazzle: Maybe post or help me out?
Marshazzle: Not to bother.
Hamie96 |OG|: link?
Marshazzle: I've gtg in several moments, it's 1 am.
Marshazzle: But here, and thank you.
Marshazzle: http://forums.steamrep.com/threads/76561197996548232-marshazzle-sr-scammer.6686/
Marshazzle: I explained I'd change my ways. The reason I got tagged was for middlemanning for tagged people.
Hamie96 |OG|: Sorry
Hamie96 |OG|: IMO, it was your own fault you got marked
Hamie96 |OG|: I can understand slipping once, but you slipped multiple times
Hamie96 |OG|: Sorry and I hope your appeal goes well and you have a nice day
Marshazzle: I wasn't checking people's Steam Rep every time
Marshazzle: Because I never knew I had to
Marshazzle: I just wanted some reassurance my tf2 isn't ruined forever
Marshazzle: Maybe some help
Marshazzle: I slipped twice
Marshazzle: But one time it wasn't my fault
Hamie96 |OG|: how?
Marshazzle: The other client misunderstood my convorsation
Marshazzle: Nothing to do with my faults
Marshazzle: Fat Penguin and I agreed
Marshazzle: We talk lots since
Marshazzle: I'm not a scammer
Marshazzle: I'm a server admin and middleman
Marshazzle: It's all I want to be
Marshazzle: I just want to help
Hamie96 |OG|: That still doesn't make up for you not checking steamrep
Marshazzle: I never knew I had to
Marshazzle: Until I got marked
Marshazzle: So I'm asking for a second chance
Marshazzle: No one ever told me
Hamie96 |OG|: Well you were an admin weren't you?
Marshazzle: I've mm'd like this for years
Marshazzle: I played since 2007
Marshazzle: And yes
Marshazzle: But no one gave me a heads up
Hamie96 |OG|: You did unusual trades correct?
Marshazzle: yes
Marshazzle: I did them mostly for non makred people
Marshazzle: Until one day
Marshazzle: And no one told me...
Marshazzle: Hundreds of mms
Marshazzle: I thought I was doing good
Hamie96 |OG|: Now being someone who has done some unusual trades before, I see people asking for my Steamrep all the time
Marshazzle: I see
Marshazzle: I want to start over
Marshazzle: See if I can start asking for it
Marshazzle: You know?
Marshazzle: I never knew
Hamie96 |OG|: I'm just saying, you need to accept that it's your own fault that you got marked. You don't seem too even say once in your appeal, "I will check Steamrep for now on"
Hamie96 |OG|: Considering how you say how you were unrightfully marked, I don't want to vouch for you
Hamie96 |OG|: have a good day
Marshazzle: I said
Marshazzle: Unrightfully marked meaning I want a second try
Marshazzle: You're just going with what other admins said to not have to bother for me
Marshazzle: I said in a post later on I will check from now on
Hamie96 |OG|: It doesn't just mean a second chance. It also means you really believe you were marked for wrong reasons
Marshazzle: I know I was marked for not being correct at mm
Marshazzle: I admit my fault
Marshazzle: I wasn't marked corerect because my report was for something else
Marshazzle: And randomly Diego said, hav e a nice day, you mm for scammers
Marshazzle: I will change my op
Hamie96 |OG|: well considering how they mark tons of people a day for trading with scammers, you were not marked unrightfully
Marshazzle: Okay
Marshazzle: I now understand
Marshazzle: And I ask for guidence
Marshazzle: And help
Marshazzle: Because I now understand your point of view
Marshazzle: If I can in any way edit this out
Marshazzle: I was thinking wrong
Marshazzle: I promise to begin being a good middleman.
Marshazzle: I'll begin background checks.
Marshazzle: Record data and provide screens.
Marshazzle: The full 9 damn yards.
Marshazzle: No problem.
Hamie96 |OG|: That's cool. I just don't trust you
Marshazzle: How come?
Marshazzle: Because of my mark?
Marshazzle: Also, why should I gain your trust?
Marshazzle: What do you want me to do?
Marshazzle: I've always been trusted.
Marshazzle: I have over 300 friends to know that.
Marshazzle: I'm only 15.
Marshazzle: All I wanted was a neat job.
Hamie96 |OG|: because you traded with another scammer 4 days ago
Marshazzle: And I blew it by not being told.
Marshazzle: Which scammer?
Hamie96 |OG|: PRTF2
Marshazzle: I trade with them alot and don't know it.
Marshazzle: I can't check everyone I trade with.
Hamie96 |OG|: so you still don't check steamrep?
Marshazzle: That's annoying.
Marshazzle: No, I haven't started.
Marshazzle: Once I'm unmarked I will.
Marshazzle: I have no reason to until then, I'm hopeless.
Marshazzle: I haven't done anything WRONG.
Marshazzle: No one died.
Hamie96 |OG|: so you're admitting that even when you trade again after being unmarked, you're not going to check because it's annoying?
Marshazzle: No one got scammed because of me.
Marshazzle: Nope, I'm going to check afterwards.
Marshazzle: Just for now, I don't know where this is taking me.
Marshazzle: So I haven't been trading much.
Hamie96 |OG|: You are doing something wrong. You're helping people who scam stuff trade it off for money.
Marshazzle: But I'm willing to do steam rep checks every time if that's what it takes.
Marshazzle: Right now even.
Marshazzle: I'll make my good moves RIGHT NOW.
Marshazzle: Every trade.
Hamie96 |OG|: as opposed to not giving a care 4 days ago?
Marshazzle: Yes, before my appeal.
Hamie96 |OG|: That's not believeable and I honestly doubt you will change.
Marshazzle: Before really understanding and grasping the severity and knowledge of what you need to do as a professional mm.
Marshazzle: I will change if that means being unmarked.
Marshazzle: You can believe what you might, but if I don't prove it in several days of hardcore mm and trading, I can be marked again.
Marshazzle: I want to show I can do my profession.
Marshazzle: A job.
Marshazzle: Mm
Hamie96 |OG|: I just think you want to do it so more people will trust you
Hamie96 |OG|: I don't view you at all as a changed man
Marshazzle: I am creating a server soon
Marshazzle: What would it look like to be a changed man?
Marshazzle: I want to give services to my community
Marshazzle: It's how raffles and events are hosted
Marshazzle: It's what I always used to do
Marshazzle: I don't do it for myself
Marshazzle: Last year I collected 10 Steam games and freely gave them away with events and buyins
Marshazzle: I had to middleman for that
Hamie96 |OG|: Well in order to be a changed man, you have to actually change
Marshazzle: But I never once made profit
Marshazzle: I know
Marshazzle: I want to change right the hell now
Marshazzle: It's 12 am, but tomorrow I can start
Marshazzle: I actually want to do this
Hamie96 |OG|: and since your marking, you still haven't checked to see if you're trading with scammers
Marshazzle: And I know I can
Marshazzle: I'm not trading with anyone from this point
Marshazzle: In each person I do trade with
Marshazzle: I'm looking the heck up
Marshazzle: Because that's not going to ruin my future
Marshazzle: And entire history in tf2
Hamie96 |OG|: considering how you've been trading even with a tag, I doubt that's allowed on SteamRep either
Marshazzle: It's because I haven't bothered appeal
Marshazzle: I felt like I'd never get through
Marshazzle: Otherwise, I'd have known what to do from the start
Hamie96 |OG|: Good day to you sir, I wish your appeal the best of luck
Marshazzle: Well thanks
Marshazzle: I suppose
Marshazzle: If this is what you call help
Marshazzle is now Offline.

Just thought this should be known.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I'm quite sure this is a place to appeal a wrongfully placed tag, not for scammers to be given a second chance.

Your offense is 'middlemanning for marked scammers' - of which there is extensive proof, and you have admitted to not checking.

Why does this matter at all????

If your point is 'I have unrightfully been marked' you had best show some evidence showing that the mark is incorrect.

As a "trusted middleman" it is your responsibility to know who you are middlemanning for.

Appeal denied.