Kassem

Kassem lied to me.  I traded a set of Sensaphonic IEMs for his pair of Sennheiser HD600 headphones. 

Lie #1:  I was promised by Jeremy that "The headphones are perfect condition except I have had them for 6 years, so they are exactly as if they would have been worn for 6 years. The pads are good, the sound is as good as ever, etc." (All PMs and emails saved for my records.)

Truth #1:  Jeremy modded the headphones by removing the inner foam that's found between the driver and your ear.  Many people remove the foam and agree that the sound is improved, but I was told that they had never been modded.  Jeremy also did not include the foam that he removed so that I could go back to stock, if I wanted to.

Lie #2:  Jeremy promised to ship out my headphones the weekend of May 8th.

Truth #2:  After various excuses and subsequent promises/lies, Jeremy shipped my headphones three weeks later on May 27th.

The headphones arrived almost a month late while I was over in Europe on business.  I returned home this past weekend and made sure that Jeremy's headphones had arrived.  After photographing them and showing the pictures to other forum members, I was informed that I had been scammed and that the headphones had been modded.  Upon contacting Jeremy, he instantly knew about the foam that had been removed and responded with "that foam is pointless/useless."  I then asked him to return my IEMs and that we would cancel the deal.  The scammer replied thusly:  "You're making s**t (my edit, not his) up now because you're a filthy person. The deal is done.  You even HAD my headphones for a MONTH already.  I am not sending you anything."

My travel document is posted below for proof:

Depart:   Los Angeles, CA  (LAX)   Madrid, Spain  (MAD)
Date: Wednesday, May 05, 2010
Flight #/ Carrier Depart Arrive Travel time Meal Aircraft Cabin Seats

1418   08:30 AM  LAX 04:46 PM  PHL 5h 16m Breakfast A321 First 4D

Stop: Change plane in Philadelphia, PA   (PHL)    
740 06:35 PM  PHL 08:15 AM  MAD 7h 40m Dinner A330-300 Business 5G

Return:   London, United Kingdom (Heathrow)  (LHR)   Indianapolis, IN  (IND)
Date: Sunday, June 27, 2010

729 12:35 PM  LHR 03:55 PM  PHL 8h 20m Lunch A330-200 Coach 17C

Stop: Change plane in Philadelphia, PA   (PHL)    
1276 06:05 PM  PHL 08:17 PM  IND 2h 12m None 737-300 Coach 19C
 

Bottom Line:  Be very wary of dealing with Jeremy Kassem.  Please contact me if you want his full contact information in case you've been scammed as well.

You stole from me.  You lied to me as well.  Funny how you failed to address both of those facts in your reply.  You also must have missed the part with the travel documents or you wouldn't have made yourself look so ridiculous.

Hi, I want to be clear: my interaction with Head-fi member "Kassem" was thoroughly pleasant. He bought my Sony MDR-V6 headphones, which, admittedly, involved a lot less value than the interaction with user "Kobayashi", but I did not get scammed, lied to, or mistreated in any other way.

Good dude, and I would gladly do business with him again.