I don't waste my time with "scam threads" because nothing ever happens to the scammer ... and all they end up doing is posting negative for you anyway (which I don't give a shit because I never sell anything here) and then they just come back as someone else. I'm to blame because I didn't use escrow but he would have never accepted that anyway. It's a nuisance and the stuff I buy is cheap. Win some lose some.
Scammer's neg trust doesn't matter for you, it's under "untrusted" and doesn't affect your rating. However the scammer can be tagged with a red rating if there is enough proof. That's what a proper scam accusation thread can do. If the scammer comes back under a noob account they will have a harder time conning people than with their current Full/Sr./etc member accounts. Not ideal but at least SOMETHING can be done about it.
So please post screenshots of any PMs if you can. We need to see how/what lovevps1 communicates to customers. We already have one suggestion to not use escrow - suspicious but not criminal.
OK, I'll try tonight when I get home from work.
Edit: He never told me not to use escrow, that was my choice.