I will say I contributed a bit to this but not having knowledge of who he really was. I was picking up my Food Fight cabinet and attending an auction when I was looking for a harness. I saw a thread where a member had gotten a Food Fight harness and joystick from Travis on Facebook. I asked the member, and they said they got everything just fine. I contacted Travis and he got back saying two to three weeks and he would have one made. Again, I was on my phone at an in person auction all day and did not do my homework like I should have. I did not know much Travis and/or Ram controls. I should have done a Travis Reynolds search on KLOV but did not. I generally assume people in the hobby are going to do another person in the hobby right and it was only $230 so I wasn't as diligent as I would have been for more money. I sent the money PayPal. Not friends and family. Ater a month and a half of excuses for not sending I smelled a bit of a scam. I will take one or maybe two excuses but continual excused look like a tactic to extend beyond the PayPal dispute window. I then searched Travis Reynolds and found some info. At this point I thought it was a dead issue, so I continued to harass him by FB messenger. I did not let on that I thought he was scamming. Then his arrest blew up all his threads. This is when I saw the connection to Adam Judd and the other aliases. At this point I figured the messenger harassment was over as he was not going to answer anything after being arrested. I also wanted to create a trail to show an intent to defraud. I would not have pursued charges as it would have been difficult. I had always intended to file a dispute with PayPal but we were getting near the 6-month mark and with him being tied up legally I found it probable he would not answer the PayPal inquiry. I did also request a refund from him by messenger. PayPal gave me the money back after the period he had to respond. I also filled out my information on the google info form for the prosecution.
As a side note. Law Enforcement most likely took all his computers, phones, and storage media. They also would have put in preservation letters with any social media sites they knew him to use. This tells the social media sites to make a backup of all the communications and posts by the person in case they delete them. This is an emergency thing as search warrants take time. They probably have already sent of the search warrants. A bunch of the sites drag their feet complying with search warrants and some just plain ignore them if they find one thing, they don't like in the way the warrant is worded. It also takes time to break into devices with good encryption and passwords. It sometimes takes months to get the system cracked. I hope they are looking at more than just the major supplier fraud, but I would not be surprised if they are not aware of the countless cases of fraud against his customers. As I have said before, I am a retired detective, so I have handles cases like this in the past.
Some may say, how can a retired detective be taken? Very easy. The more money I put out the more due diligence I do. I have not ability to access any of the information I had when I was a detective, so I am google searching like anybody else. I also do a bunch of business with the militaria collecting crowd and the military vehicle parts and collecting crowd. Generally, I trust people on forums I frequent as forums most established members have a reputation to uphold and if they mess up the community generally lumps on them. Adam does a good job of delivering to some so that muddies any search attempts on him as you will see people saying they got good stuff from him. My due diligence in this case stopped at the member telling me the Food Fight Harness buy he did go well. That was until Adam "Travis" excuses started.
If I knew then what I know now I would not have done business with him. Even if he was standing in front of me with the harness in his hand and I knew I would get it. I would not want to fuel his ability to take other people for money and my moral code prevents me from doing any business with known fraudsters.
So, in answer to Tombo's question, not everyone here reads every thread or has been here for years to see the guy was a shyster when they order stuff from him. In my case, knowing about him now I would not have even contacted him for something. Consider this, I would bet most of the people that bought from him did not know he was a man with no morals.