Time to blow some steam..., Rant Options

[Yota]

I bought this Rear Strut bar on Dec. 13 off ebay. I pay-paled the guy so he had my money right when I bought it. I was patient with him as he told me he was having issues getting it shipped. for like2 weeks I waited patiently. Then like 3 weeks ago he told me he had it shipped but he didn't have a tracking number because he sent it US Postal. that was the last time I had heard from him. So tonight I sent him one last email telling him that he has 2 days to refund my money because it shouldn't take a month to send something like this.

If he doesn't send me the money back by Wednesday night, I told him I'm going to report him to ebay and to paypal.

Now you might be thinking that this is a little over the top.. But I checked his feedback stuff and 8 out of the last 30 people who bought something from him NEVER received it. I'm thinking I got scammed.

What do you think about this? Should I have been a little more patient?

[jgreening]

Should I have been a little more patient?

No. Make a paypal complaint right away. I think you only have 30 days.

[Batman722]

get the $$ back.

if you paid through paypal with your credit card, you can contact you card company for a reversal of the charges. It's easy.

next time, look at the feedback before you buy, don't be a dummy

[Yota]

I have 45 days actually. My dad helped me out with my email to this guy because my dad has dealt with this situation before. He looked it up and said it was 45.

[Yota]

next time, look at the feedback before you buy, don't be a dummy

believe me, I already feel like a clown shoe as it is...lesson learned..

[rjbibeau]

hey hey i'm in it too. is it the cusco one? he hasn't sent mine yet either..

[Yota]

YES!!! PLanetFuzz is his ebay name? is that who you bought it from?

[rjbibeau]

that's the same dude... what a homo

[rjbibeau]

i ordered mine like 2 weeks ago and he said he shipped it out. how are you going about it through ebay.

[rjbibeau]

so i have to contact both ebay and paypal?

[Yota]

Dude, you totally need to threaten him like I did...

I'm serious about this because I remember seeing that strut bar go up on ebay for a 2nd time. I thought it was odd because I didn't buy it from a company and why would some dude have 2 Cusco rear strut bars for one celica?

My dad is going to handle it for me. He has registered complaints before on ebay. This is my first bad experience through ebay so I don't know what exactly to do. I can find out for you and tell you what you should do to register a complaint through ebay.

Did he tell you that he had a tough time getting to the post office? Did he tell you he sent it and didn't get a tracking number?

[Yota]

yea if you used paypal. Its a buyer protection assistance thing. both for ebay and paypal

[Batman722]

ebay and paypal will do crap for you. Something like this happen to me. Contact the bank your card is through ASAP and DISPUTE the charge !!!

[rjbibeau]

ya i bought it on the 21 of dec and i took noticed that it was one ebay before and i looked in his feedback and he sold it to like 4 other people so i'm like maybe he gets a deal somewhere for em so i bought it and i asked for the tracking number and he said he didn't have one. ya this is my first bad experience too. i've had such great luck too until i met this deadbeat seller. thanks for the info.

[Yota]

well i think ebay and paypal might do something this time if you and I both file complaints about the same guy and the same item. This one would be hard for him to get away with. That Strut bar isn't something I've seen on ebay before. I think its pretty well marked that he scammed us both with the same item.

[rjbibeau]

ya i think that your right that he pulled a scam. i just wrote him a threatening email reguarding both you and I. for sure ebay not paypal will pass this one up.

[rjbibeau]

man and i was really looking forward to that thing too. now i have to bring my hopes down. you know what happened acouple of months ago... someone stole my ebay account somehow and tried to sell 15 of the same cellphone from my name. and ebay saw this an immediately shut my account down. but i finailly got it back. they also stole my yahoo account and i just got that one back.

[Yota]

That strut bar looks so bad ass. I really wanted it as well.

Im really sorry to hear about your accounts. As long as you got it back without any punishments, thats always a good thing.

Can you send me the item number to your 'winning' bid? I want to see if its identical to mine.

[rjbibeau]

7942792690 that's my item number.

[Yota]

Oh my snickerdoodles...Check his feedback. Read the last 4 or 5 feedbacks left by other people. All but one of them tried buying the same strutbar.

You got scammed out of 70 bucks plus 12 for shipping. I got scammed out of 100 plus 12 shipping....