When Good Feedback on Ebay Doesn't Help

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This guy seems to have used his good feedback to scam. Either that or someone got a hold of his account.

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and this is why i ONLY deal with sellers who take paypal... AND i only take paypal as payment for my auctions!
those poor people- that is so sad.
 
OMG! :eek: I can't believe someone could actually have the audacity to do this to someone. I hardly ever bid on items that cost that much on ebay. I don't know what I'd do if that ever happened to me. So many people's Christmas's were ruined. Totally repulsing! :o
 
I agree w/ Clubchick but still you can get ripped off. Just from my recent experience. I won a set of use rims for about $200. The seller has 10 feedbacks all positive. Email her a few times no rims for about a month and kept emailing her and no responds. So I reported to paypal and got my money back minus $25. I just hate to spend $25 for nothing.
 
mikew151 said:
I agree w/ Clubchick but still you can get ripped off. Just from my recent experience. I won a set of use rims for about $200. The seller has 10 feedbacks all positive. Email her a few times no rims for about a month and kept emailing her and no responds. So I reported to paypal and got my money back minus $25. I just hate to spend $25 for nothing.
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I agree, but $25 for nothing is much better than $200 for nothing. The real shame is how PayPal gets a cut no matter how you slice it. :mad:
 
You wonder if s/he died...or is dead now after all the negative feedback.
 
spazntwitch said:
You wonder if s/he died...or is dead now after all the negative feedback.
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That or got busted for stealing all that stuff!
 
The same kind of thing happened to me last year. When they get so many (-) fb, they start threatening the buyers with negatives and trying to extort feedback, one sign being the "mutually withdrawn" number.

The seller I dealt with was selling items he didn't have, then blaming the post office for nondelivery, then offering to ship a "replacement" if you paid him more money and gave him positive feedback in advance. He made a big point of emphasizing that such generosity was due to his Christian faith.

Somehow he was abusing USPS delivery confirmations, possibly printing a barcode then altering the address, having sent the modified label on some junk mail to the same zip code so that it would show as "delivered" in the online system. Most who filed a PayPal claim would lose as there'd be a "delivered" status suspiciously showing up at the last minute. He abused media mail, tampered with product expiration dates, sent damaged items, all kinds of stuff.

Ebay suspended him many times, but never for more than a couple of weeks. Law enforcement may have got him though, because there's been little selling activity since last spring.
 
a410s said:
The same kind of thing happened to me last year. When they get so many (-) fb, they start threatening the buyers with negatives and trying to extort feedback, one sign being the "mutually withdrawn" number.

The seller I dealt with was selling items he didn't have, then blaming the post office for nondelivery, then offering to ship a "replacement" if you paid him more money and gave him positive feedback in advance. He made a big point of emphasizing that such generosity was due to his Christian faith.

Somehow he was abusing USPS delivery confirmations, possibly printing a barcode then altering the address, having sent the modified label on some junk mail to the same zip code so that it would show as "delivered" in the online system. Most who filed a PayPal claim would lose as there'd be a "delivered" status suspiciously showing up at the last minute. He abused media mail, tampered with product expiration dates, sent damaged items, all kinds of stuff.

Ebay suspended him many times, but never for more than a couple of weeks. Law enforcement may have got him though, because there's been little selling activity since last spring.
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That probably falls under mail fraud, federal offense.

I sold a laptop one year on ebay and shipped it off to the individual only to find out the next day from Pay Pal that it was a hijacked Pay Pal account. Luckily, very luckily I was able to stop the shipment and get it turned around. Cost around $250 but better than loosing the laptop. The majority of times I deal with Ebay I have no problems but it is always a risk.
 
I don’t even use ebay anymore. I won an auction- never got my item, filed a claim w/ ebay and paypal but I never got any of my money back. :mad: I refuse to chance it anymore, if there’s something I want I’ll go to the store & get it. I don’t mind paying more at a store- at least then I’m guaranteed to get the item.
 
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