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....

[Ale_lock]

Sorry to hear you guys got scammed, I kind of wished you guys would make memory of names on the bad sellers list because oddly enough PlanetFuzz was a bad seller on these forums also.

[Yota]

Are you serious....That just made me really upset that I bought something from him...

[jgreening]

PlanetFuzz profile

[rjbibeau]

but we'll get it back though. i was happy a jdm bar for 70 it was too good to be true.

[rjbibeau]

PlanetFuzz profile
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good find man props. yep that's the same pic in the ebay item lil douche

[Yota]

Does this guy still get on these boards?

[rjbibeau]

ya that's what im wondering... i haven't seen any of his post at all. have you?

[Batman722]

check out this thread
http://www.6gc.net/forums/index.php?showtopic=15122&hl=

aol im is UT Fuzzalot

This post has been edited by Batman722: Jan 18, 2005 - 2:05 AM

[jgreening]

His last post was October 20th trying to sell a cusco strut bar....

[rjbibeau]

uhmm intresting so it's gone why is he trying to sell a gone item....retard.

[Batman722]

he was trying to sell his car in august...

[rjbibeau]

ya i saw that post. for like 9500 or so.

[Yota]

I better get my money back...

[yarik83]

well first of all his feedback is horrible and secondly it is obvious that he is lying. He has more than one posting of the same thing and in both auctions he sells same strut bar for his "sold" car. Never buy from any ebayer who's rating is below 95% and negative feedback problem is resolved

[soltrain]

Fight it with your card. It can't hurt, and will be a lot quicker than ebay/paypal.

[rjbibeau]

so if i just have a debit/credit card through wells fargo i just have to go into them and get it resolved?

[TRD-ST204]

Hey guys I bought the same strut brace off ebay but I bought it in late November. The guy said the he was selling his celica so that's why he is selling the brace. From the picture he posted on the page I knew is had seen that picture from some where on 6gc.net but I didn't know who it was. Anyways he said he would send it on the 6th of December and it has been eight days since he confirmed shipping it. But, the strange thing about it was before I bought it I want to wait until the item was about to close and try to get it for cheaper. It still had four hours left on it when I checked it at school around 12:30 so I thought when I get home I could buy it. When I went on ebay at home it was already gone but, the next day I saw it again at the time I thought some thing was wrong but, I bid on it anyway because it was cheap. If it doesn't come I'm gonna kick some a$$!

[Yota]

TRD-ST204;

If you 'bought' this brace from PlanetFuzz...You're not going to get it. you mark the 3rd person on this site in the last month that bought this brace and something like the 7th on ebay who bought it from him as well.

[madmods]

Hey i got alot of experiences dealing with idiots on ebay. First of all, paypal is 30 days period. You got to file before 30 days. You also got to file through ebay and your bank(part of ebay rukes). Ebay is a step by step process. You can also get his user info, etc like number, city he lives in. If they find your story credible(paypal), they will refund you about 75-80% of the money back.Want my personal advice? Post his name, address, and number here on the site. Get some of us honest people here on the site to pay him a visit......repo some rims......Im tired of people scamming people. Make sure you go by peoples feedback, it means everything on ebay.

This post has been edited by madmods: Jan 19, 2005 - 4:05 AM

[gas65]

You guys should get all your emails and paperwork together and call the Nashville Tn police department and file mail fraud and theft charges against him.

This post has been edited by gas65: Jan 19, 2005 - 2:31 PM

[Yota]

This is what I did:

On Monday night, I sent him an email stating that if I don't get my money back, I will go to paypal, ebay, and leave negative feedback to his name. I told him he has until Wednesday night. If I still have not received my money after taking all of those actions, I threatened to go to collection agencies and small claims court.

Last night (Tuesday) I sent him another email, stating that he has one more day to pay up and that I have already taken the first step to get my money back (which was go to paypal and file a simple complaint).

At that time, he had played stupid and replied to my email saying that he needs an item number in order to refund my money (in everyone of my emails, the subject was: "Toyota Celica 94-99 Cusco Rear Strut bar item #7941186839")

My complaint to paypal was very clear: I had in bullet form, what had happened, and what my plans for getting my money back was. About 3 hours later, I got an email back from paypal saying that my full refund is being processed and I should have it within 8 business days. This came from Paypal itself...not PlanetFuzz.

After tonight is up (the deadline I gave him for my money to be refunded), I will still leave him horrible feedback and contact ebay. He scammed a lot of us and I think I have enough evidence of that.

After looking through some of his past auctions for that strut bar, it was clear that he was scamming people because he'd only have it up for 2 days and after the winning bidder would pay up, he'd wait one day or so and put up the exact same auction for this strut bar. It was the EXACT SAME STORY "I'm sold my car, I need the extra money for college, I waited for a month for this authentic Japanese strut bar to get here, etc."

I hope anyone else who has had bad experience will get there money back, and if you guys still have the chance to report to paypal and/or ebay, I suggest doing it right away!

[chucho]

yep, remember that kid. Almost bought an underdrive pulley from him then found out that he never sent the strutbar to a member so I pulled out. Good luck on my part i guess.

Found out if anybody else on the board leaves close and go pay the kid a visit.

[TRD-ST204]

I'm asking my friend to try to retrieve the money back and complained to paypal and ebay. I hope things work out!