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?

[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!