In a message dated 8/7/2007 4:08:28 P.M. Mountain Daylight Time,
ed@vetteracing.com writes:
Even PatPal is not fool-proof. I bought an item on Ebay, paid by payPal,
never got the item so I disputed it. Here's the catch, If PayPal can't recover
the funds, then YOU don't get the funds.
Hi Ed
Watch out for the E-Bay "Fair trade deal" too. It's where you send 1/2 of
the bread to the "Fair Trade people" and they give the bread to the seller. The
seller is then sup post to ship the item. You are sup post to receive the
goods at which time, if you are happy, you send the seller the other 1/2 of
the
bread. If you don't like the goods, you send them back and get your 1/2 down
back. Sounds fair. The only problem is the seller grabs the 50% and never
sends an item he never had.
I know! No I didn't get slammed, I caught a guy from the UK that listed a 34
Ford 5 window coupe I had just sold on E-Bay for $34K. He listed it with a
"Buy it now" for $8995.00 only he didn't have the car. It was on it's way to
New Jersey. Actually I caught two different "sellers" that scammed it. They
both copied my add including all the pictures and simply listed it under a scam
seller name. One of them scammed someone else's seller ID but the
correspondents went to him instead of the real sellers name.
The UK guy even gave me a phone number in the states that forwarded to his
phone in the UK. He said the car was actually in a storage garage in England
when I asked for more pics I knew he couldn't produce. I baited him along
letting him think I wanted to buy his scam car. He made arrangements for me to
send the 1/2 deposit to a "Fair Trade Location" which I agreed to. When he went
to pick it up, the authorities cheerfully greeted him instead. The guy had
been doing it for a while for cars, Boats and Motorcycles. I was the only
"buyer" that knew he was a scammer before the fact so they were able to catch
him
in the act. All the others learned the hard way after he picked up his bread
and was long gone.
Otto
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