[Healeys] Ebay - Bizarre

[Bob Spidell]

I had something similar happen near the beginning of the pandemic. I 
ordered what was supposed to be a 3M respirator--for chemical 
application, not for the virus--from an outfit that appeared to be in 
mainland China (a lot of these showed up on eBay about then, all trying 
to undercut each other by a couple cents). Anyway, the respirator never 
came, and from the start the seller had implored me to 'contact him, not 
eBay.' Every time I did, they gave a different tracking number, which 
appeared to originate at various places in N. America (I don't know if 
the numbers were hacked from the USPS, or were just random). A couple 
cycles of this and I contacted eBay to report a fraud; they refunded my 
money within a few days. Maybe your seller had 'connections?'

Bob

On 3/9/2021 6:27 PM, Alan Seigrist wrote:
> Bob -
>
> The bizarre thing is I believe the whole thing began with a mainland 
> seller (who I purchased a small thing from) and they never delivered.  
> When they never delivered, I gave them a bad eBay rating.  That 
> dishonest seller then asked that if I change my rating to good, they 
> would refund my money.  That request made me angry, so I reported the 
> conversation to eBay that a seller was holding my refund ransom to 
> change their rating to good.  Well, why would I change the rating to 
> good to get my money back? So in effect I would give them a good 
> rating for not delivering what they promised.  Crazy.
>
> Oh well, this is the internets.  Easy enough to just make a new account.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Alan
>
> On Wed, Mar 10, 2021 at 10:11 AM Alan Seigrist <healey.nut at gmail.com 
> <mailto:healey.nut at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     I don't know.  Possible, they refused to give me a reason.
>
>     On Wed, Mar 10, 2021 at 10:06 AM Bob Spidell <bspidell at comcast.net
>     <mailto:bspidell at comcast.net>> wrote:
>
>         Alan,
>
>         I believe you live in Hong Kong; could the recent actions by
>         the CCP
>         have instigated this?
>
>         Bob
>
>         On 3/9/2021 5:59 PM, Alan Seigrist via Healeys wrote:
>         > All -
>         >
>         > Obviously I use ebay to purchase random parts here and
>         there, Ebay
>         > just cancelled my account after 18 years for no reason.  I've
>         > contacted them, and they offer no explanation. Totally weird....
>         >
>         > Anyone else have this issue?
>         >
>         > Cheers,
>         >
>         > Alan
>         >
>
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