At least two of the guys in the LLSOC.com auto club have found pictures of THEIR car for sale on e-Bay !

There's a scam artist going around to the different sites and picking up pictures and info and offering them for sale there !!!

Sounds like a good racket if you can get away with it :-)

 

E-Bay is a good place to do business for both the buyer and seller if you keep your eyes open. If you use PayPal to pay or recieve your funds, you are both protected against fraud for 30 days. I've had both good and bad experiences. Bought a door for a 56 Courier and thought I'd been ripped off. Left negative feedback and suddenly I got a refund. Wish she had sent the door though, now I gotta find another one.
I don't let experiences like that color my decisions though. Everybody's gotta start somewhere. I've had some of my best experiences with noobie's, I've also had excellent and attentive transactions with power sellers. Watch your shipping, and communicate with the seller on anything that looks questionable. If they won't reply or your not sure, STAY AWAY. There's always another one out there. It may take awhile, but it will come.
E-Bay & PayPal frown on fraud. And will take drastic measures against those who pratice it.

 

Ive still heard nothing. I honestly dont care at this point if I get them or not. I realized after I bid that mine have a blue oval, and those dont. I will buy them though, I dont want bad feedback.

 

I am on some snowmobile forums and it happened all the time, someone took pictures off the gallery and put them on ebay for sale. Easy way to tell is the guy only wants a money order or cashier's check and nuttin else.

 

yes I know I too was once a "noobie" on ebay. As a "noobie" buyer I was not not taking anyones money. If I chose not to send the money they still had the item to resell. If the seller is a "noobie" and i send him money and he chooses not to sell he has both my money and the item. I once bought a scientific calculator on ebay from a guy in Canada. It was 75.00 I used payPal. I never got the calc and when I fought the whole thing he was banned from ebay but he still did not have to pay me back and paypal never did either. I looked at his feedback and saw 20 plus positive feedbacks. He was a new user but i didnt really look at that. Turns out he had sold the calc to 19 other buyers and used the money to buy car parts for his kewl car. Canadian authorities worked the case for a while but we never heard another word.
I have learned about safe buying and safe selling. We buy everything we can off ebay. cd's, dvd, vhs, prom dresses for the girls, things for my horse, dog and cat flea control, curtains...you name it. It is an awesome shopping place.
I just use more caution than I would need to at the mall.

 

That's why you always use a credit card my friend. I use my credit card through paypal, but never a checking account or savings account.

All ya gotta do is call the CC and tell them you bought something which you didn't recieve...they'll send a letter to the merchant and if they dont respond, or give an unacceptable reason for you not recieving your item, you get your money back from the CC.

 

Be glad its not the other way around. I have won items, too, that the seller would not respond. Guess he wanted more money, and decided to keep it. BUT, I have also sent my money for an item won, and never heard a word back. Several times. Sometimes, because of Paypal, or Visa, I have got my money back eventually, but not always. Ebay is a very good resource for hard to find items, but beware that it is an invitation for thievery and scams, and there is a certain risk you take.

 

Visa/mastercard almost always sides with the customer unless the customer is just wrong. If it's up in the air as to who should win the dispute, 9 times outta 10 visa/MC will give it to the customer. American express/discover are not as customer biased. Any company you order from is charged a fee of 15 dollars for every chargeback they get...so don't do it unless you have to. Our company gets hit with chargebacks often because people don't realise it costs our company money to do this. They'll call visa with a problem instead of calling us first. So we get hit with a 15 dollar fee for something we could have straightened out for free if the customer called us first.

 

You have to watch PayPal, when you select to pay by CC then edit anything in your transaction like the note etc. the payment method will default back to the direct withdrawal from your bank account without your permission. Even a CC is no guarantee with PayPal, check their terms of service.

Check with http://www.paypalsucks.com/ for other issues. I do not use PayPal, I found their warranties and guaranties to be worthless. Read the fine print. It is almost impossible to comply with their recommended procedures and then still get within the timetable for their warranties.

 

Well I sent a note to Ebay. Some ppl suck!

 

So far, I have had excellent service using PayPal, via my bank account.

As for newbies starting out on ebay...ya gotta start somewhere. I only have a feedback rating of 60 with a total of 70 positives for purchases. When I decide to start selling a few things, I would hope that people read my feedback and can figure that with 100% positive rating, I'd be a good person to buy from.

I've only had one bad experience..and perhaps it was my own fault for not asking all the RIGHT questions before buying. As for taking a while to get a reply back from someone...I have had a couple that took a week or better to respond, due to either business demands or having left town for a few days. In all purchases, I have only been taken to the cleaners one time. But did receive the item..that I had to invest a bunch of money in...making the item a very expensive one if I ever try to resell it.

 

It's really pretty easy...just use common sense. Don't buy from people who have any negative feedback...or low feedback. If they're only offering money order/checks/cashiers checks....don't use them. Read their feedback, see what people say about them. If a person has low feedback, like 10, make sure they're all from real people, not just their friends helping him with his feedback rating. If they're trying to sell a 9k dollar snowmobile for 5k bucks....be careful. Between my mother and I we have over 3500 transactions on ebay and every one of them has been satisfactory. You can't depend on ebay or paypal to really help you. Not to really defend them, but there isn't much they can do. If they gave people their money back every time they got ripped off, they'd easily go out of business and we wouldn't have ebay/paypal in the first place. I believe you can go straight to Visa/MC with your dispute instead of dealing with paypal, but I've never had to do it. I assume it's the same because, it's still a charge to your visa/MC, it's just that paypal is the merchant, not John Smith who you bought a product off of. Doesn't hurt to call up the CC and ask them how they handle paypal chargebacks. Common sense says ya don't send $500 to someone on ebay trying to sell an item who only has 10 feedback. I don't send that kind of money to someone unless they have atleast 100. If they have any negatives, I check out what it is. Sometimes people get negatives based on just a miscommunication (some people put negatives even though the seller doesn't really deserve it). Thats about it

Good luck

 

I've had similar bad experiences with Canadians. What's up with that? I've had two different sellers from Canada not send the items after I paid. I'm not saying ALL Canadians are bad, but doesn't there seem to be some sort of pattern here? I got one of them banned from e-bay, but he just opened a new account, and then tried to re-sell the item he had sold to me. He even used the same picture, until I contacted him to inquire about it, and then he pulled all of his items for sale. He has told me three times now that he has shipped the item, even provided a false tracking number, and then offered to refund my money, but has not done that either. He has done the same to at least 2 other people on e-bay that I am aware of, and have spoken with.

** His name is DEVON ALJOE, and he now is selling under the e-bay user name of 79broncofreak. He has also been found selling items on ProjectBronco.com. Do not buy anything from him, he obviously does not know where his local post office is located.**

I have promised him that I would reveal him in any forum necessary to protect any potential buyers from his scamming, until I receive my item or my money back.

If anyone would like to help me out with this, please feel free to contact him on ProjectBronco.com or E-bay, to inquire about his selling practices. Let him know that you heard it from Paula. With everyone's help, maybe we can get at least one scammer out of business. Thanks.

 

I only have a feedback rating of 54 (100%+) and I have had good luck buying on ebay. I have not sold anything yet. I will not use PayPal so I would only accept USPS money orders. I think my feedback rating would speak for itself rather than the fact that I don't have a PayPal account which means nothing. I had one and closed it. I have another form of e-pay account that was thru the USPS but that was sold to a private firm recently. Cashiers checks to me are no better than a personal check. It is too easy to make a good looking check with a color printer. I only use USPS money orders sent thru the mail for payment. There are stiff penalties for mail fraud.

 

Ok guys, I got another question. When is it safe to say I wont be buying this item? I want to search for new caps, but I dont want these hanging over my head. I repoted to ebay, will they get back to me?