Matt Jungblut Posted October 31, 2006 Posted October 31, 2006 ok heres the thing i bought a pixie reel off ebay and sent the guy a money order he got the money order cashed it sent me a email sayin the shipped the reel and shipping could take from 3 days to 14 well its been 11 days so i emailed him though ebay when i got up this morning i had a message from ebay saying they canceled his account but they wont help me get my money or reel there only advice is if payed bye palpal to contact them if payed bye credit card to cancel purchase i talked to the company i got the money order from they said to print out this thing fill it out send it to them with $12 dollars and they will send me the cashed money order then i can go after him my question is what else can i do and will it do any good i only asked this because i know theres alot of people that do business on the internet and have had things happen like this and would like some ideas on what to do if anything Quote
Super User Alpster Posted October 31, 2006 Super User Posted October 31, 2006 If you have a reciept for the MO file a claim with Ebay as "item not recieved or not as described". If you did the whole transaction through ebay and not off line, they will have to refund all but $25 of your money. It takes a long time and ebay will make you crazy, but if it's more than a few bucks you should pusue it. I would also send the seller another email and let him know that you are contacting the local district attorney in his town to report the mail fraud and theft by deception, it's a federal rap. This happened to me also and after about 3 weeks the money order showed back up at my house as no such addressee, boy, was I relieved. Don't give up, you can still salvage part of this. I hope this is helpfull. BTW, I don't buy from anyone on ebay with less than 25 feedbacks and less than 98.5 % positive, no matter how good a deal it is. That's the line that I drew, your milage can vary. Also watch for a large # of feedbacks for low dollar items. The guy that got me had 50+ positive feedbacks and I didn't look close enough to see they were all for $0.50 and $1.00 baseball cards. After he ran up the cheap feedback he posted many high dollar items at once and scammed a lot of folks. Be carefull out there, it's a jungle. Ronnie Ronnie Quote
Super User KU_Bassmaster. Posted October 31, 2006 Super User Posted October 31, 2006 Was it a yellow Pixie??? I was watching that a few weeks ago :. Sorry to hear about your troubles. I would do like Alpster said and email him, threatening to turn him into the local DA. That might get the ball moving. Good luck. Quote
Matt Jungblut Posted October 31, 2006 Author Posted October 31, 2006 yes it was a yellow pixie im out 203 dollars Quote
BASS fisherman Posted November 1, 2006 Posted November 1, 2006 Sorry to hear you got ripped off. That sucks! Where did you send the money order to? I don't know how those things work. If you have his address, turn him in. Do you have a name? What about an app. location. It is amazing how much you can find out about people over the internet, if you go to the right place, and enter the right information. Send me a PM with any available info that you have, and I'll help out in any way that I can with tracking that scum bag down. Quote
Super User SPEEDBEAD. Posted November 1, 2006 Super User Posted November 1, 2006 Boy, I am glad I dont really use ebay that much. I know there are a lot of honest people out there, but it seems just my luck that I would run into one of these situations. I feel for ya man... Quote
Matt Jungblut Posted November 1, 2006 Author Posted November 1, 2006 i have spent well over 1000 dollars im making my mail man crazy [delivery packages every day] Quote
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