Possibly Ripped Of At Ebay

[wolfway]

hello everybody,

more then a month ago i bought an item on ebay. up till now i still haven't received it. i checked the guy's feedback and most people only got their items after a month or even longer, and nobody really didn't receive his item it seems, so i wasn't really worried yet.

now it's taking pretty long now. i got the feeling that one of the mailmans stole the item but i can't know if he sent it or not.

i'm going to wait a little longer, but what do i have to do when i don't get the item? how try to get a refund and can you inform ebay about this? (or doesn't this matter).

any help welcome!

auction: http://cgi.benl.ebay.be/ws/eBayISAPI.dl ... %3AIT&rd=1

[wiepie]

hey Wolf,

I see he has paypal hopefully you used this to pay, I believe (not sure though) you can take aktions against him tru paypal.
And you can write some nice reviews in his feedback to prevent this from happening to other buyers in the future.
Maybe sending him a mail that you're going to write some bad things in his feedback gets him going...
This really sucks, hopefully you'll get the item!


-wiepie-

[damageinc777]

It takes some searching but you can file a grievence with ebay and I believe with Paypal the transaction is refundable if the person rips you off. Just do a little digging. I had someone try and rip me off for an Ozzy dvd in Brazil. I really put him through the ringer with ebay and he eventually did send my dvd out and refund my money. A lot of it depends on how much they care about their reputation and account.

[frantik2k3]

I think you can open a Paypal Dispute if you do not receive the item within a certain amount of time. What that does is it puts a "hold" of the money you sent to the seller and he can not use it.

[even13flow]

I hope you used Paypal also, because if you did you can do a transaction dispute. If he has the money in his paypal account it will hold it, and just like ebay, Paypal seems to have a system of feedback. Anyhow, I filed a dispute once against a website that had my money for over a month and didn't respond to my emails, and within a few days I got a full refund. It didn't seem like they mess around on issues like this...good luck.

[wolfway]

yeah i paid with paypal, thanks for all the info, lets just hope i find how to do all this stuff because i'm not a pro when it comes to ebay.

but still i'm going to wait a little longer

there are a few peole of his feedback that only left feedback after like 1.5 months so perhaps a tiny little hope but i doubt it.

i mailed him last week if he sent it yet because i hadn't received anything yet, he said he had sent it two weeks earlyer... so that's three weeks now, pretty long from france to belgium uh...

darn, i was looking forward so much to this item... one of the first more unusual items for me and it gets lost, damn...

[OutlawTorn81]

Does anybody know what to do if someone drastically overcharges you on shipping? I recently bought an item and the seller charged me $16US, when I received the package it was a flimsy cardboard mailer and the shipping label said $7.50US. The item was partially damaged as a consequence of using the cheap envelope. So far my two emails have met with no response. Is there anything I can do with this?

[Metallifold]

Does anybody know what to do if someone drastically overcharges you on shipping? I recently bought an item and the seller charged me $16US, when I received the package it was a flimsy cardboard mailer and the shipping label said $7.50US. The item was partially damaged as a consequence of using the cheap envelope. So far my two emails have met with no response. Is there anything I can do with this?

Not unless you can proove that he agreed on spending every cent of that on packaging + sending.

If you can proove it via logs and such, you should defiantely contact him first again then e-bay or at last paypal. They are both very professional about these kind of matters and they'd be sure to refund your cash somehow.

Heck man, It will of course be quite the process if you wanna get a refund though....Loads of e-mails and time would need to be spent. If you can proove that he promised you to spend every cent taht he charged you for on the package and sending, and that he didn't, you will most likely be able to charge him for the cash ( via e-bay ) or atleast report him to e-bay and paypal. But is it worth it?

[OutlawTorn81]

I've still had no response from the seller and so I sent in an "Excessive Shipping Charge" complaint to eBay. Hope it gets resolved soon. It's only 8 or 9 bucks, but it's rightfully my 8 or 9 bucks.

[superman321]

With shipping from what I understand, they can charge you as much as the want )within reason) as long as you are told what it is they are going to charge you. So, the big question really is whether you were told it was going to be $16 or whether he told you just $8 or so?