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[AstroLad]

Well, it was bound to happen. Good ol' "pacific coast wind" is apparently fucking me over. I won a 75 dollar auction 11 days ago and paid after getting her automatic Paypal e-mail and haven't heard or received a fucking thing since. Thankfully I paid for it w/ the "Credit Card" portion of my debit card on Paypal. I know their dispute resolution thing sucks (why else would they sell insurance), so should I just call my bank right now to cancel the charge?

 

[AstroLad]

Bump.

Still no $70 back or test strips that I paid for. Looking further into this guy's feedback, there's one that says:

took 2wk,no reply to pleading emails,disabled 2yr old very sad,was for birthday

That's nice.

Help appreciated.

 

[Vlad]

Well, I've only purchased one thing off ebay, and got horribly burned, so I can say that ebay itself will be absolutely no help. Your best bet may be to contact your credit card company and stop the charge at the source.

 

[EdLuva]

I agree ^. Call your CC company. Also, let me (us) know the seller's ebay name so none of us have to deal with this person (if that's possible).

 

[brooklyngooner]

File the complaint with PayPal first. If you don't, and your bank just cancels the charge, you'll have your PayPal account suspended. Call your cc company to let them know you WILL put it into dispute but you need to go through PayPal channels first.

 

[ChrisReid]

File the complaint with PayPal first. If you don't, and your bank just cancels the charge, you'll have your PayPal account suspended. Call your cc company to let them know you WILL put it into dispute but you need to go through PayPal channels first.

Yeah, it takes time, but the paypal dispute department can deal with pretty cut and dry cases like this. I'd do that first.

Also, let me (us) know the seller's ebay name so none of us have to deal with this person (if that's possible).

In case one of us happens to bid on something they sell out of the hundreds of thousands of active sellers? This is what Negative Feedback is for.

 

[AstroLad]

The name's in the original post, except on e-bay I think all the words are together.

Yeah getting Paypal suspended would kinda suck. Hopefully they are able to get my money back. It's funny looking through the feedback how many people (even positive comments, which 97% are) complain about zero communication from this seller. I don't see how you could be an e-bay selller and not ever send a single message to anyone apparently. I'm usually pretty good about looking at feedback, but here the only complaints I saw were about packaging, which I didn't really care about, but having someone who doesn't respond to your e-mails is probably the worst thing next to them ripping you off outright.

I'm pretty sure credit cards have a 30-day dispute process, so hopefully I can do Paypal and they'll just, I guess, hold on for that?

 

[brooklyngooner]

The name's in the original post, except on e-bay I think all the words are together.

Yeah getting Paypal suspended would kinda suck. Hopefully they are able to get my money back. It's funny looking through the feedback how many people (even positive comments, which 97% are) complain about zero communication from this seller. I don't see how you could be an e-bay selller and not ever send a single message to anyone apparently. I'm usually pretty good about looking at feedback, but here the only complaints I saw were about packaging, which I didn't really care about, but having someone who doesn't respond to your e-mails is probably the worst thing next to them ripping you off outright.

I'm pretty sure credit cards have a 30-day dispute process, so hopefully I can do Paypal and they'll just, I guess, hold on for that?

Do it ASAP, the fraud report with PayPal. He has something like a week to respond and prove he sent the item. If he doesn't respond adequately, they freeze his account and refund you the dough from it. If they can't get you any money, then file with the CC company.