I'm just curious if any of you have been ripped off on Ebay and how it went resolving the problem.
I recently came across one of those "too good to be true" deals on ebay and based on the sellers 100% positive feedback over almost 900 sales transactions (mostly $500-1000 sales) I decided to give it a shot. Well, now I'm wishing I hadn't.
The item was a welder that usually sells for around $3700. He sold 4 of them for between $2150-2400 depending on how the auction went, I paid $2250 for mine. I did a "buy it now" and paid through paypal. On the 25th the seller sent me a tracking # and said it would go out the next day. On the 27th he responded to an email I'd sent him saying that it got delayed due to weather keeping him from getting to the UPS store previously, but that he dropped it off that night and it will start tracking on the 28th. I have sent 2 more emails to the guy that have gone unanswered and UPS has no record of it being shipped, just a shipping label generated. I try to get hold of him through ebay and notice that he has 3 negative feedbacks from the last 24 hours. 2 of them claim he sent them a box with some old xmas lights in it instead of an automatic gate opener and a portable honda generator. The other one is like mine where he hasn't shipped for 9 days and no communication. They guy seems to sell mostly tankless water heaters, but has sold welders, plasma cutters, gate openers and such in the past pretty regular and with good feedback.
Something just isn't right and I am about to try to pursue this. Anyone on here ever have any luck with resolving a situation like this through ebay or paypal? Any suggestions?
p.s. UPS will not give much helpful information on where this thing is shipping from. Only thing they'll say is that it's from C and C wholesale and Tennessee. Only C and C whole sale I'm finding in TN doesn't really add up to being the same guy.
I recently came across one of those "too good to be true" deals on ebay and based on the sellers 100% positive feedback over almost 900 sales transactions (mostly $500-1000 sales) I decided to give it a shot. Well, now I'm wishing I hadn't.
The item was a welder that usually sells for around $3700. He sold 4 of them for between $2150-2400 depending on how the auction went, I paid $2250 for mine. I did a "buy it now" and paid through paypal. On the 25th the seller sent me a tracking # and said it would go out the next day. On the 27th he responded to an email I'd sent him saying that it got delayed due to weather keeping him from getting to the UPS store previously, but that he dropped it off that night and it will start tracking on the 28th. I have sent 2 more emails to the guy that have gone unanswered and UPS has no record of it being shipped, just a shipping label generated. I try to get hold of him through ebay and notice that he has 3 negative feedbacks from the last 24 hours. 2 of them claim he sent them a box with some old xmas lights in it instead of an automatic gate opener and a portable honda generator. The other one is like mine where he hasn't shipped for 9 days and no communication. They guy seems to sell mostly tankless water heaters, but has sold welders, plasma cutters, gate openers and such in the past pretty regular and with good feedback.
Something just isn't right and I am about to try to pursue this. Anyone on here ever have any luck with resolving a situation like this through ebay or paypal? Any suggestions?
p.s. UPS will not give much helpful information on where this thing is shipping from. Only thing they'll say is that it's from C and C wholesale and Tennessee. Only C and C whole sale I'm finding in TN doesn't really add up to being the same guy.