Post by ella on Sept 8, 2019 15:09:10 GMT -6
For some years I bought and sold in eBay, and I found, with eBay, you definitely learn as you go along.
As usual, I was looking in the jewellery for sale and came upon a tanzanite and diamond ring. I contacted the seller asking the size of the stones. He replied, I liked what I heard so I bid on the ring and won, and paid for it. When the ring arrived it was a big disappointment, the sizes of the three stones were far smaller than the seller had told me. As I was not happy with the ring I returned it and let him know it was on its way back.
At this point it got complicated. For quite a while the seller insisted he had not received the ring back. Eventually I was able to prove he had it, then we went through another phase of, oh yes, he had sent me a cheque, no cheque arrived, oh must have got lost in the post. By this time we were running into months.
Eventually the cheque arrived and I cashed it, but was given the cheering news that even though I had cashed it, as I am in Canada and the seller was in the States, I could not count on the money really being mine for a further 3 months, it could be reversed.
Now that I had my money back I gave him stinking feedback. Lo and behold, immediately 6 other of his unhappy buyers gave him rotten feedback too. I contacted them and heard their stories of how they were swindled too.
I can be vicious when I am roused ! So my next move was I put ridiculously high bids on about 25 of his items listed, and won them all. For some unknown reason he did not realise who I was, I didnt pay for any of the items, of course, he kept sending me reminders to pay.
The outcome was I was banned by eBay (sacre bleu) it was for a month or 3 months, (big whoop).
One of the others buyers who was swindled, eBay must have helped fight the case, he had spent quite a bit of money, the outcome was the crooked buyer eventually served a jail sentence for it
As usual, I was looking in the jewellery for sale and came upon a tanzanite and diamond ring. I contacted the seller asking the size of the stones. He replied, I liked what I heard so I bid on the ring and won, and paid for it. When the ring arrived it was a big disappointment, the sizes of the three stones were far smaller than the seller had told me. As I was not happy with the ring I returned it and let him know it was on its way back.
At this point it got complicated. For quite a while the seller insisted he had not received the ring back. Eventually I was able to prove he had it, then we went through another phase of, oh yes, he had sent me a cheque, no cheque arrived, oh must have got lost in the post. By this time we were running into months.
Eventually the cheque arrived and I cashed it, but was given the cheering news that even though I had cashed it, as I am in Canada and the seller was in the States, I could not count on the money really being mine for a further 3 months, it could be reversed.
Now that I had my money back I gave him stinking feedback. Lo and behold, immediately 6 other of his unhappy buyers gave him rotten feedback too. I contacted them and heard their stories of how they were swindled too.
I can be vicious when I am roused ! So my next move was I put ridiculously high bids on about 25 of his items listed, and won them all. For some unknown reason he did not realise who I was, I didnt pay for any of the items, of course, he kept sending me reminders to pay.
The outcome was I was banned by eBay (sacre bleu) it was for a month or 3 months, (big whoop).
One of the others buyers who was swindled, eBay must have helped fight the case, he had spent quite a bit of money, the outcome was the crooked buyer eventually served a jail sentence for it