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lol that reminds me of a friend at Atlantic Beach, he got screwed on a $1200 1171 Blower for his boat. so he had the guys address in Washington State, so hoped a plane flew out there and unknown from there except he came back with the blower and half his money lol.
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10-05-2009, 11:42 AM
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we used to use the whoopass range buying method, never buy something from some one that lives farther away than you are willing to drive to whoopass if it isn't right.
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10-05-2009, 12:30 PM
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I lost money on EB too;
First a $50 money order. The seller sent it to the "wrong" address, I tracked the item ti`ll it was returned to him ( I paid the shipping ), and the seller never answered me again. Later he was catched doing the wrong address trick and got fired out of e-b. I`m sure he`s back with a new "name", but I lost my 50 greens. Second, another M.O. for $20, for a toy, never got an answer or the item. Third and last, NO MORE EB FOR ME EVER AGAIN !!!
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Make the habit of radio-checking your VHF, and use it. Father God is too busy to come down to help you himself, He sends His Angels. They have no wings, They are just your true friends.
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10-06-2009, 07:33 AM
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Sucks you had to go through that, glad to hear your getting the $ back. Got to forward this to my wife. She has recently been bitten by the ebay bug lately, always scares me (ebay not the wife, well maybe the wife too.)
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10-06-2009, 10:21 AM
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Sorry RW....I got it times 2....
1 - selling my old boat. I put it up with "buy it now" and Mr. ripoff hits the button. The guy had a negative 4 rating....cost me $45 or so in fees....can't remember but it seems like eBay reimbursed me? I won't do buy it now any more and specify in writing that bidders with negatives will have their bids cancelled. I have cancelled suspicious bids since then. 2 - I bought a squid daisy chain from a reputable seller and waited. And waited. Emailed. Waited. Emailed. Waited. Started to notice negatives showing up on his profile where people payed and did not receive - just like me. Called him and he says he's sorry and he's gonna send 2 of the chains for my trouble.....never did. Cost me around $30.
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10-06-2009, 11:34 AM
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JJ hate to say it but that's why you shouldn't send Money Orders and use only paypal.
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10-06-2009, 01:59 PM
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Speaking of paypal, I ALMOST got ripped there for $1100. I was looking in my personal email and saw a paypal email saying, "Your payment has been sent." So I'm thinking what payment? Log in to paypal and see two instances of $550. Then I remembered the last time I tried to log into eBay, I could not pass authentication due to bad password?? I never change my eBay password. Come to find out somebody hacked my eBay account, changed my password and set up shop selling bogus goods. I have no idea how but they were able to get into my account via paypal and ALMOST swiped $1100. Luckily I saw the email and took swift action with my bank which allowed me to put a block on any amount of $550. Cost me $30 to put the block on but it worked. The bank said the transaction tried to go through but the block put the brakes on it. Crazy stuff. Since then I have started using stronger passwords with eBay and paypal.
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