Friday, January 4, 2008

keyboard warriors (aka internet douchebags)

my car stereo crapped out on me a few weeks ago and i've been looking for a new one. i found a model i liked and started watching eBay for a used one to come up (it's a 2006 model so they aren't sold new in very many places anymore). i found one, bid and won about 5 days ago. today, i get this email from eBay:

The following is a notice from eBay Trust & Safety regarding:

Item Number - 250200092888

Item Title - JVC Exad KD-AVX2 IN Dash DVD Player

Our records show that you were a bidder or buyer of one or more of this seller's items. We recently removed this seller's active listings and suspended the seller's trading privileges. Due to privacy concerns we cannot share further details about this seller.

If the seller asks you to complete this transaction outside of eBay, we strongly recommend that you do not proceed with the transaction. Transactions for items listed on eBay but then completed off of the eBay platform are not covered by buyer protection programs offered by eBay and can be highly indicative of fraud. For more information on Offers to Buy or Sell Outside of eBay, copy and past the following Help Page link into your browser: http://pages.ebay.com/help/policies/rfe-spam-non-ebay-sale.html.

If you have already paid for this item but have not received it, you should take all possible steps to receive reimbursement.
i had already paid for it via paypal so i had the sellers email address and forwarded him the email from eBay with the following note:

I just received this email from eBay regarding the car stereo I bid on and won. Please send me a tracking number if you have one in the next 24 hours. After that I will open a dispute with eBay and PayPal to retrieve my money.
Thanks
to which i received this response:

HOW THE FUCK YOU DEMAND A TRACKING NUMBER. AND HOW U GONE DISPUTE IT IF I SHIP IT? I JUST SAVED THIDS FOR YOUR DISPUTE.
for some reason, i don't think i'm getting that stereo. i replied with the following:
Calm down. All I am saying is your account has been suspended by eBay and so far I don't have a stereo. If you shipped it then fine, send me a tracking number and you have nothing to be upset about. If you haven't shipped it, I would have expected some sort of excuse or apology and an "I'll ship it out as soon as possible", however judging from your response I'm assuming that is not going to happen. You see, the way this is going to work is either I get the stereo and you get your money, or I get my money back and you keep the stereo you may or may not actually have, which seems pretty fair to me. I don't see what you're getting so excited about.
i can't wait for the response!

1 comment:

Tobin said...

I JUST SAVEED THIS BLOG PSOTING FOR UR DISPUTE.

Yeah, I had this problem with a few people on ebay, too. Several of them shipped it to me and "lost" the tracking number, and then got mad when I expected them to send another one, and I had to dispute it.