Yeah, dude, I think you were scammed. I'm sorry, that really sucks you were trying to get a great gift for your son. Anytime someone requests payment with Western Union be very suspicious. ( http://cgi3.ebay.com/ws/e...=red-flags )

CarrieLee said:

Y'know, I'd be happy with something....I can't even get this guy to respond to my emails...yet he has thousands of happy customers.... what the fuck?

Oh and by the way Carrie.... congrats on yours and Tommy's impending engagement after he wins the Superbowl in a few weeks...

DevotedPuppy said:

When I complained to eBay...the email they sent me had that exact thing attached to their email... my heart sank y'know...

pardonme4livin said:

Ya, in my dreams!

The engagement...not the Superbowl...THAT will happen
[Edited 1/14/08 13:50pm]

pardonme4livin said:

pardonme4livin said:

I totally understand. I have had pretty good luck with ebay, but I did get scammed here once (bought something from someone in the Marketplace forum)...luckily I paid with Paypal and was able to get my money back.

I suppose the guy had good official feedback because he scams people 'outside' of ebay, and there is no way to leave feedback for that.

Kenny, Kenny , Kenny. Simply put your first feeling is right....you are indeed a dumbass

Youze fucked bro.

Sorry man that is a pisser.

I have had a few Nigerian scammers try it with fake paypal payments but ain't no water behind my ears

somebody tried to do that to me. i was bidding on a ibook and loss. afterwards someone emailed me saying the bidder didnt pay so they were selling it for half of what they were asking which was about 600 bucks. it didnt look right to me and by that time i lost interest and deleted it. i ended up just getting a brand new one through Apple online.

mdiver said:

Ass!



You made me smile tho..... fucker!

afterwards there was a story on the news about people doing this to people....

heybaby said:

All this great info....AFTER the fact....

pardonme4livin said:

S'my job bro.

Sorry it happened though man, lesson learned though i will bet.

I have some stuff on ebay...will do you a deal for a Western Union transfer though....waddya reckon?

off-topic(ish), but OMG i wish i had the money to bid on this.

mdiver said:

Absolutely.... let's see if they'll take Monopoly money or a third person out-of-state check....

pardonme4livin said:

evenstar said:

Well maybe we can work something out... I heard you like to swallow.....strawberry pop-rocks...

evenstar said:

Girl you should come to NYC, you can probably find a knock-off of that on Canal Street (Chinatown) for a lot less.

evenstar said:

i'll buy it for u

pardonme4livin said:

InsatiableCream said:

you would totally be my favorite orger ever

DevotedPuppy said:

cool, yeah it's the color i'm in love with more than anything else.

pardonme4livin said:

Please get a Paypal account.

evenstar said:

Graycap23 said:

I ran a check of this fucker and apparently I was not the only one...which sucks in so many ways I cannot stand it.... it was a scam (duh!) and I am out the $175.

I am such a fool.....

Shit... That's why I say no to Western Union transactions. Sometimes, Even paypal ones. Luckily for me, I've never been ripped off. I always check the percentage and the sell number of the vendor I want to buy from. I tend to not trust anyone with lots of Minus reviews.
I'm sorry you got scammed, though. Something similar happened to me when I wanted to sell my stupid iPod shuffle. It was one of those moronic purchases I got because I didn't read the Apple description right. (At the time, I didn't know the diff between a Nano and Shuffle.) Anyway, I tried to sell the thing for 20 bucks on eBay. I got one bidder for my lame little item. I got excited and when time was up, I awaited on her (or him..) to provide me with info on where to send it. I get the info, I get what I think is a confirmation email that she's buying it for her son...but I never get paid. I made SURE not to send the item before I got paid. I gave her 6 days--1 day extra for the required due date. When I got nothing, I found out I had been conned by one of those Nigerian bot things. That's when I just said, screw it. I'll sell this thing on myspace or pawn it for three bucks. I still have it, somewhere in the house...

Long story short, buying and selling is a gamble on the 'bay. It's always better to do transactions via paypal. Western Uninon transactions have reputations on sites as usually being crap. There's usually a warning for transactions like that. But always....ALWAYS check who the buyer is and what other people say about them. I'm really sorry you lost so much cash...

LadyLuvSexxy said:

oh yeah, thats what they wanted me to do. They sent me a check for something like 3000.00 1500.00 over the price of the carpet, and I was supposed to western union the rest of the money to a person who was supposed to pick up the carpet for them.

Well... I ordered back in October a Nintendo DS Lite from a power seller from Hong Kong. I checked his feedback first and he had a very good one with satisfied buyers. I was expecting to receive it before Xmas but until this day I have received nothing. I contacted the seller and he told me on many occasions that he would check with the Hong Kong post office, yeah right pfff... So I gave him an ultimatum, if I don't get my money back by this week I will raise a complaint.
This is the only bad experience I had, otherwise I order vinyls from Ebay on a regular basis and it has been good.

LadyLuvSexxy said:

Thank you...

The seller had 99.7% positives...but as it turns out....I sent money to someone else....

I ran a Google search for the name of the contact was instructed to send money to...there was a page in the eBay forums about this guy and that he was a scammer.... then I looked a little deeper and found the real source of this issue...

It turns out that predators look at the names of those people bidding and send out numerous emails based on the buyers username on eBay. A representative of eBay said that a large percentage of eBay consumers use their email username as their eBay username... then send out emails to numerous popular email providers such as Yahoo, HOtmail, etc and then wait for their prey...

My eBay username is the same as one of email accounts....that's how they got me...

I am getting angrier by the minute.... I cannot believe I got scammed... just so WAY out of character for me... my spidey-senses are usually a great yardstick and I dismissed my concerns... this was for my son afterall...

i once thought i got screwed over on something, i sent the money order and emailed the guy saying it was on its way...2 weeks passed so i emailed him back and got no reply, so i thought well there goes my $50.....2 months later i get my money order back in the mail, turns out the guy gave me a bogus address and the post office people sent it back to me, i got lucky there.

I feel like i ripped a guy off once, just from the amount i paid for something, i bought all 6 seasons of the show Oz on dvd for like $120 australian...well that was my top bid, a couple of minutes before it ended some dude bid something like $200! i was a bit annoyed that i had lost. the next day i got an email telling me the highest bidder had backed out and i was the new highest so that was good for me

Suzieq76 said:

My purchase too was a Nintendo DS Lite.... Crimson and Black with 2 games....

I feel sick.....