Accessories for Sale BAD seller

I'm new here but I just had a fellow new user by the name of "davebenham223" reach out to me about my Wanted post. Sent me a picture of typical eBay fairing kit, says he's in Cali though his only post says Seattle, all in broken english and to top it off says when asked to verify anything he's saying that this is a "matter of trust." When that didn't work he wanted only a little venmo payment upfront. Obviously a scam. He's free to come in here and defend himself, I have screenshots of the conversation.

 

I ordered a rebuilt carburetor for my Hurst Olds from ebay and the seller was Parts Geek. Item showed delivered but it wasn't at my house. I got the photo of the delivery and was clearly not my house. reached out to Parts Geek 10 times and no response at all. Sent all this to ebay and got the exact same response you did. Vendor shows delivered, case closed. This is even with showing them the photos. I then went to paypal and the exact same thing happened as well. Finally I went to my funding source (credit card company). Gave them everything and they mirrored the vendor again. I finally opened a case with UPS, but since I wasn't the "sender" it wouldn't let me. I then used the senders UPS account number off the tracking label, got a case open and UPS agreed they delivered it to the wrong address. I had to send that documentation to my funding source and they finally sided with me.

It was a lengthily 3 month experience I could have absolutely done without. I learned Paypal is no protection and is of no assistance when you have a problem.

 

Barstewards

On another forum - you cannot place any advertisement on the site without having made more than 50 pertinent forum posts (so saying +1 does not add to your post score) and the advertisement must include one or more photos of the item for sale accompanied by a paper visible in each photo showing the sellers forum name and a very recent newspaper. This restriction rather stuffs all these goons saying they have something for sale when they neither have it or any intention of delivering it.

 

The photos you used of the face of you home to compare with the one they delivered to the wrong address, when shown in the first instance, should have been enough to rectify your case in your favor from the beginning. Three months and the anguish you went through was terrible. The item I lost out on was not worth the stress I am sure you went through.

This just goes to show Corporate western world does not give a shit about customer satisfaction. Their financial goals come first. Insurance companies are the worst offenders.

 

I would be far more strict than that if it were me. But that means monitoring too. By all means, start deleting them. If they are that legit, they can make a post like, "Hey, what's the deal?" or contact an Admin. And since we're talking, delete any "Testing the waters" or "I don't need to sell" bullshit.

Even if you aren't a scammer, this isn't a place for you sign up that day and start selling. Or make 10 BS posts.

Get your ass on eBay, CL and OfferUp. If it's that awesome, somebody is gonna see it and post a link here if they didn't buy it.

This is a community of enthusiasts that sometimes has (cool) stuff to sell that they aren't using or don't need anymore, or is stuck and puts a word out for something. I don't buy shit from anybody that I don't recognize their username coming up repeatedly, and in a context that is not just selling. If they might be active in a different forum than you, you can simply click on their username and see what they've been up to, and for how long.