Vibes
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Just had a bad experiance with an Ebayer that I would like to pass along and hope no one here gets scammed by this guy. There was a thread on here last month about the item I sold. A guy posted about how he couldn't believe how much someone payed for a used Sugihara bar. I had the bar listed with a buy it now price of 39.99 with the opening bid at 10% lower as Ebay requires with BIN auctions. The bar is a 24 inch that was run on my Dolmar 7900, with the stock spacers. I overheated it once in a cut on a 40 inch round, and I actually wrote about not liking the Sugi's on Dolmars using stock spacers. I had the bar listed with several pictures with a close up of the heat stressed part of the bar. The bar isn't damaged any other way, and though I didn't say in my auction that it was heated, I did take 2 pictures of that part of the bar, and one good closeup. It was obvious, but I've run bars that were cooked a lot worse than this one.
Back to the auction. Someone did the opening bid, and that wiped out my BIN price of $39.99. So the bids take off I was surprised at how high it went. Guy buys it and pays. I go to ship the bar and see he's from Seward Alaska and I ship the bar the next day and insure the package. Well you know how long it takes to mail stuff in the lower 48 let alone Alaska. Well it did take a while, and he did email me once and I tracked the package. It did take 3 weeks and when he got the bar, he contacts me and says the bar is badly bent. I figure thats why it took so long, and offer the guy a refund. We exchanged numbers and talked over the phone.
He told me he wanted me to send him $65 and he would call it even. He paid $71 plus $12.99 shipping. I think about it and figure, why would I do that when the bar was insured for $80. I told him it was insured and he could file the insurance claim or send it back to me. Then the conversation turns ugly and I tell the guy just send it back and I'll give him the refund as Ebay rules of an item not as desribed. He says He wanted me to pay for his return shipping and I never said I would or wouldn't. Well the guy sends me the bar back and low and behold, the bars not bent at all. But the guy didn't send me back the 2 extra set of spacers that I sent with the bar. I refund the guy his money just so he would go away and I figure I'll give the 1rst looser of the auction a second chance offer and be done with it.
Well here where the scam starts. The guy calls me on the phone and demands a $20 Pay Pal deposit or he'll leave bad feedback. I allready refunded his money through EBAY resolution. He says thats the shipping that it cost him to mail bar back. I didn't speak to him because he called my office phone and I wasn't around. I wouldn't have sent it to him anyways but he did leave me a Neg Feedback.
I'm not going to broadcast this winers name, but if someone else figures it out through the old posts and does it will serve this winer right. If he's a member and he wants to call me out in public please do because I'll thrash you in a public forumn if you are that dumb. If anyone needs or wants the guys EBAY handle PM me and I'll fill you in that way. BLOCK THIS BUYER.
Back to the auction. Someone did the opening bid, and that wiped out my BIN price of $39.99. So the bids take off I was surprised at how high it went. Guy buys it and pays. I go to ship the bar and see he's from Seward Alaska and I ship the bar the next day and insure the package. Well you know how long it takes to mail stuff in the lower 48 let alone Alaska. Well it did take a while, and he did email me once and I tracked the package. It did take 3 weeks and when he got the bar, he contacts me and says the bar is badly bent. I figure thats why it took so long, and offer the guy a refund. We exchanged numbers and talked over the phone.
He told me he wanted me to send him $65 and he would call it even. He paid $71 plus $12.99 shipping. I think about it and figure, why would I do that when the bar was insured for $80. I told him it was insured and he could file the insurance claim or send it back to me. Then the conversation turns ugly and I tell the guy just send it back and I'll give him the refund as Ebay rules of an item not as desribed. He says He wanted me to pay for his return shipping and I never said I would or wouldn't. Well the guy sends me the bar back and low and behold, the bars not bent at all. But the guy didn't send me back the 2 extra set of spacers that I sent with the bar. I refund the guy his money just so he would go away and I figure I'll give the 1rst looser of the auction a second chance offer and be done with it.
Well here where the scam starts. The guy calls me on the phone and demands a $20 Pay Pal deposit or he'll leave bad feedback. I allready refunded his money through EBAY resolution. He says thats the shipping that it cost him to mail bar back. I didn't speak to him because he called my office phone and I wasn't around. I wouldn't have sent it to him anyways but he did leave me a Neg Feedback.
I'm not going to broadcast this winers name, but if someone else figures it out through the old posts and does it will serve this winer right. If he's a member and he wants to call me out in public please do because I'll thrash you in a public forumn if you are that dumb. If anyone needs or wants the guys EBAY handle PM me and I'll fill you in that way. BLOCK THIS BUYER.
