Just a heads up to those of you who may suffer from the same momentary lapse in sanity that I did!

About three weeks ago I found this ad on ebay, http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=7926975256

I thought-haha, here is a chance to get a 411 rearend cheep!

I contacted the seller, and after three or four emails, he agreed to sell it to me for $100 including shipping. He told me that it was still on the car, and it would be about a week to 10 days before he would have the time to remove it. That sounded OK, he had 5 feedbacks @ 100% with noting unusual, so I sent $100 via Paypal, and copies of our emails in the accompanying message.

10 days later, I emailed him for a progress report first thing in the morning. Later that afternoon, when I did not get a reply, I revisited the ad to find he was no longer a registered member of ebay. I immediately filled out a paypal problem report, and emailed him again. No responses from him, but today I got a "Dear John" Letter from Paypal letting me know the seller was a thief, The money was gone, and I was SOL!

Don't forget the lesson I ignored, if you can't prove a new seller is who and where he says he is, do not send him anything you don't want to lose!

That thief got my $100, don't let him get yours.

Will

Sorry for the loss, man. I just recently got some tail lights off e-bay about a week and a half ago. Might have got me also! :tapemouth :tapemouth

Let's tag the thieves here, and give the other members a better chance of not getting taken!

Will

Dang Will that sucks. Where was he from? We could hop in te 72 and go get your money back!

PS. maby you could keep me in the right state

Actually Bill, he listed as being from your neck of the woods, Greenbrier, AR.

I would aask if that was close to you, and if you could find it, but since you found Kansas City, MI. twice, I guess I already know the answer !

Will

Actualy Its about 20 minutes north of here. Whats his name and adress

My simpathy, Will. I got ripped by Jim Edwards of North Carolina for a $350 set of wheels. His name is all over Zcar.com and I filed a complaint with the post office. Last I heard, there was a warrant, but I don't know.

Bart Modrzewski is his name according to his paypal info, I do not have an address yet. If I find it, and he is close to you, you might get a first hand glimpse at what a Georgia WhoopAss party is all about! I'll get $100 out of his hide, and it(his hide) aint worth that much to me, so I will be taking for a long while...

Will

Greanbrier is a smaller town. Ill look it up in the phone book if you want

How do you prounounce that anyway?

pronunciation don't matter in a phone book, it's spelling that counts

Paypal wouldn't cover it under their buyer protection?

check with ebay over there I had a guy ripe me off for $750 on a computer turned out he was a theif caught heaps of people but i lodged claim through ebay they have insurance that if you did everything right you can claim so i got $300 back from that would believe ebay would be the same where ever so check it out you should be able to get most of your money back amounts quoted are in aussie dollars

took a while but at least i got some back nearly got a holiday out of it too guy was from northern Queensland police contacted me about flying up to give evidence but there heard any more

Mick