Screwed... Aren't I???

fotoworx wrote in post #12075051
You'd have as much chance as getting your money back from a Nigerian email scam I reckon.

If he has an admission of guilt it's not very hard to get a judgement.

isoMorphic wrote in post #12078397
If he has an admission of guilt it's not very hard to get a judgement.

Too bad paypal doesn't really care. If they can't recover the funds from the recipient, they're not going to just happily hand over hundreds of dollars to the sender.

he hasn't been on in 22 hours...so maybe you're jumping the gun?...i dunno if he was a total scammer he might as well be pming 24/7 until he gets banned...who knows how this will end up...as for his gear, i see nothing really crazy out of the ordinary there

also it seems stupid to reply to a thread saying PM sent if you're trying to scam...but maybe that's why he did it...
i dunno...good luck

See? That's why I asked... It seemed fishy, but then not that bad. Im just back and forth with it. Before I was getting PMs within hours and now nothing, so we'll see!

Well, a funny thing happened to me back a few years when I bought a lens on ebay. All went the same way, got item shipped to me even a tracking number...then an email just about like the one you got....two days later my lens showed up in perfect shape. The second email I got was meant for someone else the seller responded....she was so embarrassed.

Why not require photos of the items with the user's name in the photo? I've seen this on other forums and it seems to work well.

iurytx wrote in post #12079839
Why not require photos of the items with the user's name in the photo? I've seen this on other forums and it seems to work well.

because even someone like me that isn't very good at photoshop could find another photo with a user's name on it, and photoshop in my own in under 5 min...

DreDaze wrote in post #12079934
because even someone like me that isn't very good at photoshop could find another photo with a user's name on it, and photoshop in my own in under 5 min...

That, and just because they have it doesn't mean they have to send it...

Ive traded on forums like this for about 11 years now and have done abut 400 transactions. I have 335 heatware feedback just for trading, buying, selling computer gear at Anandtech, besides the 523 feedback from Ebay. In all these years Ive never taken advantage of new sellers, asking them to ship first, but my outlook has changed somewhat now and I may ask for a ship first from now on with brand new sellers, regardless if they have history at Ebay or not. Maybe a verifiable track history at another site where I can ask for references from members I know would be an exception, but brand new peeps will likely not get anymore passes from me. A few bad apples and a now easy path to rip folks off thru Paypal has forced my changed way of thinking now. Too bad, I have always had good results in the past just being smart and relatively cautious...now you have to put up the shields more than ever.

mastertech01 wrote in post #12080008
Ive traded on forums like this for about 11 years now and have done abut 400 transactions. I have 335 heatware feedback just for trading, buying, selling computer gear at Anandtech, besides the 523 feedback from Ebay. In all these years Ive never taken advantage of new sellers, asking them to ship first, but my outlook has changed somewhat now and I may ask for a ship first from now on with brand new sellers, regardless if they have history at Ebay or not. Maybe a verifiable track history at another site where I can ask for references from members I know would be an exception, but brand new peeps will likely not get anymore passes from me. A few bad apples and a now easy path to rip folks off thru Paypal has forced my changed way of thinking now. Too bad, I have always had good results in the past just being smart and relatively cautious...now you have to put up the shields more than ever.

i don't care how good your feedback is, there's no way i'd ship something without getting paid first...

the big problem with these recent scam threads is paying with paypal gift...

And thats fine and dandy too, you dont have to sell me anything if you have no trading history here.

I didnt pay with gift money... Im in the bind with this tard too.

mastertech01 wrote in post #12080043
And thats fine and dandy too, you dont have to sell me anything if you have no trading history here.

that's the thing...to err on the cautious side of things...i don't know if these recent guys are offering great deals or what that's making people do things they wouldn't normally do, and put themselves at risk...i mean there is that old saying...

didn't realize you were involved with the same guy...good luck with everything

Oh well even you might not have a halo of holier than though presence of mind and screw up and trust the wrong person some day. Until then you will always judge others with that old saying...

mastertech01 wrote in post #12080081
Oh well even you might not have a halo of holier than though presence of mind and screw up and trust the wrong person some day. Until then you will always judge others with that old saying...

someday?...heck i still think that seller might be legit...i'm not judging anyone, i think i need to remind myself of that saying sometimes as well...i just bought something on ebay thinking i was getting a deal...researching after the fact makes me think i got screwed(i know you're supposed to do that before buying)...but that wasn't as much money as we are talking here...luckily right now i don't have much $$ laying around to give me a chance to part with it

I normally dont either. I just sold off a bunch of high end and was settling for low end stuff as my priorities have changed. So my purchase was only 350.00. But it just so happened that a lens that I returned to a seller on Ebay and got a full refund on that same week turned out to reverse itself because the seller had insufficient funds in his backup finance source to cover the funds. Then he was locked out of his account for sending funds. So suddenly I have this wanker gank me, AND the refund pulled all at the same time... when I have never been skunked ever before. It happens, no matter how careful you think you are, you will one day let the guard down one click of the mouse too long.