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Non Gaming Discussions => Off-Topic => Topic started by: videoholic on December 10, 2007, 06:13:47 PM
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I bought a Wii for my son on the 1st. I emailed the dude on thursday asking for a tracking number. He told me he lost it and that if it wasn\'t here by Friday he would send me another one. (Bullshit) So now he says he sent one out today and the post office told him it will take 2-3 weeks. (Bullshit) He gave me a confirmation #, but I can\'t figure out if it\'s legit or not. It seems totally bogus. In the final email he said he would give me a refund if I wanted one. I said yes and hopefully he will without me having to deal with my bank. Here is his second to last email with the conf #.
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Hello,i sent the wii out today via the local PO,the confirmation # is VH 527 613 629 US,they suggested that you call your local PO at the end of the week as packages are taking 2-3 weeks to get delivered you will be able to pick it up with the # i gave you
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I know. why would I call a post office. they come to my door in Tampa.
I\'m going to give you guys all his emails because the dude is an idiot and thinks I am too.
This is what he told me on the 4th.[COLOR="DarkOrange"]
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It was shipped Friday, you should have to sign it does have a delivery confirmation,let me know when it arrives please
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Here is what he wrote to me on the 7th when I demanded a tracking number.[COLOR="DarkOrange"]
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Hi, i will look for the paperwork tomorrow.I used the post ofiice,the item is insured and does have a delivery confirmation # i will get that information out to you as soon as i can
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Here is the 8th.. Now if he already sent it out, why in god\'s name would he send another?[COLOR="DarkOrange"]
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Hi, i cannot find the tracking # i shipped out 6 of these, i am going to ship 1 out to you Monday UPS as soon as i get the information i will send it to you,if the other one shows up please let me know,if i go through the post office it will probally be after christmas until this is resolved,lots of issues lately with damaged and lost items delivered through the PO, i am now using UPS and like i said the item will be picked up Monday,i will send the information asap
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This one is from the 9th.[COLOR="DarkOrange"]
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I am sending out another one UPS tomorrow,i will give you the tracking #,i sent the other one through the post office and by the time i put in a claim christmas will be over,if the other one shows up please let me know
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and now today\'s three emails.[COLOR="DarkOrange"]
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Hello,i sent the wii out today via the local PO,the confirmation # is VH 527 613 629 US,they suggested that you call your local PO at the end of the week as packages are taking 2-3 weeks to get delivered you will be able to pick it up with the # i gave you
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I went to the PO today and talked to a supervisor there,he told me they hire temporary help for christmas,they have all sorts of different shipping,priority, express and so on,he said that it could take 2-3 weeks,he also said it could be sitting at your PO and with the # i gave you,you can pick it up,i will give you the # again but you have to understand i have no control over this VH 527 613 615 US
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Like i said i spoke to the supv today at my PO,he told me because of the temp help it being the christmas season and very busy the item could still be here,he checked on another 1 that i sent out and the only thing he could tell me was the item was not received and could be sitting here or the buyers PO like i told you he said they have temp christmas help with no experience sorting through packages,if you would like a copy of the shipping information i can fax it to you, i know that wont get it there any sooner but i have no control over the PO,i called UPS for a pick-up today and they came with no scanning gun or labels,if you would like a refund i am willing to do that,maybe you can get one sooner,im really sorry for this
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I explained to the dude that I ordered 4 other things on the 1st and I received them all last week. I just need to get my kid a freaking wii. Sucks. I could buy a PS3 so freaking easy.
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what is the guys rating?
he seems like an idiot, plus why was something he said on the 4th the same, verbatim, as the 9th, after sending his second er third wii? as dumb as that sounds, it should have a different number if it\'s a different wii..thats what caught my attention the most
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how does he instantly lose the tracking number? the number he gave you twice is garbage at the USPS website.
i say he\'s scamming you, claiming it could be sitting at YOUR post office and he has no control over it. lol at ups with no scanner :rofl:
[COLOR="Red"]file a complaint now[/COLOR] with ebay and i hope you paid with a credit card for them to help get your funds back.
i wouldn\'t even count on him to perform a refund.
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I have never, and will never use Ebay.
I don\'t trust people enough.
My mom tried using Ebay ONCE. Never recieved what she bought, and got treated like shit in the process.
If I ever... EVER get the chance to meet the dude that ripped my mom off I will rearrange his face with my boot.
Bottom line. People suck and I don\'t trust them as far as I can throw them.
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well, it\'s all about buying from people with good feedback and taking precautions.
ALWAYS demand more expensive packages are shipped via USPS or UPS with delivery confirmation, tracking number and insurance
ALWAYS pay with a credit card that you know will help you fight any kind of fraud. none of this cashiers check, money order, paypal bullshit.
if the seller fucks you over, it\'s the CC company\'s battle, not yours.
i\'ve bought and sold tons of stuff from ebay and never had a problem.
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kind of funny. I just bought another one for cheaper and told him to refund my money. he now says "How am I to know you are going to send the other one back?" I told him I\'d refuse delivery and just use his tracking number..
I have never had a problem until now. The guy has a 99% rating with quite a few (Several hundred) sales.
Actually paypal is technically your credit card so even if paypal doesn\'t help me I could still go to my bank and have them dispute paypal.
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A buddy of mine went through some bs with a guy that was selling pc phones but he only had 46 feedback. It was all positive but the guy fake sold 5 phones and bought 2g\'s in shit for his car. To get insurance from ebay/paypal the member you bought from needs at least 50 feedback and 98% positive so my buddy got dicked.
What\'s terrible is that the guy got away with it. They have his address and everything but refuse to do anything about him stealing about 1900$.
If you read the insurance that ebay/paypal offer and just buy from users that fit that area ebay is great. I use it all the time.
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dude has sold 282 items. I think the guy is insane. The shit he is sending me is ridiculous. I told him I hadn\'t left feedback yet and waiting to see how this goes and he tells me
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When i get it back i will refund you.How can you leave negative feedback because the PO wasnt fast enough for you. Its a busy time of year, i have the delivery confirmation and the slip from the PO showing it was sent to your house, i will refund you when it is returned, im sorry i cant refund you until i have the item back, you should have asked me how we would work this out before jumping the gun
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lol. He sent me a bunch more busy time of year bullshit. why it takes 9 days to mail something to me is ridiculous. and "jumping the gun" wtf??? too funny.
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Well at least no matter how it plays out you\'ll be able to get your money back. But yea, he definitely sounds like an asshat. As for leaving him negative feedback, he\'ll probably just leave you negative then too for doing nothing wrong. The seller waits for the buyer to leave feedback these days even though the buyers work is done once they\'ve paid. Pretty gay.
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Actually 9 days USPS snail mail is not unusual during the holiday season. Is this shipping from far away?
Even still, why anyone would use USPS in December for an item this pricey is beyond me.
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hmm...interesting.
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Actually 9 days USPS snail mail is not unusual during the holiday season. Is this shipping from far away?
Even still, why anyone would use USPS in December for an item this pricey is beyond me.
9 days and he hadn\'t even shipped it.... Heck, I don\'t know if he\'s even shipped it yet.
and on day 3 he had said he already shipped it.
At least ship it priority. very ridiculous.
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In all honesty, if a deal looks too good to be true, it probably is. I had a guy on ebay say he would let me pay whatever I want for a HDTV, only he would only take money orders...
so yeah, i would say one out of every hundred ebay sellers are scam artist (bad ones at that).
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I have never, and will never use Ebay.
I don\'t trust people enough.
Agreed...i never order anything offa the net...it\'s too much bulls**t if a deal goes sour,...i\'d rather deal with the crowds and go pick up my items in person.
Just like how i\'m going to do this weekend.(christmas shopping)...*sigh*..:(...and if an item is broken i can just go back to the store and return the item, instead of dealing with some loser that lives in west-bubbla-f**k...
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I\'ve bought and sold plenty of shit over the Internet and I\'ve never been scammed once. Just use your head and you\'ll be fine 99% of the time.
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The amount of money I\'ve saved off of weird stuff like camera batteries and phone chargers makes the stress of dealing with people on ebay well worth it. Hmmmm, 45$ for the camera battery in a store or 5$ including shipping on ebay.
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It just sucks for high profile items, in vid\'s case, the wii, because the amount of douchebags and scammers increases exponentially when dealing with those items.
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In all honesty, if a deal looks too good to be true, it probably is. I had a guy on ebay say he would let me pay whatever I want for a HDTV, only he would only take money orders...
so yeah, i would say one out of every hundred ebay sellers are scam artist (bad ones at that).
but it wasn\'t a good deal. I paid a premium because I couldn\'t find it anywhere.
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Usually if you see a guy with a tonne of items suddenly for sale, especially expensive and in demand items (which don\'t match up to former sales), it\'s usually an account that has been hijacked through a weak password or phishing.... and then the scammers get in and out. They hope to delay you from following through and complaining as long as possible to extract the most money from people before they get shut down. REPORT!
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Did it ever come in?
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Not defending this asshole or anything, but the USPS tracking system sucks ass. we try to use it alla time at work and 99% of the time, it won\'t tell you anything unless it\'s been delivered...
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but it wasn\'t a good deal. I paid a premium because I couldn\'t find it anywhere.
Hmmm well I guess he knew that then.
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I keep reading the title as "gay bullshit".
And who\'s this Mr. Kennedy?
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I finally did get the darn thing. SHe didn\'t even pack it in a box. She just put a brown bag around the darn thing and shipped it ground. insane. I had already bought another one so I sold it on ebay for a little more than I bought it for. Then my wife saw one at Target today so I am going to put another on EBAY and get my price down to a normal amount.
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so, its not a scam. just a weird shipping strategy she did there. heh, around the holiday time, i wouldn\'t be surprised if there will be delays on shipping.
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yeah, but the delay was it took her 9 days to ship it. And on day 4 she told me she had already shipped it. She sucked.
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thought you said it was a he...now, its a she...maybe is a he-she?
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Found out it was a she throught the process. Chick is a nutcase. Started spewing that I was calling her names and shit. Very odd. I never called her anything, except a liar. WHich she was. very odd human beings up in Boston.
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I keep reading the title as "gay bullshit".
And who\'s this Mr. Kennedy?
You mean Mrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Kennnedddyyyyy, Kenneddddyy, Kennedy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
He\'s a wrassler.
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Not defending this asshole or anything, but the USPS tracking system sucks ass. we try to use it alla time at work and 99% of the time, it won\'t tell you anything unless it\'s been delivered...
This I agree with. I much prefer FedEX tracking system. I know I\'ve had stuff delivered to my house and still been listed as "In Transit" for the rest of the day. i\'ve also had the complete opposite happen.
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Not defending this asshole or anything, but the USPS tracking system sucks ass. we try to use it alla time at work and 99% of the time, it won\'t tell you anything unless it\'s been delivered...
What happened is this person sent it the cheapest way possible and gave me something that didn\'t waork as a tracking number. She was completely ignorant. She knew I wanted a tracking number and screwed up. Plus I gave her 40 bucks to send it and she sent it for only 16. She could have ponied up some more cash and done it right.
And did I mention she didn\'t pack it in a separate box? Hopefully the machine works. It\'s on its way to Oklahoma...
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what an asshole...well that\'s what feedback is for... hopefully you get it before xmas