Scammed ?

Scammed ?

  • Report to PayPal.

    Votes: 18 39.1%

  • Report to PayPal and reveal Seller's name here.

    Votes: 28 60.9%

  • No reporting, wait, & keep trying to contact for 1-2 weeks.

    Votes: 2 4.3%

  • Do nothing , accept loss, move on.

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Total voters
    46
Status
Not open for further replies.
Pickett Wilson said:
srtiwari,..... but seeking resolution through paypal would probably be the better route (although that's not likely to get you anywhere, either!).
Click to expand...

Hi srtiwari and Pickett,

I don't know the uses and customs of credit card companies in the US, but has this happened to me in Israel, I think I could count with the help of MY local credit card company vis a vis Paypal, retrieving immediately the payment, without me having to wait any Paypal concilium ecumenicum about who is right, who is wrong, and in any case pay Paypal another fee for the dispute. Hope this helps

Dear srtiwari,
I symphatize with your case, yet perhaps a slight remark may be of help. The fact that the seller doesn't answer and you want to cancel the transaction, which you have every right to do, is not necessary equal to the possibility the seller will abuse you. I mean, you have every right to defend your rights - this is one thing. What is happening to the un-answering seller this is a totally different and speculative so far issue, that is not to be linked (the seller is a good guy, wait for him - or the like).

As for RFF sellers,
I think it will be nice if buyers check sellers participation in the threads, their interest in photography as recorded here, and accordingly asign them the RFF community umbrella, or not.
It seems to me there are people registered as members for the purpose of selling gear only.

Cheers,
Ruben
 
I'm going to look at the Leica forum!.....the doc says too much exitement in a day is bad for me!:(
(now 'there is the possibility the seller will abuse you' ) :eek:
 
Last edited:
memphis said:
I've threatened nobody. I'm just describing a result of a better system
Click to expand...

ignorance abounds. your precious street justice seems to be doing worlds of good in iraq, pakistan, afghanistan, somalia, etc...unless you happen to not be exactly the same color/race/religion/gender as everyone else with clubs and guns.

the mafia and gangs in general are populated by cowards who are nothing without their guns. no different than ignorant skinheads or the klan.

so go ahead and sit in your house waiting for the lights to go out and for obama's minions to come and take away your guns. the world is a better place with you hiding in fear.

bob
 
I notice SUbhash has been on-line for at least an hour since at least I noted about a transaction I had early last year.

I was very happy with the transaction. Mildly miffed that the seller took 13 days, once he'd had my money, to post the item. Granted it was $300, not $1000.

If you had taken a couple more days I would have instituted a PayPal dispute with you, Subhash - but I certainly wouldn't have opened the floodgates to all this crap.
 
climbing_vine said:
The way I see it, frankly? The buyer is too cheap and lazy to buy a bonafide item from a physical store, so he jumped at a low price from someone he didn't know on the internet who is apparently selling out of desperation. He didn't look much, if at all, at the person's background, and used a conduit with very little accountability.
Click to expand...

Seriously? You think the buyer was just asking for it? Because he offered to pay some guy's asking price?
Geez dude. There may be some lynch-mob mentality on display in this thread, but I think you've gone a little overboard in the other direction.
 
I'd make sure the site moderators and owner are fully aware of this if they are not already. You should at least reveal the details to them if not us as well. In my view this member/seller person should be banned -- others are likely to preyed upon here if not. I predict PayPal will be of little help. "Buyer protection" is for eBay purchases through PayPal only, and it has limitations as well (particularly dollar amount limitations).
 
tbarker13 said:
Seriously? You think the buyer was just asking for it? Because he offered to pay some guy's asking price?
Geez dude. There may be some lynch-mob mentality on display in this thread, but I think you've gone a little overboard in the other direction.
Click to expand...

Didn't say he was asking for it. Said he should've known darn well that this might take a while given all the evidence, and to start the angst when, in fact, the "duh" consequences came is a little much.

Could've just made his paypal claim and moved on if he wasn't willing to wait any longer. No reason to start a thread that gives all the psychos a reason to wave their tiny penises around and get their urine on all of us.
 
David Murphy said:
I predict PayPal will be of little help. "Buyer protection" is for eBay purchases through PayPal only, and it has limitations as well (particularly dollar amount limitations).
Click to expand...


So if the buyer opens a dispute, it works only if it is an ebay item?
well, well, ebay (which IIRC owns PP) is working very hard to try to get a reputation of reliability that they don't have...
 
climbing_vine said:
Didn't say he was asking for it. Said he should've known darn well that this might take a while given all the evidence, and to start the angst when, in fact, the "duh" consequences came is a little much.

Could've just made his paypal claim and moved on if he wasn't willing to wait any longer. No reason to start a thread that gives all the psychos a reason to wave their tiny penises around and get their urine on all of us.
Click to expand...

Maybe so. But I don't see a reason to insult the OP by calling him cheap and lazy. Hell, he's been more patient than I would have been.
 
tbarker13 said:
Maybe so. But I don't see a reason to insult the OP by calling him cheap and lazy. Hell, he's been more patient than I would have been.
Click to expand...

Agree. The shipping takes max 7 days within CONUS via USPS priority (never used first class or anything else). Two weeks would be my limit.
OP is patient enough FYI
 
Status
Not open for further replies.
Back
Top Bottom