Heya,
Yeah Thanks - unfortunately not enough room on the feedback to leave every complaint I had! Even with the follow-up bit!
There was somebody who left feedback before mine (prior to me leaving feedback, I checked his feedbacks every 1-2 days...just to see what people were saying...and yeah, one person opened a PayPal dispute and because the item was listed as being something that is quite different from the listing, they got to keep the player PLUS get all their money back...so yeah...I just accepted the 15 bux, cos I was sick of it dragging out so long - it would take him 2-3 days to even reply to the PayPal dispute emails! But obviously, the fact the player is 2Gb not 4Gb is reason enough to get a full refund through PayPal...
When you lodge a dispute with ebay, it will automatically take you to lodge the complaint with paypal, since that is how the items are paid for...just make sure you don't settle for crap-all from him. As I previously mentioned, he will try and give you back as little as possible - unless you really chuck-up a stink (like I did)...There are numerous examples of unhappy customers in his feedback that received a meagre 4 dollars or so refund...not worth the hassle really - esp since it costs like a dollar to put any returned funds into your bank account!
My advice - hassle him to death about it - and let him know that if you do not receive a satisfactory amount in a certain period of time (decide how long you're gonna play these games with him)...you're gonna escalate the dispute to a claim - and point out that you know that there are people in the past who have done this to him and they got all their money back from PayPal without having to return the player...He seems to use the tactic of telling people that they are lucky to get a few dollars back and if they don't accept that they won't get anything...He only offered me 8 back to begin with (it was only that high cos I was continually on his back)...I insisted he make it at least 12, and then he offered me 15 (even though he sent me an email saying that he couldn't afford 12, and could give me 10...but that was all he could afford...I don't think he realised that I was the same person who lodged the PP dispute!)
He also tried to minimise his losses by claiming that I was lucky to have gotten the player for only 44 bux...it was worth much more than that...I emailed him back, telling him that this is the risk one runs when doing auctions (rather than buy it now's) on ebay - you don't always get the amount you would have liked...and the fact that he lost out by doing free postage was not my issue - and that if he had asked for postage, people would have known that he was not in Australia - so he was being very shifty and deceptive.
I have reported a number of his current items to ebay - as both Item misrepresentation and Item location misrepresentation - but I don't expect them to actually do anything - they're getting their cut...they don't care. The form you gotta fill out doesn't even let you specify the actual prob - e.g. Item is misrepresented...they only ask fr the item #, and you can't say he's lying about the memory size...it really sucks...and because people are still leaving pos feedback, others are gonna continue to buy from him - he's averaging like 5 neg feedback withdrawals per day - cos he's blackmailing people (I won't refund you a cent until you withdraw your bad feedback - heard this from countless people), and those who leave pos feedback are unaware (and at times don't care or too know-it-all) to actually download the MP3 utilities program to test the actual size!!! So they are contributing to his fraud! It's a harsh statement, I know, but essentially, it's true...I've emailed any of them, I'd say at least 40 of them, only like three have ever responded...
ah well this has turned out to be a longer response that I had intended...so I'll sign off now...It is amazing - the matter has now been sorted out for me, yet the effect it has had on me is not a good one - it just makes me so angry - this guy KNOWS what he is selling is fake, and is using bully tactics and the trusting nature of others (combined with the hacking) to make him appear genuine...
YOU REAP WHAT YOU SOW ROGER!
well, another paragraph after I said I was ending the post...now I'm really gonna stop!
KG
Re: Hacked player from eBay seller rogerlam628
