Re: [Chrysler300] best last resort re difficult ebay sellers?

["christopher beilby" <thelastbestgenius@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Roger Schaaf raises a very valid point that anyone buying on ebay is far 
safer dealing with those sellers who accept Paypal for payments.  
Unfortunately those of us not in the US have very limited options of finding 
those harder than usual items, let alone the easy ones for those in the US.

Anyone dealing with ebay takes their chances, must (unfortunately) expect 
the odd dodgy seller that either lies about the item's condition, or maybe 
never sends it.  Their feedback is a good help/start, plus certainly 
accepting paypal is another backup should they be dishonest/dodgy.

Hopefully my rare part I have sent the Money Order will turn up, but that 
doubt is why I paid extra for Air shipping, rather than the far cheaper 8-14 
weeks Surface takes - if I am dudded, I want to know now, rather than wait 
12-14 weeks to find out I have thrown hundreds down the toilet. I often tell 
my friends I have 'sucker' written on my forehead that only I cannot see - 
hope I am Ok this time.

yours Christopher from Oz


>From: "Roger Schaaf" <obiwan10@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>To: <Chrysler300@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,"christopher beilby" 
><thelastbestgenius@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>Subject: Re: [Chrysler300] best last resort re difficult ebay sellers?
>Date: Wed, 7 Jun 2006 14:50:01 -0700
>
>I would be leery to give a difficult seller a money order or cash transfer. 
>  With a Paypal or credit card payment, you do have some hope of 
>compensation if the merchandise does not arrive or is not as advertised.  
>Even someone with a clean feedback record, I could still lose some sleep 
>while I wait.  An example could be a vendor who sold you something, you 
>send cash or check, he files bankruptcy, you are now just another creditor. 
>  Or perhaps just do send for whatever reason, who do you call for help, 
>the local police?
>
>It is too easy to set up a Paypal account.  A seller who does not have one, 
>could be a problem.  I know however that many sellers hate to pay Paypal 
>their ounce(pound?) of flesh, but I still would be quite cautious.
>
>Roger Schaaf
>300 B
>   ----- Original Message -----
>   From: christopher beilby
>   To: Chrysler300@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>   Sent: Wednesday, June 07, 2006 6:45 AM
>   Subject: [Chrysler300] best last resort re difficult Ebay sellers?
>
>
>   Thanks to John Hertog and others re suggestions of how to try to get
>   difficult ebay sellers to complete deals they perhaps were not happy 
>with
>   (ie maybe wanted to get (fair bit?) more than an item closed at?! )
>
>   It seems suggestion is the magic word/trick is to mentionthat 'f' word -
>   "feedback".
>   After near two weeks of failing to reply/provide total price/invoice me,
>   just 8 hours after me mentioning I hoped nothing was wrong his end, and 
>if
>   he gave no response, maybe all I could do was ask/mention this in any
>   feedback I left. Suddenly I get a price, and then an invoice - so I have
>   got a Money Order, put it in Airmail, now I wait 5-8 days after say 4-6 
>days
>   for it to get to him, and see if item arrives.
>
>   He has been listed with ebay for quite a few years, and never has had
>   negative feedback - don't know if this 'f' trick would work on sellers 
>who
>   don't have 100% positive feedback.
>
>   Local news fron SA - encountered my 2nd only aussie (new) 300C in peak 
>hour
>   traffic yesterday - white, followed it for about 5 mins, old dude 
>driving it
>   fairly sedately. They standout, but they are not the original 300C, if 
>you
>   know what I mean?! SA is not real wealthy re other larger aussie states, 
>so
>   maybe they more common there?
>
>   Christopher in Adelaide South Australia, where they are suggesting it 
>the
>   perfect place to dump/store world's nuclear waste (the Brits tested atom
>   bombs on our outback locals back in the early 50s, so I suppose this is
>   progress, better than that?!)
>
>
>
>   
>
>
>I choose Polesoft Lockspam to fight spam, and you?
>http://www.polesoft.com/refer.html




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