I suspect I and several other people have been scammed!

[homostuck]

Story goes like this.

There was a seller on eBay who was selling things at too good to be true prices. 8gb macbook RAM, Car Radios, MS Office etc for only $24 each, well in that range. I bought two of his RAM kits for $24.99 and payed straight away. About two days after I payed, he got banned off eBay for an unspecified reason. He had around 130 feedbacks and only 2 negs which seemed legitmate. As I was saying, he got banned and now there is no way to contact him. I tried doing a dispute, but all I got was "We're sorry there's a problem with your purchase. Unfortunately, this item isn't in a category safeguarded by eBay Buyer Protection. You can try to work out this problem by contacting the seller." Because of this, I suspect the ban was staged so buyers cannot send a dispute or get their money back.  He somehow exploited PayPal's system to prevent a dispute being sent towards him. This has probably affected several other people too has his stuff was selling like hotcakes! I think I've lost $50 from this scammer! What do I do? This was only a week ago.

[harley_babes_hoard]

"There was a seller on eBay who was selling things at too good to be true prices. 8gb macbook RAM, Car Radios, MS Office etc for only $24 each, well in that range. I bought two of his RAM kits for $24.99 and payed straight away."

So why the heck did you buy. If it 's too good to be true it usually is!!

[bakeandfry]

Aussie post visa is by heritage bank, you would of got a slip of paper with your card giving you all info needed....

[horizon1907]

Oh dear. You have got some work in front of you.  Really hope you can get your funds back. Please learn from these scammers. As h b h says,if it sound too good to be true, don't bother.  🙂

[homostuck]

http://feedback.ebay.com.au/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewFeedback2&userid=yuanmin09&_trksid=p3984.m1439.l277...

That feedback tells me he is legitimate. Seems almost foolproof. There was no way at all to tell if he is a scammer or not. Gosh I've been getting scammed left and right on ebay!

[zelly888]

If you checked all his legit feedback you would have noticed that not one + was for anything that you thought you purchased.That's a telling sign that you might be getting scammed.

[horizon1907]

Maybe, give up buying altogether anything from OS. Buy local and make sure they are local and not saying they have a warehouse etc in Australia. It's usually Chinese sellers again. Once bitten, twice shy 🙂

[i-love-my-sheep]

I don't understand it when people say something sounds too good to be true.....then they go ahead and buy it anyway. Makes no sense to me at all! I didn't realise there were still so many gullible people around.

[van_werkhoven]

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@send_me_it wrote:

I can't! The RAM was in the Cars Bikes and Boats category. This may have been under the exploit also as there is no I didn't receive my item.

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Does anyone else find this a little awesome. You gotta admit, that's a pretty smart scam right there, listing in the catagory ineligible for protection. 

[homostuck]

I'll admit it is pretty smart, but the amount of people that bought his items is in the thousands.. I smell a class action lawsuit happening.

[lyndal1838]

You have lost $50 and you are talking International lawsuits?

How awesome is that?  If you have so much money that you can afford that then surely $50 is not much to lose?