mbassoc2003 wrote:
I imagine the rules and how they are implemented vary from country to country, and even state to state in the US, but I would expect the spirit and mechanic to be similar.

Ian it is different in the US, you can chargeback to a credit card anytime within three months or so regardless of the circumstances.

Mike B.

Well I have used the Paypal process far to often and it has always decided in my favour and refund my cash.  Since I never got the item I am pretty confident I will get the dough back.

Blackmoor wrote:Well I have used the Paypal process far to often and it has always decided in my favour and refund my cash.  Since I never got the item I am pretty confident I will get the dough back.

So far it's worked for me as well.  *crosses fingers*  I hope this settlement works out for you.  

Blackmoor wrote:sigh............. ripped off again, no communication and no item


** expired/removed eBay auction **


Didn't somebody say this guy was another incarnation of JonB

Anyway paypal claim started, I hope it turnms out well

Got the dough back today, the fake tracking number did not work

mbassoc2003 wrote:Glad it all worked out.
It's just a shame T&T couldn't be honest and tell the truth.
Anyone from T&T care to comment?

What does Blackmoors transaction with the jamiepressly guy have to do with T&T?

I used to hesitate to buy from T&T but saw an item at a great price and decided to see what would happen. Since then I have ordered from Troll & Toad a dozen times or more and the service, packing and shipping time has been fantastic.

 My bad!
So there are two guys with two seperate transactions, both with fake tracking numbers and PayPal disputes? One with T&T and one with someone else?

Here was me hoping the one with T&T had been resolved and the guy had got his stuff or his money back? Is that one still open? Or did the guy get his money back? Last I read, T&T had admitted they had given false information to PayPal to win the case, but that they had mailed his order to another person and had not mailed him anything.

And here was me thinking T&T had eventually sorted out a bad transaction? That's a damn shame for that guy.

Good news for Blackmoor, anyways, and I'm glad PayPal eventually relented after the fake delivery information thing.

I've only dealt with T&T a few times, and in both instances their communication was incompetent and rude. One purchase went bad because they agreed to combine shipping beforehand, but then refused to combine shipping after I'd purchased, and the other two deals both turned out to be in a lot worse condition than they described, one item being both damaged and incomplete. They refused to agree a refund, requiring that I mail the items back to the US, so I ended up charging back my CC. Their staff are some of the most ignorant and incompetent call handlers I've ever spoken to. You'd get better service and more intelligent use of the english language calling India or the Philipines. How they educate people in their little part of America really needs to be looked at. But as T&T have said, there really is only the locals they can employ, and they have no choice.

I do get what you say about T&T. I've bought doznes of times from Cougie, sold to him, traded with him, and talked to him on the phone. Never had a single problem and never been screwed on postage.

It seems to be a case that people don't sh!t in their own backyards. T&T seem to have issues with Canadian customers more than any other group, but of course that's just the impressing given by people posting on forums. On the same note, most of Cougie's deals that go bad seem to be with Americans.

Aside... What happended to our French scientist postal officer secret agent who'd sworn an oath to always tell the truth? Did he get banned?

JasonZavoda wrote:I used to hesitate to buy from T&T but saw an item at a great price and decided to see what would happen. Since then I have ordered from Troll & Toad a dozen times or more and the service, packing and shipping time has been fantastic.

sigh.   Another T&T fan boy.

ashmire13 wrote:
The T&T case is in their thread and just haven't returned items that were wrongly included in a sale to them and now they've denied receiving them.

As for the mad scientist, lurker_above has been banned looking at his profile but according to him, he could come back again whenever he wants as he is a computer genius too.    

The guy who said T&T's call handler refused to give her name, was the guy who said T&T had faked delivery information to PayPal in order to win the case, and he was going to PayPal on appeal because USPS had confirmed that the delivery confirmation was bogus, and subsequent to that, T&T arse and T&T elbow weren't communicationg and someone from T&T fessed up to him that they hadn't mailed him his package and would send it to him, and that the delivery confirmation was a mistake.

So what did the mad-scientist super-postal genius do that means he's banned?

Wow...how interesting - I have just seen the last post on here as I was about to post a comment about my first negative feedback received on e-bay.

Just to open - I'm not a professional seller - I'm clearing out old stuff and find Acaeum a fascinating and useful resource for pricing. I don't know whether some of the guys who bought my RPGA rares for big $$ last year use this site but I got rid of them first (all the buyers seemed very happy) and so am now clearing out 'the rest'.

Well....I sold a Near Mint B6 to this French buyer, about £12 I think, so not megabucks. I packed it as well as I could in a jiffy bag, tightly cornered with masking tape and wrote 'DO NOT BEND' in French & English but I didn't even think to put cardboard in there (I haven't done this with the UK shipments I have made in this auction) - I paid £2.19 for an item which actually cost £2.25 to post and would only normally put cardboard in if (i) it was mega bucks and/or the buyer requested it (as one of the rares buyers did last year) and I could quote with that included.

Anyway...today I get my first big red blob on e-bay with this charming feedback (the buyer hadn't contacted me to register his disappointment or ask me to take any action):

"Would-be "near mint" within a jiffy bag => bent VGC at arrival ! NASTY GUY AVOID"

Accompanied by the following more personal e-mail:

"That is what you will earn each time you sent a near mint module within a jiffy bag, without AT LEAST a cardboard within !!!

You're a stupid seller unable to pack items with efficiency."

- guydrin_avalon

Needless to say, I wasn't best pleased so told him that given he hadn't contacted me about this in advance but had left me just 'bad-mouthing' feedback, any apology or discussion of refund on my part was just not going to happen.

So I got this in return:

"Your very high shipping charges concerning other items for sale demonstrates by themselves that you're a ripp off seller !
You're unable to understand how to pack items with efficiency for them to arrive in the same condition they were sent. Writing "do not bend" is clearly not enough, as delivery is automatized for at least 95% of the trip !!!
Given your PATHETIC reaction, i have no other choice instead of going to my bank office tomorrow on the morning for a credit card chargeback, with the item and its picture as proof it is not the item i bet for !
YOU are the idiot, and will stay idiot when my bank office will chargeback my payment and Paypal will have no other choice instead of refunding me because MY BANK OFFICE WILL TAKE DECISION ON MY SIDE and Paypal will also charge you +£6 as chargeback fees ABOVE item price + Shipping !!

See you tomorrow for chargeback, immature guy, as i don't need your nor paypal to recover my funds !
If you were kind, i would have revised my feedback !"

Such charisma Interesting comments, especially as I have actually refunded two previous buyers (out of the very small number I have ever sold to) some money because the actual postage was cheaper than I thought.

But it looks from the above that this guy is known to Acaeum? Was it a mistake dealing with him? Am I totally in the wrong by not putting cardboard in all of my sales?!??

Would appreciate any advice please - is it true that I can be charged back and lose the item? Wow, if that is the case then this lot of e-bay listings will certainly be my last. Anything I can do to stop this?

Jeez...such hassle for getting rid of a few books.

Thanks in advance.