More ebay grief

[owdamer]

I bid on a pair of R6 calipers earlier tonight, but didn't win as my bid was lower than the reserve. The auction ended and the calipers were unsold. late I recieved an email from the seller offering me them for the price I bid which was £31. The email said that the offer had also been made to the other bidder and the first to respond would get them. I bid, won and paid my money. I little later I got another email saying the other bidder had been quicker.
I found my page, the other bidders page and noticed that I paid a minute before the other guy. I also noticed that he only paid £30.
next thing I get an email saying my money had been refunded, minus £1.51 in fees WTF!!. I expect that when I transfer the money back to my bank account i'm going to have to pay a transfer fee as well. what a fucking wanker. How is it every time I deal with someone from essex the deal goes tits up?? Is everyone in essex a fucking conman???

His user is is m26661
And the guys name is

Merle Grout
Wedow Road
Thaxted,
Essex

Wheres siggi when you need him. lol

[LustyLew]

[Jamie S]

[phantomtek]

[owdamer]

Its the sellers name and address. I got it off his paypal details.
I'm well pissed off about this. I really wanted those calipers on my bike. The other guy who bid is just gonna sell em. he sold an identical pair for £65 last month.

[Jamie S]

[Ste]

Point out to him the refund button in Paypal which means the money gets returned without Paypal taking a cut of it anywhere along the way.

If the second chance offer wasn't done through eBay then by all means report him to eBay if you want.

[phantomtek]

[The View Askew]

There will be no calipers, if he is doing this its quite simple.

He places an item on ebay, not necessarily one he has,

He sets a stupidly high reserve to which you he will not disclose.

He allows you to bid up to whatever you allow.

The auction unsold, he offers you for your price on the item,

There is no other buyer, he will have only contacted you.

He will take your money, and will issue a refund minus a small amount.

He has in fact made a tiny profit on nothing.

If he does this to a lot of people, he will make a fortune.



He may well have had the calipers and intended to sell the them as it was cheap. (No big time advantage to him)

It may have been just a discrepency but it stinks of scammers tecniques.
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[owdamer]

Well i've got his address now. I may just send him a few letters (well, envelopes) without stamps on. Then he can pay money out and get sod all in return.
Childish it may be, but its boring being a grownup.

[Jamie S]

[Mr.Everready]

[owdamer]

Because I can't afford £65. If I coulda I woulda.
The seller had listed them as callipers instead of calipers so they probably got missed by a lot of buyers. They go for £40-70 usually. I'm pretty sure the guy who got them will just relist them when he recieves them, but he knows how to spell caliper so he'll double his money.

[ncrn]

[phantomtek]

[ncrn]

I just typed define:joke into google,
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[Louise]

Fooking Ebay,
Won helmet for 9.99 - Postage 7.99

Now, he changed the postage to 19.99 over paypal - Sucks

[st3v3]

[Louise]

Ive minus some charges off of paypal to the original price I was ment to pay.
I got an email off him last night saying its in its original box ect, but didnt reply to the original question
If he dose say anthing then yeah I will inform Ebay

[Mudskipper]