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Default Ebay fraud...

I recently bid on and won a nice Ramset semiautomatic powder actuated
stud gun. After bidding on a ****load and losing, I got this one very
cheaply for some reason. $19, About half or less than normally sold
for on ebay. Total with inflated shipping was about $50.

Within minutes, I paid via paypal and waited for it to arrive so I
could put it to work.

About 5 days later, I got a Paypal notice that my money had been
refunded, with a followup email from the sender that she had shipped
it to another buyer (of another stud gun she alleged to have sold) by
accident, and he was refusing to answer her email messages to send it
back.
Ok..accidents h appen. I told her I might be interested in the one she
sold to him, that was not shipped.

Then I started looking at her completed auctions to see what kind it
was.

Odd...no other stud guns were sold by her.... within 30 days of the
one I won.

I emailed her a second time, making mention that it would be a shame
for her to get a seriously negative feedback and a complaint to Ebay,
if she had decided it didnt sell for what she thought it should have,
and was playing games, but she seemed like a very nice lady and
wouldnt stoop that low, with her 100% positive feedback rating to
date. I told her Id wait a bit before leaving feedback.

Ive not as of yet left her any feedback. Ill wait a week or so more.
Still no response from her on the last email yet.

I know I have no recourse, of course. She returned the money. But this
is the 3rd time this sort of thing has happened to me in the last
year..and Im a bit ****ed off.

Damn..it was a nice one and one Im unlikely to find again for a price
I can afford. Same as the last 2 items others have played
catchme****me with.

With the increases in "shipping"..its getting to be cheaper to haunt
pawn shops than buy on ebay.

/rant off


Gunner