Another eBay scammer

[johnny2007]

Sent a £8 car spark plug, sealed, unopened with manufacturer security seal, all pictured in the ad.
This scammer received it on Friday and today, around 5pm he contacts me saying that the pack was open and the plug used.
He sent a picture of the pack with oil on it when mine was crystal clean.
Taking off postage I was making £5 out of this.
I know it's peanuts and I should've thrown it away, but I'm slowly having a clear out and thought someone might need this one plug.
What scumbag would do such things for £8???
FFS!

 

[Notch7]

Sent a £8 car spark plug, sealed, unopened with manufacturer security seal, all pictured in the ad.
This scammer received it on Friday and today, around 5pm he contacts me saying that the pack was open and the plug used.
He sent a picture of the pack with oil on it when mine was crystal clean.
Taking off postage I was making £5 out of this.
I know it's peanuts and I should've thrown it away, but I'm slowly having a clear out and thought someone might need this one plug.
What scumbag would do such things for £8???
FFS!

It makes me mad when I hear stories like this….it’s not the money it’s the principle

Ebay protects buyers they don’t give a flying fek about sellers.

 

[Highway Man]

Sent a £8 car spark plug, sealed, unopened with manufacturer security seal, all pictured in the ad.
This scammer received it on Friday and today, around 5pm he contacts me saying that the pack was open and the plug used.
He sent a picture of the pack with oil on it when mine was crystal clean.
Taking off postage I was making £5 out of this.
I know it's peanuts and I should've thrown it away, but I'm slowly having a clear out and thought someone might need this one plug.
What scumbag would do such things for £8???
FFS!

Some pricks around, I cannot do with anyone like that. I sold a pair of oakley sunglasses I didn't wear much for a couple of hundred pounds which was peanuts to the value of them. A scammer bought them then put in a complaint to me saying they was broken and sent me a completely different pair back. I was fuming and wanted to go to his address but thought he wasn't worth the trouble.

 

[blup]

I sold a used leccy lawn mower, and eBay ruled in my favour when the purchaser claimed it didn’t work. It was a collection in person and the buyer declined an offer to fire it up, so that probably helped. £8 builds up if you regularly scam people.

 

[Jurassicspark]

And then you’re not able to provide negative feedback as a seller.

Some provide either no feedback or positive feedback with a rather negative comment, which then leads to some people, who don’t know how the feedback mechanism works confused, thinking that the seller got confused themselves, or incorrectly submitted the feedback.

 

[Jurassicspark]

What scumbag would do such things for £8???

Commonly, the people who do it are the ones that have bad feedback.

Or accounts created less than a week ago, without any buying/selling history.

What was the feedback percentage of that buyer?

BTW - I thought, based on one of your recent posts, that you always recorded a video before sending anything?

Can’t you not provide the video to eBay, showing that the item you sent was never opened?

 

[Jurassicspark]

I sold a used leccy lawn mower, and eBay ruled in my favour when the purchaser claimed it didn’t work. It was a collection in person and the buyer declined an offer to fire it up, so that probably helped.

How did they really know that you gave an opportunity for the buyer to test it?

The buyer must have admitted it?

If so, then that’s not a scam and doesn’t fit with this thread.

 

[Mottie]

How did they really know that you gave an opportunity for the buyer to test it?

The buyer must have admitted it?

If so, then that’s not a scam and doesn’t fit with this thread.

You cannot claim it didn’t work, was broke, not as described etc if you or your agent collect it in person as you have the opportunity to reject it at that point.

I sold a laser tracking tool, the buyer sent his son to collect it. Two days later he files a 'not as described/parts missing claim'. He sent a photo of what he had which showed all the items in the advert. EBay told me to refund him, I reminded them of their own rules. They then told him to deliver the tool back to me, they would refund him and I could keep the money from the sale AND the tool! He never bothered returning it to me.

 

[blup]

How did they really know that you gave an opportunity for the buyer to test it?

The buyer must have admitted it?

If so, then that’s not a scam and doesn’t fit with this thread.

No he didn’t admit it, I had a positive record with eBay and that probably helped. Who knows if he had tried it before. He turned up in a Lexus and was well to do, having driven 150 miles to collect.

I know from others that late posting of an item can have an immediate negative impact, it can even get your account temporarily suspended. So eBay try to keep on top of customer care from my experience.

 

[Justin Passing]

I've had a lot of idiots. Once had to be the statue not the pigeon and pay up to avoid made-up bad feedback.

A friend in the US got into a spat with a New Yorker, over expensive lenses.
Friend listed more, but barred the NYer from buying.
NYer obviously got a mate to buy
then Returned it - but the box only contained a beer can with a stone in it.
Plod there said the same as they would here - no evidence.
That was for $1600.

I sold a Nikon objective to someone in the UK , paypal, via a forum.
He claimed it was a Meiji.
I've never owned a Meiji
I recounted the tale on the forum, "someone in Newbury", stopping just short of saying who it was.
Suddenly he remembered where he'd put it.
He sent me a £25 book token as an apology.
Probably just senile, no idea.

 

[Koolpc]

Some bright sparks on here!

 

[johnny2007]

Spoke to eBay and they immediately closed the case in my favour.
Probably this guy has been at it lately.
He has almost 2000 100%positive feedback, so pretty strange.
The mf received the plug on Friday and waited for me to leave positive feedback before starting his little scam.
Apparently that's common with scammers.
I understand when they do such things for expensive stuff, but for less than a tenner?!?!

BTW - I thought, based on one of your recent posts, that you always recorded a video before sending anything?

I got a bit bored with it and stopped doing video for anything under £10/15.
Didn't get any trouble for a long time, even delivery was smooth.
I'll have to start doing it for everything again.