Time to start surfing the eBay site map. I forget where it is, maybe under Trust and Safety (though something tells me they moved it out of there an put it under another heading), but there is a place to lodge fraud complaints.
IIRC PayPal will only back you up on non-receipt of goods, and then only for 30 days. But it's been a while since I had to deal with this (at the wrong end, actually, for a guy who went postal on me when a package was delayed in transit), so I'm sorta fuzzy. It's bloody hard to get your hands on a living, breathing eBay employee to get action... but it can be done. Good luck Mac on 7/11/06 1:45 PM, Zeitgeist at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Oh, I forgot to mention that the seller also has some rather nasty Negative > Feedback, which should've been red flag enough. I screwed up royale on this > one. > > On 7/11/06, Zeitgeist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> Well, if finally happened...I got taken by an Ebay scheister. Let me >> state at the outset that I screwed up and didn't do my homework here, but >> nevertheless, the item in question was not fairly represented. I've been >> looking for some time now for a newer dash to replace the cracked and faded >> one in my TD. I thought I'd found it: >> >> "Up for sale us a used complete dash panel from a 1992 Mercedes 300E. As >> you can see this item is in excellent condition, all mounting brackets are >> present while the top doesn't suffer from tears or rips. item was pulled >> from a 1992 Mercedes 300E Please do additional research for additional >> models and years Payment must be received within three days from the auction >> end." >> >> http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1&item=1400031388 >> 02 >> >> Sounds complete and excellent, huh? Wrong! This thing is tweaked, >> badly. It's missing both the pieces of wood trim to the left of the >> glovebox. There appears to be crash impact dents on the front edge of the >> top, while the lower edge is twisted and distorted, so that the glovebox >> door won't open or close correctly; essentially this thing is $130 of >> complete worthlessness. Upon closer inspection of the one photo in the ad, >> I can now see that the wood trim is missing, but at the time the phrase >> "complete dash panel" obscured my vision--dumb, huh? >> >> The seller hasn't returned my email complaints (they were cordial, I >> promise), so what can I do now? I paid through PayPal, does that change >> anything? Like I said, I admit to not caveating my emptor enough, but the >> seller also deserves some blame here, correct? >> >> Do I have any recourse at this point? >> >> -- >> Casey >> Olympia, WA >> Biodiesel: "I drive in a persistent vegetative state" >> '87 300TD intercooler #22 (216k) >> '84 300D (214k) >> Gashuffer: >> '89 Vanagon Wolfsburg Edition (187K) >> http://users.zhonka.net/zeitgeist/Misc/IMG_0171.JPG >> >> >
