beware of buyer A L I A S possible scammer
07-31-2005, 12:32 PM
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beware of buyer A L I A S possible scammer
to make an incredibly long story short(but still long) user A L I A S contacted me over 2 weeks ago interested in buying my zeal s6 coilover set. he offered significantly less than i was asking and i told him i cant do that price but i gave him the price i could do. we had im converstations for a couple days he was asking me all about the suspension, the history, the condtion... rightfully so. and at that point he said he will send the money in 2 weeks b.c thats when he gets paid.
we stayed in contact over the past two weeks inquiring about shipping cost and assuring me he is 100% about buying the coilovers he is just waiting to get paid, i told him i would only ship to paypal confirmed address and gave him my shipping quotes accordingly. he agreed and said everything is still a go, then a couple days later said ups will ship for $10... my jaw dropped that ups would ship a 35lb package insured for over 1200$ for only 10$, well he wanted me to ship to a nissan dealership that he susposedly works at, i asked for his zip code and checked for myself. fedex would do 15$ to residential address, i told him again i would only ship to residential confirmed address(to his bank account) and fedex was only 5$ more expensive than his bogus ups price anyway... so whats the problem?
that was wednesday and i havnt heard from him since, he was susposed to send payment on friday and is now not responding to any of my pms
to sumarize, i think after building a repor with me over two weeks he tried to non-chalantly get me to ship to a buisness that would be basically untracable. when i refused b/c im not a ******* idiot he backed out of the sale, but not even with any dignity, he just ran away.
i just want others to know the story. as a rule of thumb dont ship to address that is not confirmed... when the buyer retracts the paypal payment, or cancles the credit card payment, paypal will take the $ back from you the seller, and you wont be able to argue b/c you didnt ship to confirmed address in the first place.
if A L I A S or a friend of his is reading this, i would LOVE to hear your side of the story at this point.
we stayed in contact over the past two weeks inquiring about shipping cost and assuring me he is 100% about buying the coilovers he is just waiting to get paid, i told him i would only ship to paypal confirmed address and gave him my shipping quotes accordingly. he agreed and said everything is still a go, then a couple days later said ups will ship for $10... my jaw dropped that ups would ship a 35lb package insured for over 1200$ for only 10$, well he wanted me to ship to a nissan dealership that he susposedly works at, i asked for his zip code and checked for myself. fedex would do 15$ to residential address, i told him again i would only ship to residential confirmed address(to his bank account) and fedex was only 5$ more expensive than his bogus ups price anyway... so whats the problem?
that was wednesday and i havnt heard from him since, he was susposed to send payment on friday and is now not responding to any of my pms
to sumarize, i think after building a repor with me over two weeks he tried to non-chalantly get me to ship to a buisness that would be basically untracable. when i refused b/c im not a ******* idiot he backed out of the sale, but not even with any dignity, he just ran away.
i just want others to know the story. as a rule of thumb dont ship to address that is not confirmed... when the buyer retracts the paypal payment, or cancles the credit card payment, paypal will take the $ back from you the seller, and you wont be able to argue b/c you didnt ship to confirmed address in the first place.
if A L I A S or a friend of his is reading this, i would LOVE to hear your side of the story at this point.
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