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pizzaboy

Avoriaz wrote: »

PB, I am sorry but it would appear that you have either been scammed or the seller has had his account highjacked. I strongly suspect the former.

His home address is not necessarily where he lives and may not help but it is a start. On the off chance that it is somewhere near NW Surrey I might be able to check it out for you.

I can’t offer much more advice than to vigorously pursue a claim through Ebay and PayPal, though you are unlikely to get more than £150 back, and to involve the Police and to consider legal action.

You should report it to the Police and demand that they take it seriously. Obtaining money by deception is a criminal offence so don’t let them fob you off with the “Its a civil matter Sir and we can’t help you” response.

Only consider legal action as a last resort. You could end up spending more time and money for nothing. I have some experience of County Court small claims actions so I would be very happy to help you with that.

Thanks (des;)) mr A

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getting-sorted-sarah

No law says your email address has to be your first and surname!
Hang on till Monday.
Be prepared for the worst but expect the best...

Are any of the feedback he has for items such as yours?

pizzaboy

getting-sorted-sarah wrote: »

No law says your email address has to be your first and surname!
Hang on till Monday.
Be prepared for the worst but expect the best...

Are any of the feedback he has for items such as yours?

Ok the item is a laptop,not a well known make,the other items he had at the time were a mobile phone and a moving picture? he got good feedback on the mobile phone,the day after i won the laptop,all the listings apart from an online business scam type thing he purchased:rolleyes: have been removed.

getting-sorted-sarah

Thats a bit hopeful... theres me being an optimist again! Fingers crossed, nothing you can do for now anyway.
I'd be interested to know the outcome of this one - I seem to be the only one who thinks there is any possibility of it turning up!
An expensive lesson if it doesn't - we've all had those and we've all got carried away on eBay at some point - well, I have anyway.
Really hope it works out.

pizzaboy

getting-sorted-sarah wrote: »

Thats a bit hopeful... theres me being an optimist again! Fingers crossed, nothing you can do for now anyway.
I'd be interested to know the outcome of this one - I seem to be the only one who thinks there is any possibility of it turning up!
An expensive lesson if it doesn't - we've all had those and we've all got carried away on eBay at some point - well, I have anyway.
Really hope it works out.

Ever the optimist like myself

Im really tempted to email him,and there is a mobile number on the paypal transaction,i could just email tosay ebay have pulled the listing and ive started a dispute in paypal.

furrybloke

frivolous_fay wrote: »

Hello... for anyone in doubt - funding paypal with a direct debit does not mean you're protected under the direct debit guarantee. You can't just cancel the direct debit and get your money back.

There are one or two banks that may help in this situation (I can't recall which) but in general, as you authorised the payment, you can't claim it's fraudulent, and you won't get it recalled.

Paypal are annoying in that they make bank funding the default when it's really the LAST way you wanna pay... you just have to be alert and change it every time you make a payment... or remove the direct debit - but again, that presents problems if you ever need to withdraw money.

Fingers crossed that an item does turn up, OP.

For £400 I would phone the bank & say I have just noticed this came out of the account, this should have come off my credit card & play dumb. Tell them you want it recalled & they will do so. Cancel the DD. YOu then make the payment via credit card if needed. Just my 2 pence worth.

pizzaboy

After a quick google ive been able to find this person on a number of different social networking sites,no doubt at all its him,everything checks out,address -age everything.

pizzaboy

The deeper i dig on this bloke,the more im thinking he is genuine,a lot of his online activity and posts end on the 27/12/07 and he will have posted all being well the day after,and by the sounds of it he needs the money!


Edit: now i know why i dont have any facebook or myspace type of accounts,and and always use different user names.

FloFlo

So just contact him tell him your concerned because of the email from ebay and see what he has to say.

pizzaboy

FloFlo wrote: »

So just contact him tell him your concerned because of the email from ebay and see what he has to say.

ebay dont like you contacting people outside of an auction though do they.