Scammed on ebay

Brooker_Dave

jamesevans25 wrote: »

What do you think the chances of getting this person convicted are? I got their address from ebay.

Make sure the address is pucker.

Brooker_Dave

jamesevans25 wrote: »

What do you think the chances of getting this person convicted are?

Strong if you can track them down. You may not be the only one, have you been to the police?

Nex0

soolin wrote: »

Probably not in all honesty as although there is an intention to deceive the auction still required quite a large degree of negligence on the part of the buyer.

As there are no completed listings with this title I am also assuming this all happened quite a while ago, so chasing the seller down now may prove difficult and you need to be able to find him to serve court papers.

I know what your saying but thats a lot of money to give up on.

Personally id see if I could find his address and then take it from there.

eva16006159

Yeah was a couple of months ago. Iv been waiting for paypal investigations.

soolin

jamesevans25 wrote: »

What do you think the chances of getting this person convicted are? I got their address from ebay.

You might be able to try for 'deception' but that's about it, I doubt whether fraud would be considered possible as once again you got what you paid for.

Even if you do win at small claims they don't automatically get your money back, so you would have to be prepared to put time and effort into this. That's why getting together with other buyers might be benficial.

Nex0

Millionaire wrote: »

I was watching Judge Judy a couple of months back and they had someone on there that got scammed the same way. They got there money back.

I would find out about taking them to small claims court and make sure next time you read descriptions properly.

Wouldn't happen to be one with a lady ripping of a couple of women over a mobile phone would it?

If so I also saw that one and boy did she lay into her and rightly so.

Brooker_Dave

jamesevans25 wrote: »

Yeah was a couple of months ago. Iv been waiting for paypal investigations.

Paypal messing around for months may help your case if you choose to persue paypal.

Nex0

jamesevans25 wrote: »

Yeah was a couple of months ago. Iv been waiting for paypal investigations.

Sorry but I thought you said you paid by bank transfer?

Brooker_Dave

Millionaire wrote: »

I was watching Judge Judy a couple of months back and they had someone on there that got scammed the same way. They got there money back.

Judge Judy is a TV show.

If someone on Trumpton got had over on ebay it would have about as much bearing on the real world...

danmanchester

Nex0 wrote: »

Sorry but I thought you said you paid by bank transfer?

Think the OP means the Paypal direct debit straight from his bank acc funded this. Ouch