An ebay deal starts to smell fishy *time to hunt, need help*

[jinglingxl]

Ok after the paypal complain, now the investigation is closed...and they can't recover any funds for me :| I gotta wait for full 30 days to file a fraud complain with ebay. Now I'm just very anxious to track down this ebay Troll. Appearantly I can't find his real address, since he left a phony contact info after he scammed people. The only thing I have on him is an email address from Yahoo, and his ip from the header, which i know is pretty useless. He is now not registered with ebay anymore, what other legal action can I take to hunt him down?? After paypal determined that they can't recover any funds, what do they do next??

This is latest email I received from him after I filed paypal complain. He still lying and try to make me think that the Item will come, which I wouldnt believe for a sec.
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I believe status is pending with paypal to pay you
back if refunded throgh paypal and item comes put an
amount you think is fair back into my paypal account
im very sorry have alot of stuff for sale got mixed up
and i screwed stuff up im sorry
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Any help would be appreciated.

 

[UDT89]

i love how paypal can take money away from you if someone pays with a stolen credit card. But if you send your own hard earned money and its an open and shut case you didnt get your merch, you get stugotz.


I dont think im gonna send money with paypal anymore, only on AT.

 

[Mallow]

A guy sent me a letter from South Dakota once and it took 10 days, no kidding! He said the mail takes like 3 days just to get out of his state! Lame but true! If he is from a sparselly populated state it might take this long? I dunno.

 

[amdskip]

Just tell discover to refuse paying paypal. They will do it!

 

[TranceNation]

i guess you're out of luck, you're CC can't cancel a charge? time to get a new CC in my book.

 

[Packy]

Originally posted by: jinglingxl

Any other source I can get involved with to resolve this other that Ebay and Paypal?

I'd recommend contacting the FBI Internet Fraud Center. I gave them ALL the info I had compiled on a lowlife on Yahoo auctions a few years ago. IF you're sure you were screwed (sounds like you were), they will initiate an investigation and will ask for as much info on this jerk as you have.

Kick this guy in the balls as hard as you can so he can't screw anyone else over.

[edit] BTW, your credit card should instantly credit your account for the missing amount if you call them and explain what happened and give them the details. I had to do this with paypal (same incident as above), since they basically said "screw you, the guy has no funds in his account so you're SOL" and I had my CC initiate the chargeback. Paypal got REALLY pissed off and told me that they might cancel my account since I was trying to resolve the situation with someone other than them. Well hey, they wouldn't do anything! Anyhoo, long story short, they never cancelled my account. Wussies

 

[jinglingxl]

Originally posted by: amdskip
Just tell discover to refuse paying paypal. They will do it!

I did call discover, they said they can not refund the money because Paypal is a third party charge, and they(paypal) are responsible for the fund once the charge is been made.

 

[jinglingxl]

I emailed few other people that had complained with him for receiving fake glasses. I was able to get the return address this troll has been using to send items, but it was a PO Box address. Are there any ways to get leads from a PO Box address?

 

[dabuddha]

Originally posted by: jinglingxl
I emailed few other people that had complained with him for receiving fake glasses. I was able to get the return address this troll has been using to send items, but it was a PO Box address. Are there any ways to get leads from a PO Box address?

maybe report it to the post office

 

[woowoo]

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