Impatient Ebay Sends me viruses....PAYBACK!

[SaintGRW]

ok, so i was bored and bid on a pair of american eagle jeans, i was like why not, under 20 bucks for them? sure. so i bid and won, they send me an e-mail stating i owe 17.50 i'm like ok cool. and i'm pretty busy i work 8-5 at 1 job, then 6-11 at another, so i'm not home very much. i didn't think they sent me a mailing address so i send a letter asking for it...like 2 weeks later i get an e-mail from ebay stating they filed a report saying i haven't paid or something stupid like that...and so i tell them i don't have thier mailing address, they are like yes you do and send it to me again. at anyrate for the past 11 days i've been recieving virus's...1 each day. and i'm like what the hell cause it starts to get annoying, so i check the properties of all the e-mails and find 1 e-mail in common. which was from the same ISP as the person on ebay, so i'm like dick. and i look up the company online and get the service tech. # and called it. talked to a girl and asked if she could tell me if the 2 different e-mails belong to the same user, she kinda got freaked when i told her that i knew what town the person lived in, and she tried to put me to her supervisor, but she already left, so she took down the info and informed me that it was the same account, and that her supervisor will give me a call today to verify this and to have me e-mail the info off each e-mail and then will terminate the person's service.....i find it to be a cool little story, just wondering if anyone else finds that neat.......and anyone think i should actually send the person the 17.50 for the jeans?

 

[amnesiac]

No, screw them. Why should you give them money if they're sending you viruses?

 

[SaintGRW]

cause AE never has that size jeans when i go into the store, and these are like 20 bucks cheaper too. lol. oh man, i didn't say anything about me calling thier ISP, i just sent them this Picture

 

[Yo Ma Ma]

All virus tales aside, waiting over 2 weeks to send you another e-mail requesting payment is NOT what I would classify as an 'impatient' ebay seller. NPBs suck, they really do! If you work too many hours to pay for your winning auctions, then don't bid.

I doubt the seller even knows s/he has a virus attached to their e-mails.

 

[SaintGRW]

i didn't have a mailing address to send the payment to, they said i did. but they never sent it..i checked past e-mails. That is why i didn't send payment. virus was being sent from a separate e-mail, at various times. if it was a virus it would have been sent to me from the e-mail account that has my e-mail address, not another e-mail account. correct?

 

[Yo Ma Ma]

Originally posted by: SaintGRW
i didn't have a mailing address to send the payment to, they said i did. but they never sent it..i checked past e-mails. That is why i didn't send payment. virus was being sent from a separate e-mail, at various times. if it was a virus it would have been sent to me from the e-mail account that has my e-mail address, not another e-mail account. correct?

If the person did omit their payment address in their original email, that really doesn't relieve your obligation to pay, just a quick note back asking for the proper info would have cleared it up. I don't know about the virus infiltration, I suppose it could be a purposeful attack or it could just be using some kind of address lookup from the seller's outgoing emails to send from a different address. As an occasional/part-time ebay seller all I know is I would want my money, could not care less about sending a virus.

 

[Jzero]

if it was a virus it would have been sent to me from the e-mail account that has my e-mail address, not another e-mail account. correct?

Not necessarily. The latest Klez series of viruses spoofs the "from" header. The person it appears to be from is not necessarily the person it came from.

 

[SaintGRW]

If the person did omit their payment address in their original email, that really doesn't relieve your obligation to pay, just a quick note back asking for the proper info would have cleared it up. I don't know about the virus infiltration, I suppose it could be a purposeful attack or it could just be using some kind of address lookup from the seller's outgoing emails to send from a different address. As an occasional/part-time ebay seller all I know is I would want my money, could not care less about sending a virus.

i e-mailed them the day the auction ended asking for the total i owed and the mailing address, all they returned was what i owed...

 

[Yo Ma Ma]

Originally posted by: SaintGRW

If the person did omit their payment address in their original email, that really doesn't relieve your obligation to pay, just a quick note back asking for the proper info would have cleared it up. I don't know about the virus infiltration, I suppose it could be a purposeful attack or it could just be using some kind of address lookup from the seller's outgoing emails to send from a different address. As an occasional/part-time ebay seller all I know is I would want my money, could not care less about sending a virus.

i e-mailed them the day the auction ended asking for the total i owed and the mailing address, all they returned was what i owed...

At which point you proceeded to do... nothing? As I said before, if they failed to include a mailing address for payment then a quick note back to them asking for that info would have cleared things up. Doing nothing at all just drops you into the NPB category.

 

[SaintGRW]

ok, they mis-read, i didn't follow up. alright. i'm not going to argue about it.

 

[hollowman]

Originally posted by: Yo_Ma-Ma

Originally posted by: SaintGRW

If the person did omit their payment address in their original email, that really doesn't relieve your obligation to pay, just a quick note back asking for the proper info would have cleared it up. I don't know about the virus infiltration, I suppose it could be a purposeful attack or it could just be using some kind of address lookup from the seller's outgoing emails to send from a different address. As an occasional/part-time ebay seller all I know is I would want my money, could not care less about sending a virus.

i e-mailed them the day the auction ended asking for the total i owed and the mailing address, all they returned was what i owed...

At which point you proceeded to do... nothing? As I said before, if they failed to include a mailing address for payment then a quick note back to them asking for that info would have cleared things up. Doing nothing at all just drops you into the NPB category.

i hate non-paying bidders too. anyway, if i were you SaintGRW.. i would have contacted the seller long ago. maybe that's just me.

 

[SaintGRW]

ok so i'm a non paying bidder at this moment, apologies go out to the members of this forum because i didn't pay and didn't follow up when they forgot to send me a mailing address. what is it you suggest i do other than send payment?

 

[bonk102]

it's just as much the buyer as the sellers responsibliity to follow up on payment info. If you want your money so much why the hell wouldn't you make sure the person had your maililng address or a paypal address or something???

i dont see why everyone's getting on saintgrw's back here, hte seller should have def. emailed again before complaining to ebay, tha'ts just being a bad/lazy seller