Online buying experince

BeerCheeze · Posted: Sat, 26 Jan 2008 14:14:48 Post Subject: Online buying experince

So has anyone ever had a bad experience buying something online from like E-bay, a forum, etc? Not a online store but directly from a person.

Just asking because I've had my 1st one, we bought some posters from a seller on e-bay and looks like he stiffed us. First problem in over 7 years of buying this way. Bang Head

O'well... only $27 and I'll either get the item or PayPal will reimburse me (supposedly).

Figured I'd check and see if anyone else has had any problems.

**Modulok** · Posted: Sat, 26 Jan 2008 14:47:47 Post Subject:

I had one guy try to stiff me on ebay.

I ordered a few DVDs and a PC game (guildwars nightfall). The DVDs were fine, and the game was supposed to be new, but it was missing the access key. (the game is worthless without the key).

He never responded to emails, so I reported him to paypal. He never responded to them either. After about a month I got an email from paypal stating that they ruled in my favor. I got refunded for the full amount (DVDs + game + shipping).

Later the guy asked me to retract my bad feedback on ebay. I ignored him.

**Doctor Feelgood** · Posted: Sat, 26 Jan 2008 15:58:22 Post Subject:

I have had issues, but nothing ever ended badly... And I have hundreds of deals on forums (going back 7 years) and on eBay (going back 9 years).

The worst is that a few people that bought from me never paid, but that just wasted time since I don't ship without payment.

For buying, I think the worst was that someone sold something listed as "in stock" on eBay, and when I asked if it had shipped 4 days later they said that it wouldn't be available for 7-10 more days. I asked for an immediate refund and got one.

knight0334 · Posted: Sat, 26 Jan 2008 16:23:29 Post Subject:

I bought/won on some gun parts from a guy at eBay that weren't all there as listed and pictured in the auction. It took a month of emails back and forth, then he did find the part laying between a table and something else(rolled off or cat knocked it off). He totally admitted to screwing up the initial transaction, but on accident. He sent the part immediately after finding it and wrapped a $20 bill around it in consideration for my grief. Which was a nice gesture I think.

Blue|Fusion · Posted: Sat, 26 Jan 2008 16:52:29 Post Subject:

I've bought a few things on eBay and I've never really had a bad transaction with anyone thus far. The only problem I've had was when I bought a Foundry ServerIron switch with a F2GE (2x fiber gigabit ethernet ports) module installed. Once I got the fiber cables from another eBay sale, it didn't work. I contacted the seller because they said all was functioning in the auction. They in turn contacted the original owner. They said it was fine, bit it still didn't work. I ended up just buying a newer model of the module and it all worked fine. Cost an extra $400 but was worth it, since the switch new would have been around $12,000 as configured.

Charlie · Posted: Sat, 26 Jan 2008 18:14:20 Post Subject:

I only buy from eTailers with the exception being the few people I know online to be good traders. With this strategy, I've never had a bad experience...

heylinder · Posted: Sat, 26 Jan 2008 20:59:05 Post Subject:

I've bought from eBay several times without a problem. At least not on the sellers part. One time I ordered the wrong size rocker patch ... my fault Smile

FOX · Posted: Sat, 26 Jan 2008 23:09:24 Post Subject:

only once from a very reuptable company. They rebuild car parts. My gauges went out in my Audi factory repair is around 1200 this company does it for 250 but you have to mail the part to them (car doesnt run without this part). They say it takes 2 weeks to get it back to my door... It took 5 and the best part is that not only was I without my car for that time, they sent the part back bad yet! Tried to fight through paypal but they told me to mail the part back to have them "fix" it again. I denied that because I couldn't be without my car for another friggen month so I'm just out the money... Only negative experience I've ever had

borschtBomber[SS] · Posted: Mon, 28 Jan 2008 13:03:49 Post Subject:

Only negative experience I had was back when I first started building my own pc's and buying parts through forums. Bought a Geforce2 MX video card...when I got it, didn't work. Guy kept telling me it worked when he shipped and that I messed it up. Basically brought it up in a forum (without mentioning any names) and he quickly jumped into the discussion saying I was full of crap. Needless to say I think some mods got involved and he ended up refunding my money and I was just out the shipping to send it back. Thats been my only somewhat negative experience, other than that its been all positive. Smile

BeerCheeze · Posted: Fri, 01 Feb 2008 01:28:16 Post Subject:

Well the guy never responded to my e-mails, or neg feed back. So I put it in dispute with PayPal, and suddenly the guy refunds my money and says "Your posters were returned to us today. Thanks for your patience and understanding. "

Yea... right.