**Warning**about eBay seller

Not saying you should close out your claim, by all means do what is neccessary to get what you paid for. I'm just updating my situation.

I really do feel bad that this has happened, for the people here & the seller screwing up his reputation. I really thought he was doing good.

Not to defend the guy, but alot of people on Ebay self-insure their items. Meaning, if you were to say the item was broke or whatever, they would have you send the item back and they'd chalk it up as a loss and refund your money. Most sellers who pack their items well would end up making money off of this because theoretically there would not be many insurance claims.

It's perfectly legal too. Nowhere is there a law that says you can't self-insure merchandise.

I get what he was saying. If someone self-insures something, they may charge $0.50-$1 or more to insure the item themselves (not through the post office). They don't need an insurance sticker if they do this.

I just got my stuff. Spoke with the seller the other day & he's having a string of bad luck.

My order was complete & hopefully I'll be able to post some pics in the next few days.

I'm pretty forgiving, but a string of bad luck is one thing, lying and avoiding buyers is another. Each and every one of us who contacted him got the same runaround about the items being sent already, him being in Mexico, and a promise to "check on it" which never happened. None of us got anything sent until we escalated it to a paypal claim (delivery confirmation numbers show that the items were sent AFTER the claims were made). If we wouldn't have gone to those lengths I am sure none of us would've gotten anything. He was having bad luck, whatever. He needed money and he figures he'd stiff a few people on ebay to get it. To top it off, when I (and others I see) finally DID get what we paid for, it was sent in the cheapest way possible and not insured after we were told insurance was mandatory and we had to pay for it. So he pocketed a little extra cash off the shipping, too).

I'm not trusting the guy again.

I got ripped off like that so I left negative feedback
the seller leaves me negative feedback even though I did nothing wrong!

yesterday i won my paypal claim. the seller never even responded to paypal. i receieved a whopping 88 cents. payapl said that they will attempt to recover the rest of the funds but that currently the seller didnt have enough in his account. this tells me he is on the verge of up and abandoning the account completely. how is the refund issued? do i get a check? the money was not put back on my card which is what i expected to happen. i'm very dissatisfied with this whole situation.