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Subject: [Leica] EBay Paypal Scam - a Reprise - Off Topic
From: wrs111445 at yahoo.com (W. R. Smith)
Date: Tue, 21 Sep 2010 20:14:44 -0700 (PDT)

Howard:

With all the scams on ebay happening all over the world, you are lucky to be 
out just $10!

Bill

--- On Tue, 9/21/10, Jayanand Govindaraj <jayanand at gmail.com> wrote:

From: Jayanand Govindaraj <jayanand at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [Leica] EBay Paypal Scam - a Reprise - Off Topic
To: "Leica Users Group" <lug at leica-users.org>
Date: Tuesday, September 21, 2010, 9:42 PM

Montie,
Except that Howard is usually found in Hong Kong and Bali! I am
curious - are citizens of CONUS unfailingly honest, and the rest of us
are scamps?
Cheers
Jayanand

On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 4:26 AM, Montie Talbert <montoid at earthlink.net> 
wrote:
> Thanks Howard, good lesson here! ?SHIP CONUS ONLY (Unless you
> know buyer personally).
>
> Montie
>
>
>>>Hi Luggers,
>
> Thought you might like to know the follow up and conclusion to my
> posting about the experience with the Paypal / Ebay scam I reported on
> last week.
>
> My Ebay buyer in France acknowledged receipt of his package on Monday,
> demanded a discount for late delivery (even though he had paid for sea
> shipment which can take up to two months and in fact he received the
> parcel in just over 6 weeks) and promised me he would reverse my
> negative feedback if I have him one. You have to admire his chutzpah.
>
> Faced with this extortion (and sadly, inexplicably, lacking
> confirmation from the tracking number that the parcel had been
> delivered) I offered $10 off and requested the negative feedback be
> reversed. ?He paid the reduced invoice this morning and reversed the
> feedback so I am back to 100%, slightly older, out $10, and much wiser.
>
> In sum, neither Ebay nor Paypal were at all helpful to me as a seller
> and the buyer could have gotten away with the goods and without paying
> if he was so inclined.
>
> Needless to say I have put him on my ?do not do business with? list. I
> was pleased to see that recently someone left him negative feedback.
> Couldn?t have happened to a more deserving guy IMHO.
>
> Cheers
>
> Howard
>
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