I'll admit I do very little business on eBay, but doesn't steering you away 
from completing the deal on eBay violate eBay's terms?  In fact, I think that 
is grounds for a seller to be banned.  At the very least I would report 
everything to eBay - that will probably result in more punitive action than you 
can get through legal channels.

-TS

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From: tech-geeks-boun...@tech-geeks.org 
[mailto:tech-geeks-boun...@tech-geeks.org] On Behalf Of rkas...@valmeyerk12.org
Sent: Friday, September 24, 2010 2:21 PM
To: tech-geeks@tech-geeks.org
Subject: [tech-geeks] OT- Car Deal

Last Wednesday I called a dealer in beautiful downtown Burbank (for  
you old Laugh-in fans), IL. to ask some questions about a Corvette Z06  
they had for sale on ebay.  After talking to them I decided to go  
ahead with the deal.  The sales guy says "we can start it here".  I  
asked if he was sure I shouldn't have hit "buy it now".  "No, we'll  
take care of that for you".  Thursday, they had approval from my bank.  
  Friday I got their paperwork for signature and closed the financing  
on Monday.  Tuesday morning I mailed the check to them.  I was  
supposed to be picking it up today.  Supposed to be are the key words.  
  They called me Wednesday after they already had my money and told me  
that they had sold the car out from under me, but they were trying to  
fix the problem.  Yesterday they called me and told me that they  
couldn't fix it and I was screwed.  They forgot to close the aution  
and someone hit buy it now.  They made a feeble effort to offer me a  
different car.  They blamed it on ebay, but it's just a matter of not  
having the HUEVOS to call the other bidder and tell him he can't have  
the car and explain the situation.  They don't want to hurt their  
positive feedback rating on ebay.

They were supposed to have my checks back to me by noon today.  So  
far, it hasn't happened.

I won't mention company names on the list because that's not a good  
thing, but I will gladly tell anyone who wants to know off list and  
would be willing to add comments to their facebook page to do a little  
blackballing.  Needless to say, I'm just a little pi55ed - no, that's  
an understatement.   By the way, Ebay was absolutely no help in the  
matter.




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