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 -----Original Message----- 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. | Subscription info at http://www.tech-geeks.org | | Subscription info at http://www.tech-geeks.org |