caution: ebay

[CHRIS.O]

That is really shitty man. Sorry to hear you got the run around. I hate looking at cars now a days. Seems like everyone is out to bend you over. Its starting to knock, lets throw some lucas in it and put it on craigslist. That is the mentality of these people.

 

[JRG53]

Something like a car, I guess I'm just old fashion....I wanna look at first.

 

[tc1959]

E-Bay is all good ,until there is a problem. They talk a good game. ,"Caveat Emptor"
I got boned by E-Bay. only was able to recover 1/3 of what we got screwed for.
BTW It Was a Security Camera Set up, That wound up coming from China, They misrepresented themselves. Then they lied about everything,They said if I would ship everything back to them at a cost of $194.00 . They would be happy to refund our money. ( the cameras only cost $97 US.) EBay just Told us to be more careful in the future. ( Pay-Pal was even less help)

 

[Ribbedroof]

There are members from all over the country on this and just about every other car board. A network of KNOWLEDGEABLE car entheusiasts would be a very good resource for long distance transactions. I know if somebody asked me to check out a local-to-me-distant-to-them car, they'd get the unvarnished truth. It seems like people are not using the resources available to them to prevent this sort of thing from happening (not just you, this seems to be happening a lot). I think the growth of internet shopping, while opening up new opportunities to find that hard-to-get car or part has also opened up the realization of just how many people either don't know what the F they're talking about, or are just outright crooks.

Remember, ebay is just a glorified newspaper ad, would you hold the local paper liable if a seller misled you in an ad?

Not defending ebay...in fact, I took issue with the MANY changes(for the worse) that they instituted in the past half-dozen years, and no longer sell there at all...seldom buy anything off there either these days.

Sucks, but these problems are only going to get worse as our cars age and escelate in price.

 

[tc1959]

There are members from all over the country on this and just about every other car board. A network of KNOWLEDGEABLE car entheusiasts would be a very good resource for long distance transactions. I know if somebody asked me to check out a local-to-me-distant-to-them car, they'd get the unvarnished truth. It seems like people are not using the resources available to them to prevent this sort of thing from happening (not just you, this seems to be happening a lot). I think the growth of internet shopping, while opening up new opportunities to find that hard-to-get car or part has also opened up the realization of just how many people either don't know what the F they're talking about, or are just outright crooks.

Remember, ebay is just a glorified newspaper ad, would you hold the local paper liable if a seller misled you in an ad?

Not defending ebay...in fact, I took issue with the MANY changes(for the worse) that they instituted in the past half-dozen years, and no longer sell there at all...seldom buy anything off there either these days.

Sucks, but these problems are only going to get worse as our cars age and escelate in price.

Sage and sound advice. Ya just can't trust anyone any more. :|

 

[84dragcutlass]

Definatly a lot of crooks, i have a feeling they will just be filling it up with more lucas and slick 50 to get the knock to go away long enough to rip someone else off. Im actually kind of glad that the car let me know it was junk (besides all of the other defects) that engine knock could have saved me from dragging a junk car home. I will definatly be more careful next time, or just wont buy anything off ebay anymore as you are all right, it will only get worse as people load up the cars with bondo, a cheap paint job, and a junk engine and try to sell them for big bucks. thanks for all the input guys i feel better about it now. Ended up going a weird route and bought a '76 Datsun 280 Z

 

[84dragcutlass]

Definatly a lot of crooks, i have a feeling they will just be filling it up with more lucas and slick 50 to get the knock to go away long enough to rip someone else off. Im actually kind of glad that the car let me know it was junk (besides all of the other defects) that engine knock could have saved me from dragging a junk car home. I will definatly be more careful next time, or just wont buy anything off ebay anymore as you are all right, it will only get worse as people load up the cars with bondo, a cheap paint job, and a junk engine and try to sell them for big bucks. thanks for all the input guys i feel better about it now. Ended up going a weird route and bought a '76 Datsun 280 Z

 

[84dragcutlass]

Definatly a lot of crooks, i have a feeling they will just be filling it up with more lucas and slick 50 to get the knock to go away long enough to rip someone else off. Im actually kind of glad that the car let me know it was junk (besides all of the other defects) that engine knock could have saved me from dragging a junk car home. I will definatly be more careful next time, or just wont buy anything off ebay anymore as you are all right, it will only get worse as people load up the cars with bondo, a cheap paint job, and a junk engine and try to sell them for big bucks. thanks for all the input guys i feel better about it now. Ended up going a weird route and bought a '76 Datsun 280 Z

 

[80lemans]

There are members from all over the country on this and just about every other car board. A network of KNOWLEDGEABLE car entheusiasts would be a very good resource for long distance transactions. I know if somebody asked me to check out a local-to-me-distant-to-them car, they'd get the unvarnished truth. It seems like people are not using the resources available to them to prevent this sort of thing from happening (not just you, this seems to be happening a lot). I think the growth of internet shopping, while opening up new opportunities to find that hard-to-get car or part has also opened up the realization of just how many people either don't know what the F they're talking about, or are just outright crooks.

Remember, ebay is just a glorified newspaper ad, would you hold the local paper liable if a seller misled you in an ad?

Not defending ebay...in fact, I took issue with the MANY changes(for the worse) that they instituted in the past half-dozen years, and no longer sell there at all...seldom buy anything off there either these days.

Sucks, but these problems are only going to get worse as our cars age and escelate in price.

Sage and sound advice. Ya just can't trust anyone any more. :|

Helping each other out is a great idea! We may not all have the same exact standards, but we can certainly offer an unbiased opinion. It may prevent a lot of hassle.

Photos can really mask a lot of problems.

 

[sh1ft]

Register your Visa card instead of your bank account with Paypal, Visa trumps Paypal every time. I have had issues and Visa always comes thru.