<RANT>
Interesting, frustrating, and hopefully rare.
I know fleabay isn't everyone's choice for car parts, but sometimes you can get some fair deals on things.
Enter the first time in over 22 years I've been using fleabay that I CANNOT PAY FOR ITEMS WON. Worse yet, I can't communicate with the seller!!!!!
I won two auctions from a member here (albeit hasn't posted in 5 years). While the auctions were going on, I sent him a message via ebay about an item he had for sale, and gave him some background information on it. He thanked me and updated his ad.
Auctions end, I sent payment - or so I thought- via Paypal. It was listed as one of the payment options the person accepted. Pay pal goes into "pending" mode saying it was waiting for acceptance from him, but my credit card gets charged. I message him via ebay- nothing. In fact, I sent several messages via ebay messaging system to apparently radio silence.
I even tried using the paypal email address that Paypal had that I used for the invoice to pay. It bounced back to me. I check the Paypal site FAQ and help stuff and it says a pending means that money was sent, but it may be blocked most likely by either wrong currency or bad/no linked email to seller's paypal account. We're both in the USA, so I doubt it's wrong currency.
Today, I get a message for each one basically saying to send payment. WTF?? I guess HE can send me messages, but the fleabay messaging doesn't work both ways. This is BS. I responded to his messages but I'm wondering if he's even getting them. I decided to start over. I cancelled the pending payments, and have messaged him to have him resend invoices....radio silence. Now I get to wait up to 30 days before they credit back my credit card.
Everything points to his end having some sort of issue. If I can't email him, or I can't message him via fleabay, I have no idea what else I can do.
I guess I can wait for him to open an unpaid thing on me and then I can provide copies of everything I tried to send him to fleabay's dumb azzes. I really think it comes down to his email account linked to fleabay/paypal or both being fugged up.
I may just go over in the corner and jerk off. At least I'll get something worthwhile out of this mess. Just knowing I'm going to have to deal with fleabay's dumb azzes over something I didn't do is going to be excruciating. The stupid is strong at fleabay.
</RANT>
Interesting, frustrating, and hopefully rare.
I know fleabay isn't everyone's choice for car parts, but sometimes you can get some fair deals on things.
Enter the first time in over 22 years I've been using fleabay that I CANNOT PAY FOR ITEMS WON. Worse yet, I can't communicate with the seller!!!!!
I won two auctions from a member here (albeit hasn't posted in 5 years). While the auctions were going on, I sent him a message via ebay about an item he had for sale, and gave him some background information on it. He thanked me and updated his ad.
Auctions end, I sent payment - or so I thought- via Paypal. It was listed as one of the payment options the person accepted. Pay pal goes into "pending" mode saying it was waiting for acceptance from him, but my credit card gets charged. I message him via ebay- nothing. In fact, I sent several messages via ebay messaging system to apparently radio silence.
I even tried using the paypal email address that Paypal had that I used for the invoice to pay. It bounced back to me. I check the Paypal site FAQ and help stuff and it says a pending means that money was sent, but it may be blocked most likely by either wrong currency or bad/no linked email to seller's paypal account. We're both in the USA, so I doubt it's wrong currency.
Today, I get a message for each one basically saying to send payment. WTF?? I guess HE can send me messages, but the fleabay messaging doesn't work both ways. This is BS. I responded to his messages but I'm wondering if he's even getting them. I decided to start over. I cancelled the pending payments, and have messaged him to have him resend invoices....radio silence. Now I get to wait up to 30 days before they credit back my credit card.
Everything points to his end having some sort of issue. If I can't email him, or I can't message him via fleabay, I have no idea what else I can do.
I guess I can wait for him to open an unpaid thing on me and then I can provide copies of everything I tried to send him to fleabay's dumb azzes. I really think it comes down to his email account linked to fleabay/paypal or both being fugged up.
I may just go over in the corner and jerk off. At least I'll get something worthwhile out of this mess. Just knowing I'm going to have to deal with fleabay's dumb azzes over something I didn't do is going to be excruciating. The stupid is strong at fleabay.
</RANT>
