Ripped off

[Skull]

yeah, me this time...

been asked by a forum member for a favour, to bid on a set of wheels on ebay.de, as time was expiring, and they were shipping only to EU. i have bid, won, payed them and the shipping price to my place via paypal.

the guy said he wanted to return the favour, and asked me if i need anything. i was looking for a certain piece of trim, and he said he can get me one.

meanwhile i got the wheels and forwarded them to him. the total ammount 480 of my bloody €uros.

to cut it short, i was told the piece of trim was on the way to my place, and the rest of the money will be sent on my paypal acc. i got 200€, so the piece of trim + shipping was 280€.

No response from him since then, no package arrived to my home (he said he sent it on 3rd of december), no tracking number given no nothing. Just a clean ripoff.

Just an advice: dont be stupid like me, when buying stuff for others, make sure the €€€€ is on your account first.

[s2_wot]

That's nasty, it's so easy for these arrangements to go wrong. Hopefully the forum member will contact you and come to an agreement. Thanks for passing on your experience for the benefit of others.

[Acidburn]

Rok - sorry to hear that the piece of trim never turned up, I still think that its a very expensive bit of trim from the picture you showed me before of it and postage sounded high.

I've not heard from the same person since around nov/dec time hence me selling those rear lights. Hope you sort something out, has he been online recently?

edit - you still got that picture of the rims you showed me as I can't find it.

[Skull]

you can see this in his public profile: Last Activity: 29-12-10 08:19 PM

[Rusty]

Yeah, money before goods, I've lost about £1k to those games this year, people place orders and then default on them - had the optimism gradually kicked out of me...

Hope you get it sorted.

[s2driveruk]

can you confirm who please Skull...?

[Skull]

i wont reveal his nickname publicly yet, but i am sending you a pm...

[Error404]

name and shame. no excuse for avoiding communication at the very least

[Trist28]

A list of dodgy forum members somewhere would be a good thing!!

you can see this in his public profile: Last Activity: 29-12-10 08:19 PM

[K Simmonds]

Rok, very sorry to hear about this. The forum is a great community, I've never had any problems with the multiple people I've dealt with both as a buyer and a seller.

As Tristan suggested maybe a name and shame list is a good idea, would put ****ers off taking advantage of members.

Hope you get this sorted.

[pixsaudisex2]

name and shame. no excuse for avoiding communication at the very least

saves anyone falling into the same trap.

[Skull]

this is a great communuty, maybe the greatest audi comm there is, and i will help anyone i can on here regardless what happened.

i have made a big favour to someone, i was asking nothing (money) in exchange, and getting ripped off like this...

[Le S2 Audi]

name and shame. no excuse for avoiding communication at the very least

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It's a great shame when things like this happen - This forum is generally full of honest people and I hope things like this don't spoil it for others!!

[rs2315]

A list of dodgy forum members somewhere would be a good thing!!

Yep I'm for that, if we'd of had one a couple of years back a certain:corey:
wouldn't of got my money.

rs2315.

[s2_wot]

Trader Blacklist is here already

I think Rok is doing the mature thing. Give the guy a few days to get his stuff sorted out and name & shame later if it comes to that. A few more days at this stage won't change anything.

However name & shame is the only way to protect other forum users.