Worst eBay experience of my life

[tahoe2]

A month and a half ago I went on to eBay to bid for a nintendo 64. I couldnt find anyone on this forum who was selling, and i was still the youngest newb posting, because i just joined. So while bidding, i won 2 Nintendo 64's. They were both Watermelon 64's. I quickly paid, and waited for my items to ship from only 1 state over. After a week i emailed a question simply asking if my item had been shipped yet and if he got delivery confirmation. He never replied. But, his feedback on eBay kept going up and up. He was buying and selling still. After the recommended 3 days, I emailed him again, but still no answer. After 2 weeks, I emailed him every day.

Finally after 3 weeks he replied, cussing me out for being "a whiny bitch", and that he would send it that weekend. I waited a nother week and nothing happened. No item. He never answered another email, and 3 days ago he cancelled his ebay account WHILE the transaction was still active and i had put a case with ebay about it. Now, since he is no longer a member, i'm not sure if i will get my money back. The thing is, I dont want my money back, I wanted those 2 N64's. THEY ARE SEE THROUGH LIGHT RED! It looks much cooler than just black.

This is just a rant, and it probabl caused me to never want to use ebay again. So, I will probably start buying from this forum alot more now, even though I probably wont score and sweet deals due to no biddings. but its aight. Most of you are nice.

PS. If this belongs in another forum or something, just delete it mods, I dont want to get yelled a

[xzeronature]

It's a good rule of thumb to go to open a paypal dispute within 10 days or 2 weeks if the person doesn't respond to you questions. I am an avid ebayer and situations like that just happen. There are some bad sellers on ebay who never ship there stuff or ship bad products. I wouldn't give up on ebay just because of 1 bad experience thou, I would have to say about 90-95% of sellers are honest.

[tahoe2]

It's a good rule of thumb to go to open a paypal dispute within 10 days or 2 weeks if the person doesn't respond to you questions. I am an avid ebayer and situations like that just happen. There are some bad sellers on ebay who never ship there stuff or ship bad products. I wouldn't give up on ebay just because of 1 bad experience thou, I would have to say about 90-95% of sellers are honest.

Yeah but it was such an awesome price. I still tell myself that he might not know how to email or the item is merely lost and will make it sometime. I won it for 20 bucks.

[Niode]

That sucks. in the vast majority of cases ebay will side with the buyer and not the seller (even when the seller has done nothing wrong). So just file a dispute and you should be able to get your money back.

[Bikeage]

Caveat Emptor... Just curious, how much feedback did the seller have when you bid? Was it all positive? My rule of thumb is not to bid on anything from a seller with little feedback, and closely evaluate negative feedback if they have any.

I don't want to miss out on a good deal just because an honest person is new to Ebay, so if the listing is really well done, detailed and somewhat professional I may if I REALLY want the item, so far i've not been burned.... but I did just win an Atari 2600 lot and I failed to notice that the listing made no mention of it being tested or including a power supply and hook ups, so i'll keep my fingers crossed.

[Hobie-wan]

Its possible that a lot of people were complaining and ebay deactivated his account. I had that happen to me twice, though thankfully I already had cases going and PP refunded me. Hopefully that will happen to you too.

[GamerMON]

That sucks. in the vast majority of cases ebay will side with the buyer and not the seller (even when the seller has done nothing wrong). So just file a dispute and you should be able to get your money back.

as long as it hasnt been over 45 days. After that they dont do shit.

[Kebo]

I've used eBay since 1999. I've probably done 700-800 transactions over that time. Only one time did I ever not receive my item, and eBay reimbursed my money. Trust me when I say your experience is out of the ordinary.

[lost_within]

wait wait wait...I didnt think ebay would LET YOU cancel your account if things are pending...AT ALL. I remember being younger and wanting to cancel an account for my mom and ebay thru a red flag saying NO!!!...you must wait so and so months...

odd...file with paypal if you havnt already

[Thierry Henry]

I've used eBay since 1999. I've probably done 700-800 transactions over that time. Only one time did I ever not receive my item, and eBay reimbursed my money. Trust me when I say your experience is out of the ordinary.

I would agree with this.
I've had around 500 different transactions thus far and only a few times have I experienced any problems.
Funny thing though is that for me I seem to find the deadbeats only on the cheap $5 or less purchases. Every single console system or more expensive item, I've had absolutely no problems at all with.