Ripped off and MAD!!!

[TeamNausea]

More and more of these kinda threads daily.. Guys look into it b4 you pay!

Anyway yeah man get in touch with him first then complaint!

[FallNAngel]

"This tank looks brand new"

Well, I suppose if you're blind....

[TeamNausea]

In that case wouldnt it be fees brand new? LOL

[shivors]

Out of everything I have purchased online for my paintball setup, I only got one thing (the barrel) from an individual seller. I just dont trust anyone to take care of gear like I do. Luckily it was in perfect condition.

[ZapTheMad]

I have filed a complaint with paypal, and ebay. I think I will get my money back but it's still going to be a pain and I will have to pay to ship it back to him. He is trying to sell an impulse right now. It has this tank on it and you can see the damage was already there. He is trying to blame it on UPS, lol.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...EBWA%3AIT&rd=1

I have been emailing all his bidders and telling them what he did to me. I really hope that someone else doesn't get screwed. I've had mostly good luck with ebay, I just need to be more careful about who I buy from. There are many honest people out there and I just need to be more careful. For the most part, I have had good luck so I can't hate them all!

I'm also an honest person and I can't go after UPS for something they didn't do.

[MarkM]

It looks like the bottle was shot, really! It looks like someone shot at it with a pellet rifle...

-Calvin

No, that's what happens when you use drops and the wrong screws to hold it to the gripframe.

[Steelrat]

The seller's response to negative feedback for this tank:

it was good ups drop it and thay wouild off fix but he wouild not give thim time

What, did they drop it on a sword? Paypal does not have any deductible. First, if you paid by credit card, you need to contact your credit card company to see if they will cover it. If not, then contact paypal to try and recover funds. If they cannot, then you contact ebay and file a claim. There is a $25 deductibe, and they ask that you try and resolve it with the seller before you file your claim. You can request the seller's contact information, including phone number, through ebay.

Its odd that the wording in his adds is fine, but the grammar in his feedback responses is HORRIBLE.

[Thermus]

Its odd that the wording in his adds is fine, but the grammar in his feedback responses is HORRIBLE.

You can only have a certain amount of characters in the response, so people make gibberish.

[ZapTheMad]

LOL, thats not the only bad grammar. I did talk to him on the phone before I paid for it. I noticed that the tank was supposedly sold on a previous auction with an impulse and that bothered me so I called him from the number ebay gave me. He told me the guy couldn't pay for all of it and only sold him the gun, which was a lie because the imp is for sale again. We talked for a while about paintball and stuff and he seemed to be honest, but not real high on intelligence. So I sent him payment and he delivered. The only problem is that he didn't tell me the tank was ruined. I honestly think that he thought I wouldn't notice or something. Every email he sent me is filled with terrible grammar.

[coolcatpete]

In the pics on ebay ou can see the gauge if you look hard.
Pete

[space_weazel_45]

i may be interested in the reg if its adjustable above 800psi. that is if all else fails. just trying to add a silver lining.

good luck

[ZapTheMad]

lol, I'm starting to get to him now. Funny how he is now changing his tune. I bet ebay and paypal are starting to send him emails along with all the bidders i've been contacting :) Here's the latest email from him:

"If you Leave the gun alone i will consider working something out it irritates me that you gave me negative feedback on ebay because that cannot be retracted but i am willing to work with you but not if you mess with the auction on the gun"

My reply:

"You should have thought about that before you tried to kill me with an unsafe tank. There is only one way I will stop. Refund my payment, in full, right now to my paypal account. Call UPS and issue call tag tommorow morning for the tank. They will come to my house to get it and I will have it boxed up and ready to go when they come. I can still respond to the feedback and say it was resolved. Otherwise, it will only get worse from here."

[teufelhunden]

Nice. Keep grilling him.

[Tunaman]

You can only have a certain amount of characters in the response, so people make gibberish.

Gibberish? When I was growing up, people that talked like that were sent to a "Special Place"...with "special friends".

[ZapTheMad]

Welp, no refund. At first he agreed and after his auction sold, he changed his mind. My follow up on the feedback reflects on the response. Now he is telling me that I am stalking him (stocking he says) and he is going to have me put in jail. LOL!

I hope paypal freezes his account tommorow

I was able to get his address from the phone number. It seems he is living with his parents from a white pages search. I'm going to call his mom tomorrow and see what happens.