darth_myeek
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Make a youtube video telling how awesome this purchase was while pointing out every flaw. Name it his ebay seller title.
d9 arc gun rip off. do not buy fromsymbiote-x from ebay.
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LOL... that would be funny. REcast him and see him get pissed off, lol:lol
FollowTheSun
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Nachtinis: "Unless the seller explicity misrepresented the item, its not a scam.
There is a video from the "seller" dimmwitteddinobot on youtube showing off the gun and you can clearly see the craftmanship, paintjob, and defects of the peice in that video."
Very true.
And honestly, a lot of you are pretty damn immature to be making fun of his appearance and calling him mentally handicapped due to faces he makes in pictures on his social networking sites. He's a 20 year old male, some of them do that. I think it's a little more idiotic for all of you who claim to have lives to spend your time talking about some kid's facial expressions.
If you aren't pleased with the item, that is a shame, but as you learned it was not a good idea to have sent it as a gift. Hopefully you learned your lesson, and if he is a scammer of some sorts, karma will get him, but saying you are going to get your "justice" by going to his house and harming him is just ridiculous.
"In the course of my observation, these disputing, contradicting and confuting people are generally unfortunate in their affairs. They get victory sometimes, but they never get good will, which would be of more use to them." Benjamin Franklin
There is a video from the "seller" dimmwitteddinobot on youtube showing off the gun and you can clearly see the craftmanship, paintjob, and defects of the peice in that video."
Very true.
And honestly, a lot of you are pretty damn immature to be making fun of his appearance and calling him mentally handicapped due to faces he makes in pictures on his social networking sites. He's a 20 year old male, some of them do that. I think it's a little more idiotic for all of you who claim to have lives to spend your time talking about some kid's facial expressions.
If you aren't pleased with the item, that is a shame, but as you learned it was not a good idea to have sent it as a gift. Hopefully you learned your lesson, and if he is a scammer of some sorts, karma will get him, but saying you are going to get your "justice" by going to his house and harming him is just ridiculous.
"In the course of my observation, these disputing, contradicting and confuting people are generally unfortunate in their affairs. They get victory sometimes, but they never get good will, which would be of more use to them." Benjamin Franklin
Well, definitely give him negative feedback on the item.
He might have gotten your cash, and left you with no options for refund, but don't let the time elapse to where you can no longer give feedback.
He might have gotten your cash, and left you with no options for refund, but don't let the time elapse to where you can no longer give feedback.
:lolSpoken like a true relative:lol
Wait... the seller of the gun is in Florida, and you just joined.... and you are in Florida.... hmmmmmmm.......:lol
While I do see you point and opinion, what this kid has done is wrong, and this being an open forum, these people have every right to say what they feel.
If he is a scammer and a con man then how does he have perfect powerseller ebay feedback? You people should really do some research before dissing people.
Power seller doesn't mean all that much. I know some power sellers who meet the monthly sales requirement, but have tons of negatives. Also, this seller hasn't hooked a buyer on the gun until now. I am sure if someone bought another one, we would see the feedback about it.
The scam came in the form of asking the buyer to mark payment as gift, knowing that it is not covered by the buyer protection program. The scam also came when he refused a refund. As a good seller, he should accept that someone doesn't like it, and after receiving it back in good condition, refund the money. If he stands behind his work and believes it is good quality, he shouldn't fear reselling it because someone will want his "great work".
And remember... feedback is there for a reason. If you have a bad experience, don't throw out a negative, contact the buyer first. See if they wil work with you. If they do, then leave positive marks, but if they tell you to stick it, and refuse to work with you on the issue.... I don't care how spotless their record is, they deserve the negative. I personally do not leave negatives... and never had a situation that neded one. Every issue I ever had, the seller went out of their way to help out. That was all the we could ask for. But if they ever acted like they didn't care, you can bet I would have left the negative.
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SD Studios
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Oft times, from the mouth of noobs...
Bravo to "Follow the Sun"! I agree 1000%! What a complete waste of time for everyone who is not part of this transaction, posting about doing ANYTHING to this guy. If ANYTHING happened to him, and he secured an attorney...and HE got a hold of this thread... you could all be named "John Does" on a hefty lawsuit. Along with the Admins and owners of this board.
You don't respond to being scammed by counter-scamming, or harassing the individual. You know what would REALLY suck? Losing all of that money AND having to pay this guy a civil settlement for making terroristic threats and/or harrassment.
And before you tell me about how much money you lost, and how bad it sucks, and how I don't understand...in 1999, I lost $200,000 (yah, I said TWO HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS) to a con artist, so I am pretty aware of how it feels.
It BLOWS. :angry
Suck it up, leave a negative feedback, take any and all appropriate legal action to try to recover your money, and learn a valuable lesson. He sold you CRAP for a lot of money. It is obviously crap, and we all see that. A case could be made by you for misrepresentation on his part. Go for it.
Having a bunch of prop board dweebs torment him won't solve anything, AND could get YOU in trouble, to boot. Just deal with it on a professional, legal level.
The noob nailed it. Everybody grow up. I am frankly ashamed to be a member here sometimes.
Yikes.
themanwoaname
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i agree 100 percent with this whole statement.
especially this one
it would be in the op's absolute best interest to remove the youtube video, because it really wasnt that great of an idea to begin with, considering the amount of profanity used in it describing the item and the maker. it paints the op in just as much of a bad light as the scam artist. when i saw it, i couldnt watch it all, because while i understood his frustration, i thought it was tasteless. i thought it even more tasteless when certain members bombed the scammer's youtube videos, one user does this sort of thing all the time(through email bombing) when something like this comes up and proudly proclaims he's doing so. if thats what im told is what can be done about recasters and people like that seller, im really not convinced anything good would come about.
if i were scammed, i certainly wouldnt make a youtube video and i would make very certain id have exhausted every resource im aware of to get my money back before i went to any message board and mentioned what happened.
you all are adults, and this is the be all of the prop community. not 15 year olds dicking around on youtube or screwing around on the internet.
so few members have a level head around here, thank you sd studios for being one that does.
patsmear
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Arc gun fan, Are you him?
Oh and he won't have perfect feedback, if a negative is left for this auction.
ChaoBreeder
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mrbungle, what pictures were on the ebay auction?
I know the seller of the arc gun personally, he actually has a contract deal with another gentlemen that owns over 600 prop websites and he has been selling him guns every week, the seller of this gun does not have ONE single negative feedback. The only reason he had him mark it as a gift is because paypal takes a fee out of the money he wasn't trying to con or scam anyone. He spent 80.00 of the money mr.bungles gave to him just to get the item to him, that left our seller with only 140.00....The seller could have asked for additional money for shipping cost but did not and was being nice by spending 80.00 JUST TO GET THE GUN TO HIM. He waited for mr.bungles reply for over a week and no response so he was forced to pay an ebay fee with that measly 140.00.
You know him personally?... I don't buy it. You have too much info on the details, we can figure out that you are the seller and you joined to keep track of things here.
If you refund the money, Ebay would refund you the fees. You get back your selling fees from Ebay.
If you refund the money, Ebay would refund you the fees. You get back your selling fees from Ebay.
This entire transaction was done through email, mr.bungles could have bought it through ebay but waited too long to make a decision and wanted to go through with doing it through email. Now he is trying to sue him in small claims court for this thing in which he will lose, he used the email service instead of ebay, there are no refunds when dealing with things over email and not ebay. Mr.bungles THEN threatened him by saying he was going to "drive over to his house" and thats not normal human behavior if your going to drive from alabama to florida...
Thats really no ones buisness I dont think the seller of the gun would appreciate me giving all of you strangers information about him like this I am only stating what I know about this transaction.
oh.... and come on.... $80.00 to ship a cardboard/resin coated/gun from Florida to Alabama?
I ship 20 lb fragile items every week from here. I double box them and can ship to Washington State for $28.00. To Alabama, it would be maybe $15.00 for a 20 lb box. In no way does your item weigh that much/
I ship 20 lb fragile items every week from here. I double box them and can ship to Washington State for $28.00. To Alabama, it would be maybe $15.00 for a 20 lb box. In no way does your item weigh that much/
patsmear
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You're right, I am sure that was said in anger, but shouldn't have been.
I understand the frustration though. If you aren't happy with the product you should be able to return it.
I think it shows that your friend has crappy business practices.
ChaoBreeder
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Perhaps he meant resin as fibberglass, as in fiberglass resin.
TBH, I don't see how you got ripped off. Yes, you were expecting a good quality replica, but judging from the description and the pictures, you got exactly what you paid for.
YEs, if this goes to court, he might get in trouble for the threats, but I am almost 100% sure, the judgement for a refund will also be enforced. So both sides wil probably be paying out some good cash.
I guess it was like the previous posters above said. In the end.... no one will win because both sides will be out cash and legal fees.
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