WARNING!
Having saw this thread, I was interested in the costume and messaged the seller. We agreed a price and I paid via Paypal two weeks ago, having been promised that it would ship on Wednesday 4th March. On 4th he said it had been dropped off at FedEx but had to be repackaged so would ship on 5th. I asked for the tracking both times but he never provided it. I asked again and he said he would get it the next day and then Saturday. Every time I asked for the tracking details, no details came back except that it would be with me on 16th. After he ignored my request for the tracking details each and every time, I opened up a case with Paypal to encourage him to provide the tracking details but yet again he failed to provide them. I've bought and sold many items and the tracking details are a means of proving that a parcel has been posted and is on its way. By not providing them, there can be no conclusion but that he has lied throughout so the purpose of this post is to prevent anyone else being ripped off by this dishonest crook. My next step is going to be to contact the police with regard to this as I consider this to be fraud and even if I get my money back, I will still endeavour to start the ball rolling with the police so if you are based in the US and have any contact details of who I would go to to report such fraud, please feel free to PM me and I will of course treat it with 100% discretion.
Warning to sellers
Yo Troll, you clearly dont understand laws. I have over 470+'s on ebay from selling. You accusation of fraud is a JOKE. Let me correct this fools above statement.
1. Troll contacted me in regards to the costume, I replied.
2. He requested proof of coa's , which I took a photo and provided which was no problem at all for me to do.
3. He then asked again after he got the photos for screen caps of the costume being used as he could not "remember" golden costumes (evidently not a sg1 fan)
So I took it as he doubted me even after I sent photos of TWO COA's from prop store of london and one from Legends memorabilia.
4. I sent him a screen cap of a gold costume I found online, he then doubted and requested me to find more
5. I found another one (Mind you its not MY responsibility to look for screen caps to prove its screen used as I have the COA's with holograms stating these were screen used in production)
6. I found him some screen grabs and provided the links, he then said ok we have a deal.
7. Asked me when I could ship out, I replied Wednesday as that was my day off.
8. Worked called me in wednesday morning and I could not ship it on that day HOWEVER I made it to a local privately owned shipping center (they pack and ship, usps, fedex and ups as well as print and have mail boxes there you rent)
9. The shipper called me and said due to the insurance of $4400 they would need to repack it properly as everything was close to the box edges the way I had it (which was the same boxes that stuff arrived to me in) so they said they will try to get it repackaged and ready for fedex pickup at 530pm
10. I told troll this is what was going on, keep in mind every two hours troll would email me from the time he paid to that day and I replied to each and every message.
11. The same evening on Wednesday the shipper called me and told me the repacking fee was additional 230.00 and the shipping was 77.00 more than what I charged troll, told troll this and not once did he offer to compensate, ok fine, my loss.
12. I work 12 to 14 hours a day driving, troll knows this and I told him it was shipped. He asked for tracking numbers which I didnt know yet because the shipper didnt call me and was my fault I didn't get a chance to call them back before closing. Called the next day and they couldn't find my transaction so I had to wait. I did pay for the extra charges with my credit card over the phone while sitting in Burger King eating my lunch.
13. The weekend came, spent the time with my family and away from the computer. I called the shipper on saturday and they (my guess was their weekend help as its operated by a Mom and her daughter) told me Monday the manager would be able to get the information I needed.
14. During this time, troll is living on the rpf messaging system sending pms upon pms. and I had told him I would get the tracking info on monday.
15. Monday came and after working 15 hours that day I came home, my kid was already asleep, I fell asleep on the sofa. Tuesday I was off work and I would get the tracking info my going to the shipper that morning.
16. At 130am that morning troll asks for tracking numbers and threatened to file a paypal claim (this is less than a week that he sent payment!) I am sleeping at that time and no way to reply as I am SLEEPING
17, troll gets mad because I dont reply at 1:30am and opens a claim at 6:20am, (I dont get out of bed until 6:55am March 10)
18. I see the email on my phone about this and I verified it he did in fact file a claim, I got called into work at 7:30 (shipper doesnt open until 8:30am) I went to work as requested for a few hours. Troll then escalates the claim. I log into paypal to add the tracking numbers and since the claim was escalated I could not add that information so I called paypal
19. Paypal rep tells me the buyer escalated the dispute to a claim, She asked did I ship the items and I said "yes, two boxes " she asked what method and I told her Fedex. She then informed me that since this was a claim that their was no way I could prevent the international buyer from receiving the items AND keeping the money from the claim that was filed since I didnt put the tracking numbers in the transaction details, but I had them in my hand, gave them to her, she went online and seen it tracked to "outbound sorting" in New Jersey and said since the latest tracking information shows they haven't left the USA that I could try to call Fedex and have them redirected back to me. So I dont know troll, he is international, She scared me into thinking that I could not only lose the 4400.00 but also the items. I told her since he filed a claim and its under paypal review now he is still asking for tracking numbers and she told me NOT to provide that information as she asked me did I want to transfer funds to my payapal account to bring up the negative balance and I said yes. Based on her advice I called Fedex IMMEDIATLEY after the call and was able to have those items redirected back to the shipper outlet. Last few days troll has been asking me for tacking numbers even AFTER I told him last week I was redirecting the packages back. Paypal said the buyer and/or seller can have those packages sent to either party. So I haven't given the tracking numbers as the boxes are still in transit to me.
Paypal will close the claim wednesday or thursday and will rule in his favor and he will be refunded. BTW, I did ask if the claim wasnt settled by the time my transfer was in my paypal account could I just send the buyer the money she said . DO NOT! He could keep the money i sent and also get the money back from the claim. So based on paypals advice in this matter for SELLER PROTECTION I followed their policy to the letter!
and Troll, once paypal closes that claim your money will be back in your account as they put that money on hold. so I fail how you or anyone can say this is fraud. Your getting your guaranteed money back from paypal, I now cancelled the deal with you , your sore about it and want to cry fraud. You do live up to your username....troll.
20. I will not reply to you at all nor argue with you troll and my next reply will be on this thread stating paypal closed the claim and issued troll a refund.
I would like to express that due to my heavy work schedule it was ENTIRELY my fault for not going directly to fedex and using a 3rd party shipped and all this could have probably been avoided. Lesson learned for me and troll, I'm really sorry this didn't work out your money is tied up in the paypal claim you filed and will be released back to you, no fraud has been committed , I don't owe you anything but an apology and I'm saying sorry about this. Your money will be refunded when paypal completes the review on Wednesday or Thursday. Not sure which day , they have the funds on hold and I cant send them even if I wanted to and at the advice of paypal and trust me I want this claim over.
Update: Just checked paypal. Paypal says case will be closed March 20th (Friday) so not Wednesday or Thursday as I said earlier. So Friday he gets his money back
