possible ebay scammer alert

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rasheed

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Just a thought, do we have sticky on dodgy tradesmen? Might be a good idea?

Anyway this guy, "miniminimini_cooper" has over 200 positive feedback mostly from buying cheap stuff and paying promptly. As a seller however he has a load of complaints about taking the money, never sending the goods, never answering his phone and so forth. Some poor bugger writes about how he drove 216 miles only for our friend never to show up and to not answer his phone!

I recently bought a timing cover from him (through a friend in the UK) and he said he sent it parcelforce. Never arrived and he say's he's lost the tracking number. How convenient. Now he longer responds to calls, text messages or email.
 
Just a thought, do we have sticky on dodgy tradesmen? Might be a good idea?

Anyway this guy, "miniminimini_cooper" has over 200 positive feedback mostly from buying cheap stuff and paying promptly. As a seller however he has a load of complaints about taking the money, never sending the goods, never answering his phone and so forth. Some poor bugger writes about how he drove 216 miles only for our friend never to show up and to not answer his phone!

I recently bought a timing cover from him (through a friend in the UK) and he said he sent it parcelforce. Never arrived and he say's he's lost the tracking number. How convenient. Now he longer responds to calls, text messages or email.

If you paid with PayPal, you're covered -- unless he can provide a tracking number, PayPal will be able to claim your money back from him.
 
Anyway this guy, "miniminimini_cooper" has over 200 positive feedback mostly from buying cheap stuff and paying promptly. As a seller however he has a load of complaints about taking the money, never sending the goods, never answering his phone and so forth. Some poor bugger writes about how he drove 216 miles only for our friend never to show up and to not answer his phone!

Does this mean that the ebay feedback system works. As a seller the feedback comments were poor.
Did you find this out before you bought the goods?
What was his feedback percentage?
 
The percentage was ok, up in the 90s I think. To be honest I didn't dive in to look at the breakdown at first as it wasn't an expensive item. I only looked in to the seller / buyer split after I decided it was never going to come. Frankly I'm less bothered about the money and more annoyed about the waste of time. I held up other jobs wanting to do this first, I've wasted other peoples' time who've been willing to help me and now I have to start looking again when by rights this job ought to have been finished weeks ago.
 
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