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Member ![]() ![]() Group: Members Posts: 354 Joined: 12-November 06 From: Santa Clarita Member No.: 7,205 Region Association: Southern California ![]() |
Time to rant about the stupid ebay sellers. I bought what looked like a nice underdash DPD air conditioning unit on ebay. Needless to say, it arrives with only a little plastic and cardboard wrapped around it. Not even packaged in a box! One of the vents is destroyed, all the mountings are torn off, and there is a nice collection of broken plastic. Do people honestly think that 40 year old plastic car parts are going to survive a cross country trip without a box?
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914 Wizard ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Group: Members Posts: 12,338 Joined: 2-January 03 From: SLO Member No.: 81 Region Association: Central California ![]() ![]() |
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Club Porsche 914 France President ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Group: Members Posts: 3,084 Joined: 13-January 06 From: France Member No.: 5,409 Region Association: France ![]() |
What an idiot ! ... If you payed with paypal make a claim.
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msglaigaie ![]() ![]() Group: Members Posts: 210 Joined: 14-March 05 From: Bellingham, Washington Member No.: 3,761 Region Association: Pacific Northwest ![]() |
Not to poke you in the eye, but what did he/they/it charge for shipping??
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http://5starmediaworks.com/index.html ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Group: Members Posts: 3,371 Joined: 26-March 05 From: Ceres, California Member No.: 3,818 Region Association: Northern California ![]() |
Not to poke you in the eye, but what did he/they/it charge for shipping?? should not mater... it still should be packaged well, no mater if the seller CHOOSES to undercut his shipping cost, his choice. some have free shipping, all a gimmick. i say give him a chance to make good. within 30 days for paypal reasons. if he chooses to give himself a bad name and not make good. then and only then post his seller i.d. so we all can watch out. hope it works out |
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Member ![]() ![]() Group: Members Posts: 354 Joined: 12-November 06 From: Santa Clarita Member No.: 7,205 Region Association: Southern California ![]() |
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Senior Member ![]() ![]() ![]() Group: Members Posts: 1,863 Joined: 17-December 07 From: Blackhawk, CA Member No.: 8,476 Region Association: None ![]() |
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Senior Member ![]() ![]() ![]() Group: Members Posts: 725 Joined: 2-November 09 From: central new jersey Member No.: 11,000 Region Association: North East States ![]() |
man that sucks! i bought a front sway-bar from ebay and the guy just wrapped some paper around the bar.
the next time i will request confirmation how the item will be packed for shipping. |
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Repeat Offender & Resident Subaru Antagonist ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Group: Members Posts: 13,513 Joined: 23-January 09 From: Temecula, CA Member No.: 9,964 Region Association: Southern California ![]() ![]() |
I received 3 broken (IMG:style_emoticons/default/ar15.gif) windshields before I gave up and bought an after mkt one. It doesn't matter what you say to them.
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Advanced Member ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Group: Members Posts: 2,363 Joined: 31-July 07 From: Crawford, TX. Member No.: 7,958 ![]() |
I just bought a ebay vac case tractor hood and the seller said it had no rusthrough. I explained ahead of buying it that I didn't want a hood that needed a lot of repair. Well with just a small two minute wirebrushing a few holes in a hemmed edge showed up and it has three splits in the edges and part of the latch is missing. He packed it really well as I paid him extra for the packing. His reply was how much do I want refunded, and I told him the hood I have on the tractor requires less work than the one he sent and that bodywork is worth about 30.00 a hour and this would be about three hours just on the obvious spots before a sandblasting and bumping and paint. I paid 95 for the hood and 50 shipping. I also told him with a little cleanup he would have seen the flaws and could have saved us both a bunch of time. I'm stiill too pissed to ask for some money back for something I really don't want.
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Green Teen 66 ![]() ![]() ![]() Group: Members Posts: 837 Joined: 10-August 09 From: La Quinta, CA Member No.: 10,656 Region Association: Southwest Region ![]() ![]() |
Its tough to weed through the sellers, but I now know ot look fo ra few things.
If I am buying Porsche parts, does their history include a LOT of Porsche parts sold? Or do they just sell used parts from anything they can get their hands on? Do comments from buyers ever say things like "well packed"? How far away are they? Just a few ways to weed through the crud thats out there. But I learned the hard way too. |
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Member ![]() ![]() Group: Members Posts: 354 Joined: 12-November 06 From: Santa Clarita Member No.: 7,205 Region Association: Southern California ![]() |
The seller is happily refunding the money. Its just sad that an A/C that was in really good shape is now pretty much destroyed, which leaves one less out in the wild.
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"Ace" Mechanic ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Group: Members Posts: 7,411 Joined: 9-June 05 From: Hagerstown, MD Member No.: 4,238 Region Association: None ![]() |
I bought a seat rail for the Corvette via eBay. It was rusty and not anywhere near the condition they claimed. I bitched about it and they sent me another, slightly better, example. I ended up taking my original (non-rusty) seat rail to my welder and he fixed it up.
Unfortunately, the big swap meets (Carlisle etc.) aren't getting the vendors they used to because of eBay. Pity, that. I like to be able to inspect my parts before I lay down hard earned cash. |
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