A very sad story of theft!!!!!!!!

[Lgear080]

should have set your parameters in my ebay to disallow bidders w/ less
than "x" feedback. i believe my min bidder allowance is set to 5 fb or so.

i would have not completed the sale w a zero fb buyer. not my game.

[blackmsport]

paypal is poo poo

like I said in my previous posts

1. sold laptop... buyer used it for 30 days then claim that it wasn't as described.... I lost the case and got the laptop back...
2. Sold a HTC smart phone... buyer bought it and then claimed it was a fake HTC... (I swore to my grand parents grave that it was a real HTC...) anyway, if fake BUYER can destroy it and get full refund... I lost the case and never got the phone back plus loss my money

never Ever paypal... if IF PAYPAL don't post till money in your bank account and in your listing TICK NO RETURN

Paypal is a bunch of basterds

[skyedog]

so so sorry .... hope you can get the money back!

[bodybump]

Jason any updates on what happened??

[cornerstore]

Sorry to hear as I've had similar experiences lately. PayPal -file a police report ,take lots of photos of what you received .

[greekbum]

BUYER FRAUD is huge these days. Please let us know if you get your money or watch back.

[rr-nyc]

This is such a horrible situation. I hope you're able to recover the watch

PS- Strangely, my last name is Ramos and I have a brother named Robert! But he is neither in Florida or into watches

[bodybump]

still we havent heard any updates..

[major_error]

Sad story!
I really hope you will get your watch (or at least the money) back!

8-(

[brkanand]

Very sad. I know how traumatic this is.

[alohajet]

I used e-bay to buy my white gold day-date. But only for the initial contact, after that I used and payed for escrow.com's service. After e-mailing the seller he agreed. It gave me time to have the watch checked out before I released the funds to the seller.

I highly recommend it for high value items...;)

[DJoyce]

Man, that sucks. This is why I'm afraid to sell my watch on eBay--I don't know if there is a fair way for both parties to do a trade on such a big ticket item without someone getting potentially screwed on a deal. That's exactly my biggest fear: having someone say they don't like the watch or having an issue, and then pretending to have sent it back to me but keeping it instead.

Fortunately, I've done plenty of eBay deals in the past without any issues (and had 3 times where the items weren't as described but got a prompt apology and refund or a partial refund) but I've set my auctions not to allow bidders without feedback or with negative feedback and only those with a paypal account and yet I've had bidders with zero feedback and NO paypal set up win an auction before. Very frustrating! Especially since in the last one I specifically said I didn't want any bidders who aren't able to pay within 24 hours of the end of auction, and set up the preferences to ignore people who don't have paypal set up on their profile, and yet somehow someone without PayPal won. Grr!

[phampau]

Sorry to hear what happened, hopefully you will get things resolved.

[blackmsport]

What 's the outcome ???

[therealdeal]

From my experience, since the buyer return the merchandise "empty box", the buyer will be refunded.

[edbsbc78]

Hi Jason,
Hope everything turns out OK for you.
Good Luck

[757doc001]

bump for info

[Monte_de_Piedad]

Same here with the same theft is using the same excuse I sold him tru ebay but this time he has two emails , one is the listed on ebay user
wepatime4u and new email wepatime@gmail.com and old one tpitravel@hotmail.com Please don't sell him nothing avoid the same mistake i did , I have the pics so you can see the condition of the watch and is reasons of the claim are Buyer reason(s):

Externally Damaged
Internally Damaged
Different Model
Substitute
Missing Parts

Buyer: Misdescribed watch mising all links needs 5 links at $40 equal $200 dent crystal $50 also cleaning of movement watch is delaying time $75 also watch was described as box and papers no papers in the watch will leave a bad feedback if $325 that is the cost the Cartier is charging will not be given hope we can resolved this in a good manner so we can leave a Good feedback to the seller
9/9/2011 19:25 PDT - Buyer: Watch with no links at all so noone can wear this also dent on crystal mising papers Guarantee watch needs refinish and cleaning on movement watch not keeping time mising links miss described

And right know Im in the returning period. and Wish me luck
hoping for the best
Please Avoid this seller......
Thanks
Alberto Estrada
CARTIER TANK FRANCAISE SS AUTOMATIC MEN'S WATCH NR.

[m_allie]

You know ebay sucksssss

[Andelain]

OP, any updates?

Originally Posted by greekbum

BUYER FRAUD is huge these days. Please let us know if you get your money or watch back.

I'm not sure which is more rampant these days, but it sure makes it hard for both sides. I'm strictly a buyer, I just want to get one or 2 more Rolexes, and most sellers here (not including you) won't give me the time of day because I'm new. And when I look elsewhere, like ebay, I see more Folexes than Rolexes. It's just gotten so hard for honest seller to know who the honest buyers are and vice-versa.

[matt4hand]

Did this ever pan out?

[D-train]

how do you sell a watch? I put my watch on ebay and got a guy that sent me his number to talk. But when I called the next day his phone was disconnected...He had no feedback...its almost more of a headache to sell the watch then just keep it...where can you find honest buyers? I have a rolex watch up there now and just hope I get an honest buyer.....

[edweather]

That's horrible. When you say debited, was the money just sitting in your paypal account? If not, I would fight it tooth and nail. Did you see a copy of the letter? I don't know who would put in a fake movement. Is it possible the movement was fake? Ebay usually returns the money after the return, not before. Something sounds off here.

[A.K.]

Originally Posted by edweather

That's horrible. When you say debited, was the money just sitting in your paypal account? If not, I would fight it tooth and nail. Did you see a copy of the letter? I don't know who would put in a fake movement. Is it possible the movement was fake? Ebay usually returns the money after the return, not before. Something sounds off here.

We sell lots of watches on ebay, so we carry a balance in our paypal account all the time.

The movement was not fake 100%, they only thing about this watch was the case back being stamped inside with a ref number of a GMT, and it was fully disclosed in the listing.

That said, eBay decided that is was counterfeit because of the proof provided by the buyer and asked them to destroy the item and proceeded to refund him.

I on the other hand have no money or watch!!! I am currently fighting this one with eBay all the way, I am aghast that eBay would do such a thing!!!!!!

[edweather]

That's crazy that ebay can do that without at least providing you the evidence they got. Especially with the sales record that you say that you have with them, you'd think they would treat you somewhat decent. This is very discouraging.

[A.K.]

a simple look at his feedback left to other sellers paints a pretty darn accurate picture of his scam.

https://tinyurl.com/y9aj4bzk

[galtinuk]

Originally Posted by A.K.

a simple look at his feedback left to other sellers paints a pretty darn accurate picture of his scam.

https://tinyurl.com/y9aj4bzk

Wow...Ebay ought to take a look...unless they think somehow this guy is the most unlucky person on eBay...what a piece of work!

Selling is now just as dangerous as buying it seems!

Sent from my Pixel 2 XL using Tapatalk

[Jim Smyth]

Originally Posted by A.K.

a simple look at his feedback left to other sellers paints a pretty darn accurate picture of his scam.

https://tinyurl.com/y9aj4bzk

Wow never seen anything like that. Way too obvious there a scammer. Needs to be Highlighted to EBAY. Also looks like its a younger woman. Buys many hand bags and a gaming unit. Hope they can find her and put her away for fraud.

[smym18]

Originally Posted by Jim Smyth

Wow never seen anything like that. Way too obvious there a scammer. Needs to be Highlighted to EBAY. Also looks like its a younger woman. Buys many hand bags and a gaming unit. Hope they can find her and put her away for fraud.

How do you not get banned from eBay with feedback like that? How many chances do you get? Yet if the buyer has one bs complaint they get refunded and keep the item. I hate eBay.

[jonnyz1245]

Originally Posted by Jim Smyth

Wow never seen anything like that. Way too obvious there a scammer. Needs to be Highlighted to EBAY. Also looks like its a younger woman. Buys many hand bags and a gaming unit. Hope they can find her and put her away for fraud.

Truly amazing a guy/girl like this can keep operating. Apparently Ebay must think they are the most unlucky people in the world.