ok listen to this...
i find someone selling a used turbonetics kit on ebay. he lists a phone number on the description. so i call him and he says hes willing to sell it for 1700. so i talk him to 1500. and i call him the next day. we agreed to do a half a half kind of thing. i was sendgin 800 to him and he would ship the turbo and then i would send 700. well i called him from western union. he took my address down and said he was at UPS. i was like cool, so ill call you after i make the transfer. i call him, no answer, so i leave a message saying i finished and to call me back. i havent heard from him its been a week. now hes got another turbo kit for a scion on ebay. same phone number in miami, fl. different ebay username. his email is no longer available and his phone doesnt ring and wont let me leave a message. he cashed in the money order 3 hours after i sent it.

when i first started talking to him i told him i was in the marine corps and i get payed (today) so i would have to send him 2 payments, he seemed like a cool guy just trying to get rid of his turbo. now i have 800 bucks less and a week has passed with no turbo on my door. i think i have been scammed. i know i made a lot of mistakes the way i did this. im not sure if i should give out the name and number because its been 3 buisness days, but its looking not so good... any advice AT ALL?? he has an item on ebay RIGHT NOW. BE CAREFUL!!!!!!

 

Give it a couple more days, then hit up eBay.

 

no when i called him we did it person to person, and he deleted his ebay .... so the item isnt there any more, i thought maybe he did this to keep from having to complete the bitting and stuff. so we didnt use ebay, mistake #???....

 

damn, that sucks man... sorry to hear.

 

This is why you never use money orders. Have people not realized this yet?

Next time, do PayPal. At least you can get your money back with PayPal's help.... but you're screwed.

 

That sucks. You pretty much handed the guy 800 bucks. I hope everything ends up okay.

 

yeah .. it will take me a long time to recover 800 plus the money for a kit.. so learn from my mistake i guess. i never thought this would happen to me. i didnt think people would jack someone in the military..

 

from a guy who ebays alot, yes big mistake man. ebay can't help u. yea all u can do know is contact local authorites maybe in his area and see what they can do. At least u did money order and not cash, so u can prove he has ur money. yea give it a few more days, but if he deleted his ebay an dput up a new one u just got scammed.

ALWAYS USE PAYPAL!!!!!!!!

 

U R Screwed, But let ebay know what this persom is doing and they Might give you a name to go after.

 

your military position doesn't stop anyone from scamming you. unfortunately that's what it looks like happened.

being former military myself, i know that in the real world.. it means jack. so you get a few people that respect you... overall... it was a horrible experience and i'm glad i broke my contract and got out early.

sorry man... we all live and learn.

 

ebay is going under maintainance right now. how convieniant. by tommorow that other kit will already have scammed someone else..

 

Actually something like that happend to me. I ebayed a video ipod won it for around $300. Payed with paypal but the item never got shipped to me. I waited 3 weeks send emails buy i never got my money refunded. Paypal didnt do smack about it. The guy still selling stuff on ebay.

 

Could you take him to a small claims court? Sounds like you'd have proof of sending the money, and at least some proof that he was indeed selling the item. Unfortunately it sounds like you have no written evidence that you were sending him the money for the turbo.

Sucks that there isn't more you can do when stuff like this happens

 

actually i put a security question on the money order.... the question was : what are you sending me?

the answer was : a scion turbo kit

 

I hope you didnt try and buy this kit...
http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/SCION...QQcmdZViewItem

Its so fake its not even funny. Look at the downpipe, there is no way that would fit a tc, and turbonetics uses a unichip for their app...

Just buy from a turbonetics authorized dealer.. sorry about your luck

 

i got screwed and paypal and my CC got my money back to me within 3weeks. I was suprised things worked out so well. Always email yourself everytime u email the guy so u have backup copies

 

Man rule number 1) never do a ebay transaction outside of ebay 2) never use a money order or western union.....
sorry you got jacked, honestly there is really not much you can do..

 

sorry u had to learn the hard day, but the first rule on buying anything on ebay is NEVER USE WESTERN UNION! every scammer will tell u to do a western union money transfer and give them the money transfer control number. i had to learn the hard way too but fortunately it was no where near $800. hope that it shows up on ur doorstep in the next few days. otherwise i dont think its comin esp. since he's cut off all contact with u. mayb hunt him down at the address u put on the form.

 

i filed a report with the FBI, they are going to go through western union and find out what location he picked the money up. ive been doing some digging on ebay and he has used like 4 different phone numbers. all to sell turbo kits. on of the numbers is the same area code as mine. western union has put a fraud alert on him so he cant pick up money orders for the next 2 months. im not just going to accept losing $800 without trying to get it back

 

Dude, the FBI isn't going to do ____ for you. Unless you have a turban on, they don't care.