Watch out for this guy... he ripped me off!!

JohnnyWadd · #1 03-26-2006, 03:13 PM

Hey, everybody. Some of you might remember me. I'm the guy who got his Talon stolen in San Diego... twice. Anyway, I just wanted to give everybody a heads up about a guy that ripped me off. It was right after the car was stolen the first time. I'd planned on buying the bare minimum number of parts to make my car driveable so that I could take it home to rebuild it. He contacted me and told me that he had what I needed. So, I decided to buy from him. Anyway, he dicked around and didn't send the parts I needed, and eventually, as you all know, the car disappeared again. I contacted him, and told him that it was gone and that I wouldn't be needing the parts, so he agreed to give me my money back. That was nine months ago. Here I sit now, not having seen dollar one of my money.

I'm not trying to do a smear campaign here. I'm just trying to make sure that no one else gets burnt by this guy. There are a whole lot of people out there that you can buy parts from. I urge you to find someone else. I don't want anyone else to lose any of their hard-earned money. I'm an honest guy, and I can't stand to see someone take advantage of someone else. he usually goes by metalball or metalball101. He had me pay him through PayPal by sending payment to [email protected]. You're probably thinking that I have an awful lot of information about the guy, considering that he ripped me off. People who cheat others don't usually give out a lot of information. Well, I didn't get this stuff from him. I got it from a few other people, but I was able to confirm that this was the same guy. If you still want to deal with the guy, so be it. I'm just making sure that everybody knows that he's not a good guy. It's pretty shitty to rip off a guy that's already gotten his car jacked twice. That's just wrong. He'll get his, though... what goes around comes around.

By the way, I'm preparing a small claims case against him. I'm sure he'll dig that. It's not a huge amount of money, but it's the principal of the thing.

Thanks for reading.
Jon

P.S. I'm posting this on as many DSM sites as I can. Feel free to post it to a few more if you like.

crunchymilk55 · #2 03-26-2006, 03:26 PM

good luck with the case. Did you file with paypal?

Black99GST · #3 03-26-2006, 03:33 PM

yeah, Paypall should return most if not all of your money...

ned032002 · #4 03-26-2006, 07:13 PM

That blows, but It sounds like you shouldn't have a problem with getting your money back considering how much info you have on him. Good Luck and keep us posted.

JohnnyWadd · #5 03-27-2006, 04:42 AM

Okay, you're one up on me. I didn't know I could complain through PayPal. I'll look into it on my own, but in the mean time, could you humor me? What do I need to do?

Thanks for the reply
Jon

crunchymilk55 · #6 03-27-2006, 11:42 AM

file a report with paypal. the links is on the site somewhere

they usually recover just about everything for the buyer, they shaft sellers alot though.

l_eclipse_l · #7 03-27-2006, 12:30 PM

Yeah file a report with Paypal. It will take a few weeks before you see any of the money, but chances are you will win your case.

JohnnyWadd · #8 03-27-2006, 02:31 PM

I filed... wish me luck!!

Thanks for the tip!!
Jon

myjeepsux420 · #9 03-27-2006, 02:44 PM

LOL, I live in Colorado Springs. I know exactly where this guy lives. How much money does this guy owe you?

JohnnyWadd · #10 03-27-2006, 02:49 PM

$250. Not all that much, but it's the principal of the thing, ya know?!

JohnnyWadd · #11 03-27-2006, 02:51 PM

Looks like Nate's selling a car now. I wouldn't buy from him.

http://www.angelfire.com/md2/metalball/

myjeepsux420 · #12 03-27-2006, 03:13 PM

I'll keep my eyes out for this guy. From the pictures of his for sale car, I think he works at one of the dealerships here in town. What a punk

l_eclipse_l · #13 03-27-2006, 05:30 PM

From the looks of it, thats a nice and clean GSX. Glad to know the guy is a douche though, hopefully nobody on here ends up dealing with him.

tr10av · #14 03-27-2006, 05:45 PM

Filing a claim with PayPal usually doesn't work. Sorry to inform you of this but don't want you to get your hopes up. My friend bought a computer off eBay for $350 and only got back about $100. They can only get your money back if the person hasn't taken it out of their PayPal account, which most scammers will do right when they get their money.

ez1286 · #15 03-27-2006, 06:00 PM

I got 100% back when i filed a caomplaint through paypal, took about a week. If he has no evidence to prove he sent it you will get the money back.

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