I thought I was taking all the precautions, but still got buggered - Royally, by a tosser on Ebay. I'm posting this thread to see if anyone else has had the same experience:

Just over 8weeks ago, I won an Apexi Power FC + controller, for the sum of £491, which I thought was a good price. People were buying stuff off this person left, right and centre, and he had no neg feedback, so thought I would be pretty safe. He subsequently phoned me twice to say the parts were on their way, but surprise surprise, still no Power FC at my door. I am gutted beyond belief, but want to try and help other from being frauded by the same A55hole. His user ID at the time was 'officially pimped', later changed to 'op_performance', and now, I believe he's back using another Pseudonym. He's based in the Warrington area.

Everyone beware, and if he's reading this, then: You better move house quickly, cos I will find you!!!

P.S - He sells a lot of Scooby stuff!!!

 

officially pimped... he's got a point there

sry to hear you have been con'ed by an ******* like that

 

I recently put a number plate up for auction on ebay and some tosser (Mr Victor Noroi) using my ebay details, sent bidders emails claming he was acting as my agent and that he would sell it to them as a 'Buy Now' offer..!

Several bidders recieved 'official' ebay invoices for the same item, luckly one of them emailed me to confirm this and I let them all know what was happening.

I reported this to ebay (a real pain to do as there system of complaint is cack) as did the bidders involved sending these fake invoices. So far all I've recieved back is an acknowlegement of the complaint and a bill for the commission on the sale..!!

All this came to light as the auction ended and there was a winning bidder who seemed to be uneffected by this fraud. I have informed him of the situation and told ebay that this sale is not going ahead as I feel the auction process has been interferred with. Guess what, I've heard nothing.

I had heard rumours about people having issues with security on ebay but until this I alway thought it to be safe. How wrong you can be..!

 

Hello mate, sorry to hear you got shafted.. Did you pay via ebay/paypal?? You probably already know this but You can more than likely get re-imbursed if you paid that way.. Make sure you get that sorted, then leave crap feedback. so that we all hope, one day soon, they'll get screwed sideways, with a pineapple

 

Saw the guys products and thought it looked to good to be true.

You should be able to claim back your money if you paid by paypal or CC.

Bob

 

if it looks too good it usually is,i always pay by paypal only and never bid until i am sure of product etc but it is so easy to get ripped off unfortunately
martin

 

if you paid by paypal you'll get your money back.

 

hi mate,
sorry to hear this, it nearly happened to me what i did was e-mail as many as his prevoius customers explaining what had happened and ask for his address (esp if he has bought off them) then send him a e-mail saying you havent been up to warrington for a while esp (his street name) he'll shat himself thats what i did and i got it in 2 days.
cheers
chris

 

Think this fella kicks around in GT4oc.com

Have a look,if its the same guy he has a black ST185..

 

i've been skanked aswell on ebay for £220 from g-tech performance for a spoiler for my scoob.

Add said it will be delivered within 7 days and i paid for it on the 16th may by paypal.

So after three e-mails and getting fobbed off i've now reported him to ebay and paypal but they can't guarantee me getting my money back.

Has anyone heard of G-tech perfofmance and know there address.

Cheers paul.

P.S. There address P.M. please

 

i bought & received my fmic from them - well didnt pay postage & arranged for me to pick it up.
you get what you pay for not the best bits of kit ever but thats life.

hope you get it sorted.

edit to say - yeah black toyota gt thing

 

did anyone that had already paid use their credit card on paypal?

 

Mad Steve: Sorry to hear you have been shafted. If you want what I believe is the guys current address please e-mail me.
Don't expect much help from e-bay. They are not interested but I do understand they removed his account in the name "officially pimped"
How far away from Warrington are you?
You could sort it yourself but if he has taken your money and then disappeared the local CID will want to know.

 

In the same position as you, sent him a letter threating court action today.

But I have address, mobile number, house phone number if you need them. Also see :- http://www.officiallypimped.co.uk/

Also might have a car reg that he bought off ebay. Check his previous purchases around 26th April.

He now trades as oppjapparts

 

dics like him give ebay a bad name

 

There's a fair few people on here from Warrington and the surrounding areas. I'm sure we could arrange to have the next meet round this guys house

 

www.officiallypimped.co.uk Recent work includes a Tommy Hakkinen Special Edition EVO.

I think that has to cause some suspicion from a bloke who deals with performance cars!

Rich

 

Hi guys,im in the same position as madsteve been waiting 10 weeks for power fc and commander still not received it, now asked for a refund that was over a week ago keeps fobbing me off any one got any address details or anything. Cheers

 

I have. Send me an Email for details.

 

Also doesn't look like a UK scene to me

 

Looks like Japan to me

 

The stupid **** has put his mobile number on the site! Also, the perv is asking for people to send him pics of wives or girlfriends draped over their car to have a chance at "winning" his "competition". I hope he gets reported to the Police for trying to scam people on Ebay and/or receives a thorough beating.

Hope you get things sorted,

Graham

 

Enough complaints to the police with details of the transactions, his correspondance, name and address should interest them. Clearly a blatant criminal.

 

I did contact http://www.hmcourts-service.gov.uk/onlineservices/mcol/ but because I'm in Scotland it's of little use to me. He's been set a deadline of 13/6/05 to refund me or I'll then take action.

If the others want to email me details I can submit them all at once. I suspect the bigger the case the more interested people will be in taking action.

 

W@nker

 

I got conned to on Ebay bought what I thought was a MOMO Steering wheel, turned out to be a good fake...........I mean a good fake...........packaging and the leather tab was spot on as well...............Im getting concerned about Ebay being a scammers delight seriously, our scoobynet could probably make money, and offer a first class service doing the same style of auction.

Im sorry those whove been conned out of the hard earned cash, its the devils own job trying to get the money back from ebay aswell, i think there is a clause of ten days or something!..dont know the full ins and outs of it though


Nick

 

i do not about scoobynet making money, i bought a knocklink out of the for sale section it turns out that the guy sold it to three other's and none of us got the goods. so If anyone knows where RA Boy lives (mr k chan) let me know

 

Hi there, im currently waiting for an item off this bloke " vauxhallworld,"

im starting to worry a bit now reading some of this, i dont use ebay a great deal...


I have mailed the seller and im just being told dont worry, it will get there..

Just mailed him again asking for the tracking details of the item, so i guess i will see what turns up...


Does anyone have any personal experience with this seller.....


Thanks

John

 

http://search.ebay.co.uk/_W0QQfrppZ5...ssZoppjapparts

Two poor sobs have made bids as well.

 

DONT UNDERSTAND WHY YOU DONT JUST NANE AND SHAME THE W@NKER