Porsche 991 parts scam
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Hi there
I just wanted to highlight a scam I was recently subjected to on eBay (twice actually). I sold a touch screen satellite navigation head unit removed from a Porsche 991 Turbo S Generation II model to a 'buyer' in Birmingham who then contacted me a couple of days later to tell me I had sent him a climate control unit. I told him I knew what I had sent him, the climate control unit had gone to New York months earlier. He requested a return which was fine but then I got that sinking feeling that this was going to go wrong. When my part arrived back, it had morphed into an Audi broken piece of plastic. His messages were all of him being a victim, I couldn't believe the front of him. So now he has his money back, my part and to top it all off he left me bad feedback!!
The second scam happened days later when an airbag from the same vehicle with pretty much the same scenario but this time the 'buyer' lived 5.8 miles away from buyer number one. He complained that it was not compatible to his vehicle, requested a return and I received an Audi rear view mirror for my troubles. This time he left me positive feedback. I am now £900 out of pocket with a deep dislike of thieves. I investigated his feedback history to find he had scammed a German seller out of nearly £2000 for a complete carbon steering wheel recently.
Ebay are not interested, Paypal are not interested and I doubt Action Fraud line will be interested or be able to do anything about it. Before this little adventure, the 'buyer' had good feedback so I was not suspicious of him. He has taken nearly £3000 in a matter of weeks off the one's I know about but there may be others. I have his contact details but I doubt anything legal can be done.
I am just venting really but I just wanted to highlight this as I believe cases like this are now on the rise. Thanks
I just wanted to highlight a scam I was recently subjected to on eBay (twice actually). I sold a touch screen satellite navigation head unit removed from a Porsche 991 Turbo S Generation II model to a 'buyer' in Birmingham who then contacted me a couple of days later to tell me I had sent him a climate control unit. I told him I knew what I had sent him, the climate control unit had gone to New York months earlier. He requested a return which was fine but then I got that sinking feeling that this was going to go wrong. When my part arrived back, it had morphed into an Audi broken piece of plastic. His messages were all of him being a victim, I couldn't believe the front of him. So now he has his money back, my part and to top it all off he left me bad feedback!!
The second scam happened days later when an airbag from the same vehicle with pretty much the same scenario but this time the 'buyer' lived 5.8 miles away from buyer number one. He complained that it was not compatible to his vehicle, requested a return and I received an Audi rear view mirror for my troubles. This time he left me positive feedback. I am now £900 out of pocket with a deep dislike of thieves. I investigated his feedback history to find he had scammed a German seller out of nearly £2000 for a complete carbon steering wheel recently.
Ebay are not interested, Paypal are not interested and I doubt Action Fraud line will be interested or be able to do anything about it. Before this little adventure, the 'buyer' had good feedback so I was not suspicious of him. He has taken nearly £3000 in a matter of weeks off the one's I know about but there may be others. I have his contact details but I doubt anything legal can be done.
I am just venting really but I just wanted to highlight this as I believe cases like this are now on the rise. Thanks
I'd not heard of this one before but seems quite an obvious and easy one to get away with. He fulfils all the ebay/paypal (tracking numbers, history of messages) criteria and they always side with the buyer. I sell quite a bit on ebay but it hasn't happened to me before.
There's not really a way you can protect yourself agaisnt it is there?
I wonder if any local members can scope out the address for you? If there is a 991 on the drive of either place I'd be tempted to go get my stuff back.
There's not really a way you can protect yourself agaisnt it is there?
I wonder if any local members can scope out the address for you? If there is a 991 on the drive of either place I'd be tempted to go get my stuff back.
Unfortunately it's not a "991 parts scam" but very simply a scam. Yes they get away with it. I would never leave feedback for a buyer before all is 101% and any return period is over. Other than that Ebay won't help at all so you either write off the loss or deal with as you see fit.
daytona111r said:
I don't use Ebay, but the only think I can think of going forward is next time take a photo of what you are sending with the address it's being sent to
Sadly that proves nothing. If PayPal would volunteer to do anything about it then they’d be robbed blind.
No win situation.
Don’t sell anything by PayPal that you couldn’t peacefully just put in the bin instead.
Mac McGovern said:
Hi there
I just wanted to highlight a scam I was recently subjected to on eBay (twice actually). I sold a touch screen satellite navigation head unit removed from a Porsche 991 Turbo S Generation II model to a 'buyer' in Birmingham who then contacted me a couple of days later to tell me I had sent him a climate control unit. I told him I knew what I had sent him, the climate control unit had gone to New York months earlier. He requested a return which was fine but then I got that sinking feeling that this was going to go wrong. When my part arrived back, it had morphed into an Audi broken piece of plastic. His messages were all of him being a victim, I couldn't believe the front of him. So now he has his money back, my part and to top it all off he left me bad feedback!!
The second scam happened days later when an airbag from the same vehicle with pretty much the same scenario but this time the 'buyer' lived 5.8 miles away from buyer number one. He complained that it was not compatible to his vehicle, requested a return and I received an Audi rear view mirror for my troubles. This time he left me positive feedback. I am now £900 out of pocket with a deep dislike of thieves. I investigated his feedback history to find he had scammed a German seller out of nearly £2000 for a complete carbon steering wheel recently.
Ebay are not interested, Paypal are not interested and I doubt Action Fraud line will be interested or be able to do anything about it. Before this little adventure, the 'buyer' had good feedback so I was not suspicious of him. He has taken nearly £3000 in a matter of weeks off the one's I know about but there may be others. I have his contact details but I doubt anything legal can be done.
I am just venting really but I just wanted to highlight this as I believe cases like this are now on the rise. Thanks
This is the scenario that stopped me buying, refurbing and reselling laptops on ebay. It's staggering how much front people have. I was lucky enough to win my appeal with ebay/paypal so I quit whilst I was ahead.I just wanted to highlight a scam I was recently subjected to on eBay (twice actually). I sold a touch screen satellite navigation head unit removed from a Porsche 991 Turbo S Generation II model to a 'buyer' in Birmingham who then contacted me a couple of days later to tell me I had sent him a climate control unit. I told him I knew what I had sent him, the climate control unit had gone to New York months earlier. He requested a return which was fine but then I got that sinking feeling that this was going to go wrong. When my part arrived back, it had morphed into an Audi broken piece of plastic. His messages were all of him being a victim, I couldn't believe the front of him. So now he has his money back, my part and to top it all off he left me bad feedback!!
The second scam happened days later when an airbag from the same vehicle with pretty much the same scenario but this time the 'buyer' lived 5.8 miles away from buyer number one. He complained that it was not compatible to his vehicle, requested a return and I received an Audi rear view mirror for my troubles. This time he left me positive feedback. I am now £900 out of pocket with a deep dislike of thieves. I investigated his feedback history to find he had scammed a German seller out of nearly £2000 for a complete carbon steering wheel recently.
Ebay are not interested, Paypal are not interested and I doubt Action Fraud line will be interested or be able to do anything about it. Before this little adventure, the 'buyer' had good feedback so I was not suspicious of him. He has taken nearly £3000 in a matter of weeks off the one's I know about but there may be others. I have his contact details but I doubt anything legal can be done.
I am just venting really but I just wanted to highlight this as I believe cases like this are now on the rise. Thanks
I had a scam on eBay along the same lines. Ended up with negative feedback and being out of pocket. They did nothing to the guy and couldn't be less interested. I spent hours trying to get it sorted, but in the end gave up and got on with my life. I'll never use eBay for selling, for buying I'll just make contact and go and visit before paying up.
Mac McGovern said:
Hi there
I just wanted to highlight a scam I was recently subjected to on eBay (twice actually). I sold a touch screen satellite navigation head unit removed from a Porsche 991 Turbo S Generation II model to a 'buyer' in Birmingham who then contacted me a couple of days later to tell me I had sent him a climate control unit. I told him I knew what I had sent him, the climate control unit had gone to New York months earlier. He requested a return which was fine but then I got that sinking feeling that this was going to go wrong. When my part arrived back, it had morphed into an Audi broken piece of plastic. His messages were all of him being a victim, I couldn't believe the front of him. So now he has his money back, my part and to top it all off he left me bad feedback!!
The second scam happened days later when an airbag from the same vehicle with pretty much the same scenario but this time the 'buyer' lived 5.8 miles away from buyer number one. He complained that it was not compatible to his vehicle, requested a return and I received an Audi rear view mirror for my troubles. This time he left me positive feedback. I am now £900 out of pocket with a deep dislike of thieves. I investigated his feedback history to find he had scammed a German seller out of nearly £2000 for a complete carbon steering wheel recently.
Ebay are not interested, Paypal are not interested and I doubt Action Fraud line will be interested or be able to do anything about it. Before this little adventure, the 'buyer' had good feedback so I was not suspicious of him. He has taken nearly £3000 in a matter of weeks off the one's I know about but there may be others. I have his contact details but I doubt anything legal can be done.
I am just venting really but I just wanted to highlight this as I believe cases like this are now on the rise. Thanks
Advertise the touch screen nav again. If he bites send him the broken piece of plastic....I just wanted to highlight a scam I was recently subjected to on eBay (twice actually). I sold a touch screen satellite navigation head unit removed from a Porsche 991 Turbo S Generation II model to a 'buyer' in Birmingham who then contacted me a couple of days later to tell me I had sent him a climate control unit. I told him I knew what I had sent him, the climate control unit had gone to New York months earlier. He requested a return which was fine but then I got that sinking feeling that this was going to go wrong. When my part arrived back, it had morphed into an Audi broken piece of plastic. His messages were all of him being a victim, I couldn't believe the front of him. So now he has his money back, my part and to top it all off he left me bad feedback!!
The second scam happened days later when an airbag from the same vehicle with pretty much the same scenario but this time the 'buyer' lived 5.8 miles away from buyer number one. He complained that it was not compatible to his vehicle, requested a return and I received an Audi rear view mirror for my troubles. This time he left me positive feedback. I am now £900 out of pocket with a deep dislike of thieves. I investigated his feedback history to find he had scammed a German seller out of nearly £2000 for a complete carbon steering wheel recently.
Ebay are not interested, Paypal are not interested and I doubt Action Fraud line will be interested or be able to do anything about it. Before this little adventure, the 'buyer' had good feedback so I was not suspicious of him. He has taken nearly £3000 in a matter of weeks off the one's I know about but there may be others. I have his contact details but I doubt anything legal can be done.
I am just venting really but I just wanted to highlight this as I believe cases like this are now on the rise. Thanks
It's definitely not a Porsche 991 parts scam, it's a regular ebay scam.
My friend signed up to eBay and PayPal then sold and posted a nice leather jacket. The buyer responded by complaining that she had sent him a dress, not a jacket, and provided a photo of it. The buyer then demanded a refund, and both eBay and Paypal sided with him. He got a nice jacket for nothing.
There was nothing my friend could do to convince the system that it was a scam.
My friend signed up to eBay and PayPal then sold and posted a nice leather jacket. The buyer responded by complaining that she had sent him a dress, not a jacket, and provided a photo of it. The buyer then demanded a refund, and both eBay and Paypal sided with him. He got a nice jacket for nothing.
There was nothing my friend could do to convince the system that it was a scam.
vikingaero said:
Advertise the touch screen nav again. If he bites send him the broken piece of plastic....
I might know of someone that did exactly that, and no it wasn't me.BMW F10 bits. Birmingham address, claimed different parts, no good, returned a pile of bits that was s
te.Used slightly different pictures and a totally different location to sell same bits. Within 4 hours same buyer bit. Paypal account emptied, waited a few days with a sad excuse and then sent items he had sent. Buyer wasn't happy at all.
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