[AT] Got ripped off ordering some parts online. What should I do?

[Cecil Bearden]

File a complaint with Paypal.  maybe you will get some help from them.  
If not contact  the State Attorney General or the DA in his county.  If 
not then just chalk it up to experience.

Cecil


On 11/3/2017 11:40 PM, John Hall wrote:
> I'd ask Paypal for their help.
>
> Better yet, ask yourself if the money you lost is worth the hassle. If
> its not a huge sum, then you may be better off to just let it go. I got
> screwed out of $175 for hay last year. Guy finally threatened to shoot
> me over it. There was no problem with the hay, he just said he didn't
> have the money. Finally he swore he never promised to pay me for it. Guy
> has all sorts of trouble with the law, even got shot himself shot once.
> The more I asked around the more I found out what a trouble maker the
> guy was.
>
> If you haven't lost a ton of money, your mental health may just be
> better off to let it go. Antique farm equipment is by far a group of
> very honest guys, but occasionally you run across a guy with less than
> honorable intentions. It's not your fault his parents did a piss-poor
> job of raising him.
>
> If you have lost a lot of cash, then I would consult Facebook (probably
> a waste of time), contact the sheriffs office in his county, and if he
> is running a business then file a complaint with his states attorney
> generals office and the BBB.
>
> John Hall
>
>
> On 11/4/2017 12:01 AM, Al Jones wrote:
>>    I purchased some parts (non-IH) through a FB auction site back in
>> April.  I'm in NC and he's in IN.   Paid with Paypal, and from there
>> the seller kept coming up with reasons (working 25 hours a day, etc.)
>> why  the parts were not being sent. He would message me every week or
>> so saying that they would be shipped, and then something would happen
>> and it wouldn't get done.
>>
>> Finally after several months of this I asked for my money back.  No
>> response. So I talked to the group admin and he contacted the guy,
>> same sob story, etc.  I found out I'm not the first one this has
>> happened to.  Admin banned him from the group.  Guy then contacts me
>> and says he will send money back as soon as he's paid, on Oct. 25.
>> All this time I am getting firmer and firmer with him, threatening
>> (bluffing) legal action to hopefully scare him into action.
>> Sooo.....the money is "supposed"to be on the way and in my hands by
>> Saturday (tomorrow,) because the guy "no longer uses paypal...." but I
>> have my doubts.  Also it was late going in the mail because the post
>> office refuses to pick up/deliver mail until he moves his mailbox (?).
>> It doesn't take a rocket surgeon to see I'm being lied to left and
>> right.
>>
>> I've done a little googling but most of what I have found deals with
>> if a company doesn't ship what you ordered, etc.  I can't find much
>> about what to do when an individual cheats you.  I have his address
>> (assuming he gave me the correct one) and from his fb account I know
>> where he works.  I have considered contacting his employer but I'm not
>> entirely sure that is legal.  Have any of you run into a situation
>> like this before?  Is there any way I can get my money back that is
>> both legal and doesn't cost me more than the money he's taken?
>>
>> I have been buying parts, tractors and implements via email, ebay,
>> facebook, Red Power Magazine classifieds, Yesterdays Tractors
>> classifiends, other tractor websites, etc. for a long time and this is
>> the first time I've ever been cheated.  I guess there's a first time
>> for everything.
>>
>> Advice appreciated,
>> Al
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