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

[Spencer Yost]

PayPal reimbursed me twice.  Once was an eBay auction and the other was a business.  Both were non-delivery issues like yours. 

The process was slow but generally hassle free and  I got my money.

Spencer Yost

> On Nov 4, 2017, at 12:01 AM, Al Jones <farmallsupera1 at gmail.com> 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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