Thinking about buying bulbs or decals - DON'T BUY FROM THIS GUY! - 986 Forum - The Community for Porsche Boxster & Cayman Owners

blinkwatt · 04-20-2006, 02:09 AM

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Originally Posted by fab

Mach-

You wrote:
He agreed, asked me to do it outside of eBay to avoid fees and asked me to use paypal

Right there you should of said, no thanks I'll take my business elsewhere.

As someone who frequently sells on eBay I understand how the fees build up quickly. I have sold some items to buyers who found out about them through eBay and they paid via Paypal as requested. I have not had any issues with transactions out of eBay,but still paid through Paypal. Paypal has a "buyer protection" program to help protect your money,ensuring it is what you want and paid for.

986Jim · 04-20-2006, 05:44 AM

Should have just bought the bulbs through ebay and paid for shipping twice to be honest. I sell a lot on ebay and while I also do sales outside ebay for guys like what you said, I try and not make a habbit of it because stuff like that happens.

Problem with a lot of selling on ebay is you get 10 million emails and good emails get lost too, it's annoying with spam and stupid questions.

Anyway sorry to hear about your problem, that sucks.

eslai · 04-20-2006, 10:06 AM

When I was deambering my car I saw that guy on eBay. Something about his auctions and offerings gave me pricklies and I steered clear. Sorry to hear you had trouble.

SD987 · 04-20-2006, 10:32 AM

I've only purchased the wind-deflector "Porsche" sticker from RJ, but I was impressed. He sent an extra-sticker (unsolicited), and was communicative and professional.

In fairness to him, he's done 13,000 transactions with only 43 negatives, and considering the car-chachkas he sells, that's pretty impressive. A 99.6% rating is pretty damn good for a power-seller.

Obviously, YMMV and did, but it seems to me that he did try to "work with you" to some extent. I'm not saying you're wrong to feel cheated, but I'm also not sure he's facing eternal damnation based on his business practices.

TriGem2k · 04-20-2006, 10:40 AM

I bought the silver bulbs for the rear turn signals from this guy...No problems...

eslai · 04-20-2006, 03:00 PM

If you can't get satisfaction from eBay and you're anywhere near Miramar in San Diego, you can try Group 5 Motorsports if you want to buy the bulbs in person--that's where I got mine. You might try calling them and seeing if they can ship 'em even.

bull27 · 04-20-2006, 06:32 PM

I have done three transactions with this guy and it went very smoothly and the merchandise was very good. The only negative is when i got the silver bulbs for the rear tails they were not packaged as well as you would expect LIGHTBULBS to be packed