[vintage954]

Kinda like your last post?

Originally Posted by Acollector

I can understand why you're upset, but from what you said, they did nothing wrong legally or ethically because you don't know if they gave you the email address with an extra letter on purpose. If I think someone is wasting my time, I don't go after them. I just sell to the next person if someone else is willing to buy. Whether it was a legitimate mistake or not on the part of the seller in giving you the email address, I don't think he owes you anything. It would be nice if he made up for it if it indeed was an error, but he really owes you nothing.

Don't you find what you did unethical by using Paypal to send a free payment? The argument can be made that you ripped Paypal off by sending a gift payment to someone that was neither your friend, nor your family member. Paypal as much as I hate them are a business. Their business is money transactions. They charge a fee. You avoided Paypal getting the fee they collect when you marked it as a gift. That's unethical too, so that makes you an unethical buyer.

I'm not defending this seller. I have never dealt with him or heard of him until your post. I'm looking at it as a neutral party. Why should he honor the agreement if he never received the payment from you which you just said he never got? In his eyes, you broke the agreement. I don't see anywhere how you were ripped off, so it makes you look like the liar here and unethical. For them to rip you off they would have had to have taken your money then never sent you anything. You admit that they never got your money and still offered you the "consolation" prize, so where exactly were you ripped off?