Hope for Charities Auction Update Buyer Beware

[sb1]

Paypal opened a case against them for non delivery of goods, 12 days later they never responded. Not to Paypal, not to my emails, not to my phone messages. I was refunded my money by Paypal.

[chaddurbin]

didn't want to say anything at that time as you were trying to get your money back...but if something is out of the 45-day paypal protection window, seller simply just has to respond to the case that he's not going to refund and paypal can't take that money away. buyer is basically sol and what paypal's suggestion was to go through a chargeback with the bank/credit card.

[Jlighter]

Thanks for the heads up. I won't be giving them business in the future.

[MGHPro]

I also bought something in there last auction. I paid quickly and never received the item. I called and emailed numerous times and did not get a response. Finally went through Paypal to get my money back
Matt

[bobbyw8469]

Hilarious auction name. I guess they were 'hoping for charity'!!

[Leon]

Originally Posted by bobbyw8469

Hilarious auction name. I guess they were 'hoping for charity'!!

+1.....it is quite the ironic name. I think I will change my id to something like

Please give me money, I need it.




.

[CMFSports]

They also promised lithographs of your choice if you registered for the (Jaunuary, 2013) auction. After I registered something looked fishy so I called and left several messages but none of my calls were returned. Finally I called and left a message (under another a name) as someone interested in consigning and Ken Thimmel called me back within minutes. I told him I was actually just calling about the lithos that were promised for registering and he assured me they would be sent. Needless to say it has never arrived.

[Rich Klein]

Originally Posted by Leon

+1.....it is quite the ironic name. I think I will change my id to something like

Please give me money, I need it.




.

I'm your new partner --- you can split with me 50/50 hell I'll even accept 40/60

Rich

[pokerplyr80]

Originally Posted by sb1

Paypal opened a case against them for non delivery of goods, 12 days later they never responded. Not to Paypal, not to my emails, not to my phone messages. I was refunded my money by Paypal.

I think you're very lucky this was the outcome. I was not aware we had any recourse when sending money via paypal f/f.

[Leon]

Originally Posted by pokerplyr80

I think you're very lucky this was the outcome. I was not aware we had any recourse when sending money via paypal f/f.

I want to make sure folks know I brought up a 2 yrs old thread on purpose. There seem to be some new happenings folks should be aware of. That is why I revived an old thread. Be careful out there.....

[bobfreedman]

If you get an email from a person named Ken Thimmel, my advice to you would be to delete it and mark it as SPAM and never buy anything from him

[Exhibitman]

And don't pay for goods with f/f PayPal. How many times do we have to be told that f/f doesn't provide buyer protection before it sinks in? If the seller is adamant, offer to add 3% to the purchase so you can use regular PayPal to pay and avail yourself of its policies if the item doesn't arrive. I do that all the time. Yeah, it costs me a few bucks, but I never have to worry about some DB's partner disappearing [allegedly] with the money and the items.

[sb1]

Just to be clear. I did not use friends/family, there is/was(not sure if they still have it as an option) a separate tab entitled "money owed" which is exactly what it was, money owed for an invoice.

[Michael B]

Originally Posted by sb1

Just to be clear. I did not use friends/family, there is/was(not sure if they still have it as an option) a separate tab entitled "money owed" which is exactly what it was, money owed for an invoice.

I have never noticed that tab. What I have noticed is that when you are sending a payment one of the choices is 'goods and services'. Unless you are truly sending to friends and family then this should be the tab you choose. I agree with Adam on this. I will add a few dollars to cover the vig paypal takes. I just did outside of ebay it worked well as the seller suggested that way for our mutual protection. I added the extra as he was concerned about the high fee.

[Exhibitman]

Originally Posted by sb1

Just to be clear. I did not use friends/family, there is/was(not sure if they still have it as an option) a separate tab entitled "money owed" which is exactly what it was, money owed for an invoice.

Actually, I was responding to post #17; did not mean to imply you'd used f/f to pay.

[CMFSports]

Originally Posted by bobfreedman

If you get an email from a person named Ken Thimmel, my advice to you would be to delete it and mark it as SPAM and never buy anything from him

Amen to that.