Hey guys. Last month, a member of this forum, TheIllicitOne, had a thread for a 6505 he was trying to sell. I responded via pm, we talked and agreed on a price, shipping method and the whole 9. Price was 550 shipped, and when the money cleared into his account via PayPal, he would ship. He recommended i mark the item as "received" in PayPal, so it would clear into his account sooner, thus enabling him to ship it out sooner. So i mark it as such, he comes back to me a day or two later and tells me it has cleared, he is boxing it up and preparing for it to be shipped. This was all during the first couple of days of this month, and a week or so later, he tells me he was out of town for business and would for sure have it shipped to me the following "insert day of the week here" and that he would include something for the inconvenience. Well, that isn't the only time i heard that from him though, and i haven't heard back from him in going on two weeks. Not to mention it has been nearly a whole month, and he hasn't even shipped it out to me. I have tried to get ahold of this person via forum and personal email letting him know i appreciate whatever he wants to do to sway the inconvenience, but if it he hadn't had it shipped in x amount of days, i would like my money back because for a struggling 21 whose day job is a McDonald's cook, loosing 550 bucks is doesn't exactly help me out when i have other important things i need pay for, but now cannot. But alas, i have heard no word from him and it seems like i wont at all. So i have taken it upon myself to notify PayPal and i have filed a claim to try to withdraw those funds back from his account and into mine.
So i want to know, If you guys were in my shoes, what would you do about the situation? What i have done about it so far might be the only thing i can do about it. But something that irks me is that he has my personal information (initially for shipping me the item), but all i have from him is his email address. I try not to buy a lot of things from individual sellers because i am afraid of this happening. I mean, I am not completely accusing him to fooling me into giving him 550 bucks, maybe he really has been our of town this whole time and has had no access to the internet, or died... But from my point of view, it surely seems like i've been duped.
If there is something you can do. Send him (TheIllicitOne)a message about it, or to see if he responds (then i know he is ignoring me), send some advice my way, or what have you... but this is a shitty situation for myself, i tell you what, and i could really use some help here.
So i want to know, If you guys were in my shoes, what would you do about the situation? What i have done about it so far might be the only thing i can do about it. But something that irks me is that he has my personal information (initially for shipping me the item), but all i have from him is his email address. I try not to buy a lot of things from individual sellers because i am afraid of this happening. I mean, I am not completely accusing him to fooling me into giving him 550 bucks, maybe he really has been our of town this whole time and has had no access to the internet, or died... But from my point of view, it surely seems like i've been duped.
If there is something you can do. Send him (TheIllicitOne)a message about it, or to see if he responds (then i know he is ignoring me), send some advice my way, or what have you... but this is a shitty situation for myself, i tell you what, and i could really use some help here.
