(Closed) Diamond Experts and eBay Proficient Bees

• moviegoer23
• 4 years ago

Not good not good, ladies. So, an update to the saga. The seller marked my item as “shipped” the next morning after I sumbitted payment (before talking to some of the excellent eBay specialist bees who said to try to cancel payment). The seller did not provide a tracking number. I emailed several times requesting a tracking number and the seller never responded. I am glad that I printed the listing to PDF before she took it down because now the listing is gone and the seller is listed as “No longer a registered user” on eBay. 🙁 My tracking information said that my item should be delivered between June 26 and July 10 as of last night, but today I received this message when I looked at the “purchased items awaiting feedback” link: “We had to remove this listing from the site and you’re not required to complete the transaction. If you’ve already sent payment, the sale should process as normal and you don’t have anything to worry about. If you have any questions about delivery, please check tracking or contact your seller. If you run into any trouble along the way eBay is here to help. Please visit the Resolution Center to help resolve any problems you may encounter.” Great, I thought, contact the seller- the seller who is no longer registered on eBay. 🙁 

Why would someone do that? Sell items, take money and then vanish from eBay? What do they get out of doing that?

So, bees, what now? Should I wait for the “anticipated arrival date” of my package or start trying to get a refund, now?

Just so that nobody else falls into the same scam after me, the seller was yamalyaskot23 (item #311383681211). There were several other sellers all with the same kind of merchandise who were listed from Canada- I don’t know if that is just a coincidence or if they are truly all related (I’m thinking the later).

Such a sad update. 🙁

• moviegoer23
• 4 years ago

Berri:  I don’t know. My uncle has won some pretty amazing things for a good price with no reserve auctions starting at 99 cents. Typically, these sellers were just trying to build up an eBay reputation and were willing to let some nice things go at a low price to get some positive transactions under their belt. I had my feelers out for fishiness- overseas sellers, etc. This one seemed prompt and reassured me several times that the item was as described. I decided to take the risk knowing that I would be backed by eBay and PayPal if things went wrong. I guess I’m now just trying to figure out how soon to start communicating with PayPal and eBay. I don’t want them to blow me off because I haven’t allowed the item enough time to be shipped to me, but I don’t want to sit on the problem, either.

• moviegoer23
• 4 years ago

I decided to call eBay and ask what to do. They said that because the seller is no longer a member, they would just refund my money. I was told that, if the item actually comes, it is mine to keep. I really must applaud eBay for standing by their buyers and making the process so easy and painless! I’m still curious as to whether any item (even a laughably fake item) will show up in my mailbox. If not, does the seller just rip off eBay and keep my money (well, now eBay’s money because they refunded me)?