I’ve been buying on ebay for a few years now and the great majority of the sellers are legit, professional and honest. Every so often though I find one thats totally a Pr**k.
Just recently I bought a buy it now Bachmann locomotive and tender. Advertised as being in his collection for years. I should have been suspicious because he did not show any pictures of the bottom of the engine in his write up. The price seemed too good to be true though.
I should have known. Insurance was not an option on the sale so I finally get the package and see that he insured it. Hmmmm. I open up the box and the pilot wheel assembly is totally trashed with no damage to the outside box. OK–I know that at times stuff gets broken on the inside with no outside damage. So I email the seller and tell him what the problem was and he emails me back to take it to the post office to file a claim. So I’m thinking and putting it all together. This guy sent me a busted engine and is trying to get me to be the patsy in defauding the post office. I email him telling him of my suspicions and tell him that I’m taking this attempt to defraud to ebay which I did. He emails back all upset that I took it to ebay and that he was only selling the engine for someone else. Ah-hah. Been in his collection for years–yeah right! It’s being resolved now though to my satisfaction.
Another one that just happend. Seller had a buy it now or best offer LGB Denver and Rio Grand Cattle Car out. I made a couple of offers but both were declined. In the meantime I bought a couple more of them on ebay at much lower prices than he was asking. I have a fetish for LGB Cattle Cars 
Then a couple of days ago I see that he had lowered his buy it now price to what one of my offers was. I made another offer of a lower price and he declined it telling me that he lowered the price so that I could get it and that he did not like my attitude. I shot back that if he don’t like like my attitude that he won’t like what I was about to tell him which was get sc**wd and that he only brought the price down because no one would buy his car. He came back with something about my mother and I replied that if he don’t quit screwing with me I’ll bring both his mother and ebay into the loop and that he needs to start acting like a professional seller and move on. He must have moved on because I have heard nothing else from him.
Another great seller of a year ago or so sold me a K-line diesal engine. I used to have a fetish for those G-gauge engines until too many of them had the same problem which was start running spastically and wobbly and shorting out the system. Got his in the mail and it did these things from the get go. Contacted him, returned his engine at my expense which is the norm on ebay buys and got most of my money back. I also left him positive feedback about standing behind his merchandise. About a month goes by and he emails me that he looked at the engine and numbers on the wheel sets and that I sent back another engine and not his and that I defrauded him. That really got my goat and I wasn’t even drinking rum that day. I emailed him back using the F word in every sentance with the bottom line that if keeps on messing with me I’ll make his exsistence on ebay totally miserable. Not a word from him since.
ANY OTHER EBAY HORROR STORIES OUT THERE…? Come on…Lets hear them
