SCAMMER
Seller just ripped off eBay buyers for over $1 million selling gold and silver coins and bullion.
His store disappeared.
His website was started in Jan 2024.
hopefully eBay MoneyBack guarantee will make this right!!
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Seller just ripped off eBay buyers for over $1 million selling gold and silver coins and bullion.
His store disappeared.
His website was started in Jan 2024.
hopefully eBay MoneyBack guarantee will make this right!!
mafen814
·2 years agoEbay just refunded my 2nd purchase also
I have to give Ebay credit for honoring the gtee but I think they probably have some risk management lessons to implement on how they manage and rate sellers etc.
digilight-4
·2 years agoI'm another victim here. Opened a case on April 10, somehow the seller responded on April 15 to ask eBay to review the case and make decision. Not sure if other experiencing the same.
digilight-4
·2 years agoEbay fully refunded me this morning. Good luck to everyone.
dryophelia
·2 years ago@johnn1174
While eBay won’t remove a seller on the suggestion of one buyer, I would say your report helped build the case against that seller.
If one report was all it took, many of us wouldn’t be here.
mafen814
·2 years agoI was ripped off as well. They sent a small envelope so that they could show tracking on the site and buy time while they ripped off other people so now I have the small envelope to show EBAY (instead of 250oz silver) should it be required
Had 2 orders and they refunded one for $1300 or so in matter of 2 hours
The other one for about 250oz silver APMEx BARS is sitll being reviewed apparently and they don't make it possible to communicate with that group directly
kathiec
·2 years agoSo you expect that eBay is supposed to take down a seller on your say-so? Ebay doesn't know you from Job. They have no idea of your expertise or if you're possibly a competitor trying to remove the competition. They also have no way to have expertise on the 1.7 billion listings on the site. So they have a comprehensive Money Back Guarantee. You used it and are being refunded. And MBG cases are what eBay uses to determine seller metrics, so if the seller actually has cheated that many people and they open MBG cases the seller will soon be gone.
johnn1174
·2 years agoYes, I expect them to act when I had verifiable proof. Once again they sold literally hundreds (maybe thousands) of items for thousands of dollars. Exactly what I said would happen, happened A simple look Into thier sales history should have raised red flags. They spent time building up their feedback by selling cheap items, then sold high end items as a highly trusted verified ebay seller. As soon as the item sold they printed out the postage then shipped worthless items. Ebay could have saved themselves and ebay users time and money if they took the time to listen to a warning and look Into the seller. This seller drained his bank account before ebay could recoup the money. It doesn't matter if ebay knows me or not exactly what I warned happened and it could have been stopped. The seller probably made millions
johnn1174
·2 years agoYes, I expect them to act when I had verifiable proof. Once again they sold literally hundreds (maybe thousands) of items for thousands of dollars. Exactly what I said would happen, happened A simple look Into thier sales history should have raised red flags. They spent time building up their feedback by selling cheap items, then sold high end items as a highly trusted verified ebay seller. As soon as the item sold they printed out the postage then shipped worthless items. Ebay could have saved themselves and ebay users time and money if they took the time to listen to a warning and look Into the seller. This seller drained his bank account before ebay could recoup the money. It doesn't matter if ebay knows me or not exactly what I warned happened and it could have been stopped. The seller probably made millions
orcas-6220
OP2 years agoGOOD NEWS.
so eBay gave me a refund quite quickly for the first item I bought. Hopefully when the second item shows up as fake or doesnt show up at all, they will refund that too.
it is due to arrive on Monday according to the USPS tracking.
mafen814
·2 years agoI also had 2 orders (no tracking for first one)
They sent a small envelope instead of the 250oz of silver on the 2nd one just so they could show tracking number while they ripped off other people. I haven't opened it pending Ebay instructions etc.
lacemaker3
·2 years agoAccording to a cached page from Apr 6, 2024, 6 days ago, that user had 100% feed back and was a top-rated seller. All of the negative feedbacks have come in since then. It appears that they started out in January, selling low-priced items like random stamps for $0.99. Built up their feedback and seller performance to set this up.
Buyers on eBay will be protected by the Money Back Guarantee. Buyers from their website may not be so lucky.
Interesting that no feedback comments are shown on their page, now. Did they have time to turn it to private before they were NARU'd?
mudshark61369
·2 years ago@orcas-6220,
If the seller's listings are gone and you see No Longer a Registered user, that means that ebay removed the seller.
Your purchases should still show in your purchase history, and if you click on the More actions box next to them, select Return item, then use Doesn't match photos or description. When you do that the dispute you open will appear on your My ebay Summary page. If you open it, there will be a note saying on what day you can ask ebay to step in, if there is no reply (which there will not be) or the seller doesn't comply w/ the MBG policies usually that date is 4 days away.
If you received your items more than 30 days ago, we need to know that, so we can tell you what to do.
helmutfrauen
·2 years agoI purchased coins from *** because his profile said sold a lot of items on eBay and is a top rated seller . When I did not received the first item I looked in to the shipping. A shipping number was created but never shipped. I tried to get in contact with the seller his profile was not existing anymore. I have to say the selling items and eBay store was nicely done. Who would have known. Now I'm out thousands of dollars. Included when I should get back my money from eBay, what I do not know yet. The price for gold and Silver was gone up 10%. To buy the same stuff as of right now I loos a lot of money and precious time. Sad story for everybody who got scammed.
soh.maryl
·2 years agoAs others have explained, you can still open the appropriate case for your situation, either an item not received case or an item not as described case.
The Money Back Guarantee for buyers should still cover your situation.
great_western_coins
·2 years agoI agree, this has been a waist of time and I had made a very good deal (too good to be true) and now silver has gone up and down but is stronger this week then last. Ebay has assured me that they will refund me the $2,100 next Wednesday (that's 3 business days) after the holding period for the seller to make good on the complaint (theft in this case). The good news is that the funds did not make it to the seller's account before he/she dissapeared.
oldcitydays
·2 years agoYeah, I wouldn't worry about it.EBay's pretty good about helping out.This happens from time to time.These scammers come on here and get a bunch of people very quickly... I will open the case myself... I'm not going to freak out about an ebay will take care of things....
johnn1174
·2 years agoSo same thing just happen to me but the seller had been around since 2022. They were listed as one of ebay most trusted sellers. I warned ebay's fraud dept about the seller and ebay said I was wrong and refused to do anything about the situation. Now they are out literally millions and I'm out approx 3 k plus a huge headache. This is truly ebays fault, they should give each buyer full refund plus an ebay gift card. The bl*** per**
soh.maryl
·2 years agoCan you explain how you are out approx 3K?
Every single buyer here has access to the MBG.
Received an item that's NAD? Open an NAD case.
Did not receive it at all? Open an INR case.
Care to return and give details of the 3K loss?
johnn1174
·2 years agoBecause it hasn't been refunded yet. Once I've received the refund I will not be out the 3k. I literally warned ebay early in the process and they didn't believe me. I l told them verbatim "they are scamming hundreds of people for thousands of dollars." They said that TBP was a trusted seller
johnn1174
·2 years agoUntil I receive my refund I am out the ~3k. That will not be until Thursday at the earliest of they file on my favor. I receive a common nba card in an envelope instead of gold and silver. Like I said I spoke with ebay, then was put through to the fraud department, ebay said that the seller was reputable and refused to make a move. I warned them on the 7th of this month. They could have stopped this then but refused to take the action required. 3 days later 50 negative complaints filed millions lost.
mafen814
·2 years agoAfter I saw the price of my silver was the same despite silver going way up I smelled a rat and googled them -= sure enough there's a reddit thread on the fraud
yeah they shipped me a small envelope so that shipment details would show on the order and i had 'nothing to complain about' while they ripped off other people.
bonjourami
·2 years agoIf his store 'disappeared' most likely Ebay removed it. No seller can close their account so quickly.Since he was a new seller, his funds would have been held.