Beware of fake items!

I guess it was bound to happen...it's sort of funny in a way at this point seeing how my last entry was about how great ebay is :)

The moral of the story on this one is to read all the feedbacks left for someone your thinking of buying from, even if they are marked as positive scores.

I recently purchased an item from user "thefinestavailable" thinking that because they had a feedback score of 99.7% with 350+ feedbacks that the deal would be fine, it wasn't! When I received the item I knew as soon as I opened it that it was FAKE! and not even a good fake at that. I'll save you the gory details of the refund process in which I'm still in and tell you that you MUST read the feedback that others leave before buying anything. If I were to have read their feedbacks I would have never bought anything from these people! I thought that since they had almost all positive scores that others were happy with their purchases, but after reading about 20 I soon noticed that even though they were marked as positive scores, they were tells of horrible, fake items!

What this person does is tells you that they will not issue you a refund unless you "mutually withdraw" your negative feedback. This voids the negative feedback and makes it look like they seller is great, when in reality many of the positives are bad remarks.

Never the less, these people know the game and have it down to a science. I want to let you all know their name so you can avoid the headache I have from this deal. I know they are ripping a ton of people off since it's the holiday season, so be careful.

AVOID the ebay user "thefinestavailable" at all cost!

Read their feedbacks and see for yourself! They have quite a scam going!

Well I was right about the ebayer not paying after all

So my worst fears were confirmed this morning when I received an email from the highest bidder regarding my leather jacket. If you remember from a few days ago, I was worried that they were not going to pay me because they had been an ebay member since April 24th, 2007 and still had a feedback score of zero.

When I opened my emails this morning I had one in there from this person, which was a big surprise because quite honestly I didn't think I would ever hear from them anyway. I was told that Unfortunately due to unexpected circumstances I cannot afford the jacket any longer". What a joke!

I guess all I can hope for now is that the highest bidder under this person still wants the jacket and not bought another one in the meantime. I sent this person a second chance offer which I can explain what that is in another post soon enough.

So in closing I think it's only fair to post the username of this person who flaked out on me. The ebay username "amadakruger", the name is a link so you can visit their profile and see if they have had any listing or bought anything from anyone. I truly thin that this ebay username is a fake name somone set up for the specifi purppose of doing things like this. I will also tell you how and why people do this in a future post.