eBay Motors Reviews

My son called Ebay and was told this was a scam. The bike was no longer listed on the site. Unfortunately, we do not have the item number that was listed with the bike. We have all the Ebay emails and the emails from the seller and this agent. I called Moneygram and spoke to a wonderful woman who told me the money was not in Texas but was picked up in Ozone Park, NY.

I have tried at least a dozen times to contact Ebay. They are like a bunch of trained clowns. When asking to speak to a supervisor, they will call back, they are on the other line, they were just about to call you etc. Finally (this happened on Monday, July 14) friday at 8:45pm a supervisor (?) Keri returned my call, after five minutes or so the call was dropped. When I called back I was told she was on the phone and I was put on hold long enough for a recording that said they were too busy to answer the call and leave a message. All of the reps are saying they can not go back in the system to give me the item number.

If I did have that number, Ebay would be responsible for returning my son's money. I have contacted the FBI and was told it was not enough money for them to get involved. The police dept in my son's town said the detective was on vacation until Monday July 21. and they didn't thing it too likely he would see the money. How can Ebay post an item for sale, have it turn into something like this and just disregard it? How many other people has this happened to? Isn't this a federal offense? Can you please help us with this problem? My son is devasted by this and it is breaking my heart. What ever you can do or suggest that I do would be greatly appreciated.

My son at 19 years old has lost his savings of $3600.00 and quite frankly is in a deep depression over this. These freaks have all his information, home address, phone number, email. This whole situation scares me to death.

The vehicle was towed to IG Burton Chev in Seaford, DE. at the cost of $125.00. Joe was in contact with myself and IG Burton until the car was fixed. Turns out that the heads were warped and needed to be reworked. The total bill was for $2640.11. I also had the brake rotors turned while it was there, for they were bad. Joe agreed to pay half. After talking with IG Burton, he decided that his half would be $1100.00. On 6/8 he said that he would mail me a check for $1100.00.

On about 6/23 he sent a check for $400.00, but told me that he had stopped payment on it since I had opened a complaint with eBay and Paypal. You only have 30 days to file and I had no choice. He then told me on 6/26 to cash the check. He told me that the rest was coming. He had told me before that he would send 2 checks for "bookkeeping purposes".

He stopped taking my calls and now will not answer emails. I have been more than patient and I realize that there was no warranty with this vehicle. But he did agree to help me out. And that is what I can't understand. $1100.00 is a small part of the money that I am out on this deal. I can't get any help from eBay because he went outside of eBay. I am out $2240.11. The deal was not such a deal after all.

I was told in an e-mail from e-bay that because the seller couldn't use pay-pal that the transaction was secured and that e-bay was holding $ 20,000 in an account for the purpose of buyer protection. The e-mails came fast and furious over the weekend of March 30th (I have all the e-mails)and payment was made April 2nd for $4600.00 plus the fee to send the Money I have all the reciepts with dates

the seller discontinued contact with me after the Money was recieved I e-mailed e-bay a few times with no reply requesting my money back through the buyer protection plan and they never contacted me I got there on line costomer service and was told That someone would contact me but that never happened finally I got a-hold of someone from e-bay and was told that because I acted outside of e-bay that nothing could be done, after much debate with the customer service rep I finally hung up, as far as I knew I was acting inside of e-bay

I reported all of this to my local police so there is a record plus I have all the e-mails printed and copies of all the transactions In my opinion e-bay should take responsibility to protect it's e-mails from hackers they are a multi-million dollar company who just doesn't care who it burns an the way to the top

I am out a little less than $4800.00 which for me is alot and a hole lot of stress it's my first and last time using e-bay

For the last week I'm trying to contact the seller and eBAY BUT i'M not getting any returns on my e-mail. At the monent,I don't have the truck I'm willing to purchase and my $2660.00 e-Bay assured me this isn't a fraud, I believed them. Can anyone help me settle this matter.

Say you have a car up for sale for $15,000.00. You have a minimum bid of $10,000.00 and a reserve of $15,000.00. Ebay encourages you to do this because they say it encourages buyers to get involved with bidding on your item. If no one bids then you will not get the additional fees applied. However nearly eveytime you will get a minimum bid and nothing more.

I am convinced that Ebay pays people to shill these auctions that look like they may not sell. Once the shill bid is made you are liable for the additional fees. There never was a legitiamte buyer, just Ebay's people making the bid so you will have to pay the extra fees. And Ebay does little to nothing to resolve other issues as well. I am currently still investigating this issue and compiling as much evidence as I can.

After not receiving a response from anyone we decided to check with a local e-bay store here in Tucson. The folks at the local e-bay store told us that it was all false and that this person faked the e-bay internet site and all the information on the screens was fake (we were robbed out of our $3005.00. The e-bay store personnel called Money Gram who told them the money had already been pulled out in a Money Gram store in the State of Oregon and the person who showed identification, signed and everything else was Andrew Larson.

On Friday May 2, 2008 my friend and I went to try to file a police report with Tucson Police Department but were told that we had to file a police report with the San Jose Police Department. We tried getting in touch with the Oregon State Police Department and on May 9, 2008 finally someone answered our call and said we needed to go to contact our local police department. The police report was filed by phone immediately on May 9, 2008.

The Money Gram Stores have cameras and I'm sure the procedures their Customer Service Representatives go through are rigorous considering the amount of money and the new Patriot Act. We know it was a hassle to send this money I imagine it was a hassle to go and pick it up at the Money Gram store. Can someone please help us? We want this low-life cyber criminal caught, otherwise how many more people will this person rip-off/scam and no one can or will do anything about it. If anyone needs the e-mails, paperwork and any other information please feel free to contact [us].

Here is some pertinent information: Date we saw the advertisement: 4/25/08. Type of vehicle: 2003 Jeep Liberty, color: black. Date the money was picked up 4/26/08. Name of person who the money was sent to: Andrew Larson. State where the money was picked up: Oregon. Address of Monica Robert given on the e-bay site: 5xxx Laclede Rd. San Jose, CA 32789. Andrew Larson's address per the e-mails: S. Argyle Ave. Fresno. CA 93723 a fax number was also included in the e-mails: (702). The amount of money sent was $2,900.00 plus $105.00 charge for sending it. Reference number: 29869799 and Money Gram Store information in Tucson, AZ: ACE Cash Express 5xxx E. Speedway Blvd. Tucson, AZ 85712 Store# 1285

16,000 USD lost plus a lot of expenses.

I did so, and received several emails stating the transaction was complete, that the car was already at the DAS company to be shipped. But when I called the DAS co. and found that they had no record, and they informed me to contact seller, and eBay Motors Rep. to get the 7 digit#, or order#. As you can guess, no reply, and it then I knew I had been scammed. eBay has pretty much washed their hands of it saying I have no buyers protection through them, that they think it was a highjacked auction site. I reminded eBay that this fraudulent seller could not have contacted me, but for their auction site, and the question I asked their seller, on this site. I have filed a police report but have been told that it's hard to track these things and they don't have the manpower or funds to do so. I honestly thought I was dealing with a responsible seller through eBay Motors and feel that I have been punished twice, first by fraudulent seller, and second by eBay Motors, who won't stand behind what they list for sale on their auctions.

I have lost a big part of my ability to trust in people and I will feel the effects of this incident for a long time to come. It will make me question a lot of things. As for the money, I have lost a lot too, $2499.00, the $90.00 it cost to send the money gram ,and the interest on my credit card because I took a cash advance.

Then, in July, after numerous emails, I noticed the same picture of the trike we were buying and it had the same picture that were sent to us before our actual purchase back for sale on ebay motors for $6000.00 under a different sellers name. It was then a person by the name of jacksix. That is when I notifed ebay motors and truth be told, all the documents we received were all forged. And to get a hold of ebay you had to email and wait up to 24-48 hours or more. By the time ebay got in touch with me by email, it was too late, we had been had.

Our police and our bank thinks it is a big joke that we had money stolen from us. So we contacted the DA office and she said to contact the FBI. I did and there is nothing they can do. With all the updated technology like bank cameras and survellience, why can he not be caught? Just look back at the camera tapes. The person that we sent the western union to was named Peter Hallen of Miami, FL. And per Grainger County sheriff dept, the trike is registed to Jim Porter of Woobbury, TN. We have the vin number also on the title and that is how they found that out. We have all the paper work from ebay to the sheriffs report .

I did contact the vestal police and was told by a lady there that we were not the only ones scammed. She said another women bought it for her husbsnd for their aniversay and was taken. We need this stopped. It was our first and last experience on ebay and buying over the net. We even contacted the person on the title and he said he knew nothing about it. Is there anything I can do? Ebay and Washington Mutual should not have let this happen, they need to have more knowledge on these type of people.

We lost $8000.00 plus $3069.99 for the western union plus fees to send it. I used a credit card to get the money for western union as it had to be cash, so a cash advance there. We borrowed the money from the bank for the trike and when they heard it was a scam we were then charged a non secured loan in the amount of 12.99% interest and to top that off, my wife is the only one working at this time as I have not been able to work due to health issues. I am about to lose my mind due to all the emotional stress.

Despite it being listed both times for less than 24 hours, Ebay keeps trying to charge my Credit Card $164 for listing/selling fees! It didn't sell and was only listed for a few hours!! How can you charge selling and listing fees if neither one really applies?! I assumed since I pulled the listing myself, it was only on the site for a day, and it didn't even sell....that they wouldn't charge me the selling fees! but you know what they say when you assume...

On top of this, the sales person I dealt with lied to me saying that the car was in "perfect condition" and that there was nothing wrong with it. Upon driving the vehicle home, I found that the glove compartment door was broken at the hinge. A replacement would cost me $130 according to my Volkswagen Service agent. Adding to my bad experience at this dealership, the financing manager refused to accept my low interest E-Loan as payment for this vehicle, telling me that they would not sell me the car unless I financed it through their own lender, at a higher interest rate.

Then on another occasion, the sales manager himself attempted to lie to me outright when I confronted him about the missing and broken parts and features on the car, saying that I had no claim because the financing contract which I signed would override anything else, including the Buyer's Guide window sticker. Having done my research, I notified the sales manager that according to the Federal Trade Commission, the window sticker becomes a part of any contract upon purchase of the vehicle & overrides any contrary provisions. He suddenly agreed with me.

A vehicle which they had labeled as being in "EXCELLENT CONDITION" and had been "inspected" and "certified" had a broken glove box door, no power seats when it was advertised as having them, and missing the factory amplifier which would have powered the car stereo, basically making the stereo head unit worthless. This is misleading and false advertising by NEMET Autocenter. There was no way that I could have reasonably known that the stereo was not functional, since at the time of the test drive and purchase of the vehicle, the sales person did not have the security code for it.

I requested that they either refund the cost of what it would take me to replace and repair all of these missing and broken parts, or to provide me with a suitable replacement for them. They offered me $300 in compensation. I wonder how many car dealerships out there would charge as little as $300 for an option package including power seats, car stereo and replacement of a broken glove box door?

I contacted the company the next day and spoke with a Mr Weiss and expressed my concerns at which time Mr Weiss said that it sounded like the oil sensor was bad and that the was an easy and cheap fix. I took the vehicle to a mechanic in Pennsylvania and after analyzing the vehicle I was told that it needed to be tuned up and the distributor rebuilt and the fuel injection system needed cleaning for a total cost of $900.00.

The $900.00 was paid by me which I had no problems paying as the vehicle was 21 yrs old. After the work was completed I was then advised by the mechanic that there was possibly more damage to the engine then first reported. I recontacted Van Devere Oldsmobile and spoke with a David Hollingshead and explained the problem to him. He advised that I would have to get the vehicle checked at a cost of $300.00 dollars to me and then call him back and let him know what the problem was and how much the cost would be to repair.

After testing the vehicle the mechanic advised that 5 of the 8 cylinders were bad and that the engine basically needed to be rebuilt or replaced at a cost of $2700.00. I recontacted Mr. Hollingshead and explained the problem to him. He stated that he would contact the mechnaics shop and assured me that he would call me back and let me know what they had decided. He has not recontacted me and any attempts to contact him have failed.

I realize the vehicle is 21 yrs old but with the amount of damage to the engine and the way the ad was written I feel that in some way they were deceptive. When I started the engine for the first time I knew that there were problems.

A very difficult situation. Assuming the car was sold "as is" there is probably not much Charles can do.