hey guys welcome to daddicated vlog episode 3. uh in this video i want to share a story of how i got
scammed by an ebay buyer and but before i start i wanted to give you another book recommendation
uh current book i'm reading right now it's called boundaries i'm about halfway through it's uh i
think it's an eight or nine hour lit long book quick summary of the book it's basically about
well pretty straightforward boundaries in you know in terms of relationships with your friends your
family your spouse uh your kids and you know and how a lot of people having relational problems
it's because their boundaries are not set you know especially for those that always say yes
to everybody or everything um it's an issue of boundaries because they cannot they don't know
how to say no um but anyway very interesting book so far a little hard to listen to because
it's just so there's a lot of meat in it um so i'm trying to take my time with it
but overall it's not not too bad um anyway so the story with
the scam was i was selling um mostly phones at that time this was a few years ago
um and i had a batch of iphones that i bought they were a little bit older a lot of them were
either locked or damaged or or had some stuff and i think i had like 22 left over some i sold some
i just didn't want to deal with them anymore and i was trying to get rid of my inventory and kind of
getting tired of selling all together so i wanted to sell it as a lot so i put it up and it sold
and i would make sure i wrote a clear description of what's wrong with each phone
um and basically provide all the information in the description of my listing so
i sold it for about a thousand bucks i shipped it and packaged it pretty well
had no problems with it but i think like a couple days later after the guy receives it he claims a
return so i was like oh great and i read uh i read his message or his reason for the return
and he basically claimed that he uh that they weren't working or some some generic weird reason
and it's like well yeah i told you that they're not working it's in the description i told i
told them exactly what they were wrong but um if anyone for those of you that are not familiar with
how ebay works um it always takes the buyer's side so you don't really have a chance to even
fight the return they automatically accept it and expect the buyer to ship the product back to you
so so i was like okay whatever i'll resell it to somebody else and i'll go through this process
you know i'll lose money probably on the shipping process but whatever it's part of the
part of doing ebay you you run with these types of buyers on occasion and anyway so a week goes
by maybe a week and a half and i still haven't received anything so i was like huh i wonder
i wonder where where they're at i kind of actually forgot about it um and around the same time
i get some weird stuff from amazon one was some bamboo sticks like plastic bamboo chopsticks
um i was like okay this is kind of weird so i figured you know maybe it got sent to the wrong
which is weird because it address addressed to me anyway and then the next day or even that same day
i also got an iphone case but it wasn't it was for a different iphone i don't i didn't even own that
size iphone i don't remember if it was a bigger size iphone or if it was uh a small uh a previous
version iphone and neither did my wife so i was like that's weird so i because my initial thought
was well maybe my wife bought those but then when i checked my purchase history on amazon i didn't
have those items so i was like all right well that's really weird so sure enough couple days
goes by and i i could look into uh i checked in my ebay again and i remembered about the return
and it's showing up as delivered and i was like what and i i talked to my wife she's
seen the phones and she's like no nothing came so i was like oh right away something clicked that's
you know some that those amazon items had something to do with it
well the way ebay works when when you're the buyer and you're returning you have an option to
to to get the shipping label from ebay or if you buy your own shipping label you have to put in
a tracking code in there and once the tracking number is in there
it it trusts that that stop that's the item and it's gonna get delivered so the weird part was
when i checked the tracking that they provided it said it was from houston that it came to me
and got delivered from houston and i sent it to like indiana or illinois it was like completely
different address so and there's a big warehouse amazon warehouse in houston unfortunately
i i threw away my packages for those two items so i didn't i couldn't compare the tracking numbers
but right away i'm like he's scamming me he sent me the products that he bought under my
name to generate tracking numbers so first time he probably couldn't get a usps tracking number
because amazon uses a lot of times their own shipping which is a different tracking system so
so that wouldn't work on ebay and then so he bought another cheap item
which generated a usbs tracking number so he used that tracking number and entered it into ebay and
ebay was satisfied and so because it showed it like that he did he shipped it so so basically i
ended up calling ebay and telling him the story what happened and they're like oh don't worry
about it we'll take care of it blah blah blah you have to wait a certain amount of time or
whatever so i waited like a week um nothing happened again i called them again they reassured
me again don't like you know not to worry about it and um and then eventually the thing got processed
so i called them again so this this this point um basically their request was i had to file a
police report with my local city which doesn't make sense but i guess if i'm willing to go that
all the way to that shows them that i'm legit you know uh anyway so
i ended up contacting my local police the cop came over to my house i showed him all the stuff
he wrote a report i scanned that report and send it to them it was just a headache honestly um
and then only then ebay refunded my money but what what sucks is like the guy still got away with my
phones and he got a refund from ebay so ebay basically took a hit and they gave their money
to me but they they didn't do anything to the buyer which kind of blew my mind because it's like
dude this guy's probably gonna be scamming other people and you're not gonna prosecute him you're
not gonna try to go after him you know like he's obviously done this probably multiple times
so dealing with ebay um it's got its ups and downs and those are definitely the downfalls
is dealing with scammers on the buyer end um obviously there's probably scammers on the
cellar end as well but anyway that's the story so if you want to hear about my story on how i
got caught selling counterfeit cell phone cases uh check out in the links below or in the cart
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