Where to report users?

[MaxThroughput]

Anyone know where I can report users? I paid for a bass in the talkbass classifieds and the seller said he would ship next day. He was very responsive via text message until the day he was schedule to ship. Now he won't respond to me although I've seen him active on facebook. I filed a PayPal dispute. He should be banned from posting in the classifieds here. User is jamespapia. Facebook is https://m.facebook.com/beyondhairy

 

[Arizona Jones]

What's the story on this deal? Have you contacted the admins\mods?

 

[MaxThroughput]

No, I'm waiting for PayPal to refund the claim. I posted in his sale ad that he's a fraud. Also he hasn't been on talk bass since accepting my money.

 

[Arizona Jones]

Damn, hope everything works out for you.

 

[Ryan L.]

What ended up happening with this?

 

[MaxThroughput]

What ended up happening with this?

No updates. The guy never responded again. I think someone banned him from the forums.

 

[DiabolusInMusic]

No updates. The guy never responded again. I think someone banned him from the forums.

But you got your money back, right?

 

[DiabolusInMusic]

And for the record, scamming people does not get you banned from TB. There is one notable scammer who still regularly posts, he was on posting yesterday.

 

[MaxThroughput]

But you got your money back, right?

Only thanks to paypal's buyer protection. I recommend reading their guidelines carefully before making these kinds of purchases.

 

[DiabolusInMusic]

Only thanks to paypal's buyer protection. I recommend reading their guidelines carefully before making these kinds of purchases.

Glad to hear you at least did not get burnt.

 

[Arizona Jones]

Only thanks to paypal's buyer protection. I recommend reading their guidelines carefully before making these kinds of purchases.

As someone who now has real world experience, care to elaborate a little bit? What is the most important thing you learned? I've heard people say that PayPal won't cover you outside of eBay, any truth to that?

I've done hundreds of deals online, over about 15 years online, and I guess I've been lucky that I haven't been majorly scammed along the way.

 

[MaxThroughput]

As someone who now has real world experience, care to elaborate a little bit? What is the most important thing you learned? I've heard people say that PayPal won't cover you outside of eBay, any truth to that?

I've done hundreds of deals online, over about 15 years online, and I guess I've been lucky that I haven't been majorly scammed along the way.

The buyer protection policy states that partial payments will be ineligible for coverage. In this event, the "seller" asked me to send an additional payment to cover the Paypal fee. Had I done so, I think Paypal would have refused my claim.

 

[Ryan L.]

He's not allowed to ask for additional money towards Paypal fees, anyway, per our rules here. That would be a bannable offense right there.

 

[jmattbassplaya]

And for the record, scamming people does not get you banned from TB. There is one notable scammer who still regularly posts, he was on posting yesterday.

Who?