Me & another cobaltss member ( johnladow07) got scammed by Paul Bacon ( rangerdog ). He was selling selling an intake and a set of tires here. I got the tires and johnladow07 bought the intake. Neither of us got anything back from Paul. I tried calling him, send him PM's and emails, however, he doesn't respond.

Can anyone help me out here? Anybody know this guy? He seems to come out to the meets in DFW area.

 

Ib4tl


I'm in the same situation right now with another member BTW.

 

"I know im new here and no one knows me but"


ding ding ding! Don't send money to someone with 14 posts. My cutoff is usually 1000. Sorry about your luck, but common sense it very helpful on the internet.

 

thank god for paypal or u would have no recourse what so ever

and people wonder why we jump on people like tht guy selling those headlights

 

Paypal could not recover anything. He took all the money out of his account before the dispute started.

 

holy ****, didnt see tht... so there is nothing u can so whatsoever? i thought paypal was the safest way to do it...

 

super unfortunate...
good thinkg its through paypal tho

 

y is everyone saying good thing its threw paypal?, the scammer still got what he wanted and the buyer did not....

 

paypal will re-imburse u

 

so they will pay out of their own pocket? and the seller gets away with it? or the next time the seller has money in his account they auto take it out?

 

did you pay with a credit card through paypal? and have you paid said credit card bill? if you can answer yes then no.. then call up you rcredit card company and tell them whats up.. and tell you you can fax them over the paypal information.. they'll take care of you.. least they did for me when someone tried to screw me

not really

that.. but if he's a scammer he'll probably switch names anyway if he's smart

 

his account will just go negative eventually, and it will come out of his account. Paypal is very good about working it stuff out.


btw.... the f**king sucks

 

I don't think he will ever use this paypal account. He'll probably just open a new one. I'll try calling my bank tomorrow. It was a bank transfer tho.....

 

he cant, that account is linked to his account or card. If he trys to delete it and make a new one he will just be reopening the old one.

 

What if he uses a different credit card or opens a new bank account?

 

usually when you close a paypal account the card or bank account remains active with paypal for 90 days because of reasons like that. And a Bank account stays active for 30 after the person closes it.
Worst come to worst, call paypal and start bitchin'

 

that sucks dude..he was just at my clubs car show too..wish i had known sooner..let the guys in DFW know !!!

 

i think he works at a dealership. he meet up with us to go to the texas bash. he offered to sell me a GM stage 2 for $300 still in its package. he hasnt returned my emails.nor called back when i left a message at his work number. he must work there since i asked for his name and they transfered me to his line. glad i didnt get the kit then.

 

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That's kinda weak. It usually takes PayPal 4 business days to transfer money to/from your PayPal account. What are the odds you will receive something you buy in those 4 days? Slim to none unless you got overnight shipping. Even then, a buyer typically waits a week+ to file a claim if they feel they have been ripped off. PayPal needs a new policy to prevent a seller from transferring funds received from a transaction for at least two weeks.

 

well if you know were he works, any chance of going over and maybe getting a business card, or something with some information. What would be killer is if you can get his boss's number and give him a call, let him know, if he works for a dealership, tell them that your going to the media about how one of their employees scammed you, there is nothing that they hate more then bad press.

If this was me, I would find out as much as I could, and make life "uncomfortable for this guy". I wouldn't cross the " chargeable harassment line" but I'd ******* be right up to it. Cheat me out of my money bitch, I'll make life hell for you!

 

this happend to me for a ingals stiffy that i was going to get modded to fit my 2.2l didnt get the stiffy but i got boned, lol

also got tooken by cobaltperformanceparts.com but paypal recovered all of the money from them for the stuff i ordered....

so at least i didnt get shafted twice

 

All paypal is concerned about is making money on fees. If you get ripped off it's just part of doing business on the Internet using paypal with some random person on the net

 

Unless something has changed, when you sign up for a Paypal account, you are required to have a valid bank account. To get a valid bank account, you need a SSN #. That is how Paypal gets their money after they reimburse you. that is what they explained to me when something like this happened to me via ebay. However, it did take 30 days after the refund was attempted by Paypal before I heard anything further, and another 10 days before I got my money back. You should call Paypal's customer service and give them your claim #. They can tell you what to expect and a time frame.

 

Not true. I don't have a bank account and I have paypal, but I did have to have a credit card so they should have the guys information.