Need a little help with a NARU'd ebay seller

cardpool

I won a bowman sterling fb box in early sept on ebay, believing that the rookie autos were numbered up to 99. Ha!

Got it on pre-sell and paid via paypal. A couple days later, I get a partial refund for my payment. The seller said he was having trouble with paypal and wanted a personal check for most of the balance of the $290 I paid. I reached him by phone at the time (since he explained his story this way to me) and seemed like a decent guy.

I emailed him in late November. No response.
I checked his ebay id: no longer a registered user. Uh-oh.
Called him a few times afterwards and finally reached him. He said he'll get them by Friday (as in December 8th).

So as of today, still no Bowman Sterling fb box. I left him a message a couple days ago, no response, keep calling and got his answering machine.

He happens to be a big Beckett store seller and has a well-established store on that website (64K items listed). I emailed him at the address he provides via his store as well as the one we had originally corresponded to get the check info and mailing addresses squared away.

If I still don't hear from him by tomorrow, I plan to email him to let him know I will be taking action such as posting all over the Beckett message boards not to trust him and the better business bureau in his state. I have his mailing address as well via Beckett so I don't think this will be difficult.

Any advice on a different plan of action or in addition to what I plan to do?

I'm tempted to place an order for $300 in his store to get his attention but I don't think that will work in my favor.

jradke4

so did you send him a check for the rest? if so maybe you could tell him you are filling a mail fraud investigation with the PO.

cardpool

Good suggestion. I hadn't thought of that...and yes, I did send a check.

Brian48

I assume you've already checked with the bank and confirmed that the check had been cashed. They'll need the clear date for their investigation if it goes that far.

cardpool

Thanks. I've never done this before (for better or worse).

I can easily look that up in my bank statement from that month.