I was the winning bidder on a nintendo wii on ebay. Long story short, after much communication with the seller, I did not receive my wii or a refund, and $234 is not chump change. After examining hundreds of pages of feedback (he is an eBay power seller with tens of thousands of pieces of feedback), I noticed a definite pattern. He sells a huge volume of cheap stuff, like less than $10, but every once in awhile he sells a big ticket item, like a wii, and does not deliver it. He just keeps the money. But he knows that eBay really only takes action on people with consistantly bad feedback, so he pads his feedback by selling such a huge amount of cheap stuff that a couple times a month he can rip someone off several hundred dollars and get away with it. I have turned him in for mail fraud, reported him to eBay (they don't give a crap), turned him in to ic3 (the fbi internet crime division), reported him to fraud.org, and now I'm doing what I can to trash him online. I can't get my money back, and chances are that nothing will come of me reporting him and turning him in when and where I can, but maybe, just maybe, some of what I'm doing will somehow make a difference. Maybe he'll see this. Maybe someone else will decide not to buy from him because of this. Probably not, but maybe. Buyer beware!
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