Disapointing feedback for cj10488

[captivereefs]

Sold him $1400 worth of items including calcium reactor set up and EV240 skimmer. Paid me with false pay pal funds and now will not respond to my E-mails. Still owes me money from february. Beware.

[brndfrb]

Sorry to hear about you loss Darin. It is ashame that people try to take advantage of other people. If you can't afford something don't freaking buy it. It is that simple. Don't feel to bad you arent the only one he screwed with.

[MrsPeel]

Wow, $1400 is not chump change.

This member still posts here too. Is it possible to call this person and try to work it out. I assume by your post you have shipped the items out? Can you use his shipping address to look up his number?

[dralarms]

Darin,

I'm sorry. I hate it when people do this kind of stuff. It makes all of us that use paypal & such look bad.

[captivereefs]

Pay pal said i am on my own.

[MrsPeel]

It sounds drastic, but how you explain it , what was done to you sounds like fraud? I would be contacting to police. Or are your just going to sum it up as a lesson learned (which I hope you don't!)

[reefrunner69]

I find this truely sad, it is not something that is expected of a reefer. I have shipped items to fellow reefers before I received the money, simply cause they were a fellow hobbyest. I am on the breink of being burned for my first time, we'll see how that goes. Kinda sad, I remember when just the fact the person shared the hobby with you made them trustworthy.

[oscarbreeder]

It's sad but you just cant trust anybody anymore.

Captivereffers,
Sorry to hear this and I hope you can get it worked out.

[lreilly]

[Diva]

Hi,

If he ripped you off that sucks - but I just wanted to share something with you.

Im living in Europe now and I sent $2000 to someone through paypal in December. It appeared to go through without a problem. And then the next day I get this email telling me my account is shut down temporarily until they can verify me.

Let me tell you - this is NOT easy to do from outside the US. They want you to call with the US phone number connected to your account.

Anyway. After about 2 WEEKS paypal finally sorted the problem and verified me. In the meantime, I almost lost the bass i had bought because paypal told the seller they were concerned I was a fraud. Nice paypal people.

Is there a chance this could have happened with this person? When it happens its usually due to high dollar amounts - of course, that doesnt explain why he wont email you...

Ijust wanted to say that maybe the funds didnt go through because of some fault of paypals originally...?

Good luck, I hope he contacts you.