# Damn you, \*\*\*\* \*\*\*\*\* **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [April 18, 2003, 3:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-you/169484 "2003-04-18T03:14:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 19\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![markdiscordia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c6cbf5/32.png) [@markdiscordia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/markdiscordia)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2003, 3:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-you/169484/1 "2003-04-18T03:14:53Z")
\*\*\*\*, you fucking tool, I paid you $90 ($27 to ship a game console my ass, but that’s my own damn fault for not checking before I bid) a month ago and you never sent me my Vectrex or any reason for the delay. I tried contacting you directly and through ebay’s contact form, and still nothing. I decided to give you the benefit of the doubt and call you before filing a fraud report, so I got your number from ebay and called you tonight. As soon as I told you what I was calling about, you hung up. You dumb fuck! Of course I’m willing to pursue this (and I have your name, address, and phone number) if I called you! What did you think that hanging up was going to accomplish, besides pissing off someone who is completely correct in his enmity for you and willing to do something about it? If I can find a way to do it without paying a lawyer more than I will win, I will skip ebay’s reimbursement program and sue you in small claims, just to show you that you cannot steal from people like this. You fucking ass! Grrr. ---
**Author:** ![Duck\_Duck\_Goose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/50afbb/32.png) [@Duck\_Duck\_Goose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duck_Duck_Goose)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2003, 3:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-you/169484/2 "2003-04-18T03:39:06Z")
Sic 'em! Yes! P.S. Welcome to the Pit, where men are men and nobody uses asterisks. So now you have to tell us what you WOULD have typed if you hadn’t been too much of a wuss. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Ice\_Wolf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/dfb087/32.png) [@Ice\_Wolf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ice_Wolf)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2003, 3:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-you/169484/3 "2003-04-18T03:40:10Z")
Righteous consumer outrage. More power to you, **markdiscordia**. Good on you for following this up. (Well done on the rant too, BTW.) ---
**Author:** ![markdiscordia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c6cbf5/32.png) [@markdiscordia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/markdiscordia)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2003, 3:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-you/169484/4 "2003-04-18T03:50:32Z")
> [@](#): > > Welcome to the Pit, where men are men and nobody uses asterisks. So now you have to tell us what you WOULD have typed if you hadn’t been too much of a wuss. It’s the guy’s name. I know that’s definitely not allowed by ebay and probably not allowed by SDMB. ---
**Author:** ![MysteryFellow63427](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a88e4f/32.png) [@MysteryFellow63427](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MysteryFellow63427)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2003, 3:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-you/169484/5 "2003-04-18T03:53:58Z")
Send a letter to the Attorney General of the state the seller lives in, describing the fraud in an entirely cool, factual manner. Ask that the AG investigate him/her for fraud. Mention in the letter that if \*\* \*\*\*\* will return your funds you will drop the charges, otherwise you want him/her prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. CC the seller. Of course the AG is 99% likely to blow you off, but it might scare the seller into refunding your money. Worth a shot. ---
**Author:** ![Smeghead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2003, 4:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-you/169484/6 "2003-04-18T04:15:42Z")
Can you mention the guy’s eBay user name, so the rest of us can avoid him? ---
**Author:** ![markdiscordia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c6cbf5/32.png) [@markdiscordia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/markdiscordia)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2003, 4:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-you/169484/7 "2003-04-18T04:27:14Z")
> [@](#): > > Can you mention the guy’s eBay user name, so the rest of us can avoid him? I’d want a SDMB moderator to say it’s cool first. If so, then absolutely. ---
**Author:** ![Rockford](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ac8455/32.png) [@Rockford](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rockford)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2003, 4:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-you/169484/8 "2003-04-18T04:30:13Z")
Maybe the guy’s name consists solely of asterisks. ---
**Author:** ![Morrigoon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/858c86/32.png) [@Morrigoon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morrigoon)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2003, 8:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-you/169484/9 "2003-04-18T08:13:07Z")
I know how you feel my friend. I paid $38 I really couldn’t afford for a DVD, using the “buy it now” feature. It was 7 weeks before she got it to me, by which time I had already tried to call her (wrong number) and used her real name and home city to track down her actual address (yay [anywho.com](http://anywho.com)!) Looks like your guy really isn’t going to come through, but there’s hope, sometimes the people selling you stuff are just asshats and eventually get around to sending you your merchandise 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![E-Sabbath](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e19adc/32.png) [@E-Sabbath](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-Sabbath)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2003, 10:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-you/169484/10 "2003-04-18T10:56:46Z")
Mmm. Vectrex. My goodness, that brings me back to when Crazy Eddie was still open. Always wanted one of those. Mostly to play Asteroids on. ---
**Author:** ![Ice\_Wolf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/dfb087/32.png) [@Ice\_Wolf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ice_Wolf)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2003, 11:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-you/169484/11 "2003-04-18T11:51:34Z")
I don’t think that blanking out someone’s name with asterisks on a public messageboard is being a “wuss” at all, **DDG**. As you say, \*\* markdiscordia\*\*, it’s better to not publish the scumbag’s name until someone in authority here says, “Yeah! Go for it! It isn’t libel!” At least, not in Chicago. ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2003, 1:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-you/169484/12 "2003-04-18T13:31:16Z")
> [@](#): > > _Originally posted by neuroman \* > Mention in the letter that if \*\*\*\* \*\*\*\*\*\* will return your funds you will drop the charges, otherwise you want him/her prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. CC the seller._\* I think his name was spelled “\*\*\*\* \*\*\*\*\*”. ---
**Author:** ![Amp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Amp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amp)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2003, 1:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-you/169484/13 "2003-04-18T13:53:46Z")
> [@](#): > > _Originally posted by Ethilrist \* > **I think his name was spelled "** _\* \*\*\*\*\*". \*\* What ethnicity is that? ---
**Author:** ![Monkeypants](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ecd19e/32.png) [@Monkeypants](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monkeypants)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2003, 2:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-you/169484/14 "2003-04-18T14:19:57Z")
The last guy who tried to screw me on eBay pissed his pants when I got through with this site and told him about it. [http://www1.ifccfbi.gov/index.asp](http://www1.ifccfbi.gov/index.asp) ---
**Author:** ![asterion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/4da419/32.png) [@asterion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/asterion)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2003, 2:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-you/169484/15 "2003-04-18T14:20:51Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Amp \* > \*\*What ethnicity is that? \*\* I don’t know, but I’m gonna put it in the irksome names for children thread in IMHO. ---
**Author:** ![11811](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/1/9d8465/32.png) [@11811](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/11811)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2003, 5:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-you/169484/16 "2003-04-18T17:23:57Z")
Worse yet is when he gets married and they decide to hyphenate last names. ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2003, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-you/169484/17 "2003-04-18T20:03:57Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Amp \* > \*\*What ethnicity is that? \*\* [French](http://www.asterix.tm.fr/), I believe. ---
**Author:** ![RexDart](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b77776/32.png) [@RexDart](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RexDart)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2003, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-you/169484/18 "2003-04-18T20:25:49Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by 11811 \* > \*\*Worse yet is when he gets married and they decide to hyphenate last names. \*\* “Nice party, Ted! Hey, I’d like to introduce you to \*\*\*\*\* and Janie \*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*-Lopez-Kennedy. And this is their son, the asterisk formerly known as Billy.” 😕 ---
**Author:** ![Duck\_Duck\_Goose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/50afbb/32.png) [@Duck\_Duck\_Goose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duck_Duck_Goose)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2003, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-you/169484/19 "2003-04-18T20:26:54Z")
Oh, okay, I just assumed he was too shy to spell it out. 😃