I am the successful bidder for an HP dv8295 laptop. I have received a delivery from the seller (who has a 100% rating) and in the parcel is a HP dv8173, which is much cheaper and has lower specs.
The seller is not responding to my emails and texts.
I have reported this to ebay, who responded with a rather generalised email - not really promising any help, and saying that
How did you pay? If by credit card, does your company have fraud protection? If they do, and you can get them to cancel the charge, that should get the seller’s attention.
I’m beginning to think that I sound like one of those idiots, who, when you hear about them, think: I’d never be so stupid to do that! But I have, and I am.
Bank transfer? Meaning he gave you his bank account information? Meaning you could buy something using his bank account information to make up for the ripping off you suffered? Hmmm.
Not that I advocate doing any such thing of course.
Yes, he did give me his bank details. I would never dream of misusing them.
A deveolpment: he has just emailed me, claiming there’s no difference in the specs! Like AMD instead of Intel Duo, 1gb memory instead of 2gb, 128mb shared video memory instead of 256mb Geforce etc. No difference - huh!
How is that even possible? the bank account information you need to give out to someone sending you a bank transfer is the same info that is preprinted on every cheque you write (plus you also give them a sample of your signature in those cases); I don’t think someone can hijack a bank account that easily.
I appreciate that you’re not going to be eligible for any kind of PayPal buyer protection, but the fallback from that is ebay’s standard buyer protection; details here: Resolving issues with sellers | eBay - are you eligible?
The fact that he claiming that there’s no diff in specs is amazing and is tantamount to admitting he ripped you off. If he wonlt make it right forward the email to ebay and see if they can get satisfaction. This is a an over the top scam.