How to Handle Astromart SCAM?

From: matt (mariusrf_at_bellsouth.net)
Date: 07/30/04 

Date: Fri, 30 Jul 2004 15:04:08 -0400

Hello everybody,

I have a potential scam situation ongoing . Being an optimist, I only call
it potential .

I answered an astromart ad and agreed with the seller to purchase his item.
He was a new astromart user with 2 five star feedbacks.
I sent payment as agreed. We communicated fine up to this point . He cashed
my payment and then nada. Email answers stopped completely , seller did not
notify me of any shipping , item has not arrived .

In the meanwhile the seller has placed other ads while he was not answering
my emails. Then he deleted the ad for the item he had "sold" to me . In a
nushell , I get no answer to my repeated emails, seller is obviously on line
placing other ads, while not answering mine, and I got no item although my
payment was cashed long ago .

How do you deal with such a situation ?

My loss is not that large , but the situation could affect other people if
this guy is a scammer . A couple of guys like this could also affect
Astromart's credibility . I doubt he's out on vacation because he's placing
other ads, and I doubt he's not answering my emails just being too busy ,
because my item has not arrived in plenty of time.

thanks,
matt tudor

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