Re: How to Handle Astromart SCAM?

From: Sol Sunspot (solsunspot_at_upthere.sky)
Date: 07/30/04 

Date: Fri, 30 Jul 2004 19:54:57 GMT

I had a similar situation a year ago. I had believed I purchased a scope,
sent the money and the scope never arrived. Frantic, because I had sent off
$2000, I tried emailing and then calling the seller, but he never responded.
Finally after a month, I get an envelope with the uncashed check saying that
someone else had purchased the scope. What! So, I have avoided buying
anything on there ever since.

Ted

"matt" <mariusrf@bellsouth.net> wrote in message
news:pZwOc.2460$N%3.1748@bignews6.bellsouth.net...
> 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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