Thread: BAD TRADER SoftballJunnkie
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Old Oct 23, 2011 | 09:18 AM
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Default Re: BAD TRADER SoftballJunnkie
Originally Posted by BLACKSRT-6
I found a previuos thread where SBJUNKKIE purchased a TCU from a forum member becuase he had a bad one. He posted for a MOD to deleate the thread but it was still available to be read.
Since he lied about the shipping date I am now concerned that he sent me the bad one that he took out. If I remove it from the package and test it, I have no way to prove to paypal that I haven't switched parts. Or that my car didn't caused the TCU to fail. It all falls down to the fact that SBJ lied so I can't trust anything that he said.
The safest thing for me is to leave the TCU it in the package and wait for paypal to make a decision.

If we had a seller feedback section we could atleast look at how long a seller has been active on the site and if other have had problems with the seller.
The feedback section would be hard to make work as many members not involved in the deal tend to make excuses for the member involved. This is even obvious in this thread already.

As such any comments made by one member would be outweighed by the comments made by others who may know him personally or are in a little group that slaps each other on the back all the time. In the same vein anyone who upset one of this group would have the wrath of that group on their back.

We have had group buys that went wrong and group buys that went seemingly OK. Feedback on the bad group buy would have filled a book, on the OK group buy there was hardly a whisper.

I made some comments one time on a possible group buy and I was told I was being negative, when this all went belly up due to a poor process there were not too many words written about it except by those that lost out.

The real lesson is an old lesson - buyer beware.