other Anyone Here Know A Ruben Gouveia In Ca?

[LJtii]

I sold three grille pieces on eBay back on 12/1 to three different people. One bidder - who calls himself "1972 BMW2002Lover" - was high bidder on all three at one point, but was beat out on 2 pieces. Since then I have sent an invoice to him twice with no response whatsoever. His name is Ruben Gouveia of Pleasanton, CA. Can anyone enlighten me on this guy? Why do you bid, win, and then decide "nah- thanks anyway" especially at a cheap price ($24.95) ?

[dbmw2002]

Wooben was last seen driving a 2005 whale tail at a very high rate of speed, now tell us about the grills, roundie parts no doubt?

[LJtii]

Of course Roundie parts! Both side grilles for a '74-'76 (black plastic), and a center grille (metal) for an earlier car. The side grille he "bought" is a nice piece, and for $24.95 I can't figure out why he won't simply pay for it.

[dbmw2002]

Looking for a center, older version metal, roundie tail light version, its gone? Yea ebay can suck, they turned it into a buyers market when they took away feedback for sellers and brought paypal in to run the show, a seller can do everything right and still loose a claim to a sneaky buyer.

[LJtii]

Yeah, the center piece is gone. And I will no doubt have to explain this turkey is a non-paying moron, which will cause him to make untrue claims about me and probably give me the first negative feedback I will have gotten in over 1450 eBay transactions. Not a great outcome.

[mikesmith]

If I had to guess, he wanted all or nothing and didn't think to actually explain this to you (because, telepathy).

 

eBay has a fairly straightforward non-paying Buyer policy; you are well past the point where you should have filed an NPB against the guy.

 

http://pages.ebay.com/help/sell/unpaid-items.html

 

If he doesn't pay or respond promptly to the NPB, he will lose feedback privileges for the transaction. Likewise if he does but doesn't pay, it ought to be removed.

 

http://pages.ebay.com/help/feedback/losing-privileges.html

Edited December 14, 2013 by mikesmith

[LJtii]

I did open a complaint with the eBay resolution center. We'll see what that brings. I noted that another seller had made the same complaint of non-pay against this guy back in September, but they erroneously hit "positive" instead of "negative" on the feedback  note so it did not show up as a hit against his trustworthiness. I plan to change that scenario.