WARNING!!! Watch out for this Ebay scammer!!!

[Alpenweiss2]

Hello all. Just thought I should warn all of you on here about 'artlutherie91' on ebay who is apparently breaking a mint 1991 16v mk2 gti.
Here's a link to his listing which ended on 25th January 2009.

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/GOLF-GTI-MK2-16V-BREAKING-COMPLETE-CAR_W0QQitemZ270515957475QQcmdZViewItemQQptZUK_CarsParts_Vehicles_CarParts_SM?hash=item3efc01eee3

It seems the guy has conned me out of £50 of my hard earned money

In the listing he states that he has quite a few new parts so I paid him £50 by Paypal for new balljoints (VW) new trackrod ends (VW) and a pair of front orange indicators for a big bumper model (genuine VW and new). I paid just over a week ago and nothing has turned up I have e-mailed him about six times and also sent 4-5 ebay messages but no response?

When I paid him by paypal he said to pay him as a gift payment and that his full contact details would be in the paypal receipt! All I got was his name (Andrew Whitehead and his e-mail address bmx180@hotmail.co.uk). He is apparently based near Fort William (Corpach) in the Highlands...so I hope he isn't lurking on this forum!

Anyway just a warning...I think I will struggle to get my money back as paypal doesn't recognise it as a proper transaction because I gifted him the payment

Any advice welcome

Alpenweiss2

[Tommo120]

I feel for you man. Every time I go on ebay, someone seems to try and con me out of my money. Luckily I have managed to get my money back with the help of Paypal. It annoys the crap out of me how Ebay don't seem to want to do anything about this. Probably because at the end of the day Ebay is making money out of this. All I can say is make sure you only use normal Paypal payments, if they don't want you to then just leave them be.

[jamie_pyrite]

http://www.facebook.com/search/?q=bmx180%40hotmail.co.uk&init=quick#!/profile.php?id=590568360&ref=search&sid=615035020.1328827657..1

Here he is! Get him added on Facebook and speak to him. If not luck, add his friends.

[Sam]

http://www.facebook.com/search/?q=bmx180%40hotmail.co.uk&init=quick#!/profile.php?id=590568360&ref=search&sid=615035020.1328827657..1

Here he is! Get him added on Facebook and speak to him. If not luck, add his friends.

Ha ha brilliant work there! What a moron... added lol!

[jamie_pyrite]

http://www.facebook.com/search/?q=bmx180%40hotmail.co.uk&init=quick#!/profile.php?id=590568360&ref=search&sid=615035020.1328827657..1

Here he is! Get him added on Facebook and speak to him. If not luck, add his friends.

Ha ha brilliant work there! What a moron... added lol!

It's always the first thing I check when I'm getting worried about a seller not responding