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Re: [ANN] Spondoolies-Tech - carrier grade, data center ready mining rigs
by
Prelude
on 16/03/2015, 14:20:47 UTC
^^^ How do you know you were scammed? 1.2 BTC including worlwide shipping ..... 2gd2btru!

Looks like I got scammed on eBay, paid for 3 SP20Es using BTC (I know, I know..) because the seller had 100% feedback and 173 transactions. Stupid me for thinking that was enough to trust him.

Here are the 3 units I "bought". Beware of him.

http://www.ebay.ca/itm/Spondoolies-SP20E-JACKSON-capable-of-0-5-W-GH-underclocked-/321693638970?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item4ae66f613a
http://www.ebay.ca/itm/Spondoolies-SP20E-JACKSON-capable-of-0-50-W-GH-underclocked-/321693639755?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item4ae66f644b
http://www.ebay.ca/itm/Spondoolies-SP20E-JACKSON-capable-of-0-5-W-GH-if-underclocked-/321693640121?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item4ae66f65b9

I'm feeling real fucking dumb right about now. Guess contacting eBay will be pointless, since I paid for them with BTC and have nothing but our messages as proof.

So did he not provide tracking within a few days of sale, did they not show up after a week or two, like pekatete asked how do you know you were scammed? Even with BTC payment a legitimate seller that is so active will most likely not risk loosing his 100% feedback so easily..

This started on March 13th. We messaged back and forth through eBay until we struck a deal, at which point he provided me with a BTC address to send my payment to. Sent him the payment, and asked him a follow up question. No answer on the 13th, or the 14th. On the 15th, I was worried so I wrote him again. Still no answer. I decided to bid up all 3 of them since I had paid for them already, and he only had those 3 to sell. They are legitimately mine, so why not. Trying to get his attention. He finally gets back to me last night, asking why I bid such a ridiculous price on all 3 of his items, proceeds to remove my bids, and sends me another message informing me that he did. Keep in mind he completely ignored my previous messages I sent him after paying him.

The 3 SP20Es are still up for sale, he's still ignoring me, and I can no longer bid on them or use the "ask the seller a question" option. Seems he's banned me from his auctions.

Do I have any recourse? The 3 SP20Es I bought are apparently available for local pickup in France, and he told me he has more SP20Es being hosted in Israel when he was actually communicating with me. I guess the only thing I can do is contact eBay, though I doubt they'll help since I paid with bitcoin.  Undecided