Thursday, May 15, 2008

Buy off ebay: beware


My new tech purchase; a Dopod U1000 (HTC Advantage) has been a less than pleasing experience.

I bought from a guy in the US - jason moe of Silicon Mechanics (ebay ID rollingforward), and while describing the unit as "Item is used some marks on the device itself. Screen is in perfect condition." What he actually sent is the trashed, scratched piece of junk that is pictured!

Now I'm off to try and get Paypal to give me a refund when I return it as he dropped me a one line email stateing "used item, no refunds".

Thank heaven for chargebacks if Paypal decide to not try as at least my bank will give me the cash back and Paypal can chase him.

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