Bad, bad, bad transaction with Mattymaxx

[George16]

I bought Mattymax's Thunder chassis and EXT suspension over a month ago. I paid for them on November 27, 2007 using my cc via Paypal. I have not received any items yet and probably will never be. I sent him numerous emails asking for the tracking number as he stated when he put up his ad here. He replied on Dec 7 stating that he will have to get the tracking number from his parents so he can give it to me. Well, he never did. I sent him two more emails asking for the tracking number but he never replied. Statring on December 24 -29, I emailed him daily asking for the same thing but failed to give it to me.

I was already mad for non-receipt of items so on Dec 30, I filed a dispute with Paypal for non-receipt of items. He emailed me this at 4:41 am (Japan time) December 29:

Hi Lito!
I have some good and bad news. I tried tracking it myself the other night, and it says number invalid when quite clearly it had been posted yonks ago. I went to my local postage place and asked them what the hell was going on, and my parcel came back to them due to it being damaged! It had been ripped open by something. So I took it next door to my mums business repackaged it all and have sent it out VIA the best service they have.
It has no been posted 100% assure you, you got me a little worried as I just got an email about a paypal dispute :-S?? Last few days I hav been having Christmas parties and stuff so haven’t been on PC. But I assure you I am not the sort of person to mess people about! Take our first deal and all the other deals I did with supermaxx parts, I am very genuine!
I will email the tracking number as soon as I get home from work! Remember im in England so time is different!
Please don’t loose faith im not a con artist or a fraud person im very genuine….Thanks.
Matthew.

I know a package won't be returned to the sender just because it was ripped open. However, it will be returned if the recipient refuses to accept it. But it never arrived here in Japan. If he truly repackaged and mailed it using the best service they have, he could have sent me the tracking number on his email instead of telling me, "I will email the tracking number as soon as I get home from work! So anyway, I waited for a day but the tracking number didn't come. I know he could be home already but I never recieved any. So I went to Paypal and replied to his email telling him I need the tracking number. Still no reply.

So i sent this email on Sun, Dec 30, 2007 08:30 AM Japan time, 1130 PM London time:

So, where is the tracking number? It's been over a day and probably by now you would had been home like you stated in your email. I'm waiting. Let me know before I upgrade my dispute to a claim so I can get my money back.

No reply to this email means you didn't really do anything and that means it will now be a claim.

Lito

I decided to escalate my dispute into a claim. My CC had been notified on December 27 and they are ready to help me recoup my money if Paypal fails to do so.


I received a message from Paypal saying that the seller gave them a tracking number. So I took the tracking number and inputted in the Royal mail track and trace program. Lo and behold, it was mailed on January 2, 2008. Like I said previously, it was not mailed before and if I did not file a claim, I would have kissed my money goodbye. He never intended to mail the items in the first place.

I hate being taken for a ride like this. I don't have a lot of money to spend. Military personnel like me don't make a lot of money like some of people do. I'm just a Sailor (U.S. Navy) forward-deployed here in Japan trying to build a supermaxx.

He does not post over at UE anymore. Sorry for the long-winded post.

Thanks for listening to my rant.


Lito

P.S.
I know this is my first post here but you can check this link: Bad BST transaction