Re: SCAM - Mactech77/Dan Hetzel - confirmed

["Jayson Smith" <nospamratguyspambegone@nospamplease.bellsouth.ihatespam.net>]

Hello,
If you paid by credit card, you would normally have the right of a
chargeback filed with your credit card company.  Unfortunately, most such
companies give you sixty days from I think it's the statement where the
charge first appeared to file a dispute.  If it isn't already too late to do
this, it will soon be.  If you used your Paypal balance or bank account
there's probably nothing further you can do.
Jayson.

"Stephane Racle" <nospam@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:deo939$au7$1@nwrdmz03.dmz.ncs.ea.ibs-infra.bt.com...
> I posted a message just over a month ago regarding a possible scam by
> Dan Hetzel/mactech77 (e-mail addresses: dahetzel@wi.rr.com /
> mactech77@yahoo.com). I can now confirm that this was indeed a scam and
> warn everyone not to do business with this person.
>
> Essentially, the seller posted a message on this newsgroup regarding an
> Apple //c+ for sale on 24 Jun 05. He was very quick to answer my
> questions about the system and I purchased it from him the same day, and
> paid by PayPal. When the system was not received, I sent numerous
> e-mails without getting a reply. I then proceeded to file a complaint
> through PayPal. The seller never bothered to file his side of things
> with PayPal and therefore the complaint was decided in my favour. A few
> days later, I got a message from the seller stating that he had been
> away for a few weeks and that his girlfriend had mailed the computer to
> the wrong address, but that it had come back and he was going to mail it
> again. That was over a month ago and nothing has come in, and no further
> correspondence has been received from the seller.
>
> Unfortunately, PayPal says it hasn't been able to recover any money yet
> since the seller's account is empty, and I'm not holding much hope that
> they will do anything further. It's not that much money, but still...
> anyhow, just wanted to warn everyone. It's unfortunate that this would
> happen in a small community like ours - although I am convinced that
> this is a very isolated incident. Now, anyone else have a //c+ they
> don't need? :-)
>
> Stephane