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Golden83
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Joined: August 22, 2012
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Location: Atlanta
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 Posted: Sat Oct 07, 2023 7:29 am Post subject: Getting ripped off on Samba purchase. |
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Greetings All!
I recently purchased a pop top from a person in Chico, California for shipment to Atlanta, GA. When the pallet arrived, some of the critical promised parts were absent. The seller ghosted me, and all appeals to the seller have been ignored. Can anyone propose any recourse, or am I screwed? Thanks for any suggestions or wisdom.
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Glenn 
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Location: Sneaking up behind you
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| Posted: Sat Oct 07, 2023 7:41 am Post subject: Re: Getting ripped off on Samba purchase. |
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Was it a person on this site? If so post their userid.
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60vwnewengland
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Joined: June 25, 2003
Posts: 1825
Location: Cape Cod & District of Columbia
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| Posted: Sat Oct 07, 2023 8:02 am Post subject: Re: Getting ripped off on Samba purchase. |
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| Golden83 wrote: |
Greetings All!
I recently purchased a pop top from a person in Chico, California for shipment to Atlanta, GA. When the pallet arrived, some of the critical promised parts were absent. The seller ghosted me, and all appeals to the seller have been ignored. Can anyone propose any recourse, or am I screwed? Thanks for any suggestions or wisdom.
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What are you missing? I’m looking to get rid of a couple parts. Namely the metal trim that holds the canvas to tue body, and the upper bunk ply wood parts. You can have them if you’re missing those parts
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skills@eurocarsplus
Samba Peckerhead
Joined: January 01, 2007
Posts: 18003
Location: sticksville, ct.
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| Posted: Sat Oct 07, 2023 9:36 am Post subject: Re: Getting ripped off on Samba purchase. |
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you really have no recourse, unless you paid with a credit card that has buyers protection.
your details are sketchy at best, but is there as possibility stuff was shipped in 2 packages and one is lost/lagging behind?
Best you can do is leave feedback here for the seller.
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Wildthings
Samba Member
Joined: March 13, 2005
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| Posted: Sat Oct 07, 2023 9:42 am Post subject: Re: Getting ripped off on Samba purchase. |
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| I treat buying through the classified here the same as I do buying through ebay and many other on line sources. I don't buy much that is big and expensive and expect to take an occasional loss on the smaller stuff. |
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heimlich
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Joined: November 20, 2016
Posts: 7587
Location: Houston, Texas
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| Posted: Sat Oct 07, 2023 11:05 am Post subject: Re: Getting ripped off on Samba purchase. |
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You should start by contacting the shipper to identify what was picked up and compared against what was delivered. The parts could have been lost by the shipping company. I had a pallet shipment once that was delivered to someone else and I never received it. The shipping companies don't care as it is part of business.
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Golden83
Samba Member
Joined: August 22, 2012
Posts: 9
Location: Atlanta
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| Posted: Sat Oct 07, 2023 1:43 pm Post subject: Re: Getting ripped off on Samba purchase. |
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| Was it a person on this site? If so post their userid. |
The poster goes by ghiaguy4ever and is named James Gaebe. He did not include the “Formica” headliner panels with light fixture that were part of the ad for the Small Riviera pop top. Dealing with him was very difficult and he knows what he did. |
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Glenn
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Joined: December 25, 2001
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| Posted: Sat Oct 07, 2023 4:01 pm Post subject: Re: Getting ripped off on Samba purchase. |
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No such userid on this sire.
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heimlich
VWNOS.com
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| Posted: Sat Oct 07, 2023 4:04 pm Post subject: Re: Getting ripped off on Samba purchase. |
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No such userid on this sire. |
There's one with that email address: Ghia-guy
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Glenn
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timvw7476
Samba Member
Joined: June 03, 2013
Posts: 2531
Location: seattle
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| Posted: Sat Oct 07, 2023 6:12 pm Post subject: Re: Getting ripped off on Samba purchase. |
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samba has been 100% a far as I can recall, with everything.
But it is 2023. Rough time to even take a (city) bus. If you don't like fenny fumes. Or urine streaming back & forth on the floor as the bus makes it stops. |
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bsairhead
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Joined: October 08, 2008
Posts: 4577
Location: viroqua wi.
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| Posted: Sat Oct 07, 2023 6:37 pm Post subject: Re: Getting ripped off on Samba purchase. |
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samba has been 100% a far as I can recall, with everything.
But it is 2023. Rough time to even take a (city) bus. If you don't like fenny fumes. Or urine streaming back & forth on the floor as the bus makes it stops. |
That is gross. |
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SGKent
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Joined: October 30, 2007
Posts: 42998
Location: at the beach in Northern Wokistan
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| Posted: Sat Oct 07, 2023 7:46 pm Post subject: Re: Getting ripped off on Samba purchase. |
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word to the wise on buying anything out of Magalia or Paradise. That was the site of the huge Camp Fire in 2018. There were thousands of melted cars up there in that fire. That said. It is too far for me to drive, or I would make the drive for you to see if I could help any.
SK
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