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Subject:Re: Was parting out vanagon 90 white San Jose, now rip-off
From:Jake de Villiers
Date:Tue, 11 Mar 2008 17:18:49 -0700

No kidding, they don't appear to want to be responsible for anything.

Glad you got your money back..........

On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 4:49 PM, Trooz <trooz@roadrunner.com> wrote:

> More on this.  I thought I'd make one last try at calling Chris, even
> though
> the previous times I'd called I always got an intercept saying that his
> voice mailbox was full and wouldn't accept any more messages.  To my
> surprise, he answered.  He said that his van had been wrecked and was in
> the
> shop and so he hadn't been able to get my parts.  Wasn't this a parts van
> to
> start with?  I asked him to just send my money back.  He said he would
> credit my PayPal account and he did.  I didn't bother to ask why he had
> never replied to any of my--or PayPal's--inquiries.
>
> The ringer is this:  PayPal just emailed me, in part, "This refund will
> remain pending until the funds have cleared from the sender's account. You
> will receive an email notification once the funds have become available in
> your PayPal account."
>
> It would have been nice if they had put a hold on the money when I
> originally paid him until he shipped the goods.
>
> I've never had a problem with PayPal before, but this really ticks me off.
>
> Bob Trousdale
> '90 Westy
>
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>

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Jake
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