What is the name of your state? CALIFORNIA
i sent out a money order to someone for $820 for three items(10/20). I basically trusted this person since he is a moderator on a message board. we agreed(through aim) that i would send him a usps money order. i send the money order and dont hear from him in like two weeks. i catch him on aim one evening and he tells me there is a small problem. one of the items that he was going to sell me, he did not have. So he wanted to adjust the prices on the other two items since he gave me a good deal for the 3 items originally. I told him that i would have liked my money back in the form of paypal and that i would have sucked up the fees if he would have sent me paypal. all he replied to me was "ill write a check" and spoke no more after that (on aim)
two weeks later and nothing in the mail, i email him about what the status was on my refund and how im worried. he replied to me like if he did not know who I was and said that he or the message board is not responsible if i got frauded. I reminded him who i was and he replied to me that he sent the money order a week before through usps priority and it should have taken two days to get to me(him norcal, me socal). So he says he will check if the money order has been cashed.
forward to this week, he emails me saying that money order has been cashed and tells me that he is curious as to why i am saying that i did not recieve it..(he's trying to turn it back around on me)
i ask him for proof that he sent the money order and priority mail in form of pictures of the usps reciepts and the money order stub, but just like i knew, he said he is in the process of moving and that all his papers were packed up over the weekend.
this is pretty much the first time i have been ripped of my money and im lost on what to do. i have all my emails saved but i have no aim conversations saved
this all could have been avoided if we would have handled my refund through paypal like i requested(on aim) but he is denying that i said that. i was thinking about calling the postal inspector or something to start.....
i sent out a money order to someone for $820 for three items(10/20). I basically trusted this person since he is a moderator on a message board. we agreed(through aim) that i would send him a usps money order. i send the money order and dont hear from him in like two weeks. i catch him on aim one evening and he tells me there is a small problem. one of the items that he was going to sell me, he did not have. So he wanted to adjust the prices on the other two items since he gave me a good deal for the 3 items originally. I told him that i would have liked my money back in the form of paypal and that i would have sucked up the fees if he would have sent me paypal. all he replied to me was "ill write a check" and spoke no more after that (on aim)
two weeks later and nothing in the mail, i email him about what the status was on my refund and how im worried. he replied to me like if he did not know who I was and said that he or the message board is not responsible if i got frauded. I reminded him who i was and he replied to me that he sent the money order a week before through usps priority and it should have taken two days to get to me(him norcal, me socal). So he says he will check if the money order has been cashed.
forward to this week, he emails me saying that money order has been cashed and tells me that he is curious as to why i am saying that i did not recieve it..(he's trying to turn it back around on me)
i ask him for proof that he sent the money order and priority mail in form of pictures of the usps reciepts and the money order stub, but just like i knew, he said he is in the process of moving and that all his papers were packed up over the weekend.
this is pretty much the first time i have been ripped of my money and im lost on what to do. i have all my emails saved but i have no aim conversations saved
this all could have been avoided if we would have handled my refund through paypal like i requested(on aim) but he is denying that i said that. i was thinking about calling the postal inspector or something to start.....