there's absolutely no reason to knock on their house...do remember...in Texas it is to shoot first then ask question. He/She may say you're trying to break in. It is obvious that the scammer planned it where paypal is on his side...best thing is to get your credit card company reverse the charge.

 

you should definitely be able to get your money back from your credit card company
I got scammed once few month ago by this member in CL who lives is SoCal..
I found him on Facebook,,got his AIM SN and I can pretty much track his a$$ down and beat the crap out of this kid..but I didn't..it's not worth..and I didn't wanna deal with a loser LOL

just send back the stuff that you received to the address shown in paypal..and the credit card company should reverse your payment
GL

 

well the last thing i wanna do is start any trouble. if anybody steps up to this guy, or tries to contact him in anyway, thats at your own discretion. I will do what the credit card company said, and at least attempt a delivery back to the person. After that it'll be up to the credit card company to see if i get my money back.

 

Jerry, sorry but you have no idea how utterly wrong you are. We try to help in many ways when there are issues with transaction in our classifieds forums. In this case we've closed the thread to prevent tampering by the seller to better provide paypal with information, have reached out to the seller (and what I think is his girlfriend) as best we can via PM and email and ultimately will ban him if he doesn't respond. We don't ban quickly because it eliminates one avenue of communication by the buyer, but we do (and have in this case) restricted any access to the classifieds by the seller until he resolves this issue so it can't repeat itself.

We have extensive classified rules and the moderator team is very active in enforcing them. We also have posted buying safety guidelines (which unfortuntately weren't followed by the buyer or the seller regarding high dollar sales / new members). We also have implemented iTrader and prior to that a detailed buyer/seller feedback forum.

I don't know of any automotive forum that does as much as we do to try and prevent ripoffs and assist with followup and mediation after the fact.

Our enforcement of our 'no physical threats' rule has absolutely nothing to do with consumer protection. It is both an ethical and legal position our forum has taken since its foundation regardless of the situation. You physically threaten someone, you are gone from CL.

If you want to discuss this further you can PM me; I felt your erroneus statement needed a public reply.