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  • wild edgeswild edges Posts: 10,497
    I've reported scam seed sellers to ebay quite a few times now and the seeds are still for sale. Sadly Ebay is full of fraud these days and they don't seem to care. Hopefully Paypal will sort it out for you.
    If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
  • josusa47josusa47 Posts: 3,530
    @islander, that's not curmudgeonly, that's a valid complaint.   :s  Give yourself a healing hug from me.
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    islander said:
    Oh sh*t and carp @islander ((hug)) I’m sorry that’s happened. Although eBay has so many good points it can be a scammer’s charter ... I know someone whose business was ruined by an
    eBay scammer who set him up good and proper 😡 

    What plants was it that you wanted?  Maybe someone on here could help 🤔 
    sniff! Yes, it was my beloved tree lupins. Ordered three PLANTS and they sent seeds of dubious origin and are refusing to refund. their ad clearly lists plants, rather than seeds at over £1 each!!!!.. they re extremely abusive and while ebay at first were great when they realises I had they claim ordered from ebay.ie, no refund, Oh and they said as I had orderd via paypal I could get a refund there. I ordered with my debit card, The total s not huge but the nastiness and the fact of being scammed and abused.  am very unwell just now and it has demolished me.. getting too old for this
    @islander ... I don't know anyone who has any plants but I do know someone who has usually some seeds .... let me get in touch with her and see if she can pop some in the post to me ... if so they'll be on their way to you in two shakes of a lamb's tail ... I think @Fairygirl must've been waving her magic wand :D

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    islander said:
    islander said:
    Oh sh*t and carp @islander ((hug)) I’m sorry that’s happened. Although eBay has so many good points it can be a scammer’s charter ... I know someone whose business was ruined by an
    eBay scammer who set him up good and proper 😡 

    What plants was it that you wanted?  Maybe someone on here could help 🤔 
    sniff! Yes, it was my beloved tree lupins. Ordered three PLANTS and they sent seeds of dubious origin and are refusing to refund. their ad clearly lists plants, rather than seeds at over £1 each!!!!.. they re extremely abusive and while ebay at first were great when they realises I had they claim ordered from ebay.ie, no refund, Oh and they said as I had orderd via paypal I could get a refund there. I ordered with my debit card, The total s not huge but the nastiness and the fact of being scammed and abused.  am very unwell just now and it has demolished me.. getting too old for this
    @islander ... I don't know anyone who has any plants but I do know someone who has usually some seeds .... let me get in touch with her and see if she can pop some in the post to me ... if so they'll be on their way to you in two shakes of a lamb's tail ... I think @Fairygirl must've been waving her magic wand :D
    Kind but I tried seeds way back and could not germinate them.. and I still have the  seeds they sent Told then they need to send postage first

    ebay staff are thick; still trying to access the guest paypal a/c as they have not given me password etc  
    Too late ... she says they're on their way to me ... she says soak them in warm water first ... she'll send instructions. 

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    It's what makes the world go around @islander :)

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • wild edgeswild edges Posts: 10,497
    Sorry I thought you meant you'd paid via debit card through Paypal which is an ebay option for buyers. A paypal account linked to a credit card is a sensible protection for on-line buyers though as you get double protection from dodgy sellers.
    If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
  • wild edgeswild edges Posts: 10,497
    A guy on Gumtree just replied to my message about his car. Nice of him to reply but I sent the message 2 months ago. :#
    If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    islander said:
     After a dozen more emails from them with the same misinformation I used the s word,,, no more mails,
    I'm ever such a nicely brought up Dove, but I just used an expletive at the automated phone call claiming to be from BT that keeps telling me I've got a problem with my internet twisted

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • At least yours was automated, Dove.   
    Several months ago, a brazen individual with a very pronounced Indian accent, phoned me asking to speak to me personally.  He then informed me that BT had contacted them with the information that there was an urgent problem with my internet connection.  Saying absolutely nothing, I switched my phone off.
    A few days later, same call. 
    I decided to have some "fun", so I told him, "I expect you need access to my computer?" 
    He replied, "Yes." 
    "And you need my password?" I continued.
    He quickly got off my line and has never bothered me since!
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    What a coincidence @Danae dan-Ah-ee ... a few minutes after reading your post I got that very call, so taking a leaf from your book I said ‘Do you need access to my computer?’

    You’ll never guess what his reply was ..........







    he said ‘No Madam, we just need your bank details and your credit card number.’ 🤬


    I’m afraid I told him he could just eff off!!!!!!!! 😡

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





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