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Take the tracking number to your local post office. Their system will have the exact details from acceptance to delivery. What we see when we track is the basic info - not the complete story. I once had a Priority package that took over ten days to get to a state in the northeast. Took the number to the PO and found out that it had made a stops in Seattle and Utah on the way to New York from Louisiana. . “Leave the Artillerymen alone, they are an obstinate lot. . .” – Napoleon Bonaparte http://poundsstudio.com/ | |||
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| The Quiet Man |
Anyone who sends cash in the mail is a fool. Keep screenshots of any communications between you and him, especially any that claim he sent payment in cash. Even if he DID send cash, and it got delivered to your address and got stolen off your front porch by your neighbor, or a mail carrier, or carried off by wild dogs, or aliens, it isn't YOUR fault. You were never paid. He is out the money through his own poor decision making. Out him first on the original board if that is what you are worried about. I'm smelling the distinct aroma of scammer. | |||
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Loves His Wife |
Pffft. Let him out you. He'll be roasted. Not only did he send Cash via Priority Mail, but he didn't ask for a signature when it was going to a UPS store? How does this clown manage to get dressed in the morning? I am not BIPOLAR. I don't even like bears. | |||
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When I was still doing cylinder work, people sent me cash all the time. But it was around $30 Sending much more than that to anyone, let alone a stranger is nuts. Scam or fool... fool? You've got a crappy fight here. The USPS tracking means just about nothing. Even if their tracking was worth a damn, it wouldn't prove much. I bought something on Ebay years ago and got scammed. They never shipped the item (probably never had the item). But they sent a packet of nonsense papers which was nothing more than filler. When I filed my dispute with eBay they had "proof" they shipped it from the tracking of the package of nothing. No one stole it out of the package because the item never would have fit in the package in the first place.  _____________________________________________________ Sliced bread, the greatest thing since the 1911. | |||
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| Freethinker |
Assuming I understood this statement correctly, it’s another thing that never fails to puzzle me about using eBay. In addition to being rabidly antigun and therefore making it necessary to jump through elaborate hoops to hide certain transactions, it seems that their “protections” tend to almost make it easier for the dishonest. Doesn’t that bother people, especially gun owners? ► 6.0/94.0 To operate serious weapons in a serious manner. | |||
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Fwiw, on several occasions USPS tracking has shown delivery of mail in other cities, only to arrive at their correct destination days later. *************************** Knowing more by accident than on purpose. | |||
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Striker in waiting |
This. 100% this. -Rob I predict that there will be many suggestions and statements about the law made here, and some of them will be spectacularly wrong. - jhe888 A=A | |||
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אַרְיֵה |
I have an account at the local franchise location of The UPS Store. Great for receiving packages, much better than having UPS / FedEx leave them on the doorstep at home, or finding the yellow "you were not home" sticker on the door. UPS Store receives a package for me and sends me text or email telling me that it has arrived. It is held safely and securely until I get there on my way home from work, to pick it up. Packages, great! Mail? Not quite as good: on numerous occasions I have found mail in my box that was clearly addressed to the person who rents the box either directly above or below my box. I have no idea how many times my mail might have been sitting in the wrong box until the box holder gives it back to them and it eventually winds up in my box. הרחפת שלי מלאה בצלופחים | |||
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| I believe in the principle of Due Process  |
Had he sent the payment as instructed a USPS money order, and it was lost, you would wait about 6 months before getting the money. That how long it takes to process a claim, or at least that's what we learned when someone paid for a radio I sold, and the money order envelope never made it. Luckily, I have enough willpower to control the driving ambition that rages within me. When you had the votes, we did things your way. Now, we have the votes and you will be doing things our way. This lesson in political reality from Lyndon B. Johnson "Some things are apparent. Where government moves in, community retreats, civil society disintegrates and our ability to control our own destiny atrophies. The result is: families under siege; war in the streets; unapologetic expropriation of property; the precipitous decline of the rule of law; the rapid rise of corruption; the loss of civility and the triumph of deceit. The result is a debased, debauched culture which finds moral depravity entertaining and virtue contemptible." - Justice Janice Rogers Brown | |||
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A Grateful American |
FWIW, when I purchase firearms from individuals, I use USPS MO, and FedEx overnight, making sure the seller provides name and address, and that they know it will be there next day. And all purchases go FFL to FFL. It is a little hassle and a little cost, but well worth it to me to avoid the crap I have heard other people endure. "Ain't nobody got time fo' that!" "the meaning of life, is to give life meaning" ✡ Ani Yehudi אני יהודי Le'olam lo shuv לעולם לא שוב! | |||
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| Ice age heat wave, cant complain.  |
I agree with pretty much everyone else. Let him out you. If that forum takes his side, assuming the stories match, fuck them and him. Don't send cash in the mail, EVER. NRA Life Member Steak: Rare. Coffee: Black. Bourbon: Neat. | |||
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Min wage clerks handling expensive packages and large cash. What could go wrong ? The last thing on their mind is doing careful detailed work, while they're at work. Professionals do good work even if they don't feel like working, min wage workers, particularly the young, often not. Lover of the US Constitution Wile E. Coyote School of DIY Disaster | |||
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Do you have anything in writing from the UPS store saying they have no record? | |||
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| Banned |
No this is the only board where I started this topic. On the other board where this occurred, the actual ad thread is where all the posts are made. I started it here to get some feedback about the situation. On the board where the ad was placed, he already made a negative post about me telling people to watch out for me and so forth, but other people that I sold to has chimed in and said their transaction was completed with no issue. | |||
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| Too old to run, too mean to quit! |
Can you spell/say SCAM? His threat of "outing you" simply, to me, show his original intent. And who the hell sends cash, especially when it seems to have been stated to send via money order. Elk There has never been an occasion where a people gave up their weapons in the interest of peace that didn't end in their massacre. (Louis L'Amour) "To compel a man to furnish contributions of money for the propagation of opinions which he disbelieves and abhors, is sinful and tyrannical. " -Thomas Jefferson "America is great because she is good. If America ceases to be good, America will cease to be great." Alexis de Tocqueville FBHO!!! The Idaho Elk Hunter | |||
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| Ice age heat wave, cant complain. |
If that's his way of going about it, I would have laid everything out for the forum to see. NRA Life Member Steak: Rare. Coffee: Black. Bourbon: Neat. | |||
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Oriental Redneck |
Did you tell him in that thread that he was an idiot for sending cash, even when told to pay by MO? If you didn't' already, you should. Not verbatim, "You're an idiot", but in some diplomatic way. That way, folks still know that he was an idiot for doing what he did.  Q | |||
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| Banned |
I did post in the ad thread that he sent cash instead of a money order. I got a PM saying he thought the guy sent a money order and all of a sudden the story changed. He said he'll take my side on the matter. | |||
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| Member |
This thread is as stupid as giving your bank account info to an African bank manager who emails you out of the blue. The OP is looking for support to stiff a buyer from a different community no has found plenty, from people who have gotten less than even one side of the story. The deal was made somewhere else, go sort this shit out where you made the deal with both parties participating. Barring those that know either (or better both) of the parties in the real world as opposed to the anonymous internet world, how can we be sure of any of the supposed facts we have been given? The vast majority of people who have posted in this thread have been convinced that the as yet unnamed buyer is an utter fool and likely a crook without even getting the other side of the story or any credible evidence. More proof the internet is only good for porn and sharing cat videos. | |||
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| Oriental Redneck |
I will admit that this is the best post in this thread. Thank you for knocking some sense into us (me, at least). Q | |||
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