Thomas Morris, AKA Magnetic on Amiga.org , AKA Eastcoaster212 on Ebay

[amiga92570]

Do not buy from this seller, I purchased a drive from him three weeks ago. He said he would ship Priority mail. Its been three weeks and no drive, He does not respond to emails.

I filed a dispute on ebay and he responded very nice and told me he takes care of his amiga friends(god only knows how). He stated that its hard to deal on ebay with a dispute(I wouldn't know I never had one) and convinced me to drop the dispute. I did and after another week I still haven't received the drive and I tried to open dispute on item again and it says it has already been resolved. So I guess I am screwed out of the $82.00 and the drive. Buyers Beware, I have emails I can share if he disputes this on line here. This is the first problem I have had with a seller on ebay, Buyer beware!!!!!!!!

[ChaosLord]

Do not tell Ebay that a dispute has been resolved when it has not.

[amiga92570]

I know that know(point taken). Lesson learned. That is exactly why I quit selling on Ebay, dead beat buyers. Now I guess I have to deal with dead beat sellers.

[Boot_WB]

Seeing the feedback for this seller (IIRC 80-something percent) I would never have done business with him/her anyway.

Interesting to know the other pseudonyms though.

[Jeff]

I've watched items from this seller before. I got bitten by "Boogiegail" once and Eastcoaster212 has some similar feedback comments so I decided to cross that person off of my list.

Good luck with a resolution. Hopefully they will still come through. I'm not sure what you can do now that the dispute is closed. You might try contacting ebay and see if that helps. I can personally vouch for you. With the 3000 deal we had, you certainly went above and beyond the call.  Good Luck and thanks again.
Jeff

[amiga92570]

Thanks Jeff, and how is the UX doing. If I did not have another one I would have kept it. I think we both got a good deal considering Ebays Prices. PM me sometime If you are looking for anything, You are one of the Best people I have dealt with. thanks

[Jeff]

The UX is great, thanks. You were right the motherboard is mint and the packing job was unbelievable. I saved the carton:-D

Sorry to here about the drama with the floppy on ebay. Perhaps you will still come out alright though who knows.

I may PM you soon. I am looking for a couple more bits. I would like to find out what you have that you are not going to be keeping. BTW have any pictures of the collection?

-Jeff

[amiga92570]

I have not had time to take many pics. I hope I get my money or the drive I purchased but the gentleman does not respond to emails. I am glad you liked the packing, I started using the Dell boxes because they are very sturdy and we buy about 100 a month so I figure why not recycle, ahhha.. I wonder what dell would think of shipping amiga's in Dell crates.  :-)

[amiga92570]

Hey Jeff here are a couple of shots. I am going to try to get a new Camera as this one sometimes takes good shots and sometimes they look like squat. Hopefully next month I can get one, this one has served its purpose I guess. Anyway here are a couple shots.



Tower Of Power



2MHZ and stereo Sids!



Small Footprint, big Power. I like it!

[TheMagicM]

nice pics..


Magnetic, huh?  doesnt he run a store in NYC ?  if so, thats pretty disappointing.

EDIT: yea, used to run a store I guess... in San diego? magneticsystems.org.   his website doesnt work.  

[amiga92570]

Well, to email him he seems nice enough, but I am out $82.00 and he kind of tricked me into closing the dispute on ebay, so I thought I would warn anyone that is thinking of dealing with him.

[TheMagicM]

well i actually held him in high regard since he sells or used to sell Pegasos machines.

[amiga92570]

Yeah I did to until after emailing him, then I got the drop.:pissed:

Well I am going out to do something I really like to do. Just got my bike back....

[amiga92570]

TheMagicM wrote:
nice pics..


Magnetic, huh?  doesnt he run a store in NYC ?  if so, thats pretty disappointing.

EDIT: yea, used to run a store I guess... in San diego? magneticsystems.org.   his website doesnt work.  

Yeah he said he was a dealer for 10 years. If he had problem with the drive that would be ok, but he gave me a story about being able to ship only weekly. Its been three weeks and since I paid instantly it seems priority mail isn't what it used to be. I doubt that. I have sold many things on ebay and priority has always delivered within 4 days.

[Oldsmobile_Mike]

I met him once at a Pegasos show, and he seemed like a decent enough fellow.  :pissed:   That's a damn shame, and hope you get your drive or your money back.  Did you pay via Paypal?  Is there any way to do a dispute resolution through their service?