How to get money back from bad seller on eBay?

[Avalon]

Chargeback on the card asap. If he's unwilling to refund you upfront is he willing to make up the difference. I'm sure you can work out a way of evening things up ? Would be awful if something happened to his motors wouldn't it ?

[htid]

A lot of us hexites seem to go straight for the violent solution don't we

[Hans Voralberg]

Well it's the shortest way innit

[Steven W]

Hassle him until he gives in. Psychological torture, like bizarre stalking letters.

Sounds like you have a good case, take him through Ebay claim.

[[GSV]Trig]

Reading thru the eBay TOC's as it was cash there unlikely to want to know.
I have no intention of taking it down the personal violence route, the guys 22 and ginger and theres not much chance of him coming out the otherside of it.
Will try CAB and Small Claims and go from there, will also try contacting Paypal to see if I can at least get the deposit back as the £250 will be enough to fix it unless it is reaaaly toasted.
I could also split and sell the bits I have but I wouldnt want to as I have no idea of there condition and the fact I bought the parts as I needed all of them to get both CavT's back on the road.

[Rev_Hill]

Small claims court TBH. He's provably misrepresented the goods by a) describing it as an LET when it's an XE/LET hybrid and b) saying it's working when it has no compression on one cylinder.
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Agreed Small Claims is probably your best option and the safest.

If you didn't sign a contract to say 'Sold as Seen' when you handed over the cash then you have a good case.

You can use the ebay transaction to prove misrepresentation.

Could take a long time and you may not recover all the cash but at least you won't end up in prison for breaking and entering.

Rev

[[GSV]Trig]

On the eBay auction he said he removed it himself and said it was running fine with no smoke/rattles.
He's told me now that he heard it running over the phone a week before he picked it up, this however isnt my problem.

I've also learnt that he tried to swap an engine before this one went on eBay with a m8 of mine that lives in Liverpool and had a full working engine, he wanted to swap it for an engine that wasnt running and was in bits in his garage and had turbo manifold, ecu and AFM missing, which incidentally are the same parts this engine had missing when I collected it.

He has also put the engine up on the VXON website and at the bottom of the advert he put that the running state of the engine was unknown. A friend of mine enquired into the state of the block, 3 minutes later the post was edited and the running state part was removed.

[listy]

torch his house

and cars (btw i didnt tell you to do it)

[MadduckUK]

"listy - mearly the voices in your head"

[[GSV]Trig]

I know you didn’t tell me to do it Listy, same as all the other people that have suggested similar didn’t tell me to do it either.

At the end of the day he's the one in the wrong so I'm not going to step over that line where I become the one in the wrong and it escalates.

[zashark]

well buddy no one like's a person that says "i told you so" but hey i was trying to help, (had very similar stuff happen to me!!! out of pocket over £1000 in total long story) Only thing to do really is to take him to court, if you dont want to persuade him otherwise, which is kinda nice of you! or take the advice of following community and ask him to swap it,

Well mate i share your pain of flea bay i really do and hope you get alot further in the end then me God speed m8