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what should i do. (got scamed)

so i was in the market for a 5-speed setup for my mustang and found a guy a few towns away from me  selling the whole setup out of his car for 500 bucks. so he says i need the cash upfront . (i was talking to the  guy and seemed cool so...) so we meet up one night i give him the cash. he says i should have it out in no more than a week and a half at the most so he says he got the trans ready to come out but the pedals were gonna be tough fine i know it's a big job.  so all was well till i talked to him the other day and he tells me that another guy wants to buy the whole car . and this guy has a worldclass trans and pedals already. and i told him im not sure i'll get back to him. and that was the last i talked to him. and now he wont pickup the phone when i call.  so im thinking like till the end of the week if i dont here form him im gonna tell him give up the trans or money or se ya in court.  .  what do you guys think. 

i would take a ride to his town but it's a big town so to find him may be tough.

i have a message on my phone saved of him telling me he wants to set up a date about the trans and also a paper stating what i get for how much.

why cant people be honest.

Erik
trick flow street heat intake , 24lbs injetors, ported GT-40's (Chip) long tube headers. and a Performance Automatic C4, with a hurst shifter!
 

Re: what should i do. (got scamed)

Reply #1 –
You can kiss your money goodbye.  If you didn't get his name, address or a reciept or anything then there isn't much you can do.

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Reply #2 –
Was it a cell phone or a home phone number.
http://anywho.com/rl.html
If it is his home phone this will help.
Just enter his area code and number and there you have it.

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Reply #3 –
Unless he is unlisted then your boned, if he has ben doing this shiznit for a while you may be boned.

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Reply #4 –
Anything I'd have to say about it might not go over well with our resident Pauly Law. :p

I'm mostly just kidding. You need to see what info you can find from that phone number. However, there may come a point at which you will have to consider just how much time is worth spending chasing after the money. When I got scammed for the $100 or so, yeah I did a few things to try and deal with the guy.. I think I got him banned from Ebay.. and got a whopping dollar back on sellers fees in the process.. but trying to do much beyond that was almost counter-productive. You're dealing with more, but still in the grand scheme of things isn't a hideous amount of money to lose. It's not going to put you out of a home or anything like that.

(my loss would be considered almost trivial by most, but since I have so little money coming in right now it was a huge deal to me.. so who can say what this loss means to you.. could be more significant, or could be not a huge deal after the anger has subsided. Personally, I'd be 5x more upset.. heh)

If it were someone really close to me, honestly if I couldn't get the money back I'd probably (don't look, Paul) :p *consider* doing at least that amount of money in damage to something of theirs. (OK, you can look again, Paul) :p But you're sort of in a pickle.. he's a few towns over.. not exactly really close.. but not like half a country away on a bad Ebay deal. I don't know.

, I've said a whole lot, but also said not much at all. Hope there's something useful in this.

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Reply #5 –
Quote from: Bird351
It's not going to put you out of a home or anything like that.

$500 would put me out on the street lol, try looking them up through the posted link or go to the small town and ask around, you at least have a name right?

And if he wont give you whats yours teach him that stealing is wrong, kinda like bird mentioned. I hate theives :D 

I spent 4 months fighting with a guy over $40 on ebay AND I got it back  :crazy:
1980 birds X 3, 1982 bird, 1984 XR7, 1988 TC

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Reply #6 –
Hey I got boned for $700 in a similar deal. Was gonna get a whole motor when I needed one and dude wasn't going to pull it till I paid. I knew the guy, my friends knew him...Everyone said he was good for it.  Well after I paid him he disappeared forever! So I know it hurts now but its a good leason for you. Your better off getting burned for little bit of money now than alot later in life.

Speaking of t-5 setups there is a guy on the corral that has eveything for $750 and he is in NJ... heres the link http://www.corral.net/forums/showthread.php?t=639676
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Reply #7 –
i think that dude sold that stuff. and also im out 500 for a trans .. hope the  auto holds up.  yes i do have a name and a voice mail of the guy tellimg me to call him back to work on getting the trans out and all that
trick flow street heat intake , 24lbs injetors, ported GT-40's (Chip) long tube headers. and a Performance Automatic C4, with a hurst shifter!