Auctions.yahoo.com Ripoff Of The Month Minneapolis, MN Internet

If your not familiar with auctions.yahoo.com you might simply join and get a paypal.com account so you can pay for some auctions requiring that else use Yahoo! PayDirect so others can also pay you thru use of their e-mail compose screen with a bank account.

The let down...

Yahoo does not make any attempt to resolve a dispute should you have a dispute with a seller, the buyer is limited to their protection agreement in so much that a totsal does not include two or more items sold by a seller and shipped in a single package. Yahoo does not make any statement that prevents a seller from claiming harrassment from a buyer answering his/her questions and stop a seller from making threats of legal characteristics in such a manner that he/she claims to have processed a polygraph test required by you to complete in the US Mail and has given copies of your e-mails to Yahoo to substantiate his/her claim of harrassment. The truth is that a seller gets priority even if the packed item(s) have yet to have a damage report filed regarding their condition as received from UPS or other shipper whom states clearly either the shipper or receipiant can file a damage report. Yahoo will prior to a damage report filing by the buyer whom received the item(s) remove points from a buyers account he/she has earned on auctions.yahoo.com and then neglect to reverse their decision based solely on the sellers opinion of whom he wants to communicate to either in a yahoo e-mail of a Instant Yahoo Message where he/she can send messages even when a member is not popping his/her Instant yahoo Messenger up.

So be wise and get your goods elsewhere, Yahoo could change their operations so that they have not claimed money from a seller before a buyer has notified them that they are satisfied with a item(s) and provide links so that damage reports can be accessed offsite automatically adding the information for a member filing a report, plus demand that the seller never creates a problem until the buyer has agreed to the item(s) the seller shipped.

To many people are being lied to by sellers and Yahoo does not stop their use of Yahoo failing to see that when a buyer has been ripped off that Yahoo shouldn't claim to get e-mail headers from a buyer whom received e-mails from a seller attempting to claim that they are trying to un-process a bad seller whom has stolen money from you. Yahoo servers have the header info from sellers sufficient without asking a buyer to collect them requiring depressing a additional button on e-mails they receive when they are read.

Yahoo has committed a fraud and deceives even the young whom also have auction ability unless a buyer has points earned which he/she then requires a buyer to have to be able to bid on a item(s) he/she has on auction the site.

Attitudes affect points only if you have points, so a harrassment charge by someone whom has collected money from you claiming that against you is not affected at all and continues selling his stuff till sold out then he/she can remove their use of Yahoo entirely preventing any further communications from you or a shipper they employed to send you their stuff.

Whatever, a buyer can file a Consumer Complaint against people that are taking advantage of them and even against a business likened to Yahoo and Yahoo! Auctions.

[Incidents]

(1) Date: 2004/06/07 Mon AM 11:00:30 CDT
Seller Legal Name: David Carlson
Seller E-Mail: silverboon@yahoo.com
Seller Additional E-Mail: mnboon@msn.com
Buyers E-Mail(s): cmjal168@cs.com ; x0x007jones@yahoo.com
Seller Sold Item (1): monitor
(Full Description)
SONY 17 In Color Monitor Trinitron Multiscan 17sf
PayDirect Receipt #: 8250773
Seller Webpage: http://page.auctions.shopping.yahoo.com/auction/86249456
Seller Description: Tan in Color. Very good graphics displayed. Can handle the majority of PC systems. It has been refurbished and works great.
PayDirect Recipient's name: silverboon
PayDirect Recipient's email: silverboon@yahoo.com
Message title: Yahoo! Auction: 86249456
Reader - ID #: 86239241 --- ship UPS Ground OK.
PayDirect Amount: $45.00

(2) Date: 2004/06/07 Mon AM 11:00:30 CDT
Seller Legal Name: David Carlson
Seller E-Mail: silverboon@yahoo.com
Seller Additional E-Mail: mnboon@msn.com
Buyers E-Mail(s): cmjal168@cs.com ; x0x007jones@yahoo.com
Seller Sold Item (2): USB Card Reader
(Full Description)
PayDirect Receipt #: 8250829
Seller Webpage: http://page.auctions.shopping.yahoo.com/auction/86239241
Seller Description: A addition to your Digital Camera that handles and reads your memory cards that you have your pictures saved on. Transfer your pictures from the reader directly to your computer for your editing and then print or save them where ever you like. Including is the USB Reader itself with the connected USB cable that goes to your PC, and the Manual with the CD Install software. Reads most and any of the current cards out there. Has not been used only opened and is in Brand New condition.
PayDirect Recipient's name: silverboon
PayDirect Recipient's email: silverboon@yahoo.com
Message title: Yahoo! Auction: 86239241
address: Charles Jones 115 Thames Drive Prattville,AL 36066
PayDirect Amount: $8.54

Total Single Shipment Paid by Buyer: $53.54
UPS Weight:51 lbs
UPS Tracking Number:1Z560X980345028597
Shipper Phone:(612) 929-0216
Sent: 04 Jul 04 20:36
To: customer.service@ups.com

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[E-Mails 1 & 2]

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> From: auctions@yahoo-inc.com
> Date: 2004/07/01 Thu PM 01:37:31 CDT
> To: cmjaltx@charter.net
> Subject: Yahoo! Auctions rating Notification: rating = 1
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> Dear x0x007jones,
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> You have been rated Bad by silverboon
> This lowers your rating to 1
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> The comment was:
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> All your emails & harrassment have been reported. You are making false statements.
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> Thank you for selling through Yahoo! Auctions. You may view and respond to this comment by visiting the following URL:
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> http://ratings.auctions.shopping.yahoo.com/show/rating?userID=x0x007jones
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> You may rate and/or leave comments of your own on silverboon by visiting:
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> http://edit.auctions.shopping.yahoo.com/config/leavefeedback?t=silverboon&aID=86249456
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Received: 10:35 PM 7/3/2004

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Re: Yahoo! Auctions rating Notification: rating = 1

to: auctions@yahoo-inc.com

Mr. David Carlson is the one that packaged the monitor crappily, he had one sheep of bubble wrap surrounding the monitor and a piece of cardboard taped onto the screen. There was a loaf bread size amount of white cheeto foam loose in the carton. He stated to me that he gave the package to UPS and that they were suppose to provide him a new package service that I was to check it out on receipt to see how they did on it, He was the one that lied to you and me both. Mr. Carlson whom is SILVERBOON has no right demanding that I take a polygraph test for his monitor, and his USB Card Reader which totalled over the slim amount that YAHOO PROPTECTION RESERVED THAT I WOULD HAVE TO HAVE PAID FOR THE THING BEFORE I COULD FILE A COMPLAINT. I HAVE FILED A COMPLAINT IN E-MAIL TO YAHOO AUCTION, AND BY GOD I HAVE ALSO CHARGED MR. CARLSON AND MIGHT CHARGE YAHOO AUCTION AS WELL BECAUSE OF THE PROTECTION PROGRAM WITH FRAUD BEFORE THEN FACT. AS I TOLD YAHOO AUCTION EARLIER, I DON'T DESIRE ANYTHING BROKEN AND I THE BUYER HAAVE A RIGHT TO RETURN THE ITEMS AND I DO NOT APPRECIATE YOU DEGRADING MY ACCOUNT FOR THE REASON WHICH SILVERBOON HAS PRESENTED YOU WITHOUT YOU READING HIS E-MAILS AND HIS YAHOO MESSENGER MESSAGES TO ME THREATENING ME BY GOD THATS ILLEGAL FOR YOU TO SIDE WITH HIM. SEE THERE YOU HAVE FORGOTTEN THAT I ALSO AM A SELLER ON YAHOO AUCTION AND HAVE BETTER MERCHANDISE THAT SILVERBOON AND COULD SELL EVERYTHING ELSEWHERE. I WANT A AUTOMATIC REVERSAL OF YOUR DECISION AND I WANT IT IMMEDIATELY OR ELSE I SHALL REPORT YOUR E-MAIL TO THE CONSUMER PROTECTION AGENCY AS WELL AS MY REPLY BACK TO YOU.

YOU HAVE GONE TO FAR NOW, I HAVE NOT HARRASSED A SELLER FOR A POORLY PACKAGED PRODUCT WHICH ARRIVED BROKEN WITHOUT WITNESS AND SUPPORT. YOU OWE ME DOUBLE THE AMOUNT NOW! I DO NOT LIE! ADD THIS TO THE FAILURE OF DELIVERY AT - auctions-abuse@yahoo-inc.com BECAUSE IT MEANS YAHOO HAS STOLEN TWICE FROM MY CREDIT CARD AND MR. MIKE COLVIN IS YOUR PARTNER IN CRIME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

COMPLAINT: 07-01-04 8:12 PM
TO: auctions-abuse@yahoo-inc.com
CC: paydirect-feeback@yahoo-inc.com
Subject: Seller - David Carlson

Attachments:

broken main circuit board view 1.jpg (123k)
broken main circuit board view 2.jpg (127k)
Sony Monitor Cabinet Cover broken_1.jpg (107k)
Sony Monitor Cabinet Cover broken_2.jpg (91k)
Sony Monitor Cabinet Cover broken_3.jpg (109k)

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FCC Complaint: https://www.ifccfbi.gov/
Complaint number: I04070110144085
(FRAUDULENT STATEMENT BY DAVID CARLSON)
In reference to UPS, if you don't have pictures then there will NOT be no refund.

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To: x0x007jones@yahoo.com
Subject: UT20040704_0000002775 Report Damaged Package


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ADDITIONAL COMPLAINT AGAINST YAHOO....
Sellers E-Mail: dwrdbck@yahoo.com
Sellers Name & Address: MIKE COLVIN
273 Evergreen Avenue
Huntington Station
NY
11746

Sellers Item Buyer Won: NX9010U Pentium4 2.8Ghz 15TFT 40G
Winning Bid: $211.50
Total Requested: $252.00
Western Union Fee: $40.00
Total cost auction winner: $292.00
PAID BY: x0x007jones

Item never received, item was charged on my credit card and Yahoo has done nothing to regain either my computer I won or the refund of the cash I sent Western Union to the seller.

Charles
Prattville, Alabama
U.S.A.

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