Buyers Beware Avoid Shawser61 Possibly Fraud

The system is breaking down as the above poster notes.This isnt cool anymore with Big Brother involved.Wish some good guys would take over instead of these bean counters....

I also had problems with a buyer not receiving my emails via the Audiogon system. Once we figured it out and took external action the transaction went smoothly.

The last deal I was involved with was never finalized thru the system. No mention of payment sent/recieved, no mention of item sent/recieved, no feedback , nothing. I got the item and the seller got payment but nothing came thru the system. I'm getting wary of using the new system.

A few years ago I used Paypal to purchase an amp from this site and once I paid, the seller disappeared. I went around and around with Paypal trying to track this guy/girl down. The important thing that I learned was that Paypal only really backs you up when you use them to fund an Ebay transaction, otherwise you're basically on your own. Fortunately for me my Paypal account is set up with Amex and they refunded me. It took 5 months to get my money back, had I just used Amex alone and not gone through Paypal I would have been refunded much sooner. My advice to you is to only use Paypal at Ebay and let your creditcard company handle the rest.

By using your card you get access to the sellers information. Your card company will back you up.

Thanks for chiming in! I took some considerations he could be away for Holidays or just bad weather preventing him from going to a nearest UPS store.

If it's the case, all he needed to do is to post a message and let me know he has some setbacks in shipping the item out and will ship in next few days.

The last message posted on Agon from him was in Dec 27th stating he will ship in a day or two. He stops replying after that. But he listed more items for sale (McIntosh MVP 841 Player) on Dec 28th and sold that one yesterday.

So, he has a good idea what's going on if he is Genuine about the item he sold me.

I contacted PayPal and filed a dispute for the payment and PayPal immediately escalated the dispute to claim citing they are unable to contact the seller.

I think he sold a few other stuff on Agon and the buyers may have the same problem as I have.

So, someone may have contacted paypal about this seller before me and his paypal account may have been restricted already. I don't know anything for sure but paypal sure is taking their time to investigate the seller which I don't think will have any good outcome.

I will contact Amex and dispute the charge also. I do hope this thread will go on and people got alerted about this seller and how scary it is buying from new sellers with low feedback on Agon has become.

If I buy more on Agon, I have decided to deal with sellers who allows local pickup in person only from now.