Buyers Beware Avoid Shawser61 Possibly Fraud

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.

Shouldn't this have been posted in the Disputes forum?

Yes, I should but who reads dispute forum? Last thread posted on Dispute forum was posted on the 2011.

I read dispute rules and Audogon can't do heck to make sellers participate in the dispute.

I wanted to warn other buyers who wanted to deal with this seller so I posted it on the more visible forum.

I will probably post a dispute as well as leave appropriate feedback for this seller. It seems fittings to do so.

I don't think the disputes section is in use anymore or the moderators are letting stuff go. Grievances get aired out in the general forum now. I'm surprised this thread hasn't been locked down yet.

With regards to the e-mail system if you put any kind of e-mail information in there or a phone # the e-mail will be suppressed. I was trying to help a member out by getting him a copy of a manual I had and I found from observing the conversation the messages were blocked where I put my e-mail or phone #. That could be part cause of the e-mails not getting through.

I don't know if this works with the pay now options when buying from an ad but when you are corresponding with a member you can check the Email Delivery in the Inbox on Audiogon. You can see if a message has been read or delivered etc etc. After signing in on the Main Page, go into the Inbox and then in the lower left corner you will see Email Delivery.