So I posted a WTB/WTT on the classifieds for some Ralliart Taillights like a month ago. Few days later, I got a response from a guy that lives in Pittsburgh that had a Ralliart phone number 4125194951 that was planning on tinting his tails, but thought he would help a fellow member out by trading and of course for some cash. The guy seemed very nice. He sold a couple things here and trusted him. I told him we would ship our taillights at our cost, BUT we would have to do it priority mail (2-3 days). He agreed, but the catch was that I would have to ship mine first, because he daily drives his car to school. I, on the other hand, had my car stored during the winter time. So its not like I needed it at the time. I already had a bad feeling about me doing this, I had a feeling that I was going to get screwed over. I sent him the money through PayPal and the same day I shipped out my taillights via USPS Priority Mail (2-3 days), this was on a Monday night through the Automated Postal Machine. I expected him to receive it on Thursday. I notified him and told him that I sent the money and shipped out the package. He told me he would ship it out the same the day he receives it.

Well, Thursday came along and he tells me that he's gonna stay at school campus for the rest of the week because of a snow storm that they were having, so he doesn't know if they have arrived. Which I understood and was patient with him. He tells me that his brother said there was a package for him and told me that it was probably my taillights. Saturday came and he texted me saying that he shipped out the taillights USPS PARCEL POST (3-8 days). I was like I thought we agreed to ship Priority Mail and he says that he didn't want to pay $4 extra dollars for Priority. In my head I was like are you kidding me? I mean that's not even fair to me. I mean its just $4 more. So I was thinking okay at least I'll probably get it this week, if anything early the following week.

It was already a week and its Saturday. I assumed it would of been here by now, but I know Monday would mark day 8. USPS is usually pretty good on getting packages on time, so i was kinda surprised. I texted the guy and told him I still haven't received it. He was saying that I should of gotten it by now and told me I should talk to the post office, which is kind of hard for me because I work 9-6 on a daily basis and its closed by the time I get there. So I called them on my lunch break instead and asked if they could some how track my package without a tracking number because it wasn't provided to me. The lady said she couldn't do it without a tracking number, certified mail, or if it was done express mail. She also mentioned that it could possibly be at the "hold box" for when the mail man comes to give you the package at the door and if you're not home, they just leave them at the "hold box" at the post office. Well there was nothing there and she was saying how did he shipped it and I told her he did it Parcel Post and she tells me that this was the cheapest way to ship and could actual be 12-14 days, because sometimes they just put it on the side to make sure Express and Priority goes out first and makes it on time. I was like okay well I didn't know that so I talked to the guy and explained to him what happened when I talked to the person at the Post Office. He goes "Did you tell them address track it?" I told him that they need a tracking number otherwise they can't find it. He goes "well UPS can do it." I said that they are not UPS. He also ask me if a receipt would help and I'm like no it will not, THEY NEED A TRACKING NUMBER! At this point, I'm already heated up, I'm losing patience with this guy.

That following Sunday I told him if he can go check his post office to see what they can do and he told me he would go Tuesday. I'm like okay I'll give you until Tuesday after that that's it. I also told him if he could just refund my money and when or if I receive his taillights magically I would either refund his money back or send his taillights back if I had already found a set and he could just keep my taillights. He told me he couldn't do that and said he would be losing money, because apparently he tinted my taillights already and sold it here on the forums to some other guy. I was pissed.

This past Tuesday came and he tells me the person at the Post Office said that I should of received it by now. I told him obviously not, if I did receive it I wouldn't be wasting my time. Then, this is what completely pissed me off. He gives me this bull about me really having his taillights and I'm trying to screw him over and that I'm trying to get my money back and keep his taillights. And I told him "Seriously, I don't know about you but I was raised better than that." He goes "Well how am I suppose to know, for all I know you're just a stranger." Wow... I don't know about you guys but I believe in karma and I would never do such a thing.

So here I am three weeks later, no taillights and $225 down the drain. I don't know what I should do, I was thinking of just reporting him on PayPal since we did a transactions on there.

Help me guys...

Hi,

I don't know who to go to for issue with dishonest seller on here so I'm sorry if I am of a burden if I chose you since you are one of the moderators on here

Anyways here's the story. I bought a used HID kit from lancera on here for a good deal of $35 shipped. I thought everything worked out fine but when I got the item everything changes! The item was packaged fine, no damage whatsover, there was some tabs from the bulb and harness broken but that was fine. However the bulb itself is the main problem. He described it as I will get 1 pair of 10000k and 1 pair of 12000k bulb, but when I got it there was a strange number of 5 bulb! None of them were labeled so it was very difficult for me to manually having to plug all 5 in then take out to determine what color was what, also since these were done at day time, I had a difficult time to clearly see if they were either 10000k or 12000k because they are very simliar to one another.

3 out of the 5 bulb was showing badly signs of wearing out almost dead because the middle portion of the bulb, where the main light source is at, were black!!!!! The leftover 2 was good and clear just as they should be but another problem is they are from two different manufacturer and two different color as well!

As you can see only the ballast, and harness and relay are the only thing that are working (I hope it will last!). The bulbs are useable but VERY VERY DIM! The seller lancera and I communicated via personal email but he is insisting on that he do not have any money for refund or partial refund and that he has spent the money I sent him via PayPal!

I have reported his email address to PayPal and trying to file a claim with this guy. The money is not an issue to me in this case but it is about being honest so I want him to get reprimands for this! I will try to file a claim with my Bank to see what they are able to do!

Is there anything evolutionm.net can do to help me, I do not want others in the future on here to be fooled by people like him again so can you please help me resolve this matter?