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News Credits: 2 · by **Sid Burn** » Tue Apr 01, 2008 1:10 pm

I have heard people complain about the ebay seller Wheeljackslab before and had avoided him because of it.

But recently, I was looking for a pair of G1 roadbuster fenders and he had a better deal on them than the other sellers online. I decided to give him the benefit of the doubt and buy the fenders from him thinking "he cant be THAT bad."

Was I ever wrong, the roadbuster fender cost me $3, I thought that was reasonable enough comparatively. But I was shocked when he sent me an invoice with a $25 shipping charge. Now, I live in canada, and am used to a higher shipping charge for stateside merchandise but this was ridiculous, you could fit these fenders in a padded envelope!

I assumed that a mistake had been made, but no, he insisted that for him to get a tracking # on the shipment, that $25 was needed. I told him I dont need or want a tracking #, but he persisted that if the items got lost in the mail I would come after him through paypal.

Now I have my fair share of transformers (925 by my last count) and most of them have come from ebay, and I have never had anything lost in the mail. I told him this, AND that I wouldnt be filing a paypal claim for a $3 item. Still no luck, if I wanted the fenders, I had to pay him $25 to ship them.

Long story short, I dont have any fenders and he has taken up an ebay no payment strike against me. He has got to be the most stubborn, obtuse, unreasonable ebay seller I have ever dealt with.

Please heed my warning and the warning of other posters on seibertron, STAY AWAY from wheeljackslab!

News Credits: 2 · by **Tekka** » Tue Apr 01, 2008 1:19 pm

Same thing happened to me. Only I asked him beforehand if there was cheaper shipping available to which he said, "Yes, $3 Airmail."

However somewhere between then and the end of the auction he changed his mind and would not take anything but $21 for EMS shipping.

First and last time I would ever deal with him.

It really burns me up.

News Credits: 2 · by **Sid Burn** » Tue Apr 01, 2008 1:19 pm

If you need any more convincing, in the ebay no pay strike dialogue, he posted about 9 paragraphs calling me an asshole and and idiot which I guess in his twisted head is supposed to get me to pay for the items. I told him I would mutually withdraw from the transaction with him but no dice.

After that, I left him negative feedback citing the $25 shipping charge and after all the crap he has given me, he had the balls to send me a mutual negative feedback withdrawal request.

this guy is NOT worth tf collector's time.

News Credits: 3 · by **DISCHARGE** » Tue Apr 01, 2008 1:22 pm

You should have listened, but now hopefully you've learned.
I actually haven't noticed his stuff on ebay for a while,
maybe I just tune him out though.

News Credits: 2 · by **Sid Burn** » Tue Apr 01, 2008 1:28 pm

DISCHARGE wrote:You should have listened, but now hopefully you've learned.

Ah yeah, I DID listen, but I figured I could get through a sale with him for two lousy roadbuster fenders. I was mistaken clearly, thanks though... :roll:

News Credits: 3 · by **Autobot Jazz** » Tue Apr 01, 2008 2:01 pm

Odd, the last two times I dealed with wheeljackslab things went smooth and I got some nice transformers. I wonder why wheeljackslab is like this now?

by **MegatronBomb** » Tue Apr 01, 2008 8:28 pm

DISCHARGE wrote:You should have listened, but now hopefully you've learned.
I actually haven't noticed his stuff on ebay for a while,
maybe I just tune him out though.

Yeah, I tune out his auctions as well. I could tell which ones are his before opening the link.

News Credits: 1 · by **Solrac333** » Tue Apr 01, 2008 9:06 pm

That guy is an ass! I won a G1 Astrotrain from him. Bidding went down until the last second and I won. I paid immediately with Paypal. 4 weeks later I get a message from him saying that I did not pay and that he was going to report me. I told him that I did and I gave him the paypal transaction number. I felt like giving him a negative feedback but after reading ALL of the other negative feedback, he would have left one for me out of spite. He does not communicate well at all. Any message I sent him would get a vague cryptic respond. I asked him id he would leave a feedbakc for me, his reply was always "I recipricate daily." He's an ass. NEVER BUY ANYTHING FROM HIM! He's not worth the hassle.

I never did get that feedback.

by **Megatron's Lapdog** » Tue Apr 01, 2008 10:30 pm

I went on E-bay and saw your feedback that you gave him. That is total extortion, and he could have sent it in a padded envelope easily(he probably would have anyways). Umm...Priority Mail International to Canada would have been like, what, 3-5 bucks? I sold a Unicron Head on E-bay, and it shipped to Canada for about that, and that is even larger/heavier! Ridiculous.

News Credits: 5749 · by **El Duque** » Tue Apr 01, 2008 10:42 pm

I've been tempted of buy stuff from this guy many times, but always pass becuase I hear stuff like this. I wonder how his feedback will look when the feedback policy change goes into effect?

News Credits: 2 · by **Sid Burn** » Tue Apr 01, 2008 11:53 pm

Megatron's Lapdog wrote:I went on E-bay and saw your feedback that you gave him. That is total extortion, and he could have sent it in a padded envelope easily(he probably would have anyways). Umm...Priority Mail International to Canada would have been like, what, 3-5 bucks? I sold a Unicron Head on E-bay, and it shipped to Canada for about that, and that is even larger/heavier! Ridiculous.

I know!
He told me it was my job to read his terms, but nowhere did it say I would be forced to pay a huge shipping fee just so he can have a tracking # to protect himself from paypal claims.

Those fenders would not have cost him anymore than $4 to ship.
He is a stain on the TF collector's community.

News Credits: 150 · by **GetterDragun** » Wed Apr 02, 2008 12:55 am

I'm locking this because it should be in the review section of carbombya, but if I move it, no one will look there. So make another thread there instead.