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Thu Sep 16, 2010 8:15 am

Ebay seller id "onetofivedayauctions" is selling combiners with KO accessories at normal price. No disclosure of KO in the description. I bought a Menasor after submitting a best offer price only to receive authentic stunticons with fake KO accessories. So I messaged the seller and he did offer a full refund HOWEVER when I aksed him to replace the KO parts he refused and admitted he would not do a partial refund for the parts because I we had agreed on a best offer price. So in reality the seller was hoping I didn't know it was KO accessories and wanted to make some money on them. The seller has over 11k in sales with the majority being vintage toys so for him to say he didn't know is laughable. I knew the parts were KO as soon as I opened the box as they were that poor in quality. Anyhow, buyer beware as the guy knows he is trying to rip people off and refuses to make good on his transactions. He also has a store in Texas at the following location:

Shaun
Dallas Vintage Toys
6220 Gaston Ave. Suite 606
Inside Faulkner Tower
Dallas, Texas 75214

Thu Sep 16, 2010 9:25 am

That is interesting about that seller. I had an ebay transaction with the same person by mistake. Shaun was very nice in handling the situation. After an email and a phone call he agreed to completely cancel the whole transaction as if it never happened.

I will keep your transaction in mind the next time I see something from this guy. Thanks for the heads up.

Thu Sep 16, 2010 9:29 am

Well I'm sure many people buy things from him and have minor to no issues. A quick google search of his user id "onetofivedayauctions" will show many people among a wide range of collectibles that had major issues. He did offer to do a full refund but only because the price we agreed on left him no money to make had the parts been real or replaced by him, but if it wasn't a good deal I wouldn't have bought it, he is actually pretty unreasonable.

News Credits: 5749 · Thu Sep 16, 2010 9:33 am

I had a similar experience with ebay seller, playidia. I bought Predacons, Divebomb and Tantrum, from him and they showed up with KO accessories, including Divebomb's wings. I notified him of this and he issued a partial refund, but claimed no knowledge that he sold KO's. I also him know that the Rampage he was selling had the same KO accessories, but he never took the auction down or updated the description to let buyers know about the fake accessories.

Thu Sep 16, 2010 9:43 am

There is probably a lot of that on ebay, I have done many many many transactions and received great deals on legit parts, the thing that bothers me most about this guy is he says he won't refund the cost to obtain real parts from the total cost I paid for the item because he already gave me a deal at the best offer price. To me that translates to I won't give refund because I accepted a low price knowing I was sending you KO parts. It's too bad that they are not good KO parts I could live with, they are of a poor poor quality.

News Credits: 1235 · Thu Sep 16, 2010 10:10 am

Did you report him to ebay?

Thu Sep 16, 2010 11:26 am

I did and after repeatedly telling him to replace the item and he refused I have dropped the item off at USPS to be returned to seller. I will get my money back plus shipping but makes me mad he won't honor the original deal we made for the authentic item. Oh and of course I left appropriate Feedback to let others know of the scam.

News Credits: 3 · Thu Sep 16, 2010 1:25 pm

El Duque wrote:I had a similar experience with ebay seller, playidia. I bought Predacons, Divebomb and Tantrum, from him and they showed up with KO accessories, including Divebomb's wings. I notified him of this and he issued a partial refund, but claimed no knowledge that he sold KO's. I also him know that the Rampage he was selling had the same KO accessories, but he never took the auction down or updated the description to let buyers know about the fake accessories.

I have bought a few from Playidia before and they had some decent stuff at decent prices. I guess I nevr buy G1 toys because of piracy. So I buy directly from dealers at the flea market because I can get it in my hand, and they don't BS with G1 stuff. They are usually up front about what the quality of the toys are.

I will check this guy out because I just ran into a mess with a pair of headphones from a guy.

Mon Sep 27, 2010 3:05 pm

Well I will say that after fighting it out through ebay they awarded the case in favor of onetofivedayauctions and he is still willing to refund my money so I would say all in all the seller remained true to his word and I had jumped the gun.