} Ebay cons take that!

This one is for all of you that have at one point in your life been scammed by a fellow ebayer!Some of you may already know this story, but oh well. My blog, I get to vent! (or in this case CHEER!!) About a month ago I purchased a rather expensive item on ebay and was way excited about it since I was actually saving about $100! So I buy it and all is good....then a week goes by and no stamps (that's what I bought by the way)....then almost two weeks. So I decided to email this "seller" to see what was up! It turned out my package was "damaged" and "lost" in transist. Were you going to tell me that? I think not! So I kindly asked for my money back and the reply was "I'm not liable for products once shipped." Oh NO YOU DIDN"T! First of all the buyer is always right, especially if you recieved the money asap! Second, if you don't offer extra insurance for shipping you ARE liable. THIRD, you obviously did a crap job of packaging something so expensive that it was damaged in transit! And of course FOURTH, You don't mess with ME (especially when I don't have that money to spend in the first place!)!! So then began an exchange of emails for yet another week and an investigation on my part. Anyhoo, I ended up filing a claim with Ebay and Paypal and what do you know.....We WON!! SUCKER!!! Not only did paypal give us our money back but they took it from her account instead of from our protection insurance (I guess everyone has it that is with paypal). SWEET VICTORY!!! I'm sure she learned her lesson and so did I! One for the Johnston's.... zero for the "seller". Thanks for listening and now I do my victory dance! hee hee :)