August 2007


This letter is about payment ID # 3PC97182T7702022Y, made in May 25. For I was cheated by seller and can not get paypal protection!

Seller, “magazinexpress”, real name Lori O’Reilly was selling magazine at cheap price, persuading everyone can get magazine in 8 to 12 weeks. It was a scam, I have not got anything, and she becomes a “unregistered member” on ebay now.

I try to file a complaint, but paypal said it is too later. I tried to call, but it leads to your autovoice system.

When I paid 40 bucks, I am confident because I trusted ebay and paypal. But now, I am wondering days and nights how things like this can happend. When someone stole my money, I feel terible, when you denied my request for help, I feel disappointed and hopeless.

I think you should do more to protect buyer thus I write this letter for help and refund. I am also willing to help to pin this guy down.

Dear ebay:

We all know once you fall in a trap you must act quickly, that is why both ebay and paypal allow 45 or 60 days for buyer to open case about possible scam. However, there are sellers playing around this rules. I met one.

I bought item 270123452341 two months ago. This seller, namely “magazinexpress” was selling magazine at cheap price, persuading everyone they could get magazine in 8 to 12 weeks.

I never got it. As the seller said, I have not waited for enough time. Should I REALLY listen to him or her and wait? Of course not. Because this “magazineexpress” is not a registered memeber in ebay any more!! Please check this link if you want:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=270123452341&sspagename=ADME:B:AAQ:US:1

The email he or she provide is a fake one. You can never send anything to magazinexpress@twcny.rr.com

I wondered days and nights how things like this can happen. The problem is, timing. He ask anyone to wait at least 12 weeks, which secretly passes ebay’s 8 weeks window to file any complaint. Then he or she just need to clean up every item and wait for 45 days to close both ebay and paypal account then go.

I admit I am too stupid to find this, and even now I can not figure out where 95% positive review this seller got from. Maybe he or she also send out lowest price order. Maybe the whole thing is just a big hoax.

Right now I find another seller, “magazinesrusa” who is selling the similar stuffs, if you want, please check this item: 280140532263. I highly suspect “magazinesrusa” and the former “magazinexpress” are related.

In order to pretect more custom from similar scam. Do you know to whom I should report? You answer will be highly appreciated.