As Al said, challenge the charge with your credit card company. Not
only will you not owe the $42, but he will be dunned the $42 and at
least a $20 chargeback fee.

--

Ray Barkalow - First Rays Orchids - www.firstrays.com
Plants, Supplies, Books, Artwork, and Lots of Free Info!
..
"TS" wrote in message
...
I really do hate trashing people. But when they REALLY deserve it it
has
to be done. I also don't want anyone here to get ripped off by this
jerk!

Yes, this was the first time I decided to buy orchids on Ebay. I
always
look, but never bought until this auction caught my eye:


http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...0858199&ssPage
Name=STRK:MEWA:IT

The seller is "okorchid", and I won 4 Miltoniopsis orchids for $30,
and
$12 for shipping. Great price, right? Well okorchid must have
thought
so, too! I paid right away, and he wrote to say he wanted to wait a
week
to send them due to cold weather. I replied that that would be fine.
A
couple of weeks go by and I email him asking if they were sent. He
replies that he had a death in the family and didnt get around to
sending them yet, but will do it right away and send me tracking
info. I
told him I understand and that I am sorry for his loss. Another week
or
so, no email with confirmation, no orchids. I write hime SEVERAL
more
times, and end up threatening to give him negative feedback, report
him
to Ebay, etc.

He finally writes back and says that someone cut the power to his
greenhouse and he lost his plants. Police investigation, etc. made
it so
he couldn't even go to his office and email me back. He tells me he
will
put the money back on my card (I paid with Mastercard) right away.
That
was a week ago. Now he wont answer my emails and I am out $42.

So I look at his feedback and there are several people who had the
same
ripoff as I did- and they are for orchids that look like they should
have sold for more than they did. Then, there are also others who
got
orchids in past week!

This creep lied about everything, and stole my money. He is doing it
to
other people as well. If you look at the positive feedback- it's all
for
plants that sold for a good amount. The other people like me, got a
good
price, and then got ripped off.

http://feedback.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAP...serid=okorchid

I guess I will never be able to get my money back, but I am going to
try to alert Ebay as to what he is doing. Anyone ever buy from this
guy?

DON"T BUY ANYTHING FROM "okorchid"!!!!!



Southwest Orchids is the name of the company I guess. Here is his
website:

http://www.sworchids.com

User ID: okorchid
Name: steve eagle
Company: southwest orchids
City: Ardmore
State: OK