Background

So while you might think this blog is a bit extreme for what happened, it maybe, but I came across this story on several  ebay forums and 3 or 4 scammer message boards and thought i would make a blog out of it for the guy! i messaged him to get more details and get approval to "type for him" and he was fine with it, said "the more people see this story the better, i don't want other people to get ripped off by this guy! Its not the money its the principle, the fact that Owen Sweeney knew what he was doing and planned this to work the way it did."


I sold a book on ebay. Ive sold several of these, they are a unique item and no one else can buy or has these to sell. I sell these from the UK and postage is normally via standard Airmail and out of several hundred items i've sold around the world i havent had a single item go missing, not once.

Owen Sweeney  (ebay ID: applemacapplemac) purchased the book through ebay on the 24th February, paid for it on the 25th February and the item was mailed to him via USPS on the 27th February. I was in the USA on vacation and had brought 3 copies with me intending to mail them from within the US to buyers who won the auctions while i was here.

The first i knew he hadn't received his book was on the 14th March  when he started a paypal claim for non receipt of an item, no email to us , no message to us, just started a paypal claim straight up which puts a hold on the funds. I replied through ebay and my reply and subsequent messages back and forth can be seen in the screen shots from my ebay messages page below:

Owen Sweeney lives in Wilmington, Delaware, only 131 miles from where the package was mailed from!
The very same day i went out and mailed another copy to Mr Sweeney via a USPS tracked service

The book was tracked online and due to arrive on the 16th March, on the 18th i sent the message below:

As you can se above, he had received his replacement book and as far as i was concerned case was closed so i sent the following.

Now fast forward a few weeks and read the newer blog entry above!