42RH in 68 Dart advice/request
I HAVE A WARNING ⚠️ about this particular set of these tools. Going to be long but I feel I must tell this in a thread where others may be doing the same thing as the OP.
There is a seller of them on eBay, same pic except the can koozie in the eBay ad is black, same logo. eBay price is around $220 and the seller is the same place as listed in the can koozie.
In googling the Miller tools number I came across an ad with that exact pic with the pink koozie. The Google listing says "MILLER TOOLS ALTERNATIVE" for $98.
I bought one last week. The website affiliated is "optimum dress". Out of Cali. When I first put my card in it got denied. Weird. Tried my debit. Denied. Double weird. I definitely have plenty to cover it. I put the debit card in again and it was accepted. I got an email from PayPal that said I paid some woman, not the company name. It didn't show up in my bank for a couple days.
I looked up my PayPal account and it shows "no transactions in the last 180 days" which was true until I bought this. I didn't know it was gonna be done as a PayPal transaction.
I tried calling the phone number associated with the website to ask and after like a "1/2 a ring" the ring started over, no gap between rings like usual when waiting for someone to pick up. Then rang normal another couple of rings then went to "mailbox 123zyz" (not the actual number I don't remember that)
I left a message about inquiring about something I bought. They called back and the phone was "dead"
Nobody spoke on that end. I haven't been able to contact them since.
I filed a claim with PayPal and they were able to find it by the transaction number I got in the email, but if I look at pp right now it still comes up "no transactions in 180days". They said they will investigate, the next morning I got a reply from pp saying the seller responded to them with a tracking number saying that it was delivered to "my town" (didn't specify address) the day before I reported it. I still don't have those tools and pp wants a week to "investigate"
I'm wondering if I somehow got a "shell" PayPal, somehow? I don't use PayPal much, I didn't know this would be a PayPal deal, but being I can't find it in my records other than the direct email I got as a "receipt"
And I thought all PP logos were blue? Ive gotten 3 emails.... The original receipt from the buy and 2 follow up emails from "PayPal" but the logos I'm getting in all the emails are red?
When I looked up my account everything there is blue letting though. IDK what is going on, I bought a 2nd item from them in the same transaction after going to their "website" but I think I got screwed out of roughly $104. I doubt I'll see the tools or my $104 again.
The ebay seller is from Atlantic City NJ. The website I found on Google is listed out of California. The tracking I was sent from "PayPal" says it was mailed from Largo FL. The receipt says the money went to somebody named Undrea Reed. Not to the company name.
