EBay - SALVAGETRAILER - FUN FINDER SALES - VALERIE J. McDOWELL - JOHN PIERCE OSHAUNGHESSY - KIM HOKE eBay WOULD NOT HONOR ADVERTISED $50,000.00 BUYER PROTECTION DETAILS NOT UP-FRONT - HIDE BEHIND CONVOLUTED WEB SITE - UNFAIR - DISHONORABLE - PROTECTS UNETHICAL SELLERS Internet

John Pierce Oshaughessy claims he was a farmer from Unity, Saskatchewan. Operating business with cohort Valerie J. McDowell. It takes time, but what goes around comes around. The last I heard of them, they changed therir trade name and they were selling wrist watches on EBay. They learned their business practice in Mexico and then set up in South Carolina. 

Have they prospered or reaped what they sow?

Fraud is Deception Deliberately Practised In Order To Secure Unfair or Unlawful Gain.
South Carolina Statue of Limitations for Fraud is Three Years.

These people advertised over eBay about Overview/Features:
"Overall Condition of this trailer -GOOD"

They also indicate on their Fun Finder Sales web site that they are quite knowledgable about trailers.
This also points to the fact that they were practising an Unfair, Deceptive and Misrepresented Trade Practise.

A question to think about:
Why would these guys be so anxious to haul this trailer 1750 miles from South Carolina to the USA/Canada Border and do a quick turnover in a parking lot and only charge $700.00 for transporting the trailer?

EBAY can not be trusted when a Big Ticket Item is involved. The average person can not be aware of all the legalities involved on their convoluted web site an right up front EBAY advertises $50,000.00 Buyer Protection.

A Lesson From This Issue Might Be:
1) Do Not Buy From an eBay Seller That Is Not Bonded or Insured.
2) Do Not Deal or Buy From Crooks and Liars
3) On a Big Ticket Item Do Not Trust The EBAY $50,000.00 Buyer Protection Advertising without legal guidance.

Any Ethical and Trustworthy Seller Is Not Ambiguous. Selling the idea that "This ones ready for full time park living or travelling in style" OR "These units are perfect for the average handyman that can repair minor damage and save themselves $$$$".
When this unit was not ready for full time living or travelling in style OR perfect for the average handyman that can repair minor damage.
AND Then say As Is Where Is. That is what is called Split Tongued.
This trailer was "Significantly Not As Described".

You can not legally have it two ways.

This eBay deal was made for delivery to Portal, North Dakota. That is where return of this trailer would be delivered after complete reimbursement of the money paid out and repair expenses were covered.

If this Seller was telling the truth, eBay would not have removed his FeedBack Comment that I owed him money. eBay Documentation proves that.

Also, if this Seller was telling the truth, this Rip-Off Report would be adjusted accordingly. However, the Rip-Off Report stands with this Seller shown up to be grossly in the wrong.

If this guy said, "Good Morning", it would be highly recommended to take a look outside!

Pierce and Val - You should be ashamed of yourselves.
I do not know which of you is most reprehensible.

eBay is guilty by association and contributing to a Seller profiting from unethical selling and possibly fraud in the legal sense.

For all interested News Media, I have pictures of the evidence that I can provide you along with copies of eBay Transaction and Financial Transaction Documentation.

Regarding Lawyers that specialize in this area, Go through Rip-Off Report to contact me.

Read the full Rip-Off Report.
In my opinion this is Internet Fraud Over $10,000.00

I was told about this complaint by another of my customers who saw it here. I have read with amusement this complaint and the many points of fantasy recited by this person.

Let me in short form give our side of the story and let the comsumers decide the facts.

Our company sells insurance salvage trailers and campers with the advantage to the buyer of cheaper purchase prices because of the work required to bring them back to perfect condition. This trailer had had a interior fire and had been partialy repaired and like all of our trailers,was listed as such.

It was sold with the buy it now feature on Ebay and we were contacted by the buyer who paid his deposit and enquired as to how much we would charge to deliver the trailer to the canadian border near ND. We told him we charge $2.25 per mile and could deliver in 3 weeks. This was agreed upon over and above the price of sale and the buyer agreed to pay the $2550.00 usd delivery fee upon receiving the trailer.Delivery and a two hour inspection happened but the customer only had $800.00 usd of the delivery fee with him as he said that was all he could get out of the local ATM machine. We agreed to release the trailer to him provided he sent the balance of funds to us buy overnight letter when he was back in Canada.

That was our first mistake. While we did not get paid for the balance of the delivery
charge.The buyer demanded $2500.00 usd from us becase the trailer needed morework than he had envisioned. To make matters worse,he threatened to leave bad feedback if we did not pay this amount.

This trailer was sold AS IS WHERE IS and disclosure was made as to its salvage condition. His inability to repair the trailer was not part of the contract but the buyer seemed to think this was negotiable after the sale and the exportation of the trailer.
I offered him a complete refund through Ebay if he returned the trailer to our yard.

He did not want to return the trailer to us and wanted the money from us.We have not received the outstanding funds for delivery from buyer nor has Ebay contacted us about the transaction. It was our fault to trust this buyer with delivery fees and because of this purchaser we no longer sell to Canada.

This buyer not only tried to blackmail us into paying him but did indeed leave us unwarranted bad feedback with Ebay.

It is my opinion that this was an attempt to extort additional funds beyond the money he already owed us to help with the repairs the trailer needed.

Ebay takes these claims in a serious light and does investigate them. I am still selling onEbay and have never had an experience such as the one I had with this person and it has made us demand payments in full from all customers now as trust is something that is is the past for us.

Thank you for the chance to put our side up so people can see both sides.