I like ebay, I have been using it for about 8 years now. I really like the “buy it now” feature. On November 30 I used “buy it now” to get a Honeywell VisionPro Digital Thermostat. I paid right away using paypal, paying the full amount that paypal calculated.

4 days leter I get an email from ebay saying that a non payment report has been filed against me. I went and checked my paypal account, knowing that I paid this guy, I found out that he had refunded my money… odd.

In the ebay litigation forms I reported that I paid the guy, and he refused my funds. The guy responded that I didnt sent enough money to him. what? I paid the amount that paypal said I owed. After a bit of back and forth, The guy said that I didnt include sales tax. No where in the ebay auction did it say that I needed to pay California sales tax. I told the guy that, and He still insisted that I pay it. Ok, Im an American, I’ll pay my taxes. I told the guy to send me the total amount that is due, and I will pay him. His response was, “use the botton on the auction that says pay now”. So I do that. It took me to paypal with the dollar amount was already populated for me. I pay that amount. 3 days go by, no word from him. I think Im in the clear. I check my paypal account, HE DECLINES MY MONEY AGAIN! Again stating that it was not enough. I had 1 day left to clear this up or ebay was going to flag my account as a non payer, something I don’t want.

Through some google searches, I found the company that I bought the thermostat from. I called them up and talked to the guy about the situation. He went into a speech about how I have not been paying the right amount, and that I need to pay taxes, blah blah blah. I told the guy to just tell me how much everything with taxes would cost me, and I would send him the money later that day via paypal. He said he would email me the appropriate amount (not the amount that I agreed to pay on ebay).

I got home from work, the email was there, It was for $9 more then what I had agreed to pay. I paid it because I didn’t want to hurt my ebay rep, but I think it’s a bunch of crap. If the guy needs to charge sales tax, he needs to state that in his auctions.

No positive feed back from me. The companys name is All Thermal. The guys ebay name is thermalresources

On a side note, I got the thermostat 2 days later, It rules. This guy is still ripping people off on ebay though.