Commit FRAUD Against Me? LOSE $3000! | r/ProRevenge | #297

hey everybody rob from karma comment chameleon coming at you today with a new Pro revenge story Opie had a douche bag of a customer trying to steal his work the revenge story is too sweet not to be shared let's jump right in so almost a couple of years ago I had a guy that emailed me back and forth for months he was pretty cool but picky beyond belief and couldn't decide on what he wanted finally though he ordered this ultra deluxe four player arcade machine wrapped in Star Wars graphics spending $3,000 plus 220 dollars shipping the Machine arrives in Melbourne five days later and he calls me up losing his it's been damaged by the freight company I send everything fully insured so I assured him it was okay he's covered please send me the pics of the damage it was only very slight nothing cosmetic but the console was a little dislodged as they must have stacked something heavy on it I assured the customer it could be fixed I'll contract a cabinetmaker to come out to him and repair it at my expense then I'll go through insurance later nope he didn't want that so I said okay I'll arrange for a collection and have it brought back to me and I'll issue him a full refund including Freight nope he didn't want that either okay I said what would make you happy then it's something easy to fix perhaps I can pay you what I'd pay the contractor about two hundred and fifty dollars and you can fix it nope he wanted a full refund and he wanted to keep the machine too I said that won't happen insurance won't allow it as the damage is tiny it's like car insurance they won't write off a whole car for minor damage that can be fixed he didn't care he wanted a refund I said they won't do it and I certainly won't pay out of pocket either I'll arrange collection of the unit at my expense and issue a refund to him or we have it repaired nope he paid via PayPal and he's putting through a dispute because the item didn't arrive as described I advised him that House Rules also state that in order to get a refund he'll need to show proof that he'd sent the item back or arranged with the sender to have it collected nope he's keeping it and getting a refund so I advised him that what he was committing was fraud and theft also PayPal will freeze the thirty two hundred and twenty dollars in my account and I'm not at fault here that's what PayPal does you see if anyone lodges a dispute they automatically freeze the funds in the seller's account it's guilty until proven innocent with them it can also take up to 90 days to resolve sometimes six months I know it happened before he didn't care the next thing I knew I had a notification from PayPal the funds were frozen pending the dispute the next step is stating your case to them providing evidence etc where they relay the info back and forth between the buyer and seller PayPal always sides with the buyer sellers are a piece of as far as they're concerned if it can't be resolved between buyer and seller then you can opt to have PayPal decide but their decision is absolute I provided my transcripts advising the customer that I'd collect the item and refund him and he provided them with a fake pickup receipt as far as they knew he's done his part now he's eligible so they ruled in his favor so this Packer now has his money back and my three thousand dollar machine I was fuming and he wouldn't answer my calls or emails I'm a big guy and I had a rough upbringing in a tough neighborhood so I was about to jump into my truck drive the 900 kilometers south knock on his door and watch him himself as I repossessed my machine but my wife being the voice of reason calmed me down and said to try legal avenues first coincidentally he emails me three days later and says the computer in the machine stopped working I replied which acting planet do you live on where you steal an item then complain it doesn't work he lulled me and said he had an IT guy a few days after that I get a call from a guy saying that his friend bought an item and the hard drive is dead it was his IT guy and I don't think he knew the whole story I asked him to find the serial number it's just the date it was built and the iteration for example 23 1220 1901 he read the number out and I said oh it's in warranty send it back and I'll send a fresh new one he bought it and sent it back now note that he said the hard drive was dead that's a good thing if it had been the computer he could just use anything else and use the hard drive as a backup but since it was dead and now I had his computer too he has to buy a new system which would set him back at least 450 dollars but he still couldn't play games in it you can download the apps but there's a ton of config work and button mapping etc IT guy calls me a few days later asking for the computer and I told him the story and that nope he can go himself he also lolled and asked how hard it could possibly be to just download see what he didn't know is that I have a little failsafe built in the encoder I use isn't mapped to the default keys on the apps I changed everything around on the hardware to stop people trying to just clone it it's not hard to get around but most people aren't familiar with the nuances of emulators inevitably I get another call a few days later from a different guy saying that he built his own machine but couldn't get it working the symptoms were exactly that of trying to get my controls working on a different system it was definitely the IT guy fishing I played dumb and said I didn't know sorry now this guy had an empty useless cabinet so he left me a one-star review on Google it's since been removed but it read something like poor quality build flimsy system doesn't work do not buy from these people I was about to jump into my truck again and drive down to that face but again my wife is like a bucket of ice water to my fire so I wrote a long letter to PayPal attaching all of my evidence of his fraud then I responded to the one-star review with attachments to the emails and his admission to committing the fraud also I displayed his name and email address to smoke him out he immediately called and said look no hard feelings okay but I received a damaged item and I'm entitled to compensation remove my details he was getting spammed relentlessly but he seriously believed he did nothing wrong I told him to go himself and enjoy his useless machine I was still burning though I forgot about it after a few weeks paypal didn't respond so I cut my losses and moved on but then something beautiful happened it's as though the universe aligned and said hey ABS we're not going to cheat on you today here take this gift on a silver platter I was on ebay looking for old non-working machines I can buy and refurb there's good money to be made doing that a one-day refurb could pull in over a thousand dollars profit he's listed my machine but contrary to his google review the description was marvellous hand-built arcade cabinet built by a master carpenter flawless finish and quality missing computer good for a DIY project I'm not a carpenter by the way he has it listed for $1,100 that was still $1100 pure profit to him since he got it free I bought it under my wife's account and had it delivered to my home address when I sent it it was wrapped in about a four inch thick layer of bubble wrap when it arrived it had a flimsy single layer less than five millimeters thick the courier who dropped it off was the same guy who picked up from me we were good friends and he knew the story so I said I was going to damage it make it look serious but nothing I can't fix in a few minutes he agreed and said that he logged the damage as due to insufficient packaging insurance won't cover it I knocked the panels out from the inside so it looked like the machine had been crushed realistically I only had to reset the screws and it was good as new but it looked mangled that I sent Melbourne head the pics and complained about the damage he said it was insured I advised him the courier said it was insufficiently packaged and that it's not covered I want a refund take this back I knew he wouldn't take it back it was totally useless to him he said he didn't want it and he'll refund the freight I said nope I can't do anything with a damaged machine if he doesn't do anything I'm filing a paypal dispute under item not as described he wasn't happy played the victim played on my sympathy still not realizing who I was eventually after offering me partial refunds and getting rejected he relented and told me to keep it and he'd refund me in full he must have realized that his greed wasn't worth it and it cost him nothing so now I had my machine back and I was happy this was over with still pissed at this guy's audacity but man that's not the end though it gets better Oh does it get deliciously better someone at PayPal business had finally read my complaint since I do a lot of work through PayPal under a business account there's kind of a concierge service although not really kind of like a priority service they actually went through my complaint verified that his pickup docket was actually a year old and unrelated and read the transcripts of him intending to keep the Machine and get a refund they refunded my money in full now I had my machine back and three thousand dollars of his money and he couldn't do [ __ ] because he got caught for fraud can't dispute if you got caught being dishonest he called me up losing his I laughed and said sorry mate it's Karma it's purely up to my goodwill to refund you go suck a doorknob he pleaded and begged swore a lot pleaded more and I said I'll think about it legally he had no leg to stand on but I have scruples I donated it all to charity on his behalf I sent him the receipt he lost it some more but now there were kids with food and clothes because of his douchebag Ness eat a Michael so once I got done reading this one I realized that it was a repost from another subreddit which is our slash locked away it was originally posted by you slash Omega weapon and is a wonderful story about their interaction with this customer please go visit the original Opie at the links in the description down below and give them an upvote once again this is rob from karma comic chameleon saying thanks for watching if you enjoyed the video please hit that subscribe button drop a like and share it with your friends and we'll see you in the next one

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Length: 11min 50sec (710 seconds)

Published: Thu Feb 06 2020