Important message Partsladi problems

[GOLDCYLON]

I saw this over at the other forum posted up from another member. This is true cut and paste. I post this as a lot of fokls on here buy from this seller

For a long time ebay seller "thepartsladi" has sold GM parts very cheap with reliable service. I bought several hundred dollars in parts over the last year or 2 for my '85 restoration in fact.

May 2 of this year I bought another part and the next day I got a shipping notification from UPS that they had created the label. Generally by end of that day UPS has scanned items into their system and it begins moving.

Days go by and the tracking still shows "billing info received" which means the label was created but the item was not given to UPS yet.

Emails to the seller via ebay go unanswered. Then I get an automated vacation notice from the ebay system stating that this seller is "out of the office" until May 31 and that no orders are being taken or shipped during that time.

I immediately filed a buyer protection claim of course.

I also checked their store, and there are zero items for sale. Usually there are thousands.

I then go check their recent feedback and am astounded to find about 50 negatives in the last week and a half or so. Apparently lots of people paid but never received items, and were unable to contact the seller.

A few days later I check the feedbacks again. I see some replies from thepartsladi, all saying the same thing. "BUS WAS BT HUSBAND(SPW)&TPL.TPL PD SPW & SPW W/N SHIP I WILL SHIP OR REFUND"

What I can translate of that is "business was between husband specialty parts warehouse and ThePartsLadi. ThePartsLadi paid SPW, and SPW will not ship. I will ship or refund.".

So then I notice another seller "thepartspros" is selling some of the same items that "thepartsladi" used to. I pulled up one listing from each and the font, the language, the terms of sale, the addresses, even the contact names are all identical.

Further research shows that "thepartspros" ebay user ID is a recent name change. Prior to May 10, the account was "specialty_parts_warehouse" which never listed or sold any items. Now suddenly within the past week there are 9500 items. SPW is the same location that shipped all the parts for "thepartsladi" in months past.

Another user posted this apparent response from "thepartspros" when asked about the situation.

"We are not Affiliated with Thepartsladi in any way, shape, or form, We drop shipped parts for Thepartsladi for a few years. She bought the parts from us and has been cut off for not paying her bills. We have acquired the listing that she had listed on eBay and are selling them direct to Consumers instead of selling them through another company. We have started our own eBay account!
thanks

Thepartspros"

I call shenanigans. "Thepartsladi" and "Thepartspros" are the same seller. There's no other explanation. If her supplier had truly cut her off for non payment, divorce, or some such other, then she could no longer be selling all these parts. And if it were the supplier/other vendor who were selling the parts directly bypassing her completely, then they would never use the same address/phone number nor would they use exact copy and pastes from her old auctions.

My best guess is that for whatever reason she cut ties with the old user account, failed to ship those items, and in some cases had items that had been shipped out rerouted by UPS back instead of delivering to the customer. Then moved all the listings to the new account and continued business as usual.

[VetteMed]

I raised red flags with my fuel pump issues last year, their policies were never consistent with that of a true authorized acdelco dealer... Nobody really cared to listen because cheap is king. Guess some folks had to learn the hard way.

[GOLDCYLON]

Originally Posted by VetteMed

I raised red flags with my fuel pump issues last year, their policies were never consistent with that of a true authorized acdelco dealer... Nobody really cared to listen because cheap is king. Guess some folks had to learn the hard way.

I remembered that. I remember looking in my garage for the box to ship yours back. That was a bs situation as well Andrew

[Ltfive]

Thanks for the heads up!

[C1ANDZR1]

Good info. I bought my new antenna assembly from them a few months ago, had a smooth transaction, but now I might look elsewhere.

[Ccmano]

That explains why I'm still waiting for 2 parts 10 days after order was placed and credit card charged. Looks like I have a problem. Like many I've done business with them before and never had a problem. Thanks for the heads up.

What's strange, as recent as today, she is still getting positive reviews from recent transactions while negatives for non reciept of parts are still mixed in.

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[-=Jeff=-]

that sucks.. Hopefully we find another source soon...

[limey]

Looks like "Thepartspros" got yanked now too.

[GOLDCYLON]

Stay tunned.... waiting for the reincarnation

[Zr1 Destroyer]

Wow....that stinks! I have there complete drop in fuel pump as well and my car runs perfect since. I talked with them via email after I bought the pump about doing a run of DIS modules and they(thepartslady) said it was in the works.......I hope this doesn't change that!