BUYER BEWARE! Keep a copy of every correspondence with your seller/buyer until the entire deal has cleared! I recently bought a part from sekedahl, an air conditioner unit for an old Buick, which I thought would be a great addition to our car. The picture on the ad looked great, and he had a perfect record (100% feedback) so I figured it was a safe deal. I requested, and was assured via email that the part had been shipped and insured. About 3 weeks later after numerous emails, and countless excuses the part showed up on my doorstep, literaly in a tattered and crushed box that showed that it had been in at least 3 other mailings as the postage and addresses were still on it. Shipping charges were almost 32 dollars, of which about 29 dollars paid for the actual postage. I assumed the rest was for insurance. Was I ever wrong! I guess the seller decided to make a few extra bucks on the part and not insure it. Needless to say, his packaging was LESS than perfect for a 3000 mile trip and the part came in broken. There was a 3/4 inch piece of foam on top and bottom of the unit, and it was wrapped in a paper sheet about 6 feet long that was about as thick as printer paper. His excuses were plenty, ranging from confusing me with another buyer to he never said he would insure the package, despite my returning him copies of all our emails. Sedekahl refused to listen to any reason, insisting, either I had broken the part after I had received it, or that i was trying to “scam” him by trading a broken one that I had here. He even wanted me to ship him back the part at my own expense and after he reviewed it, he would decide if I had pulled anything over on him. Now after all the insults and digs not to mention what it took to actually get him to send the thing in the first place, I was not going to trust him any further by sending the part at my expense back to him, like mama says, fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice, shame on me. After 5 weeks of trying to rationalize with him, I finally got an email from him stating, kiss my a** and go through , which of course I did. I immediately posted negative feedback and after a short while paypal posted a judgement against sedekahl and awarded me all of the money and the postage back from the seller. They even reimburssed me for the return postage to california, which, when packaged correctly, cost me 36 dollars, (another way sekedahl found to save money, dont use a lot of foam or a thick box, it increases shipping costs). As it turned out, I was very fortunate that I came out that this blunder by sedakahl costing me nothing, and, as a matter of fact, since he refused to sign for the part on return, they shipped me back the part too! Now it sits on my shelf as a trophy reminder of how not to conduct business on . The saddest part is, that because I chose to use the explitive that he wrote to me as part of his feedback, struck my negative feedback to him from the record, without a chance to rewrite anything, so this you should be VERY careful of watching if you dont want your negative feedback to be expunged. I have since found out that he has had this done to 2 others besides myself (of course, it was their fault according to his emails to me) , so I suggest that you be very careful with your dealings with Sedekahl.



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