I’ve found that you get both good and bad experiences with E-Bay. Sometimes you get very good experiences and things turn out well, and then other times you get someone who lies, cheats, and attempts to steal from you. Apparently I’ve run into the latter type person recently. I purchased a dehumidifier from a dude in SC who has an e-bay store called Wheeler World. If you are ever looking at anything on E-Bay and you come across an item being sold by the store Wheeler World or by the user second_chance_tools then might I suggest making good use of the back button on your browser because this has been one of the worst E-Bay experiences I have had yet.

I bought this dehumidifier from this guy who said its a new or slightly used item and that he plugged it in and it works perfectly. I looked at his ratings and he has a good rating on E-Bay and lots of other people bought dehumidifiers with seemingly no problems and thus I decided that this looks like a good deal to me and I bid on the item. I asked him to ship it right away and eight days later I had to e-mail him again to see why it wasn’t shipped. Apparently he forgot… so eight days after purchasing the item it was finally shipped to me. I took it over to my house, plugged it in, and heard one of the most awful squealing rackets known to man. I pulled the back of the dehumidifier off to look at it and the fan is hanging down and the fan motor is so loose that you can jiggle it up and down. I took the whole thing apart, tightened the fan motor, and tried again. Fan doesn’t work. Doesn’t kick on or anything and the compressor still squeals like mad.

So, I e-mailed the guy about it and he wants to just send me another fan and fan motor so that I can take it all apart a second time and install the fan motor. This is a whole lot of trouble for something that was said to work. I’ve e-mailed him and asked him if I could just ship it back and get my money back and we will see what he has to say about that. My guess, the answer is no… but we will see.