New Stihl saws on eBay

[Chris J.]

Anybody know what's the deal with seller ferraribrian? Is he buying retail, then reselling? All I know is he's got quite a few saws listed.

And, no, I'm not trying to encourage anyone to buy a new Stihl via eBayware. I took a good cyberbeating the last time I even suggested it.

 

[computeruser]

I seem to recall some discusison on here about that guy a while back. Nothing good was said, if I recall...

 

[fishhuntcutwood]

Yeah, we talked about this a while ago. He claims to have bought too many of them for his company or something like that, but man, he must have bought like 200 of each. I'm sure they're fine saws, but something just doesn't look right to me...

http://www.arboristsite.com/showthread.php?t=22014&highlight=ferraribrian

Jeff

 

[pyromaniac guy]

yeah, that thread has both good and bad things to say about him

 

[Chris J.]

Thanks! I now remember reading that. Duh, me, should've searched before I started a thread.

 

[Vman]

i just looked at some of his stuff and noticed he does not take Paypal anymore, but he used to...after reading some of his feedback, it seems PayPal has had to take action on him a few times...so my guess is he don't want PayPal keeping him on the "straight and narrow".
and that is just my opinion.

 

[fishhuntcutwood]

I think I mentioned this in the other thread, I'm not sure, but alot of his verbage in his listing leaves alot to be desired. He seems coarse, and unwilling to work with a potential buyer. It's the main reason I was turned off by his auctions. His payment requirements were pretty hardline and seems uninviting. He may have changed, as I haven't looked at one of his auctions for quite some time, but dumping PayPal isn't a step in the right direction for inviting buyers.

Jeff

 

[Lawn Masters]

did anyone notice the listing on his MS260s? the stock picture is a homeowners model, not a 260. this alone is a MASSIVE red flag to me. same picture for his 390s, and 460s.

 

[Lakeside53]

He's dropped the "bought too many" and now just says "bought three days ago from a dealer". I emailed him and asked about the warranty, told him him was wrong about the 2 years part, and he just blew me off with "warranty follows the serial number - take it to any dealer". Other then misrepresentng the warranty he's not doing anything illegal, but the dealer is (breach of his contract with Stihl). Stihl gives a dealer selling iproduct in boxes ONE chance now, and cuts them off. Big dealership in Florida has theirs taken away earlier this year. They have a guy that watches the INTERNET and other advertising, and buys stihl products to trace them back to the dealer.

 

[Diesel JD]

I saw some new Stihl stuffon evil bay but I thought the guy siad he had bought stuff from a dealer that went out of business. I think the only way one could get new Stihl stuff to sell ata profit online would be 1) they stole it 2) they bought out a dealer when liquidating...but is the dealer supposed to sell all that stuff abck to Stihl if they decidee to get out of the business? I didn't know that they weren't allowed to give you a saw in the bos, only that neither of my dealers do and I've bought three new stihls, all came already started, gassed up and spec'ed as I wanted them.
JD

 

[Lakeside53]

There are a few dealers that for some small profit would like to sell as many units as possible), particularly if they are just handing the boxes over to someone else (definitely not allowed - even the warranty form has boxes to check for chain type, bar type, demonstration, etc etc). I figure he's getting them at 5-10% above dealer cost (based on his "reserve price"). Much as we all like cheaper saws, Home Depot support and sales is not what we need.

 

[Vman]

this is what i suspect after i looked at the guys feedback, saw the numerous machine products he sells, along with many late deliveries.....
i think he gets the bid-winners money, compiles the cash over a week or two, than goes and buys in quantity to obtain discounts...than ships to the buyers. in other words..he is offering the items and don't even have them on hand, he buys them later after several auctions are over, he makes a little profit on each auction but has alot of auctions.....this would account for alot of people complaining about the 3 to 4+ week delivery time.
he may even be a dealer to obtain dealer prices, and this is his way to move alot of products without being "out of bounds" with stihl's policy.

 

[spacemule]

I'll bet PayPal suspended the guy's account. I looked through his first two pages of feedback, and I found two items that PayPal gave refunds on to buyers.

 

[Chris J.]

Vman, I got the same impression when I read his feedback: Get the money first, then buy the product, and then ship it. I wonder how many buyers have tried to register the warranty on their new Stihl saws from this seller? I might tag him as a favorite seller, and see how long he keeps selling new Stihl saws.

 

[West Texas]

Took me forever to get a Stihl bar from him that I bought for the 'opening bid.' Finally, after saying I was going to PayPal he shipped me a 'second' one he said. ha! So over three weeks after paying for it, it arrived. Gotta read the feedback and the shipping charges both on ebay before bidding.

 

[fishhuntcutwood]

I might tag him as a favorite seller, and see how long he keeps selling new Stihl saws.

Can somebody report him or something? I think he's doing a disservice to folks buying what they think is a new Stihl with a full warrantee, and that's gotta reflect badly on Stihl.

Jeff

 

[BlueRidgeMark]

the dealer is (breach of his contract with Stihl). Stihl gives a dealer selling iproduct in boxes ONE chance now, and cuts them off. Big dealership in Florida has theirs taken away earlier this year. They have a guy that watches the INTERNET and other advertising, and buys stihl products to trace them back to the dealer.

If so, they'll be on to this guy pretty quick. It's not like he's hard to find!

 

[neverenough]

I saw some new Stihl stuffon evil bay but I thought the guy siad he had bought stuff from a dealer that went out of business. I think the only way one could get new Stihl stuff to sell ata profit online would be 1) they stole it 2) they bought out a dealer when liquidating...but is the dealer supposed to sell all that stuff abck to Stihl if they decidee to get out of the business? I didn't know that they weren't allowed to give you a saw in the bos, only that neither of my dealers do and I've bought three new stihls, all came already started, gassed up and spec'ed as I wanted them.
JD

One of my 036's was drop shipped right to my door. Box was never opened or seen by the dealer.

 

[neverenough]

I saw some new Stihl stuffon evil bay but I thought the guy siad he had bought stuff from a dealer that went out of business. I think the only way one could get new Stihl stuff to sell ata profit online would be 1) they stole it 2) they bought out a dealer when liquidating...but is the dealer supposed to sell all that stuff abck to Stihl if they decidee to get out of the business? I didn't know that they weren't allowed to give you a saw in the bos, only that neither of my dealers do and I've bought three new stihls, all came already started, gassed up and spec'ed as I wanted them.
JD

One of my 036's was drop shipped right to my door. Box was never opened or seen by the dealer. Lot's of myths out here about Stihl and their dealers. Like it was said out here before, dealers cans sell the saws cheaper if they want to, but why?? Stihl does like to keep tight reigns on the prices, especially the smaller models, but a dealer is more than welcome to give their "best customers" a little deal if they want to.

 

[buckduck]

The guy can't be all that bad. He does have over 600 totally satisfied customers. Me, being one of them. For the longest time, all he had for sale were 460's and 390's. I had been watching him and decided that if he ever put a 260 up for sale, I would buy it. The second week of July he offered two 260's at $295 Buy-It-Now. I bought one immediately! (now, I wished I'd bought them both) Don't remember how long it took to to receive, but it was certainly timely. A week, I think. It's a great saw. Brand new. The next group of 260's he put up was for $325 and is now selling them at $395 Buy-It-Now.

It does look like he's been arguing with folks lately, but if you'll notice, all of them have very few feedbacks... so, it could be as much them being the problem. ... I just noticed he's gotten another one today - (0) feedbacks. It is odd.

I know that if I were in the market for a 460 I wouldn't hesitate to buy one of his. (I'd like to have one, but I have a 440 and a 660.... and Dean's 460 modified 'west coast' saw is more tempting) Ferraribrian's got the best deal going on his 460's. He's getting less than I paid for my 440.

It is an odd situation with him starting out claiming to have bought too many saws for his business (wait.... unless his business was selling saws! Anyone remember if he ever referred to his actually CUTTING something with any of these saws in his 'business'? That's it... he'd bought too many saws to SELL and needed to get rid of them! Makes sense to me.) With ebay, you're always taking a chance and one has to research as much as you can and go with your gut reaction. I must admit, I would be a bit more Leery now than two months before, but would still buy from him.