The Less You Know's blog: "Car Cover Man on Ebay a complete scam"

Hi everybody.  I know I haven't been on here much lately and I know I NEVER blog but I've got something that I just gotta share with as many people as I can.

I just want to let everybody know that buying a car cover from Car Cover Man on eBay is a VERY BAD idea.  This company is currently working on eBay with at least two different accounts (carcoverman & worldoutletcenter) selling car covers and who knows what else. 

http://shop.ebay.com/i.html?_nkw=S%26S+hearse+cover&_sacat=0&_odkw=S%26S+hearse&_osacat=0&bkBtn=&_trksid=p3286.m270.l1313

CHECK THEIR NEGATIVE FEEDBACK ON eBAY!  They may be great if you need an indoor dust cover but that's all you're going to get and it may or may not fit your car.

They've got a fairly good eBay page (if you don't look to close) and they advertise a really great product.  I needed a cover for the 1988 Cadillac Hearse that I bought in April and they said they could get me one for a ridiculously reasonable price.  That should have been my first clue, but I figured they weren't running a lot of overhead so what the Hell.  I needed something to keep the sun and rain off my vinyl roof while I find a carport for this thing and this one was only 40 bucks, so I called their 800 number to ask a question about the cover and they were nice enough to take my order over the phone avoiding all the eBay hassles.  HUGE mistake on my part.  My only defense is that it seemed like a good idea at the time. 

On the upside, the cover arrived in about 5 days, it has some cool draw strings and it fit my hearse reasonably well.  Let me tell you, it ain't easy finding a cover for a Cadillac station wagon.  Surprisingly, Wal-Mart doesn't keep them in stock.  Unfortunately, that's all the good things I can say about it.

I bought the cover on 6-10-10 and on 7-17-10 the first tear appeared over the driver's door while I was taking it off.  The next afternoon when I went to put the cover back on a 2 foot tear appeared by the back door. Seeing how the add said it has a 20 year warranty I figured I'd call them up and get it taken care of.  Shouldn't have been a problem.

Well, after 2 days of calling and being hung-up on 5 times and 2 unanswered e-mails, I finally got to talk to someone that said he was a supervisor.  I'm not sure if he's a supervisor, but he was VERY helpful.  He told me that if I sent him another 30 bucks they should be able to send me another cover.  I asked about the warranty and he replied (and I quote) "I guess you can call Ghostbusters about the warranty."  I can only assume he thought he was being funny, 'cause he liked it so much he repeated himself.  He even tried to play the Ghostbusters' theme for me over the phone, but he got the wrong track.  As you can imagine this didn't thrill me overly much.  Call me sensitive, but I didn't see the funny.


I called back on one of the other numbers (that I got from their negative feedback on eBay) and tried talking to somebody else.  I guess I didn't get the hint, because the guy I was talking too (apparently he didn't want to get left out of the joke) transferred me back to the same guy and then walked back as they were answering the phone.  I started suspecting I wasn't going to see a refund or another cover when the theme from Ghostbusters started playing.  At least he found the right track.

Anyway, I'm in the process of trying to get my money from the credit card company, I've slapped some Duct Tape on the incredible dissolving car cover in an attempt to keep the sun and weather off until I can get a carport and I'm fighting the urge to drive to LA and park a 5000 lb car on somebody's chest.

If you read this and still buy a car cover from these people don't say I didn't warn you.