dibbb
join:2003-09-19
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| reply to caddyroger
Re: eBay Listing Removed
Something similar happened to me a couple of days ago. I placed a bid on a camcorder, the seller had excellent high feedback.
The auction was 5 days long, into the 3rd day the auction was cancelled.
Not sure why, probably a hacked account, but whatever the reason I'm just glad it was cancelled before I won the auction.
Just be glad you haven't paid anything yet. You haven't right? |
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caddyroger
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join:2001-06-11
Graham, WA
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| said by dibbb  :Something similar happened to me a couple of days ago. I placed a bid on a camcorder, the seller had excellent high feedback. The auction was 5 days long, into the 3rd day the auction was cancelled. Not sure why, probably a hacked account, but whatever the reason I'm just glad it was cancelled before I won the auction. Just be glad you haven't paid anything yet. You haven't right? Yes they been paid in the tune of $151.89 on 8/30. That what botheruing me.
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dibbb
join:2003-09-19
·Time Warner VOIP
| Contact ebay support immediately and start the LONG process of recovering whatever money you can.
About 6 years ago we got scammed on a $600 item, we got quite a bit of it back from eBay, not sure exactly what percent though.
Good luck! |
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said by caddyroger :Yes they been paid in the tune of $151.89 on 8/30. That what botheruing me. When you say "they've been paid," how did you fund your PayPal account? With a PayPal balance? From a bank account?
I ask because the best way to fund your PayPal payments is via credit card. That way, if PayPal can't/won't refund your money, you can simply do a chargeback.
From what I've been told, PayPal will not close your PayPal account after a chargeback if you first file a dispute, which gives them a chance to try to recover the funds from the seller, first. But you want the ability to do a chargeback as a last resort because otherwise you're entirely at the mercy of PayPal.
Of course, one of the more irritating aspects of PayPal is that they do their best to talk users out of funding payments with a credit card. You have to go through this completely stupid rigamarole to not only indicate that, yes, you want to pay via CC, (this after you've already told them so) but then PayPal wastes even more time by making you click through a page of the entirely nonexistent "advantages" of using a bank account rather than a CC.
This despite the fact that only PayPal actually benefits from your using a PayPal balance/bank account to fund a purchase. A CC-funded purchase means they have to pay a merchant fee to the CC company (the horror!).
At any rate, you really do not want to use PayPal in conjunction with anything other than a Credit Card if you can help it. Otherwise, if PayPal doesn't give you back your money, you are going to be SOL. |
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caddyroger
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join:2001-06-11
Graham, WA | I used a credit card so I will have other option if paypal fails.
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