Comments | unteins: How to Steal from an Ebay Seller

unteins

How to Steal from an Ebay Seller

Sep 01, 2009 22:33

Well, my recent experience with PayPal (Sucks) has taught me how to steal any item from any Ebay seller in a few easy steps. I will share the step by step guide here (thanks PayPal (Sucks) for making it so easy) and then explain the situation ( Read more... )

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maddogairpirate September 2 2009, 11:11:39 UTC

If you have that part about the 8 lbs. and the consequential shipping costs, I'd fight it tooth and nail with Paypal, pointing out that either it was removed in the mail or the seller took it.

I'd very much like to see the box, honestly. To look for telltale clues as to whether the box was opened once or twice.

Bitch please anonymous September 18 2009, 18:47:09 UTC

I think it is just luck of the draw. Most of the time, you get a good buyer. I do both buy and sell. But every so often a buyer (so, Paypal) burns me, so I burn someone else. It sucks for the random seller that I choose, but that's part of the game. They can do everything right and still get screwed. And if someone ships me something with no tracking, I 'never received it,' and *cha-ching* money and item in hand. I can count on one hand how many tims I've done it though, and it's very few and far between. Don't want to risk my account, y'know. I also have 100% positive feedback. Paypal is unfair, so pay-it-forward

anonymous February 26 2012, 11:43:28 UTC

This website is teaching thousands of buyers how to rip off sellers... They didn't know before but YOU just taught them what to do step by step.

Thanks for making the problem worse.

unteins February 26 2012, 15:56:27 UTC

It also warns sellers about the dangers of using PayPal as an intermediary. In fact, that's what it says right at the bottom. The only way to get PayPal to address this problem is to make the problem BIGGER. If it only hurts one or two people, PayPal won't change and sellers will keep getting ripped off. However, I highly doubt many people ever find this page (though, obviously the number is more than zero).

At the end of the day the issue isn't that this post explains how PayPal's (completely incompetent) dispute resolution works and how an unscrupulous buyer can exploit it. The problem is that PayPal pretends to be a way to make sure buyer and seller are protected in a long distance financial transaction, but in reality PayPal has unrestricted access to take your money and there is nothing you can do about it.

I don't use PayPal to sell things anymore, because the risks are too high.