Word of Warning to anyone selling on ebay/paypal! Read my story! dont let it happen to you!

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ryu1

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Ok so Long story short, I ordered a mech mod clone off of FT and in the month it took for me to get it, I ended up buying another mod. So when I got the FT clone mod I decided to sell it on Ebay. I have been selling on ebay for the past year so my feedback is 100% positive as a seller and buyer.
I take it out, take pictures and wrap it back up.
I end up selling the mod to a guy, he pays me via paypal, and I ship it out.
As soon as he gets it he claims it is scratched up and it is used. I tell him that I only took it out for pictures and sent it to him, nothing more. HE then starts telling me it wont even fire and that I sold him a bunk mod. Ok, maybe it was a bad mod. I tell him to send it back to me and Ill refund his money, no problem. HE replies" no man im going to report this, youre not ripping me off twice." So he opens a case with Ebay. Ebay gives me a few options, one of them being refunding the money when he sends the mod back. I choose that one. They say to wait until the item is delivered to refund the money, so I do.
Well last night I received the package and open it. What do I find inside? yep, NOT the mod, but a piece of metal!!!! It weighs about the same as the mod, and he even wrapped it up in bubble wrap.
SO I immediately report it to EBay and message the guy saying I wont be giving him his refund. Well he sends back some smart remark and escalates the case with Ebay. They(Ebay) emailed me some canned message saying the case was decided in favor of the buyer and they refunded the buyer because tracking shows the item was delivered back to me!!
Now im out my money and no mod! Thank goodness it wasn't a $200 high end mod, but still.
So basically Ebay will always side with the buyer! Be careful sellers! Im sure most buyers and sellers are honest but be careful if right away someone starts claiming broken/used item.I wish I would have opened his package in the presence of a postal employee or someone "official"
am I allowed to post this guys ebay ID? I don't want him to do this to any of you guys selling here because he is obviously interested in mech mods and E cig stuff....
 

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Too bad there isn't somewhere to make reports about customers; this guy seemed to know what he was doing and probably does it a lot. I don't use ebay so I don't know but I do use paypal and had a similar experience where someone made a bogus complaint against me but luckily it was just $30 so I returned the money rather than mess up my paypal reputation.
 

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Call eBay .. they actually do keep track of buyers that have filed these sort of things before .. if eBay detects a problem with the buyer, they will help you out and possibly ban the buyer ..

This sort of thing is not exclusive to eBay .. any buyer can file a dispute with their credit card company and the company generally sides with the buyer ..

If you don't follow up, of course they will do nothing .. the problem is many sellers on lower priced items just throw in the towel and the buyers get away with it ..
 

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One of the many reasons i quit selling/buying on ebay. They also own paypal so when they take a cut on ebay and paypal, its going into the same pocket. so of course they are gonna side with the buyer. Thats their bread and butter. Craigslist works a ton better for me. No shipping/packaging to have to worry about and its Cash In Hand right now!!! Sorry you got screwed on that!! its bs IMHO but whatcha gonna do?!?
 

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ryu1

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Yea I reported the buyer to eBay so we will see. I'm not sure it will do much unless there is records of him doing it to other sellers. Let's hope so!
His profile has positive buyer ratings so I'm not sure why he suddenly decided to do this now. Or maybe he picks and chooses. Probably small items where the seller won't make much fuss.
I'm not sure what else to do besides filing a police report?then I could have something to show to eBay , but even then I should have waited to open it!! 20/20 hindsight right? Oh well I'll know better next time.
If there is a next time. This whole thing really turned me off to eBay.
And yes I will gladly post his eBay ID if I'm allowed to! Not sure the rules regarding that..
 

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I had a recording/live show gear, guitars and bass store on ebay for years, 100's of sales always stayed at 100% positive, this exact BS happened to me right after they made some policy change, closed the store and never looked back, I refuse to even look at something on ebay anymore, if ebay is the only place to buy something, then I will go without. Hate that place now.
 
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ryu1

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Thanks I def will get my post count up and sell/buy here! Ok so for every eBay seller that reads this, do yourself a favor and block this guy from bidding on any of your items. Please go do this now so you won't have to deal with this bs later! His eBay id is: (ID REMOVED)


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