Quick question for the group... Im hoping someone has dealt with this user and can assure me it will be alright.
I just payed for a pneumatic squeezer from eBay and having been burned once in the past by PayPal I'm quick to thinking I may be getting screwed again. I've been an active member on eBay for 9 years and during that time I have bought and sold many items but I generally never use PayPal. The last time I did I accepted payment on an item and shipped it out.. 2 days after shipping the item the buyer pulled their money back out of PayPal, got the item I shipped and PayPal decided I owed them for this mess ($400 USD). Needless to say I am underwhelmed by their ability to protect the seller.
Flash forward to now. Im the buyer of an item and the seller only uses PayPal. Which seems to be a trend these days. I payed the user from my account and am now waiting to get the item in the mail. The seller provided me with a USPS tracking number but as is the case with self printed labels, you can print them out and have a number before you ship something. I was told it would ship yesterday when I received the number Tuesday morning. As of this morning I am still not seeing the tracking number showing up on the USPS website.
Now it is the USPS so I have to take it with a grain of salt. It could be just getting into the system there and may show up soon. However I am now getting this sinking feeling that I may have made a mistake in trusting this to happen. The user account on eBay is now no longer active. This user account I bought from had 50 positive feedbacks and was active since 2002. It seems to me a waste to delete an account for $225 dollars but I guess it is possible. Also, Im not getting much communication other than it was going to be sent out on Wednesday. The users PayPal account also shows positive transactions...
Has anyone else had this kind of experience buying air tools on eBay? I say only air tools as this person seems to have been selling a lot of different tools at one point. Im hoping this is my own insecurity on this and Im not trying to slander anyone, I just wanted to see if anyone could help put my mind at ease. I pulled the username from this as I decided I should keep that out till I know this to be a scam.
Thanks,
Josh
I just payed for a pneumatic squeezer from eBay and having been burned once in the past by PayPal I'm quick to thinking I may be getting screwed again. I've been an active member on eBay for 9 years and during that time I have bought and sold many items but I generally never use PayPal. The last time I did I accepted payment on an item and shipped it out.. 2 days after shipping the item the buyer pulled their money back out of PayPal, got the item I shipped and PayPal decided I owed them for this mess ($400 USD). Needless to say I am underwhelmed by their ability to protect the seller.
Flash forward to now. Im the buyer of an item and the seller only uses PayPal. Which seems to be a trend these days. I payed the user from my account and am now waiting to get the item in the mail. The seller provided me with a USPS tracking number but as is the case with self printed labels, you can print them out and have a number before you ship something. I was told it would ship yesterday when I received the number Tuesday morning. As of this morning I am still not seeing the tracking number showing up on the USPS website.
Now it is the USPS so I have to take it with a grain of salt. It could be just getting into the system there and may show up soon. However I am now getting this sinking feeling that I may have made a mistake in trusting this to happen. The user account on eBay is now no longer active. This user account I bought from had 50 positive feedbacks and was active since 2002. It seems to me a waste to delete an account for $225 dollars but I guess it is possible. Also, Im not getting much communication other than it was going to be sent out on Wednesday. The users PayPal account also shows positive transactions...
Has anyone else had this kind of experience buying air tools on eBay? I say only air tools as this person seems to have been selling a lot of different tools at one point. Im hoping this is my own insecurity on this and Im not trying to slander anyone, I just wanted to see if anyone could help put my mind at ease. I pulled the username from this as I decided I should keep that out till I know this to be a scam.
Thanks,
Josh
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