I found a lens being sold online by a person in Florida and asked questions about it. Someone claiming to be the 'owner' of the lens emailed me and sent me a paypal invoice to pay for goods and services. I paid and received notification that something was shipped on Tuesday. I asked the seller if they could provide tracking. He said 'my wife accidentally send you a package that should be send to another address, no worry, you can accept the package and make it yours' (bad English). I realized this package was coming from Connecticut and NOT Florida. So I reached out to the person who made the original post on the forum and asked if this email was in fact his. He responded that this was Not his email and that he already sold the lens to someone else! So the person I have been emailing is NOT the real owner and does NOT have the lens! I just received the sellers suspicious package today - and it was a thin package smaller than an envelope with two half dollar Libre coins inside!! I took photos of Everything and sent it to Paypal.
I've escalated it to a claim and got Paypal involved. But they didn't seem to have even looked at my story or my photos of the tiny package or our conversations I've sent them. Instead they told me I must ship the package back to the address specified in the dispute: THAILAND.
This is Obviously a 100% scam. Why am I being asked to return this item to THAILAND when they shipped it from Connecticut!? No doubt this is a set up and a scam. I will be out $730 if this does not get resolved. I have been a loyal upstanding customer of Paypal for So many years, yet I can't even seem to get onto a real person at Paypal. What do I do next?
