It appears that there is a major loophole in buyer protections. Businesses can mail a small fake package (too small to contain a purchased item) to an incorrect address in the same shipping zip code as the buyer's mailing address. The item gets marked as 'delivered' though nothing actually ends up getting delivered. Paypal doesn't seem to have a mechanism for dealing with this situation. In trying to get a refund ticket through it can't get beyond the 'delivered' status. It seems crazy to me that Paypal can't enforce a refund when an item is shipped (probably on purpose) to the incorrect address.
Has anyone else dealt with this? Is it a newly rising form of eCommence scamming? I'd always felt like I could trust paypal on buyer protections, but it may be falling behind the curve on this one.
