Fraudulent Seller Alert on Ebay - scam being run but protected by Ebay and Paypal
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bought a DVD set back in early Ocober from an Ebay seller in Thailand. Once the transaction was completed, the seller along with Ebay sent an estimated delivery date that was 60 days from the close of the auction. The item was never delivered and the seller refuses to repsond to any emails. Once 45 days have passed, you lose any ability to recover stolen funds from either Ebay or Paypal. The seller was intentionally providing an estimated delivery timeframe outside of the dispute resolution date hoping that the buyer would wait the entire estimated timeframe then have no options for recovery of stolen funds. Ebay won't honor a dispute request since the estimated delivery timeframe has not passed, but once it does pass, you can no longer open a dispute - Easy plan to fraudulently create listings you never plan on fulfilling and get protcted by those who host the fraud. The fraud is protected by Ebay and Paypl policies and their resolution center does care, or won't help with any effort to recovery the stolen funds. I don't know if I can provide the fraudulent seller's ID, but they still have listings for the exact same items open in Ebay, and have received negative feedbacks ratings since October for non-delivered goods. Pretty easy way to get money from unsuspecting and trusting buyers while having the theft of these funds protected by both Ebay and Paypal - I'm thinking the only way I'll ever see a refund is to do the same thing myself - anybody want to buy any DVD's from Thailand? - only 60 days estimated delivery - how about it ? Paypal doesn't care - you need to get ripped of within 45 days and report it for it to count - pretty shoddy.
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I would google consumer fraud on internet http://www.ftc.gov/bcp/icpw/comments/ebay.htm.
If you can't resolve it thru ebay/paypal, would contact your local police department and file a police report as well as check into filing Internet Crime Complaint http://www.ic3.gov/complaint/default.aspx

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