need help (got scammed?)

shadow81
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 Some one help I dont know what to do. My kid sold his ps3 on ebay, to a guy that resently opend his ebay account who lives in Britan but wanted it mail to South Africa as a birthday present to his son,  my kid got an email from paypal saying that the money had been deducted from the buyers account and approved but was not going to get deposited to his account until the shipping tracking number was sent to the buyer so I went with him to mail the ps3 but after emailing the guy with the information we never got the money, now its been a couple of weeks since then and the guy closed his ebay account  is there anything we can do to get  reimbursed or force the guy to send the item back .

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surplusdealdude
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No, sorry, after a couple of weeks, that guy is long gone and so is your ps3.

 

The email you got wan't from paypal - it was a fake - we;ve seen a lot of them around here.

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surplusdealdude
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BTW, he didn't 'close' his ebay account - ebay booted him out.

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