While I will agree that there are probably a lot of buyer's that work the system and that's probably how they make their living, that does not make them elitism. That term is reserved for a different group. Perhap's you feel that anyone that does not agree with you or those that speak eloquently is elite. Fact is that there are Ebay seller's that have some of the same fraudulent issues. I myself have experienced that nasty side as well. Seller's that send wrong item's and then use the tracking number as proof of delivery. My claim was denied by Ebay/Paypal for this reason. You are right, there is no Seller's protection. I purchased an item and received a totally different item than what I bid on. Seller told me that another buyer' had my item and we had theirs. I emailed back and forth for 2 week's and the seller would not resolve the issue. I went through the dispute process all the while receiving email's from the seller laughing at me saying that he would win and I would lose. The problem for him was he never acted like a real Ebay seller by trying to resolve the issue, he just refused. I told him he would soon learn a valuable lesson about resolving issues and charge backs. Ebay/Paypal decided in his favor and he sent me another email again laughing and saying that I guess Ebay saw it in his favor. I told him I would appeal with Ebay/Paypal and wait for the decision to be overturned because I had Ebay email's where he told me someone else had my item and if Ebay was too stupid to read all the correspondence and found in his favor again, I would file dispute/charge back with my bank. All I want is the item I paid for and send me a return label to return this wrong item. He refused and said good luck there is no appealing the Ebay decision and it is illegal to handle this outside of Ebay. I laughed and told him he obviously does not know too much about Ebay or the financial world. I won my appeal, but it took so long with Ebay/Paypal that I actually filed charge back with my bank. In the end I don't think he was laughing anymore. I am sorry for the buyer's that are fraudulent with their intentions, but there are many of us buyer's that are honest and have been ripped off before. I buy most of my stuff on Amazon for this reason because I have never had a problem that a seller did not resolve. Living in the U.S. and being a citizen allow's you the freedom to refuse business to anyone. While Ebay might promote selling internationally it is in the end the seller's responsibility to say, sorry no international orders, thus preventing this issue from occurring.
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