I was recently the victim of a scam on Ebay. The seller had almost perfect feedback for several years. I made a purchase from them and received a tracking number. A couple days later tracking showed the product arrived, when I got home nothing. I have a camera system and my family was home due to COVID. I contacted UPS and they confirmed the package was not addressed to my house but they would not tell me where it went since I mentioned it might be a scam. Long story short I checked the sellers feedback again and the next 2 pages of feedback all report the same. The seller account was now fraudulent and he would send an empty UPS envelope to a residence near by the sellers home so that I valid tracking number would be sent to the buyer. I was very thorough with my explanation to Pay Pal, documenting what UPS showed, what was going on, and most importantly the fact that 50 or more people reported the exact same complaint against this seller. Ebay even recognized the account was now fraudulent and shut it down. When the seller was contacted and asked for "his side of the story" all he did was respond with a tracking number, no other explanation of verbiage. Pay Pal eventually ruled that since the seller proved delivery that my dispute was declined. Ebay is telling me that since I contacted Pay Pal first that they cannot do anything. If anybody from Pay Pay would have taken 1 minute to read the information I provided and more importantly looked at the sellers recent Ebay feedback it is obvious the sellers was scamming people. I had always used Pay Pal thinking I had some protection, needless to say I am very disappointed in this entire process and how it was handled from start to finish.
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