I responded to an ad on facebook to pay $99 for an 8x12 shed. Very shortly after paying (like, five minutes), I realized it was a scam and tried to cancel the transaction while it was still pending, even tried chatting with someone from paypal Help to cancel it for me, but said they couldn’t. So I followed their advice and filed a dispute instead and resolved myself to wait 20 days so it could be escalated to a claim. The seller had somehow faked a delivery confirmation the same day the order was placed, saying that it’s been delivered in my mailbox (bear in mind this is a shed we’re talking about, a BUILDING, delivered in a few hours, in a mailbox it said). This was about a week ago, but suddenly I get two emails: another phony delivery confirmation done through paypal saying the shed has been delivered (it has not, something like that would be VERY hard to miss), and an email from paypal saying that the seller somehow escalated my dispute to a claim, and that paypal denied my claim and closed it. And apparently I can’t reopen my claim or get any answers from paypal or talk to anybody further about it. Please help! What can I do?
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