By far the most common is the classic bait & switch. Buyer would order from a website showing a cadre of item for sale, but regardless of what was ordered seller sends a worthless item. Naturally buyer files dispute but seller demands return of item, at buyer expense, before refund. Returning a package (usually to China) costs more than the original purchase price in most cases and of course buyer won't do it. Thus seller wins. PayPal's policy allows that to happen, repeated thousands of times over several years (earliest case I'd read is dated 2016, that's just me). A variation of this scam is where the seller sends the trinket to another address in the same zip code as buyer but not the correct address. Buyer at first files item not received dispute but then seller provides tracking number and shows something was delivered and PP accepts that as seller fulfillment. If buyer appeals the burden is on buyer to prove he didn't receive item. The prove consist of internal shipping documents shippers won't provide. Usually buyer gives up and again seller wins. I can go on and on. And you can read thru the threads here for good bedtime reading. Literally everyone knows PP is complicit with the scammers, offers zero purchase protection, and sometimes hand out rulings that are truly ridiculous, recently I read of a case where buyer ordered a metal bbq smoker, got a face mask, and PP, ruled that the buyer got what he ordered because the two items are "materially similar". It's sad and hilarious at the same time. And of course the victim wouldn't think it funny at all. That was a real case.
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