Are you saying that all the seller has to show is proof that he sent out a package and then Paypal will tell the buyer he is out of luck? That doesn't make sense to me on a few levels.Again, just to play devils advocate: First, who is to say there was anything in the box? What is to prevent a seller from sending an empty box, then claiming that the Hope diamond was in that box? Secondly, as a former postal employee, I know things get lost, stolen etc. within the system. It's not that the system is bad per se, just that it is so large that it is unwieldy. So if a package gets lost in the mail (or ups etc.) system, and the seller can prove he sent it, that's it, the buyer is out of luck? This just doesn't ring true to me. It seems to me that the onus is on the seller to prove that the buyer actually took receipt of the package, either by signature confirmation or whatever. In reality, the system works 99.9 % of the time on the good will and honesty of both buyer and seller, but there has to be something in force to stop fraud on both sides, I guess. I really do feel for the sellers, it seems as if Ebay has been changing everything to their detriment in the last few years, much of it unnecessary IMHO. Can't we all just get along?:-)
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