This is my fourth post about this, but want to summarize what most have said here as to why this is downright BS of PayPal. Skip to the second paragraph for the punch line: (Part 1 due to word limit with this forum) When this happened to me a few weeks ago, I was flabbergasted. a person with 0 feedback won my Flip Mino. I was happy, until I got the email from PayPal saying I had to ship it to him first. WHOA! So I could just let him swap it out with a broken one he has? Not to say he would do that, but HOW CAN I KNOW?? He has zero feedback. But amazingly, I have 78 (100%) feedback and a 10 year membership with eBay! So the buyer has EVERY REASON to feel more secure sending me money, but I have NO reason to feel secure sending him my mint condition $125 Flip Mino. So, PayPal has exactly reversed the WHOLE REASON YOU EARN FEEDBACK! It's so you can demonstrate TRUST to your buyers and make them more willing to buy YOUR product over the lower feedback score sellers. So, while I did not KNOW that this 'swapping out' with a broken device would happen to me, or had happened to anyone else, looky here: This has already opened the door for scammers to start using this new policy to get items shipped to them, swap them out for broken ones (or take parts from them), then send them back. This has already happened to several people in this forum. So how did *I* see how absurd this policy was that they wanted me to ship my expensive item to someone with ZERO feedback and leave it up to HIM to be trusted, rather than the other way around, thus opening up the possibility for a scammer to ABUSE this policy to their advantage...Yet, PayPal didn't see it coming? As a side note, I was able to reject the seller’s payment, and he cooperated with me to send me another payment with my instruction NOT to use the Pay with PayPal link in the eBay auction, and just go to PayPal directly to send me the money. That worked, and all is well with that. But from now on, I will make it VERY CLEAR in my auction listings for any winning bidders to NOT use the "Pay using PayPal" link, and they must pay me directly from the PayPal website. And now I will use the quotes of people who got scammed and put "Note to Scammers: do NOT attempt to use the new and ridiculously absurd PayPal policy to scam me. Find another seller willing to play along with this absurd policy. This is notice to ALL winning bidders that If you attempt to pay with the PayPal link in eBay, your payment will be rejected and the item will relist. If you do not agree with this, do not bid on my item! You MUST email me after winning and pay directly from the PayPal page for this sale to be completed as agreed."
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