Members please take note of the details below for your own protection. This person is a scammer. I have just been scammed by a paypal member using the name Sar** west***(i am not sure if i am allowed to mention their name fully). I believe this is probably a bogus account, as owner sounds like a man, based on my phone conversation with him. This person uses ebay id 'appleblossom'. Basically they placed a winning bid of £340 for my apple ipad on 31/05/2011, sent me a message that they want to pickup, gave them my phone contact and home address. On 02/06/11, between 15hrs -18hrs we exchanged several texts arranging for them to come and pickup following payment. At about 17.44, paypal sent a payment confirmation to my email, i double checked that the money is in my paypal account. He picked up item within that time frame. Later at night i saw paypal dispute message. I replied, provided necessary information to paypal showning that buyer picked up item. Called buyer at about 9pm on the number i have, they answered, but then switched off when they realised it was me. On 03/06/11, I contacted ebay to report the buyer, then subsequently contacted paypal to explain the situation. Paypal said they will return the money to buyer because according to the agent, I am not covered if buyer picks up item. Their advise,....go to police. They are not prepared to investigate this any further. As far as they are concerned, the buyer is getting their money, while i lose my ipad. I wish ebay has another payment system, i would have closed my paypal account. As a result, I believe that paypal is helping scammers.
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