So, here is the thing, I am starting to realise that I have been scammed at Ebay. Long story short, I bought a discounted tablet and the seller, who stated that will send the article in two deays and will reply emails within 24 hours has disappear, vanished in thin air and the item is marked as unsent. I have sent as much as 3 messages that he has not answered in 16 days. I opened a dispute that had to immediately to dispute, because "the seller was unable to respond", and now I am waiting for him to answer to Paypal. So here are my questions: - "Seller was unable to respond to this dispute" means that his account has been closed? If that is true, I can only assume something fishy is going on. - I have just given him negative feedback at Ebay, if only to warn other people. I will change the feedback if/as soon as I receive the item and it works. Is that against any rule? - If the seller is finally a scammer and has taken the money, emptied his account and run, will I get the money back? The seller was a trusted seller, using paypal with delivery or reimbuse warranty. On the other hand, after googling and digging into his track record, I figured our how he acted and got the trusted seller status. I post it here because this is obviously a way to game the system: - Register a new account. Buy and sell something cheap. - Let the account "sleep" for some time. A year and a half or so. - Start selling cheap products in great quantities. In this case it was caps, but I gues anything will do. Act honestly for a while, just until you get trusted seller status. - Once you get that, put suddenly on sale more expensive products at discounted but credible prices. During a few days sell as much as you can then suddenly empty your account and disappear. Buyers can be easily fooled because with the current feedback system you can only see that this guy has been selling stuff for years and receiving positive feedback. It is not possible to know what he did sell actuall and that the things he has for sale now amount to many times the total cash flow he has ever had! So, be forewarned, I won't make the same mistake twice. I just think Paypal and Ebay should redesign the sales system to avoid tricks like this. An allowed monthly sales curve improving over time or a deposit on paypal depending how much do you want to sell per month would probably do the trick. Maybe not for all the sellers, just for those that want to become trusted.
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