I sold an item through eBay on September 19th ( a long time ago so this is getting really annoying), and the payment was confirmed by eBay and Paypal the same day (it was still pending in Paypal, but with my experience it always does from eBay transactions so i thought nothing of it), and I needed to ship the item the next day. So eBay said to ship the item, and so did Paypal. So shipped it, and I waited for the payment to process. Then on September 30th (11 days after the transaction) I got a notification from Paypal that my pending payment was canceled. When looking further into it, it stated as the reason for its cancelation was that "This payment was automatically returned by PayPal on Sep 19, 2017 because the funds were unclaimed for 30 days." #1 There is no way for me to claim funds that are pending. #2 September 30th isn't 30 days after September 19th. #3 Why would it say it was returned on the 19th if that was when the payment began pending. If so, why would it wait 11 days to notify me? My conclusion is that this was a scam, I tried contacting ebay, paypal, and the buyer. Ebay just kept sending me to Paypal (who kept sending me back to ebay, and so on...) Finally Paypal said that the only thing I could do was send an invoice to the buyer, since they were refunded the money. So I did on October 8th. The buyer contacted me a few days later saying they sent the payment (they never did) and I haven't gotten a hold of them since. So finally I filed a dispute with Paypal on October 27th. After I received an email from ebay, saying there is a suspiscious buyer for my item on October 17th (great, thanks for the heads up). Paypal told me to forward the confirmation of payment email I received from Paypal originally, to their support, and then they'd refund my money. Still nothing. I need this money, what do I do?
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