I am curious about something: The Shipping Policy that is right on my sold item's listing reads "Will usually ship within 2 business days of receiving cleared payment." This language was the default (PROVIDED BY PAYPAL!!!) that came up after I completed the "sellers information" during the initial listing process, and all I inputted was the amount of days it will usually take for me to send off an item. Of course, this language is nebulous and does not indicate to either the buyer OR the seller, whether the money in question must be cleared into the seller's BANK account, or the paypal account. You see, what a lovely double-bind Paypal has put me in! I am not obligated to send this buyer's item until I receive the money in my BANK account (THAT IS HOW I INTERPRET IT, PAYPAL! THAT'S HOW THE *SELLER* IS PROTECTED!!!). But, I can't get the money until the buyer has received my item and is pleased with it?!?! HELLO!?!? Just how exactly does this policy protect sellers? I am left wondering, "What if the buyer simply CLAIMS I never sent the item? He has not asked for shipping insurance, nor for any tracking information. What's to stop the buyer from claiming it must have gotten lost in the mail? What if he receives the cell phone I suposedly sold him (although have never been remunerated for), but forgets to give positive feedback? What if he claims the phone arrived broken?" In the past, the protection I had as the seller, was that I knew the burden of paying for shipping insurance was on the buyer. If the shipping service did a crappy job and the item arrived broken, this was the buyer's problem. If they bought shipping insurance, they were covered. If not, they were SOL. I had been paid for the item, and it left my hands in working condition from the postal/shipping company. Now, the burden for this is on the seller! If the buyer is unsatisfied with the product as a result of circumstances outside of a seller's control, this sets us up to not receive our money, and on top of that, we are out our product!!! Not to mention that we will never get back all of the time we spent listing the item, preparing the pictures, packing the item, going to the shipping location, and shall we even mention the FEES that ebay and Paypal take??? This is just disgusting, in my opinion. I understand charging me a transaction fee, and I am willing ot pay for this. But your company withholding money that is rightfully MINE (NOT YOURS TO COLLECT INTEREST ON FOR 21 DAYS), well this is starting to sound like securities fraud. I have no reason to have been put into the catagory of "high risk." I would like to receive the money that my customer paid, BEFORE this phone leaves my hands. It is a $200. item and I am not willing to part with it until I know that the money is acually MINE!!!
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