Comments on: eBay Seller Fraud – Shipping A Worthless Box to a Wrong Address, How I Got My Money Back?

By: JC DUNCAN

JC DUNCAN — Fri, 11 Feb 2022 22:01:56 +0000

This happened to me recently. I didn’t use Ebay but I did use PayPal, I was saved a lot of headache just because of people who have already posted about the scam. So I knew immediately to call FedEx Express and confirm that the package did not go to me, but to another name and address in my town. Fed Ex did verbally confirm it wasn’t me but would give no more information. I called PayPal and spoke to them directly, describing the scam, and indicating I had already called and confirmed my suspicions that I had been with Fed Ex. Right there on the phone they refunded me.

By: Mehmet

Mehmet — Wed, 07 Apr 2021 07:23:03 +0000

eBay has become a total cesspool over the years. You can’t even trust a seller with almost 100% approval rates.
I bought a refurbished iPad and guess what, it was nothing like the advertisement.
It said refurbished but it was clearly used and badly used too I returned it immediately. Never touching that website again…

By: Had Enough of the B.S. on Ebay

Had Enough of the B.S. on Ebay — Wed, 24 Mar 2021 08:35:11 +0000

Ebay has become so scummy and unregulated in recent times, it has driven me ‘away’ because I have steadfastly found that PayScam who shouldn’t still be affiliated with Ebay according to Ebay now in 2021, is still in the middle of transactions and really doesn’t ride herd on fraud at all. I just bought an item on Ebay from a ‘new’ seller and should have known better, but that seller is fraudulent. As of the 17th of this month (March) Ebay has killed their call center and all you get is the same lame crap online about; “wait till XXX date and then contact us again to get involved..” (translated, this means; “let us scam you for a few more days!!”

in any case, as many times as I have had good sellers on Ebay, I’ve had fraudulent scammers hit me one in five transactions, which is really getting to be another reason to leave them alone and hope they die off finally.

As for PayScum, they really need to be investigated by the U.S. Federal Government but in today’s “anything goes” U.S., no regulatory agency will touch them.

best we can do as consumers is to QUIT USING EBAY ENTIRELY. sure it limits our ability to buy online, but guess what? One fraud episode cancels out a bunch of good deals when you have to spend hours to get your money back from PayScum.

it’s time to say ‘adios’ to Ebay and let them die. They could have protected buyers but they chose to do the fraud. You know that they are reticent to refund the money because that takes away the money they scam. and that’s why they support fraud.

By: vijay singh

vijay singh — Fri, 19 Mar 2021 10:00:13 +0000

Happened to me once. Got my money back in 10 days.

By: Z

Thu, 21 Jan 2021 23:01:27 +0000

I had the same thing happen to me. Bought an expensive drone from a seller.
I have informed delivery and I knew nothing was enroute to my address when seller posted tracking number. Few days later it’s marked in eBay as delivered but I received nothing.
What the seller does is google earths your address then will mail something to somebody else in your zip code. Seller intentionally will leave your name off the shipping label so you have no right to the tracking info since it’s not to your address or in your name.
Long story short, along with headaches and hours of my time, I won the dispute because the order was of high value and required a signature delivery which of course the seller could not provide.
eBay is aware of this scam but doesn’t care.
One way to solve this scam I would think would be for eBay to require sellers use eBay shipping labels and tracking numbers provided by eBay instead of letting the seller make up their own.

By: Tigh Loughhead

Tigh Loughhead — Mon, 28 Dec 2020 04:56:37 +0000

That’s awesome you resolved this (and that Paypal sided in your favor). While they try, I’ve been having more and more difficulty with scam sellers on ebay, and the post office delays throughout the pandemic have not helped.