A Warning For Ebay Sellers.

[dolphin]

Found this and thought I better share it.

It is from the traderlist.com website.

Date: Saturday, May 8, 2004
Time: 2:05 PM EST
Submitted by: eBayer
Email address: ebayer2378@hotmail.com
Remote Addr: 68.145.124.7
Subject: eBay and PayPal@email.com
traders_name: eBayer and PayPal

Comments: There are buyers-bewares, but for the sellers out there, here is a sellers-beware. Be careful of the Buyer Protection option on your auctions. If you have a buyer who purchased your item under the protection, paid for it, and requested a normal and non-traceable shipping method, the buyer(s) can request a refund directly from PayPal. You will have NO recourse in this case, as it is stated in the fine fine prints of PayPal's Service Agreement that most of us glanced through. This will be especially annoying if you have a suspended ebayer user for their fraudulent behaviours on eBay. But PayPal will still take your money to refund the scamming buyer! eBay owns PayPal now, but PayPal WILL refuse to do any investigation into the credibility of the case on both eBay and PayPal. To sum up, if you offer (voluntarily or involuntarily) PayPal Buyer Protection, make sure whom you are selling to. Otherwise, the scammers will take your merchandises and run with your money as well. This is a big loop hole in PayPal. Please please sellers beware! Take the option off from your Paypal seller's account or you will be scammed sooner or later!

[gkp1031]

Wow, thanks for the info. I'm very new to ebay and I'm not sure if I offer this option, I'll have to look and make sure. Thanks!

[KKCondrey]

I'll have to show Joe, he is the ebay user in the family.

Thanks