Thinking of Selling on eBay With Paypal? Think Again!

[MachineGhost]

I sold iPhone 5 on Ebay to a fraudster that issued “ITEM NOT AS DESCRIBED”? chargebacks against me and 3 other sellers and won. eBay/Paypal did not cover me under Seller Protection and did very little to dispute the chargebacks or to force the buyer to send it back.

Im out of nearly a thousand dollars(after ebay fees) and the iPhone while the fraudulent buyer is enjoying his FREE iPhone from me and 3 other sellers and both Paypal and Ebay do collect fees from these fraudulent transactions that they do not help with resolving.

http://codenerdz.com/blog/2012/12/03/th ... ink-again/

[Pointedstick]

I read stories like this a lot, but I've sold thousands of items on my store using PayPal as a payment processor and I've never had a problem in any of the thankfully very small number of customer disputes I've handled. To a certain extent, I think that eBay and PayPal are so huge and popular that problems like this are bound to happen every once in a while, but it's clearly not some sort of epidemic or else sellers would be abandoning the platforms in droves.

[dragoncar]

If it's true that "Paypal doesnt enforce the buyer to return the item in case of merchandise as described," then I would personally go after Paypal in small claims court.  That's not legal advice, just what I would do given the significant sum.