Ok since i work for PayPal i thought i'd stick my two cents in...don't kill me for it but here goes.
I think ebay is having a hard time cracking down on fraudulent sellers, however what i will say is there a lot of people who go in blindly (no offence meant Neil, cause i'm not referring to your situation) and see a pair of ugg boots, ghd straighteners or even one scam that had plasma tv's being sold for $100 and just throw the cash at it and don't bother to check out who they are buying from.
Neil in your case, i'm sorry...it happened to me years ago , i was buying an autograph, stupidly sent by postal order but found i got done and the phone number was listed as a private number...somewhere in wales.
basically folks, if it looks too good to be true it usually is. Tickets are the worst, do not buy them if the seller does not have them in hand cause we will ask a ton of questions about them.
there's just things paypal can't cover and people expect paypal to cover everything, when it's just not possible...best bet is make sure if you are buying on ebay that you are protected through buying with paypal.
check the feedback, including negative cause that can tell you more then the positive.
if it looks too good to be true, contact the seller and also ebay (only by email as far as i know)
don't blame paypal if your ebay coupons don't work and if they don't check your ebay id is registered with paypal. (we get about half a dozen calls each on this a day and it's a pet peev of mine)
oh yeah and don't pay for downloads through paypal, another thing we can't cover cause how do you prove their is something wrong with it?
oh yeah and one last thing, please don't scream and swear at us much maligned customer service agents down the phone...believe it or not we do want to help you sort things out
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