iibauti

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i been a member of this forum for about a month. i made one purchase that worked out great. made my latest purchase and have not received my item and now seller has not responded to my pm's. paid the seller threw paypal. what steps do i take with the seller? How do i deal with this situation?

roadrashracing2

How long has it been, I would file a claim as soon as you can. Give person time to respond to.

HBRob

iTrader: (61)

Make sure you have allowed enough time to land. Ask for tracking info. Send pm. If no response file claim though PP. make sure it is all within 30 days. Make sure to leave neg feedback if it all doesn't work out to prevent another person fro. Getting burned.

RCPHREEK

iTrader: (1)

If its been a month then for sure somthing isnt right

iibauti

iTrader: (2)

It's only been a week. The seller did send me a pm today. He said I should have it Tuesday. Hope it works out.

RCPHREEK

iTrader: (1)

Great im sure all will be fine

Tommy Nobrakes

iTrader: (15)

Yeah a week is nothing to loose your cool over, but if someone asks you to send the payment through paypal as a gift you should refuse, because you will not be protected by paypal.

turbo scorpion

Thats good to know! Thank you.

4S4K4N

It's really a shame that people have been burned so many times that sending payment via gift has become an almost certain way of getting ripped off. In many retro video game collection communities across the web everyone sends money via gift. But it's usually a much smaller, tightly integrated, community in respects to the RC communities and we all usually know each other on a first name basis.

Not that I’m trying to advocate for sending payment as gift. If people are being ripped off then by all means you should protect yourself. It's just a shame that people will go to such lengths just to rip someone off.

Bud

You're saying it's ok to scam pay pal out of their money if it's a tight knit community and you trust the other person?

4S4K4N

PayPal charges fees to the sender for gift payments, the only exception is when using an existing PayPal balance (which would already have had fees take from it) or a registered bank account. People rarely use the bank account option, because unless you've gone through the process of binding it (only available via some banks), verifying it with your social, and giving PayPal a ton of personal information, then it will either not clear or be sent as an eCheck which can take over a week to clear.

It's not about avoiding fees, it's about buyer / seller trust. Shipping costs more because you have to use signature confirmation according to PayPal. It's really expensive to add this for international customers, which in many cases will later choose not to move forward because of the shipping costs involved. Unless you have an active ebay sellers account tied to PayPal, PayPal will hold your money until 3 days after shipping confirmation of delivery or 21 days after the sale, whichever comes first. You can get around this by verifying your account, but that entails the bank account steps i listed above.

All I was trying to say was that it is a shame that these things happen to the point to where there becomes a general distrust of people within the same community.

shagino

iTrader: (57)

Dude, it's all about avoiding the fees for the seller! That's the best case. Worst is they take the $ and run.

I've printed multiple labels through PayPal and haven't ever required signature confirmation. There is NO justification for a gift payment.

TeamSkunkwerks

iTrader: (142)

And it's also against the forums rules!!

QYKLSVR

iTrader: (104)

You now have up to 180 days to file a claim with Paypal..


I have also never seen anywhere on paypal to use Signature Confirmation. Maybe when sending an item in dispute back, but not a required action for a seller.