wrote:
Thank you all for the advise, I will use a credit card next time. I
ordered a headset and got a microphone for a video game. Paypal will
not help and I believe this is the scam of the day. Sell something and
ship anything, IF paypal investigates the seller shows a shipment to
an address and it is his word against mine.
I am telling this to the group to help anyone else that might get
scammed. Why would anyone investigate something around 20 bucks. The
seller is http://myworld.ebay.com/irvine_international. I won the
auction Sept. 3rd.
I bought some used hard drives about two years
ago. They were all kaput, although the seller
"guaranteed" them not DOA. I returned the bad
units, and had to call
several times to verify he had received the
returns. (He wouldn't respond to any messages
through eBay.) He never sent any replacements
after promising to do so.
I filed a dispute through PayPal, and was
eventually refunded full price. I did lose the
return shipping postage.

That's my most recent dispute. I have no idea
whether PayPal has changed their methods since
then. You HAVE to be wary of these mega-merchants
that have 10,000 items sold per month. They CAN'T
be trusted to be 100% accurate with that kind of
volume of one of a kind stuff. I ALWAYS check the
detailed feedback and search for the most recent
few negative feedbacks. Those could just be
"whiners", or recipients of totally wrong items,
worthless scrap, items packaged so poorly they
were bound to be ruined, or other shoddy
practices. You can usually get a strong feeling
one way or the other by reading a couple negative
reports. You may have to scroll through 20 pages
of AOK+++++ feedback to get to the negatives, but
that's where the gold lies.

Jon