"Believe me, a call to the seller from your local police department will get the seller's attention." Not so much!
I got ripped off on an ebay/paypal purchase. Bought some tubes which never shipped. Paypal said that seller didn't respond to their inquiry and had immediately withdrawn all funds from their Paypal account(not just from my transaction). So they closed the account and told me I was stuck. Visit to my local police was laughed off; they told me to call the police in the seller's home town. I did and they laughed some more. Buyer beware! Nonetheless, I still use Paypal regularly. I just try to make sure sellers have lots of recent positive feedback or local pickup only.
Cheers,
Spencer
I got ripped off on an ebay/paypal purchase. Bought some tubes which never shipped. Paypal said that seller didn't respond to their inquiry and had immediately withdrawn all funds from their Paypal account(not just from my transaction). So they closed the account and told me I was stuck. Visit to my local police was laughed off; they told me to call the police in the seller's home town. I did and they laughed some more. Buyer beware! Nonetheless, I still use Paypal regularly. I just try to make sure sellers have lots of recent positive feedback or local pickup only.
Cheers,
Spencer