Comments on: The eBay sale that never happened

By: Chris Dawson

Chris Dawson — Mon, 12 May 2008 18:39:07 +0000

Hmmm… so either eBay / PayPal have some new form of un-announced protection, or they have a bloody huge problem that is going to piss off their newest potential buyers and probably put them off from ever buying again

By: Cliff Aliperti

Cliff Aliperti — Mon, 12 May 2008 18:25:46 +0000

Forgot to mention, mine was zero feedback as well, registered a couple of weeks before.

So, my guess is it’s got to be one of two things:

1) New PayPal tighter rules disallowing a sale to innocent new eBayer (maybe some info doesn’t match on their registration)

or
2) New PayPal tighter rules protecting sellers from scammers.

I’m not a big fan of either possibility. I’ll withhold judgment for now, but I think I’m happy PayPal has been stepping in. These buyers don’t feel right.

By: Chris Dawson

Chris Dawson — Mon, 12 May 2008 17:53:03 +0000

Hey this is very interesting.

It was a zero feedback buyer registered that day. I had the payment paid email but no email to tell me it had been reversed (watch out people that work from emails for shipping orders )

Also I don’t use immediate payment so it can’t be a problem there. At least now I know I’m not going mad and that others also have the same problem

By: DGS

DGS — Mon, 12 May 2008 17:38:59 +0000

I had exactly the same thing happen to me around 10-14 days ago. Annoyingly I received an email from Paypal telling me a payment had been received but no email to tell me the payment had been reversed.

The buyer was new to eBay and had 0 feedback and no record of any sale existed on the ebay system.

A week later I had a phone call from the buyer telling me that his money had been taken twice and asked that I refund his money, but I think he mistakenly confused the reversed payment with a second payment taken.

Is this a problem with eBay/Paypal or possibly some new loophole the scammers are trying to manipulate.

By: Cliff Aliperti

Cliff Aliperti — Mon, 12 May 2008 15:45:00 +0000

I had this happen to me a couple of weeks ago. the same buyer, twice, for the same item. I emailed them apologizing for any confusion and explaining how they had to go through eBay to make the purchase first. The fact that they never responded has me leaning towards thinking the buyer was up to no good. At least my gut tells me right now I probably made a mistake e-mailing them, I hope I didn’t give any important info up by doing so. Much smaller sale in my case though.

By: knickermafia

knickermafia — Mon, 12 May 2008 14:04:38 +0000

Trialls for the buyers that do not have to register?

By: fedupwithebay

fedupwithebay — Mon, 12 May 2008 13:52:05 +0000

I experienced something like this in March.
As an experiment I resurected an old selling id and went immediate payment only.
I noticed a few “reversed” payment in my account (by accident, stumbled upon them while looking for something else). I just thougt they were “immediate payment only” payments that were not completed or failed at the last hurdle.