Victim of Ebay Fraud? How To Get Your Money Back
Don't feel bad. I am a hidden interpreter and I was scammed for over 0. The worst part...I had a gut feeling it was a scam. This record is about what to do "If" you have been scammed but, if your gut tells you the offer is too good to be true-it most likely is.
Victim of Ebay Fraud? How To Get Your Money Back
Victim of Ebay Fraud? How To Get Your Money Back
Victim of Ebay Fraud? How To Get Your Money Back
Victim of Ebay Fraud? How To Get Your Money Back
I was searching straight through Ebay one day looking for laptops when I came over this nice Ibm Thinkpad. These laptops were selling for 00 to 00 at the time. Well, I found one for 0. It was brand new fully loaded and best of all-It was "Buy It Now" I was so excited about buying the laptop that I didn't want to admit the fact that it was probably a scam.
I went against all things I knew and bought the laptop. I paid 0 straight through paypal and the Jobber sent me a tracking number. He was considerate sufficient to ship it priority. I couldn't wait but I still had reservations about the transaction.
My laptop arrived three days later. The only qoute was the package was in a acceptable letter sized envelope. Inside it was a blank piece of paper. The Jobber had shipped it just so he could give me a tracking number, giving him three days to hide.
What To Do If This Happens To You
I was furious but calm. You can't think straight if you are very emotional. You have to calm down and take a plan of action.
Step 1. Caress Paypal, not Ebay. You can open a dispute against the jobber from your paypal account. Once the dispute is made all the funds in the sellers inventory are frozen. This means they can't withdraw any money. This guarantees you get something. The sooner you do this the better. You want to open the dispute before he withdraws the money.
What did I do? Well, I noticed he listed another laptop. So, I waited till person purchased the laptop. I then opened a dispute. This guaranteed that 0 would be available for me in his account.
Step 2. Caress Ebay. Ebay will give you the name and adDress of the seller. You can use this information to get a phone amount if Ebay doesn't give it to you. With this information you can do a quick background check on the field to see if the adDress listed matches the name of the seller.
First, accomplish a reverse address check. You can do these free. Quest Google, you will find alot of sites that allow you to do this. Enter the address Ebay gave you and see if a phone amount comes up related with that address. If not, go to Intelius and enter the info you have. It might cost . They will most likely give you the name and phone amount of the person who lives there. You can use this to validate the info.
Step 3. Keep emailing the seller. Let him know you are onto him. Taunt him about his paypal inventory being frozen. Give him the information you have on him. Let him know you have alerted the local authorities and they are investigating the situation as well.
Step 4. Alert the police in the seller's area. They most likely won't do whatever for you, they didn't for me, but there will at least be a record. Give the police all the information you have.
Victim of Ebay Fraud? How To Get Your Money Back