I thought paypal was supposed to protect buyers?!?!

[fire1811]

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You're blaiming Pay-Pal and eBay but none of you are are looking at why the claim was ruled against the buyer. These people try to help out but they have rules that they have to follow to ensure that people don't abuse the system. I'm sorry that things turned out this way for you BeaverEater, but you have to undertand that you can't always win. It's a hard leason to learn but it's one that everyone has to learn.

I have to disagree with you here.
They do not look at the Fact very well. In the case I mention above they ruled against me when the seller provided a tracking number. Well the tracking number was for something he shipped to freggin Virginia, im in IL. They reversed there finding after a few not so nice emails but they are still a joke

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Nock on wood. I've never really had problems with on line buying and selling. I keep the communication lines open ask and answer questions, speedy payments and shipping. Everybody that I have ever delt with have been pretty honest. One time I won an auction for a piece of electrical equipment. The seller emailed me back and claimed he had dropped it, couldn't guarantee it and felt better not selling it. So I didn't get it and thanked him for telling me. I think people just post all the bad stories and there is far more good ones that just get forgotten. The 25-30 bucks that was spent is not such a ordeal. Now you are set and should have any problems what so ever. Unless I buy it new, I rebuild most things I get. Tanks especially. Say your at a tournament and you have a good chance at taking a win when all of a sudden something goes down. Even if you can fix it or you have a spare it effects the psyche enough not to be at 100%. Consider it a small blessing it didn't happen on the tourny field in a big game and just let it go.

[BeaverEater]

Knowing the Beav, He most likely jumped on his computer contacted the seller accusing and demanding refund. The seller then took a defensive stance and everything got blown out of perportion. Am I right?

no i told him the parts that were blown, asked if there was any problems with the tank before hand and hoped that we could solve this, about 2 weeks later he emailed me back and told me to like F*** off.

And ya out of all my buying and selling this was the first to go wrong and it wasnt really that big of a deal. I just got screwed out of 30 bucks. It was just the fact that paypal claimed protection along with ebay and they pretty much dropped the ball. And it seems that they have been doing this a lot lately.

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Everybody that I have ever delt with have been pretty honest. One time I won an auction for a piece of electrical equipment. The seller emailed me back and claimed he had dropped it, couldn't guarantee it and felt better not selling it. So I didn't get it and thanked him for telling me.

you do realize that essentially meant the auction went for less than he wanted and he decided to sell it another way/locally, right?

almost all my transactions have gone fine. there was one thing with a cocker where the guy put "working" in the title of the auction, then said in the auction "internals may need some tuning" which i took to mean timing... what he meant was the gun was leaking like he took a hammer to the front block. i had to get a valve tool to fix it, and basically just took the loss instead of getting bad feedback, since i got it for a pretty decent price and he was canadian and couldnt speak english well.

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you do realize that essentially meant the auction went for less than he wanted and he decided to sell it another way/locally, right?

almost all my transactions have gone fine. there was one thing with a cocker where the guy put "working" in the title of the auction, then said in the auction "internals may need some tuning" which i took to mean timing... what he meant was the gun was leaking like he took a hammer to the front block. i had to get a valve tool to fix it, and basically just took the loss instead of getting bad feedback, since i got it for a pretty decent price and he was canadian and couldnt speak english well.

Well since I used the buy it now option and believe me it was very high,"I doubt it".

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Well since I used the buy it now option and believe me it was very high,"I doubt it".

then thats a rare occurance. theres been a lot of auctions ended for "breaking the item"