I’ve heard about guys buying guitar amplifiers on CL and Ebay, receiving them. Claiming not as advertised, or damaged. Using Paypal. The sellers finally got their amps back,,,, minus tubes, speakers, and transformers!
They where lucky. I sold a completely functional vinyl cutter on feebay and accepted paypal for it in the amount of 10,000 dollars. Item was crated and shipped. All was good until 5.5 months later the guy claimed it was broken and did not work (5.5 months later? ya.. right)
Paypal does NOT fight charge backs. So they gave him the money back and told him to return the item.
That was 15 years ago. I’ve heard of the slow boat to china but even that would have arrived by now.
They sent a collection company after me who sued me. I won when I mentioned to the judge that my product was never returned and the collection company could not prove otherwise.
5 years of fighting with the collection company and dealing with the bad mark on my credit made me realize no ebay OR paypal for this guy.
I’ll use paypal to pay for something but NEVER to accept payment for something.