Stuff like this is why I no longer sell things on ebay. I had an experience similar to this and was almost cheated out of $800. They are not good to their sellers.
Very strange. Incidentally, for any sellers here, there is a tremendous amount of fraud committed by the BUYERS of instruments, ranging from theft of the instrument to fraud where they attempt to get into your bank account. Beware.
I also had my first bad experience on “FEEBay” after 10 years of trading, seller totally lied about a laptops specifications (6 of the 9 specs were wrong, processor, hard drive cap., screen size, ram, etc.)
I would have been out the shipping cost to send it back thru NO FAULT OF MY OWN.
Told them to shove it, gave the seller her first bad review (which dropeed her to 93.3%)and used the money I would’ve wasted on shipping the laptop back to upgrade it to what was advertised!
Amazon.com from here on out!!!
Got taken for a Bobcat 843 (8700 bucks) and tons of overdraft fees because of it by paypal. And I had to pay the consignor of the machine.
Guy won, guy paid, I hit transfer to checking, he picked it up, I paid the seller, buyer went home waited 2 days (now 8 days past date of sale) and claimed I never shipped.
It was sold local pickup. paypal did not care, pulled the money back and gave it to him.
I’ll use paypal GUEST to pay (I can’t have a paypal account, They say I still owe them money on this ordeal) but I would NEVER, EVER give them access to my checking accounts again.
I did finely get the machine back after dragging him to court (locally) winning (he no showed) driving 500 miles with truck and trailer and paying his local sheriff to assist in recovering the asset.
Of course the machine was trashed.
She should have accepted the instrument back then there would have been no destruction of the instrument.
Buying any instrument without playing it is just dumb. Buying a violin on the Internet without really knowing the makers and their makers or styles is throwing money away.
Having said that there is a huge fraud game in the labels inside a lot of violins so if you do not know the makers styles or have papers to go with the violin from good experts then you are going to be taken for a ride. Even when dealing with the "experts" you are dealing with the violin mafia and can be taken for a fool....so good luck!
What I don’t understand is why the dispute had to go to Paypal to be mediated. Erica wouldn’t take it back? They couldn’t agree on shipping and insurance? Erica didn’t answer emails?
I gave up on ebay and pay pal two years ago. My credit card reached its temporal limit and Visa sent me a new one. When I tried to replace the old number on Pay Pal PP said no, that I could only use the old one. Of course I couldn’t actually pay for anything with the out-of-date card but PP was intransigent. They must have hired a bunch of ex bureaucrats.