Is there anyone else out there who is fed up with eBay/Paypal? I would like to find another place to keep my store rather than eBay and I can't stand Paypal either. They gave away a listing of mine because I didn't answer their email in one week (I was extremely ill). By the time I got back up and running, they'd refunded the money to the seller who then refused to answer my requests to return the item..all legal under Paypal's policies. If I had persued it the customer would have given me a negative feedback. There are other financial horror stories friends of mine have had with thieves who prey on ebay/paypal sellers. Ex: the thief orders and pays for an expensive item with a credit card at paypal. She then receives the item (in my friend's case $450 another $1100), then requests a charge back from the credit card company. Finally, paypal gives her her money back from my friend's account. The thief then keeps the item and my friend was out her money or her antique jewelry item. The thieves are safe to do this by ebay/paypal and in all these cases still up to their tricks. With enough different accounts, someone could make a living doing this... especially if they work in a ring of other thieves. They even have the nerve to then sell the item all legally with a huge profit and no investment $$.
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