Achieving new Extremes of ebay gross silliness
So, I just have to share this with you all - this story is quite simply incredible.
I always have two or three ebay and paypal accounts on the go and I am an old hand at proxy servers, IP address and even MachineID manipulation but this takles the biscuit.
So - about six weeks ago my Mother in Law gets a new cooker. The old cooker was quite nice and the delivery guys wouldmn't take it because she had not "paid the extra". So, as I quite like my mother in Law I offered to sell it for her. Because this was absolutely no big deal, a cooker - what could go wrong?
So the auction ran for the full week on MY OWN PERSONAL ACCOUNT (nothing could go wrong - right?) This account I have had 12+ years, over 1000+ positive feedback NEVER a negative and it is synched with my genuine Paypal account all verified AND with the Paypal Mastercard - all very legit and above board.
So the auction ends and the stove, dammit £300+ Holy Smokes. So the guy has to organise a van, fair enough, so he pays me in full via Paypal (there is a lesson here for Cash on Collection).
A week later he collects the cooker.
He opens a dispute - claims the stove is COUNTERFEIT!
Paypal grab the cash back and freeze my account (okay, ebay grabs the cash back, does it matter?) - so then I try to get the cooker back.
Oh boy. He then claims he has returned it. To the address in which I first opened the ebay account twelve years ago and is a mere 200 miles away from where I now live - and have lived for ten years - YES i changed my address on the account. So I try to contact the new owners of my old house. You can imagine the conversation - "sorry to bother you, you dfon't know me - do you have my cooker?"
The bottom line?
My Paypal account is now £250+ in a negative and ebay closed my account and I really did not become abusive on the telephone at any time. And when I asked for the UK address of ebays legal department was told it is in Dublin Ireland and I pointed out that Dublin is NOT in the UK - it doesn't seem to matter.
A lesson for you all there.
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