Re: fraud buyer claim. need opinion
The worst part of it is, the seller could end up on Amazon's radar as potentially selling stolen phones.
This actually happened to me when I sold a rare book for about $200. A customer orders the book and I ship it. About a week or so later she messages me through Amazon saying the book was stolen from her collection six months ago. Even though I am in the Midwest and she was in California, I still ended up having to speak with seller support and explain to them that the book was in my inventory for over a year.
I didn't lose the account but they DID force me to give her a refund. This was one of those galling situations because this person was a complete nut who was looking for trouble. She was very careful to use the words stolen, illegal and criminal as many times as humanly possible in her message - she was probably trying to trigger the bots. It took every ounce of willpower I had to resist the urge to send her a nastygram in return. Since that incident, however, the account HAS produced a few thousand in profits. So, businesswise I did the right thing. But on a personal level, I wanted to do TERRIBLE THINGS to her.
Whether she was just looking for a freebie, or what her deal was I don't know. Maybe she DID have a book stolen, but it was definitely not the one I sold to her as it was in my inventory prior to the date she claimed it was stolen.
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