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Paypal disputes out of the blue, as soon as you're banned from Ebay
 

So for one reason or another, your ebay account has been banned. One of your previous buyers notices this, and decides to try his luck and claim an item he bought from you weeks ago, supposedly hasn’t turned up!

Has this happened to anyone here?

This happened to me on more than one occasion a few months back.

One time, a day after I got banned, a buyer suddenly decided to come out of the woodwork and make a claim that his goods hadn’t turned up, a whole month after the transaction had taken place! I had heard nothing from him prior to this. No “I haven’t recieved my goods yet” messages.

He even mentioned in the paypal dispute, and I quote; “the seller isn’t even a registered ebay member anymore”. He'd obviously thought about this.

This made me absolutely furious. Obviously the b**tard was trying his luck to see what he could get. Well I wasn’t going to lay down and let paypal take the money back and put it into his account.

I went to my mum’s airing cupboard, got an old rag cloth, put it in a jiffy bag, and posted it Recorded Mail. I provided the tracking number to paypal, and the dispute was settled in my favour.

All’s well that ends well.

OH YES! The dreaded T+S email that causes them to freak.. What I do- send your buyers an email--tell them your acct was hacked/compromised.. this settles them down.. do it as SOON as you know.. tell them ebay working to restore us asap.. thanks!

Yeah and they'll say they'll send you payment once your account has been restored.

Happened to me too. One buyer even received the item, SIGNED for it and I have the courier proof and he still emailed me saying he had not received it. He lost the dispute however.