Help Needed: Buyer is Either Being a PITA or Going to Scam Me
I have this person who bought a used blu-ray from me about a week ago. He paid with an echeck and it was suppose to clear on 10/6. He sent me his first message on the 3rd asking me when this will ship. I told him when the echeck clears it will ship the same day which should be 10/6. He sent me the exact same message on 10/5 and I again replied with the same message and also pointed out that I already answered his question and sent a screenshot from Paypal showing him what he should already know.
On 10/6 I got an email from Paypal saying there was a delay in echeck payment. His bank declined the transaction and Paypal would try again in 3 days. I messaged him immediately telling him what was going on and that there would be another delay and told him to check Paypal and his messages. I got another message from him today with the same exact message as the first two times. Now I'm starting to get a little suspicious. I find it hard to believe that he never got any of messages and when I reply I point this out to him.
I took a look at his account. It's new and he's selling mostly used stuff including a lot of used DVD's. They're all cheap 99 cent auctions that he's trying to unload quickly. What I sold him isn't some mass-produced blu-ray that sold millions of copies. It's a Criterion special edition that I'm actually making a profit on, albeit a small one.
So, are my suspicions warranted or am I overreacting? Can a bank cancel someone's account if they file too many chargebacks? Because I have a suspicion that's what's going to happen or something similar. Paypal is going to try and process the echeck again tomorrow and I'm wondering if I should just cancel the order. It's not like I'll have a hard time finding another buyer for this blu-ray. I haven't contacted Ebay or Paypal about this yet. I was kind of hoping the echeck payment would be declined again and I could just cancel but now I'm not sure if it's worth the risk. I'm not on my stealth Windows account and can't sign on until later so I'm going by memory. What would you do?
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