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A Paypal Offer - Is This Secure?

Hi All,

I am selling a CAT amplifier and have a paypal offer from a buyer who has very little feedback (only one transaction) and does not speak english well and communicates only small bits of information at a time. I am nervous about this. I spoke with paypal and they told me that as long as:

1) I am selling something of substance
2) I ship to the paypal address, no other address
3) I can document the shipping of the product

I am protected as a seller. If this is true, I should be able to accept his offer and make sure that I am shipping to the address listed in paypal, and I should be fine shipping pilot air insured (with tracking and all, including photos of packing, etc). What do you guys think? Is this too much of a risk, or not really a risk at all?
peter_s

Showing 1 response by harold-not-the-barrel

harold-not-the-barrel
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Totally agree with Elizabeth.

With PayPal and eBay, they always prefer buyers no matter what the truth may be, unfortunately. You can write a novel about your honest sale but they hardly even take a look at your ad and photos on it. eBay as a third partner is not neutral. PayPal is not safe for sellers, as they can freeze your money whenever they want and you can´t do anything about it. Normal action in business? Hardly, it´s illegal if you ask me. I´ve been selling for ten years on eBay with 100 % score of 800+ transactions and now been freezed by a help a random fraud who has score less than a hundred and very little history. After having read a few horror stories about PayPal fraudulence I don´t trust them at all anymore.
Bank Transfer is the ONLY safe way for sellers. If things get really bad, with PayPal seller can lose all his money + his items and nothing can help it. So seller loses EVERYTHING. I wonder who cares for sellers business anymore. Customer is always right is a myth. Actually this is the biggest problem with doing normal business today.
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