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 mountainsong

PayPal could be a nightmare, I sold a pair of speakers 4 years ago to an audiogone member in TX, UPS damage them on transit, took me forever to get an agent to visit the buyer home and give a report, of course always will blame the shipper for not proper packing by ups standards.
To make the story short, the communication between buyer and myself was great but he got frustrated and complained to credit card, credit card get he money from PayPal, and PayPal put my account with negative balance immediately of course I refused to pay, they even not communicate with me to let me know what they were doing on the transaction.
End of nightmare, guy got his money via credit card, I have to pay for damage speakers shipping to me, they sent me to collection agencies tha I never answer after a while, and now I'm unable to use PayPal making my life specially in this web a little hard, cause I have to pay by certified or personal check always.
But I found out that. The best that work with me is to stablished a communication with the person or dealer you are dealing with, as always communication is the key for success like many things in life.
Regards