Not looking for help right now, but just saw a post that reminded me of something funny that happened to me in the early days of eBay.
I was looking for a Dremel set that usually sold for about $400 and managed to find a man selling them from NSW for only $290, so snapped it up. After buying it, I had a bad feeling that it might be a scam account, as he only had 3 feedbacks but according to his listings, had sold over $30,000 of Dremel equipment in the last week.
I went to my PayPal account to look at my payment, and if you remember the PayPal system, it would show you the name of the seller you paid. The name of the seller I paid was "Harry Bigballs". I was pretty certain that wasn't a real name, so contacted PayPal and eBay and showed them the contact details for the seller and told them I thought it might be a fake name.
I then received emails form both eBay and PayPal telling me that I was making a serious allegation and could I provide proof that it was a fake name? I just replied to that with "you people are idiots. Speak to you again when I get my refund".
About 5 days later I received multiple emails with the subject header "ATTENTION" telling me that the Dremel I bought was from a fake account and I'd be receiving a refund. haha.
There was a story in the newspaper about it a few weeks after that, and apparently it was some 13-year-old girl who'd scammed over $60,000 from eBayers using her Dad's laptop. Too funny!
