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The only way a buyer can get their money back from Paypal for a pick up item is if they do a bank chargeback claiming it was an unauthorised transaction. To prevent this if it were more than fifty or so dollars I would make it clear in the listing that anyone picking up would need to produce confirmation of id containing the address as shown in Paypal. You can then scan it and create two copies of a receipt confirming they have paid for and collected the item. With that information and also writing down the rego of the pick up vehicle you can tell any buyer you are passing that info onto the police if a chargeback is initiated.
In all the yearts I have been reading and posting on the boards I have only seen a couple of cases where this has been tried. In one instance the crook lived in a fairly small community and the seller contacted local police who went round and suggested that perhaps the buyer had made a 'mistake' and they cancelled the chargeback. In another the seller had a few friends who road motorbikes and liked baseball, needless to say a knock on the door made sure that again the chargeback was cancelkled.
The only way a buyer can get their money back from Paypal for a pick up item is if they do a bank chargeback claiming it was an unauthorised transaction. To prevent this if it were more than fifty or so dollars I would make it clear in the listing that anyone picking up would need to produce confirmation of id containing the address as shown in Paypal. You can then scan it and create two copies of a receipt confirming they have paid for and collected the item. With that information and also writing down the rego of the pick up vehicle you can tell any buyer you are passing that info onto the police if a chargeback is initiated.
In all the yearts I have been reading and posting on the boards I have only seen a couple of cases where this has been tried. In one instance the crook lived in a fairly small community and the seller contacted local police who went round and suggested that perhaps the buyer had made a 'mistake' and they cancelled the chargeback. In another the seller had a few friends who road motorbikes and liked baseball, needless to say a knock on the door made sure that again the chargeback was cancelkled.
@phorum_junkie* wrote:
In all the yearts I have been reading and posting on the boards I have only seen a couple of cases where this has been tried. In one instance the crook lived in a fairly small community and the seller contacted local police who went round and suggested that perhaps the buyer had made a 'mistake' and they cancelled the chargeback. In another the seller had a few friends who road motorbikes and liked baseball, needless to say a knock on the door made sure that again the chargeback was cancelkled.
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