@sezeling wrote:
i did not contact the seller, intead i decided to wait to see what kind of drama he is playing. i mean it does not make sense, if i did not receive the item or the item is not as described then i could definitly get refund through paypal/ebay, so what is the point? how do sellers of this category make profit by doing this?
They do it because some buyers don't know they can get a refund, especially newer buyers. It may only be 1 out of 10 that doesn't know, so that was an easy $200 for the scammer. That is evident by the negative feedback when it starts appearing. Many buyers will say the item was never sent and that they got a refund through PayPal. Others will say that the item was never sent and they lost their money. It's those buyers that the scammers depend on.
A lot of scammers have much bigger listings. They'll list a $400+ item for $19.95 and will have hundreds available. Of course, they sell out within a few days. They do quite well out of those scams. By the time the negative feedback starts appearing, they are long gone. Most will either hijack someone else's account, or they'll create a new account and sell enough cheap legitimate items, that they send, so their feedback and ratings are high enough whereby PayPal no longer hold funds for 21 days.
That means, as soon as the money appears in their account (which it will straight away as they all require immediate payment), they can withdraw it into their bank account. These scammers usually pocket the whole lot of their ill gotten gains because by the time buyers realise they've been scammed, they've withdrawn all the money. Refunds will then come out of PayPal's money. When their feedback hits -4, their account will automatically be shut down. They then create a new account, or hijack another account, and start the cycle again.
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Yeah right !!
