Under what circumstances will ebay remove a dogdy seller?

[carbeau165]

I have had the mis fortune of dealing with a dodgy seller.Not only has he failed to supply the goods I have paid for,he has also refused to respond to any emails I have sent.I have opened a case in the resolution centre and he has still not replied.The case has now been escalated by me but I have noticed this seller is still operating.How can this be when he has had a flood of negative feedback from other disgruntled buyers over the past 2 weeks?

[kopenhagen5]

Once a sellers DSR's fall below a certain level restrictions are usually placed on an account.

It may be this seller cannot list any new listings.

However doesn't hurt to report your scenario to ebay and they may look at it a little sooner.

[phorum_junkie*]

They wouldn't get away with it if people were not gullible enough to think they were going to get an item that retails for around a hundred dollars for $44 including postage which would cost over $10 for a 15 disk set in the cases and box.

[i-love-my-sheep]

Is that the seller you left the neg for? Their feedback score and DSR is even worse than the one I wrote about in another post today! Given that all the negs for not received have only occured, yet they have had happy buyers before then, you have to wonder if something has happened to them. In hospital, or even died? Regardless, it's awful for all those buyers, yourself included, who now have to wait 21 days for the disputes.

Good luck with it all!

[j*oono]

You are being unkind Phorum Junkie and quite possibly jaded.  Most of the sellers feedback has come from the last month and it's a dodgy account.

It has nothing to do with gullibility.  Especially if you are bidding for an item.

[phorum_junkie*]

Sorry but I have to disagree, if it is the transaction the OP left a neg for that would perhaps be apt if they were second hand or auctions but they were BIN new items which at best would have been copies, when the largest retailers are selling them at three times the price that seller was trying to get there is no way anyone could expect to actually receive a genuine set of DVDs.

Perhaps it is a hi-jacked account, perhaps they traded legitimately then bought soe counterfeit stock and realised before sending that they could be in trouble, perhaps they planned all along to rip off Paypal ( they are the ones who will have to wear the loss if all the buyers get their money back and the seller has managed to withdraw the funds) and built up some genuine feedback selling cheap items, who knows but I wouldn't have expected to receiving anything better than a cheap counterfeit product if I bought something at such an unrealistically low price.

[carbeau165]

Yes that's the one.I did make allowances for having some unforeseen problems until I read from others that the seller had changed their phone number.As a business you would think there would be stratagies in place should there have been an illness,injury or death to the seller.

[carbeau165]

I could understand your comment if the item was listed as brand new but these were listed a used set.

[cq_tech]

In that case there can be no doubt that he's a fraud as nobody would have so many used copies of the same boxed set of DVDs.

[i-love-my-sheep]

What happens when all the buyers open their disputes, wanting their money back, if the dodgy seller has cleaned out their PayPal account? What would happen if they shut their PayPal and ebay account down before the disputes opened? I'm just asking out of curiosity. Mostly because I had a near miss on the 15% Sunday, where I was going to buy something, then by the time I got around to making the decision to buy, they were NARU. They'd already had 2 buyers of this BIN item and had 8 left and I have no way of knowing if they closed their account and did a runner or whether ebay shut them down for being dodgy. Is there still a way the ripped off buyers can get their money back?

I'm also just curious for future reference in case I (or some other buyer) gets caught by a scammer.