Probably fewer than 3% of eBay members come to these boards so I'd imagine that the number of buyers who fail to act within the 45-day Paypal cutoff period could be fairly high and when you add those to the number of buyers who pay via direct debit, I'd hazard a guess that these scammers are doing a hell of a lot better than you or I would expect.

Given how eBay are always going on about how much they value their buyers, It's a bit of a shame that eBay isn't a bit more proactive in protecting those "valued buyers" by keeping these mongrels from listing their non-existent wares, because once a buyer is ripped off on ebay, the chances of their returning are slim to none IMO.

Yes, guess you're correct, as the old saying goes, there is one born every minute. Shame that people obviously don't read the conditions on their paypal account, which would then alert them to the protection available.

Buyers do not even have to read through pages of policy on the PayPal site. The 45 days info is on the bottom of PayPal payment receipt emails.

 

 

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No excuses then. Plain as the nose on their face. Hard to believe buyers fall for these things, then come to the forums bleating for help that is under their nose.

No excuses at all, but then we all know that the majority of buyers are their own worst enemies because so many of them simply don't read listings in their entirety, and you only have to look at the number of buyers who come to the boards asking for help to realise that very few of them read the Paypal Payment Advice either.

Getting a payment that is not cancelled in time is a bonus, what they are really after is the email addresses which they can target at a later date with lookalike phishing emails from ebay and Paypal.