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<p>[QUOTE="-jeffB, post: 1510367, member: 27832"]Tread carefully. Win enough "he said/she said" cases, and eBay will start to scrutinize your claims a lot more closely.</p><p><br /></p><p>I had a couple of sellers try to scam me last year. One sent me a fake 1920-S half that I documented here. Two or three months later, someone "sold me" three gold eagles (2 1906, 1 1914) for a bit under melt, then never sent them and never answered email. A week or two after that, I bought a "1927 double eagle" that turned out to be a paperweight.</p><p><br /></p><p>In all three cases, I won, and got a full refund including shipping (and, in the last case, return shipping -- eBay sent a prepaid label). But when the third one hit, eBay gave me a concerned "courtesy call" to make sure everything was okay; and after the charge was reversed, PayPal also gave me a nice call to follow up. Not accusing me of anything, or even asking pointed questions, but making it very clear that I was a good customer who was worthy of some <i>extra attention</i>.</p><p><br /></p><p>I would <i>hope</i>, as a past Power Seller, that eBay would eventually pull the plug on a buyer who files too many disputes, especially ones that the seller contests vigorously. I haven't seen any evidence of this, which is one reason I'm still not going back to selling, but it seems like it would only stand to reason...[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="-jeffB, post: 1510367, member: 27832"]Tread carefully. Win enough "he said/she said" cases, and eBay will start to scrutinize your claims a lot more closely. I had a couple of sellers try to scam me last year. One sent me a fake 1920-S half that I documented here. Two or three months later, someone "sold me" three gold eagles (2 1906, 1 1914) for a bit under melt, then never sent them and never answered email. A week or two after that, I bought a "1927 double eagle" that turned out to be a paperweight. In all three cases, I won, and got a full refund including shipping (and, in the last case, return shipping -- eBay sent a prepaid label). But when the third one hit, eBay gave me a concerned "courtesy call" to make sure everything was okay; and after the charge was reversed, PayPal also gave me a nice call to follow up. Not accusing me of anything, or even asking pointed questions, but making it very clear that I was a good customer who was worthy of some [I]extra attention[/I]. I would [I]hope[/I], as a past Power Seller, that eBay would eventually pull the plug on a buyer who files too many disputes, especially ones that the seller contests vigorously. I haven't seen any evidence of this, which is one reason I'm still not going back to selling, but it seems like it would only stand to reason...[/QUOTE]
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