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Message:: [QUOTE="alexthebold, post: 1704674, member: 50759"]The "your $30 item never arrived" plea smells of Standard Con Game #24/J. Basically, the equation for it goes like this: What is the seller's time worth? How long will it take the seller to search records, write the necessary letters and e-mail, defend his reputation, etc.? And how much is all that time worth? Thirty dollars is about the upper edge. Beyond $30, most people will do as you did, which is to start researching and so forth. Below that, a lot of sellers (especially sellers with lots of sales) will simply say, "You know what? It's just not worth my time to fight this." As for eBay and PayPal. In the restaurant business, it's called spoilage. No matter how well you get to know your client base, you are going to end up with extra soup at the end of the night. Or five tiramisu more than you needed. Usually, you chalk it up to the vagaries of the bidness and let the staff gorge themselves at the end of the night. EBay and PayPal don't care one way or the other about who is right or wrong, who is evil or pure, because their business model has a factor, x, which is the sales that will be contested. As long as x remains at an acceptable level, they will let it continue to happen. I would never purchase (or sell) any coin or stamp online from an eBay dealer, regardless of how many "positives" he or she had. It's just too easy to get the screwing of a lifetime.[/QUOTE]