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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;-jeffB, post: 3392543, member: 27832&quot;]Hmm. If tracking says it was delivered, but your cams say it wasn&#039;t, that sounds like an issue with the carrier. I&#039;m not surprised at how it went in that case. If the seller says &quot;I sent it, here&#039;s the tracking that says it was delivered&quot;, and you say &quot;I never got it&quot;, it&#039;s not just your word against the seller&#039;s; it&#039;s your word against the seller <i>and</i> the delivery company.</p><p><br /></p><p>My personal experience: I&#039;ve &quot;won&quot; a <i>lot</i> of &quot;too good to be true&quot; eBay items. I&#039;ve had:</p><ul> <li>items that never posted tracking info -- eBay refunded me</li> <li>items that turned out to be fakes -- eBay refunded me, sometimes making me return the item (at their expense), sometimes not</li> <li>items that shipped with tracking info, but were delivered at another address instead of mine -- eBay refunded me</li> <li>items that arrived with packing material but no actual item -- eBay <b>made me file a police report</b> (the police were puzzled, but cooperative), and then refunded me. (This was a &quot;high value&quot; case, well into four figures; but I&#039;d had other four-figure not-as-described refunds that didn&#039;t require a police report.)</li> </ul><p>The only times I&#039;ve eaten a bad item were when I put off contesting it until the dispute window had closed.</p><p><br /></p><p>I used to be a heavy seller, but around the time eBay stopped allowing sellers to leave negative feedback on buyers, I had a buyer who nearly scammed me out of a $1700 camera package. We ended up having to <i>recall the shipment from UPS</i> (at considerable expense); it had been redirected (&quot;recipient has moved&quot;) to a new address that wasn&#039;t eBay-confirmed, and if it had been delivered there, we would have had ZERO Seller Protection.</p><p><br /></p><p>So, my take is that <i>in general</i> eBay is much safer for <i>buyers</i> than for <i>sellers</i>. There are spectacular exceptions, of course; I&#039;m sorry you were the victim of one. And apparently it&#039;s not <i>too</i> dangerous for sellers, because people continue to sell there in high volume.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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