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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Mr. Numismatist, post: 26752937, member: 142588&quot;]That&#039;s awful. That reminds me of an elaborate scam I became victim of. Luckily (or strangely?) it was only like a $20 coin.</p><p><br /></p><p>I won it at auction from a seller with only two under $30 coins for sale. Their previous reviews were good although up to this point they had only purchased through eBay, not sold. Up until then, they hadn&#039;t been active for several months (later I figured out it was a hacked account). I won the auction and a shipping label was created. There were no tracking updates after a few weeks so I contacted the seller... no response. I then opened a case with eBay. The very next day there was a tracking update, but still no message from the seller. Curiously, USPS first received the package in a state on the other side of the country than the seller supposedly lived (I didn&#039;t notice this until later...). I wanted the coin more than my money back, so I didn&#039;t ask eBay to get involved, but left the case open just in case (you have 3 days to settle your problem between yourselves before you can ask eBay to step in). A few days later it was out for delivery... and wasn&#039;t delivered. I was then told I&#039;d have to pick it up from the post office. So I went to the post office, and just when I thought this mess was over, they couldn&#039;t find it. &quot;Come back tomorrow, and we&#039;ll either give you your package or a lost item form if we still can&#039;t find it&quot;. And of course, there I was the next day hoping for the best, expecting the worst, but the worst I soon found out, was not what I expected. They did find it, but couldn&#039;t give it to me! Turns out the package attached to the tracking number I received was sent to a non-existent address or P.O. Box and it didn&#039;t have my name on it either.</p><p><br /></p><p>So in the end, I couldn&#039;t get a refund because it was &quot;my fault&quot; I didn&#039;t pick up the package and no amount of explaining could convince the automated system otherwise. Tired of it all, I gave it up. And wait just a minute, don&#039;t you think this story couldn&#039;t get any weirder or more annoying. I got a notification a week or so later, that someone (automated system thought it was me), someone collected the package from the post office?!</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;m still not sure what to make of that...[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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