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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;-jeffB, post: 2077110, member: 27832&quot;]My case happened in 2008. It&#039;s possible that policy has changed since then, perhaps in response to scams like the one my buyer attempted; if so, that&#039;s great news. It&#039;s also possible that I just got bad advice from the eBay and PayPal reps I spoke with; heaven knows that&#039;s happened before.</p><p><br /></p><p>It&#039;s also possible that you&#039;re wrong, though. Google yields numerous pages confirming that buyers lose Buyer Protection if they <i>refuse</i> a package (although I&#039;m not sure exactly what that loss of protection means), but that&#039;s different from redirection or forwarding.</p><p><br /></p><p>Here&#039;s the <b>current PayPal Seller Protection policy</b>, indicating that PayPal seller protection (which <i>may</i> differ from eBay&#039;s) <b>DOES NOT</b> cover this sort of redirection:</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.paypal.com/en/webapps/mpp/ua/useragreement-full" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.paypal.com/en/webapps/mpp/ua/useragreement-full" rel="nofollow">https://www.paypal.com/en/webapps/mpp/ua/useragreement-full</a></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>I haven&#039;t been able to find a definitive statement in eBay&#039;s policy documents. But given the way eBay and PayPal are (still, for now) bound together, PayPal&#039;s explicit &quot;no, you aren&#039;t covered&quot; makes me doubt that eBay would protect me.</p><p><br /></p><p>Here&#039;s a post from 2010 echoing my concerns:</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://www.ecommercebytes.com/C/abblog/blog.pl?/pl/2010/2/1266689413.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.ecommercebytes.com/C/abblog/blog.pl?/pl/2010/2/1266689413.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.ecommercebytes.com/C/abblog/blog.pl?/pl/2010/2/1266689413.html</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Here&#039;s one from 2014 indicating a variation of the scam, where a buyer manipulates mail forwarding to indicate that a package was undeliverable, and then tries to bully the seller into sending a replacement:</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://www.ecommercebytes.com/C/letters/blog.pl?/pl/2014/8/1407341574.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.ecommercebytes.com/C/letters/blog.pl?/pl/2014/8/1407341574.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.ecommercebytes.com/C/letters/blog.pl?/pl/2014/8/1407341574.html</a></p><p><br /></p><p>It looks to me like this is still very much an open loophole. No, most buyers aren&#039;t scammers. But if you&#039;re selling high-value, high-demand items, your listings are more likely to attract scammers. Your risk still appears to be very real.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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