[time-nuts] Chinese credit card fraud

[J. Forster]

Some years ago, I bought some "original IBM" memory for a Thinkpad laptop.
The stuff physically fit, but shorted out when installed, because the
package profile was different.

I complained to eBay and spent a bunch of money on Express Mail, etc.

I got NOTHING.

Conclusion:  eBay "protections" are essentially worthless.

That's why I use the USPS MOs. Complaints have always been resolved to my
satisfaction.

YMMV,

-John

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> On 16 March 2012 16:22, Rix Seacord <eseacord at verizon.net> wrote:
>> Luckily, I use PayPal for most of my online purchases.
>
> From the experience of a friend, who bought something eBay that needed
> refunding by Paypal, it was a long complex process
>
> 1) Buy bandbag from eBay she believed was a fake.
> 2) Ebay insist the bag is inspected by an expert - eBay tell her the
> expert to use
> 3) She pays the expert, who agrees its a fake.
> 4) She needs to *FAX* the documents from the expert to Paypal. by a
> certain (quite short) date. Few people use FAX machines now, so she
> had to pay a shop to FAX it. It seems Paypal make it hard, by
> requesting a FAX rather than accepting a scanned document, or asking
> the expert to send it directly.
>
> She finally got her money back, but never recovered the cost of paying
> the expert, or of the FAX charges.
>
>
> Dave
>
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