I won't bother with the long story, no one wants to read it anyway.
Cliffs:
1) Bought a LJ4550 color laser printer on ebay for $499, $0.01 shipping. It came with 8 toner cartridges.
2) Received package, printer was destroyed and toner was broken and leaking, also it was remanufactured toner, not mentioned in the auction (Not As Described according to Ebay rules). I took pictures of the package immediately, I even have pics with the packing label and printer in the same pic.
3) Filed claim for insurance with UPS. UPS picked up the package and returned it to sender.
4) Sender, after 1 month, claims UPS is telling him that the packaging was not adequate. UPS will not refund me, the money has to go to him - but he won't file the paperwork to get the refund, he already has my $500 and couldn't care less about what happens to me.
5) I just filed a claim with Paypal (I paid with Paypal credit, since paid off). During the filing process it informed me that the initial 30 day wait for him to respond would be skipped and escalated the issue automatically, making me think his paypal account is inactive or suspended (he is still active on ebay, selling 2-3 items per day).
What did I do wrong here? I get the funny feeling paypal won't take care of this. I can even take a lesson to be learned, but what's the lesson here? What did I miss? I've been ebaying for years and been scammed before, so I'm careful about things already.
Cliffs:
1) Bought a LJ4550 color laser printer on ebay for $499, $0.01 shipping. It came with 8 toner cartridges.
2) Received package, printer was destroyed and toner was broken and leaking, also it was remanufactured toner, not mentioned in the auction (Not As Described according to Ebay rules). I took pictures of the package immediately, I even have pics with the packing label and printer in the same pic.
3) Filed claim for insurance with UPS. UPS picked up the package and returned it to sender.
4) Sender, after 1 month, claims UPS is telling him that the packaging was not adequate. UPS will not refund me, the money has to go to him - but he won't file the paperwork to get the refund, he already has my $500 and couldn't care less about what happens to me.
5) I just filed a claim with Paypal (I paid with Paypal credit, since paid off). During the filing process it informed me that the initial 30 day wait for him to respond would be skipped and escalated the issue automatically, making me think his paypal account is inactive or suspended (he is still active on ebay, selling 2-3 items per day).
What did I do wrong here? I get the funny feeling paypal won't take care of this. I can even take a lesson to be learned, but what's the lesson here? What did I miss? I've been ebaying for years and been scammed before, so I'm careful about things already.
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