New Policy Change at Paypal? Why would anyone use ebay/paypal going forward.

[D. Bergin]

Originally Posted by ctownboy

My question is, if a buyer buys a piece of crap, how does eBay/PayPal know they destroyed the piece of crap after they get their money back?

What keeps the buyer from holding onto the crap for some period of time and then listing it on eBay? Better yet, what keeps the buyer from selling it at a local auction?

If I were shady, I could make a LOT of money with this new policy. I could search eBay all day for known crap, buy it then, once I get it, file a complaint with PayPal and get my money back. After that I could take the items to local auction houses and sell them and whatever I get would be pure profit.

David

If you were shady, you could make a lot of money buying known good material, file a complaint with Paypal and sell it wherever you wanted.

After all, being shady doesn't limit you to only ripping off bad sellers.

Fortunately I tend to think this falls in the Urban Legend category. I've seen this rumor floating around the internet regarding Ebay and Paypal for years now.