So they have this new buyer protection plan "thing" where the buyer can put a hold on the funds for up to 30 days. So last weekend we sold a dozen turkey eggs, buyer paid right away. Wonderful. Eggs were packaged and at the main PO at 8am Monday morning like we always do. Tuesday morning get a notice from paypal that the funds are on hold placed by the buyer due to dispute. Sharon calls paypal - very helpful, she gives them the tracking number of the package. It was even updating and showed the package moving thru the system - yaaaaay for the USPS. The package would be at it's destination by Wed. The person she talked to couldn't settle the dispute but had to kick it up a level so she told them the package was almost there and our funds are on hold. So they flagged it as a rush - Wedesday case closed, funds released to us!!!!!!!!!
As soon as we saw the dispute we sent emails to buyer via ebay and paypal...... no responce to either. Due to the lack of responce from the buyer I wonder if this is a new scam. If we didn't see it and react as fast as we did they could have closed the case and we would have been out the eggs and the shipping cost. Paypal was right there and did their part so that was good. If you sell on ebay keep an eye on your emails. If anybody wants the buyers ebay handle PM me.
Steve
As soon as we saw the dispute we sent emails to buyer via ebay and paypal...... no responce to either. Due to the lack of responce from the buyer I wonder if this is a new scam. If we didn't see it and react as fast as we did they could have closed the case and we would have been out the eggs and the shipping cost. Paypal was right there and did their part so that was good. If you sell on ebay keep an eye on your emails. If anybody wants the buyers ebay handle PM me.
Steve