Beware ebay sellers who don't accept paypal
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For the second time in as many months I've paid for an item I won on ebay with a cheque (sent a printout of the invoice with the cheque) and both times after cashing the cheque the seller has contacted me to say that it hasn't arrived (different sellers but both auctions for Mini parts).

By fluke the first time it happen I had to go to see the bank about something else, so I checked with them to see if it had been cashed, but I was very close to blindly writting another cheque and posting it off (it could have easilly got lost in the post).

The second time I was a bit more suspicious and automatically checked my bank account to see if the cheque had been cashed, and low and behold it had.

From now on it's going to be a case of no paypal no purchase(except for collection in person)

Edited by Rob H on 29th Jul, 2006.

That's terrible, and so stupid! How difficult is it to cheque, it's not a foolproof scam is it?

Have you reported to ebay?

i dont mind sending cheques

1) you have there address
2) you have proof cheque has been cashed
3) you have there name

you need all the above to claim your money back though court

personally i am thinking of giving up on paypal and only accepting cheques or cash, i have been ripped off twice now with brand new equipment that i have sold, they have complained to paypal that its not as described paypal give money back regardless of what i say and i recive back a completly different piece of equipment

IMHO paypal is run by a bunch of monkeys with there heads up there arse

I only do paypalwhen i absolutely have to.

In short - I never purchsase off anyone who has dubious feedback however. THAT alone is the tell-tale IMO.

dont get me stared about paypal!!!
paid for some thing in late october and due to there cock up they have only just taken the money out of my account thus now making me overdrawn and shagged for xmas.
isnt live great!!!!!!
and paypal response is..... we had a problem on that day, well why the hell dont they email me and say that they are having to take the money in december,
arhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Hello chris, welcome to TM m8y.
Must admit had paypal make me overdrawn. Take damn for ever to do anything!

6 or 7 weeks to take a payment have you heard of anything like that before.
i've cancelled my card, phone the bank and asked them to look into it.
what gets me is that paypal know theresa problem but dont tell any about it until they've taken the payment!!!!!
havent they heard of emails!!!!
oh and thanks for the welsome milamber, and with luck i'll win another of your turbo buklhead box.