Scam : Bought a video-card of ebay, the price was too good to be true ( right under 250$) and it was a seller with 0 feedback and registered on the same day, but hey, with ebay buyer protection I though if anything will go wrong I can be covered, beside I was also once a brand new seller on ebay, so I though that discrimination like this was unfair from my part. So far it appears to be wrong.
I bought the item with "buy it now" on may 26th. On may 27th the seller contacted me via email saying that he shipped the item and that it will arrive in 5-10 buinsess days. Well I was waiting for the item to arrive, and on June 3rd, after 5pm ( my local mail office got closed already) he posted a confirmation number that some item was delivered to my town on 31st of may. Well I sure didn't receive it. So I contacted the seller - got no response via email, via ebay and via phone number that ebay provided me with. I also went to my local post office on the very next day and they say that some item was delivered to some adress at oberlin at 16:41pm, although my post was delivered at around 12pm, also there was no weight or size properties that are usually present when usps delivers a box ( and a 3-slot video card should weight around 5 pounds). Well ebay didnt allow me to open the case because the guy posted a random confirmation number after a whole WEEK after the item supposedly shipped, so I've opened a dispute with paypal, but it appears that my chances of winning the case are slim just because of that confirmation number that doesn't indicate anything besides the town and the zipcode. I'm going to try my luck tomorrow with the post office to see if the mailman who was delivering the package or whatever it could be remembers where was the delivery made, and go from there. But I can't belive that such a huge loophole in the buyer protection exicst and ebay nor paypal seem to really care about it.
