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The Policy on items sold in the Ebay / Paypal user agreement is that they will only accept proof by means of a trackable method. Of course, there is no way you can send Ebay or Paypal proof that the buyer has their item by sending proof of this, as they collected in person. Photos, signed receipts, photos of their car might be useful for the police, but Ebay / Paypal will not accept this. Try sending a photo of someone signing a receipt in your living room for any disputes, and see how far you get " You can photograph the buyer collecting the item, video them, get half a dozen neighbours round as witnesses, take DNA samples and yet none of this will be acceptable to PayPal and offer you any Seller Protection at all. Nor will the advice offered to accept a PayPal Gift payment - you can stil get hit with a chargeback. To meet the most basic criteria with Seller Protection, you are required to ship the item by trackable means to the address PayPal provide you with. If you cannot provide a tracking number to prove delivery, you will lose a dispute and could get hit with a chargeback months down the line (you'll pay £14 as an admin fee for the privilege of losing your money and your item too). It's all in the PayPal User Agreement in black and white. "

And what if the buyer says it wasn't him and his account was hacked ? It's been done before. The safest and most foolproof answer for collect only items is cash.

The well known scam is buyer pays by PP. They arrange collection in person with seller. Buyer collects item and when they get home, they do PP charge back, saying seller was not home when they turned up Seller cannot prove buyer took the goods. Paypal refunds buyer

@T-bay The safest option is collection only / cash payment. You do not have to accept Paypal for collection only items. Thats fact, and due to the well known scam you speak of. There are no comebacks whatsoever with that method

I'm speaking purely on Ebay purchases via Paypal, so maybe i should have stated, but the seller is still responsible for getting an item to the buyer on posted goods, no matter who arranges the postage. I checked this with Ebay Community Q&A as i thought i could pass the responsibilty to the buyer of posting items if the buyer arranged it. It's not true. Getting the goods to a buyer is not the buyers responsibility, even if they arrange it Private sales off of Ebay, say on BC, and Paypal was used, maybe different, but Paypal tend to refund buyers if the the seller cannot provide tracking details. In this case, the buyer would have proof ( assuming they asked for tracking option ) that the item was not delivered

If they were successful, what consequences do you see happening ? Accounts closed maybe ?

Good point. But i would still try the CC company. Can't lose anything by trying

Any seller is responsible for lost or damaged items. The insurance a seller should take out when posting is for the SELLERS' protection, not the buyers' It is therefore the seller's responsibility. Seller refunds you and seller claims off the the insurance. Thats why insurance exists. The seller owes you the full amount, but sadly, you paid by Paypal F+F and there's no charge back if using F+F. If he doesn't refund you the full amount, you're stuck. One thing though, if you paid by credit card on your Paypal account, and Paypal wont refund you, claim off your credit card

But still has 100% feedback

It was in a couple of different shops in London, to my knowledge

Thanks ! Yes, quite recent

Revival time My OS Deluxe ll Active, with filter circuit for each pickup, and attack boost on the Vol pull

Who knows what goes on in other's heads. It sounds like he doesnt know what he's doing.

With regard to the string gauges he fitted - he says 9's or 10's - these are not Baritone string gauges. They're regular 6 string leccy guitar gauges. Baritone gauge would be something like 13-72 or there abouts. What he's done is take a factory built 7 string and converted it to a 6 string. Utterly pointless

Or that nasty knot in a lump of wood ? Bet you've had to deal with a few of those bar stewards

Likewise. More super caprentry

A knot is something you put into rope / string etc., and it's also a bird. You mean 'not '

Our band ranges from 48 - 63 but then again, we're not a rock n roll band.

Oh merde. Si seulement je pouvais parler français

Or a strange shape family pet ?