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Walt

Hi everyone,

About a week ago I bought something from a second hand online site (kinda like eBay) I payed with PayPal. It was taking him a week to send it so I started looking at his account. I saw that he was selling the exact same product again (same photos). That’s the reason I think I’m getting scammed. I did not asked him about this. 

Now he said he had problems with his PayPal account and he will refund it to me. Then he wants me to send the money to his other PayPal account. Is this a trick? (I don’t know PayPal but can he take the money back or something? So he has double the money?)

Thanks!

 

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18 minutes ago, Walt said:

Hi everyone,

About a week ago I bought something from a second hand online site (kinda like eBay) I payed with PayPal. It was taking him a week to send it so I started looking at his account. I saw that he was selling the exact same product again (same photos). That’s the reason I think I’m getting scammed. I did not asked him about this. 

Now he said he had problems with his PayPal account and he will refund it to me. Then he wants me to send the money to his other PayPal account. Is this a trick? (I don’t know PayPal but can he take the money back or something? So he has double the money?)

Thanks!

 

I would take the refund, and say no thank you.

 

Likely he's having a problem with his PayPal account because it got flagged for scamming ;)

 

If he refuses the refund, contact PayPal immediately to open a dispute.

 

You could of course, take your chances and try the 2nd account, but I wouldn't risk it.

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5 minutes ago, dalekphalm said:

I would take the refund, and say no thank you.

 

Likely he's having a problem with his PayPal account because it got flagged for scamming ;)

 

If he refuses the refund, contact PayPal immediately to open a dispute.

 

You could of course, take your chances and try the 2nd account, but I wouldn't risk it.

Thanks for the quick respone!

I think I'm not taking that risk ;) And there is now way he can cancel the refund later and keep the money?

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6 minutes ago, Walt said:

Thanks for the quick respone!

I think I'm not taking that risk ;) And there is now way he can cancel the refund later and keep the money?

I have no idea if you can cancel a refund - never tried to.

 

But if he somehow manages, just contact PayPal immediately and ask them to force the refund.

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14 hours ago, Canada EH said:

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17 hours ago, dalekphalm said:

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Now he said he can’t send it back to me and I need to open a dispute so I can get it back. Is this a trick? (So I maybe can’t open dispute for the second time to report him as scammer?) Or does he really have problems with his account?

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23 hours ago, Walt said:

(kinda like eBay)

 

That 'like' in there means you lose eBay's powerful buyer protection and get basically no protection. 

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8 hours ago, Walt said:

 

Now he said he can’t send it back to me and I need to open a dispute so I can get it back. Is this a trick? (So I maybe can’t open dispute for the second time to report him as scammer?) Or does he really have problems with his account?

At this point, drop everything, contact PayPal right now, and open a dispute asking for a full refund.

 

He's for sure trying to scam you lol - and on the tiny chance he actually is having legit PayPal account issues? Not your problem, not worth the risk.

 

Also I hope this is a lesson - unless the "ebay-like" site has "ebay-like" buyer protections too, you should probably just stick to eBay.

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