Potential scam?

[steveg1714]

Is there a scam out there where a seller of a high ticket item will deliberately give you a tracking number for a FedEx package that is not for you, and act as if it was delivered? I ordered an item that was claimed to be brand new and was 1/3 the price of anyone else selling on other platforms. I purchased the item using PayPal and last night at 8pm eBay sent me a notification that my item was being shipped and gave a tracking number. I followed the link on the tracking number and it claims it was delivered at 8am and signed for by someone at a front desk. I live in a single family home so that is odd. Also I was not able to get proof of delivery because when I put in my address it was not associated with that package.

So my question is, was I scammed? What is my fastest recourse to refund my money? How can anyone profit from such a scam? 

[eburtonlab]

@steveg1714 

If tracking shows delivery but you do not receive anything, check with the shipping service to determine if the tracking number corresponds to a delivery to your address.

If not, you may be the victim of a false tracking scam or the seller may have given you the wrong tracking number by mistake. Either way, see here for some good instructions about what you can do about it:

https://community.ebay.com/t5/Shipping/What-do-you-do-when-ebay-support-will-not-help-you/m-p/340803...

What kind of feedback for selling does your seller have? You can avoid many issues by choosing to only do business with sellers that have a proven track record of delivering what was sold and that have sold similar sorts of items before. Avoid new or unproven sellers, sellers with a pattern of serious negative feedback, or sellers that have drastically changed behavior or that have unexplained gaps in selling feedback, and avoid deals that are "too good to be true".