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discountstore57 · ‎03-19-2021

Our business is not getting ripped off. We will file a police report and go to small claims court. Protect yourself. Get a free business license, and start paying your required taxes. It’s on you when your money is taken. You won’t always win on EBAY. Take it to court. Drive there and add it to your court cost or taxes. If we keep letting these people get away with it, we will continue to have profit loss. When you run out of cost of goods to claim, you need alternatives. Address it legally! We will be filing a police report.

Thank you,

Representative 57

duncanvr · ‎03-19-2021

Some of these online scammers need to feel the full force of the law. Online shopping should be policed and they should be going after some of these cyber criminals. Lets face it they are thieves and know how to cheat the system for free stuff. It should not be at the expense of trusted sellers. Good on you standing up to some of those scammers. More sellers need to follow this. I don't know how those scammers can sleep at night.

soh.maryl · ‎03-19-2021

You haven't specified how you were ripped off. Guess I don't need to remind you that eBay offers a very good Money Back Guarantee for its buyers. Did you attempt to utilize that in whatever situation you might be having?

releasethekraken_1 · ‎03-19-2021

@soh.maryl wrote:
You haven't specified how you were ripped off. Guess I don't need to remind you that eBay offers a very good Money Back Guarantee for its buyers. Did you attempt to utilize that in whatever situation you might be having?

Seems to me that the OP is a seller (598 seller feedback, 1 as a buyer). The MBG may be the source of their problem, not the solution.

maxine*j · ‎03-19-2021

@soh.maryl wrote:
You haven't specified how you were ripped off. Guess I don't need to remind you that eBay offers a very good Money Back Guarantee for its buyers. Did you attempt to utilize that in whatever situation you might be having?

OP sounds more like a seller than a buyer. While I have no idea what OP's beef is, I'll agree to its overall sentiment: Sellers who treat their sales here as a business, do the minimum to set it up as a legal business entity, learn the fundamentnals of operating a retail business, et cetera, are less likely to be scammed, and when they are their monetary losses will be less.

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vintagecraze50 · ‎03-19-2021

Very good idea- police reports are encouraged by Ebay when a buyer steals from you. Small claims court cases are relatively easy to file and if the buyer does not show up you win the case, and then they GO AFTER the buyer in collections, give them a bad credit rating. Even if you never recover your money or item, it teaches these people a good lesson.

releasethekraken_1 · ‎03-19-2021

@vintagecraze50 wrote:
Very good idea- police reports are encouraged by Ebay when a buyer steals from you. Small claims court cases are relatively easy to file and if the buyer does not show up you win the case, and then they GO AFTER the buyer in collections, give them a bad credit rating. Even if you never recover your money or item, it teaches these people a good lesson.

Don't small claims cases have to be filed in the buyer's jurisdiction? That's pretty limiting.

fern*wood · ‎03-19-2021

I agree with the taxes/business part, but I'm curious as to how many small claim courts you have traveled to and won.

postingid2017 · ‎03-19-2021

A few weeks ago, one People's Court case was one that the buyer stated that the item was not authentic, she stated that she did not return it but 'gave it away to a friend,' therefore she could not return it, even when eBay forced the seller to refund. Seller filed ~~thief~~ Buyer and she won - ~~the thief~~ had to refund the amount to Seller and informed the ~~thief buyer~~ if she had a problem with that, then tell eBay to contact the Judge.