Just a little update. The Post Office said this package is eligible for interception since the buyer paid for it to be transferred. I got to thinking if they issued a new tracking number. That would explain why the current number has not been updated. Just a thought, I am really not sure. They were not much of any help. I will have to talk to the Postmaster at my local office tomorrow. I called eBay and you can guess how that went. The lady from the Philippines was very nice but stated the refund happened because it was well past the estimated time for delivery. I will to try to talk to someone Stateside tomorrow afternoon.
I am not concerned about the item, we average three or so thefts a month. This is the second this week. I had a buyer request a return on a small item a few weeks ago. Standard return of a small car part. Well the part was never sent back but I kept getting the annoying "Has the item been returned message" from eBay. These typically time out after a few weeks and nothing come of it. Fast forward to this week I get an eBay message that the item has been returned. I check the return status and it shows "buyer return" but their is no tracking number. Ebay says to refund now or they will do it for me, you all know the message. Being a cheap $10 item, I sent the refund instead of dealing with Ebays nonsense. Buyer got to keep the item and got a refund. Good times for all 🙂
Sorry kind of getting off course, the thing is our Dealership has a primary Ecommerce site that sells thousands of dollars worth of parts per month. That site does not have nearly the amount of fraud as we have here on eBay. I have a lot of great eBay customers but the scammers are really taking a toll. I just do not see how it is right for a buyer to steal an item, get a full refund, the seller gets a defect and what will most likely end with a neg for my time. I had something simialur happen back in December of last year, defect and all. The odd thing about that one was the defect disapeared after a month. It is my understanding they last for a year. Like I said good time had by all.
I will post an update tomorrow. Thank you for all of the help and suggestions, I check out these forums everyday to find out the lastest an greatest scams. It looks like this will be the one that takes away the last options sellers had for protection.
