invalid user id allowed to buy

[vam194169]

How is it that someone using an invalid user ID is allowed to  buy and also use a bogus payment method. Buyer purchased a 86.00 brooch and Ebay put funds on hold for now over 2 months saying buyer filed a payment dispute which buyer says they did not file one.I feel I am getting screwed all  the way around.

[fbusoni]

@vam194169 

How did you determine that the buyer was using an invalid ID?  Is the buyer no longer a registered user (NARU)?  Have you been in direct contact with the buyer?

Unfortunately the sort of scenario you describe above -- which is more common in some selling categories than others from what I have observed --  is not at all unusual here on eBay.  

[dhbookds]

also use a bogus payment method

I may just need more coffee........but if it was a bogus payment method........why would you expect to be paid?  

[fbusoni]

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@dhbookds wrote:

also use a bogus payment method

I may just need more coffee........but if it was a bogus payment method........why would you expect to be paid?  

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Yes... and to top it off, eBay claims the buyer subsequently filed a payment dispute... although the buyer, who used a bogus payment method, denies having done so.  

Which makes sense... if buyer used a bogus payment method in the first place, the least he could do would be to tell the truth about filing a chargeback!

Something tells me that there are some lacunae in the storytelling above.