Ebay dispute - Worst deal I ever had ...

[doctorq]

@countzero

If this is the worst you have ever experienced, consider yourself lucky. Many others have done a lot worse unfortunately.

Personally I have 3 defective Amiga 4000 motherboards laying around that I bought on ebay. All were advertised as fully working and without battery leakage. At least I have something, but it's still like tossing money out of the window :-(

[doctorq]

wow. you guys are inexperienced.

It's nothing about being inexperienced, just a matter of picking the right battles. In my cases I have confronted the sellers, and all say that I have broken them myself, so it's my word against theirs, even if I would have involved ebay or not.

[doctorq]

the money comes out of his account not paypal. and so doing disputes is the only way of keeping the idiots honest. because they loose out + postage...

Well, the disputes I have put up (and won) doesn't mean I get any money back. If the money has been withdrawn from the PayPal account, I can't get any money back. At least not with the last dispute I proceesed through PayPal, which is about a year ago.

[doctorq]

@monami

Yes, that's exactly what happend. And why I left it with that? There wasn't anything left to do. After the dispute was settle by PayPal, with me as the winner as the seller didn't reply, the sellers PayPal account was simply closed down.

If I were you I wouldn't count on always being so lucky as you seem to have been. PayPal and eBay isn't as flawless as you make it out to be.

[doctorq]

"flawless." not my words.

No, not your words, but you describe it like all you have to do, is to open a dispute with eBay, and you get it like you want it. Basic fact is; that's not how it works.