Posted by Gunther Gloop on 07/31/06 11:55

Lee Mellows wrote:
>> You should contact the seller and make it plain to him that you will
>> be taking action before the 30 day paypal/ebay limit.
>> How very convenient it is that he leaves the country for just over a
>> month just after getting shut of faulty goods?
>>
>> Tell him you will not neg him if he refunds your money within a
>> week... no waiting for cheques to arrive either.
>>
>> After that (tell him) you will have no option but to be as thorough
>> as possible in seeing that nobody else gets caught in this way by
>> him. After that you can notify paypal, ebay, neg him on ebay, and post
>> his
>> details on newsgroups and forums if you are confident he is a
>> chancer. ...Try the "softly softly" approach first, but if he is saying
>> right-off that he won't deal with it until after September 1st you
>> have the right to crank it up asap I would say.
>
>
> Ah, well, I've been digging a bit deeper and it seems that the Paypal
> limit is actually 45 days. I have 45 days from payment (shown by
> Paypal to be the 21st) to register a dispute, then 20 days after that
> to register a claim.
> He says that he will be back on Friday 1st Sept. The deadline runs
> out the following Monday. If he IS away there will be nothing he can
> do about it till then. He has good feedback and I have no reason to
> think he is pulling a fast one (suspicious though it is). I feel I
> should really let him check that it is broken before he pays me back,
> but if it's bounced off his doorstep he'll have to pick it up from
> the PO, so it's all a bit tight.
> Moral dilllema no.5

Dunno about Paypal, but ebay used to be 30 days. Is there a difference now
that they're both the same?

If he intends letting you wait until after he gets satisfaction from the
post-office it'll be more like 1030days (if! ...and I doubt it).
What's he going to do when he gets back anyway (if he's away)?
-Look at it and go "yeah it's broken, I'd better pay this guy his money"?

If it was me, I might consider waiting if the deadline for pp and ebay are
both 45 days... but only after letting him know how serious I am and what I
intend doing in early September.

-Kevin.

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