Am I in the wrong here?

WestieFan

This is follow up to a previous thread. DS and I share the same ebay account.
To cut a long story short, he bought jeans (£75). Goes to pay and paypal won't work because email address does not belong to seller. Contact seller, says he made mistake with listing, he has to send money to another email address.

Seller has 94.7% on 17 transactions. I pulled his details and a different name to what he signs his messages with came up. He also wasn't able to answer a question about exact measurements (dropshipping?).

Having been stung before, we are very suspicious and send him a message saying we are not happy with paying money to another address (any excuse for paypal to refuse to help if it goes wrong!).
Seller then wants a guarantee that if he relists on a BIN we will buy it immediately. As there was a lot of interest, we said if it was us we would relist as an auction, as he may get a higher bid. He messes about for nearly a week, asking what he should do. We mailed him saying that DS wanted them for holidays (left on Tuesday) and it was probably too late now to get them on time. Anyway, with all the messing about DS has lost interest and bought another pair in town at the weekend. Anyway, seller relists on Monday and opens a dispute. He is sending 2 or 3 messages a day.

Did we do the wrong thing in refusing to pay to another address? We don't really want a strike as if he hadn't messed up his listing none of this would have happened.

mcwarre

Sounds like someone has hacked an account to me; especially the different sinage... Be very careful. At worst eBay will give you a npb strike. So what? It doesn't count unless you do more than one and £75 is a lot to risk. Follow your intuition....

lapat

contact ebay for false information and dispute the claim in the same way
ebay are actually starting to take note of complaints due to all the stick they are getting

WestieFan

That Thanks button is getting to be like the scarlett pimpernel!!!

Thanks folks. I didnt know I could dispute the claim. I dont know how this dispute thing works but we are getting messages 2 or 3 times a day just repeating himself. Will go look now how to do it.

Thanks again.

Oops, there it is, have clicked!