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Buyer trying to scam me

This is probably a familiar story on here, but if anyone can see a way out of this for me I'd be grateful.

I sold a shirt on Ebay about a month ago for about £10 including postage.
The buyer was based in Singapore and I did not send it tracked. About a week later the buyer contacted me to ask me to leave him feedback. I asked him to confirm he had received the item, which he did. Alarm bells rung, so I checked his feedback, and it seems he has a history of saying he had not received item. I sat back and waited for his dispute to come in. Sure enough, today he opened an INR claim. I phoned Paypal to tell them he was trying to scam me, but they just said even though I have a message from him saying he had received the item, if I didn't have tracking info, they would just refund him. It's only £10, but it's the principle of it.

Is there anything I can do? Would Ebay do anything? This guy should be banned from Ebay, but he seems to have got away with this scam a number of times.
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  • kazwookie
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    Block overseas buyers for the future
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  • terra_ferma
    terra_ferma Posts: 5,484 Forumite
    kazwookie wrote: »
    Block overseas buyers for the future

    you'd miss out on a lot of good buyers for no purpose, as you can equally get scammed from a UK buyer
    but please go ahead, it can only mean buyers who sell abroad will make more money.... :D
  • you'd miss out on a lot of good buyers for no purpose, as you can equally get scammed from a UK buyer
    but please go ahead, it can only mean buyers who sell abroad will make more money.... :D

    But, it's much harder to protect yourself overseas - as trackable to the door postage is expensive. At least if the rip off buyer was in the UK, you could cheaply send them an emptry trackable letter to 'prove' delievery :)
  • martindow
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    If you have a certificate of posting you can claim from RM so you won't be out of pocket.
  • martindow
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    But, it's much harder to protect yourself overseas - as trackable to the door postage is expensive. At least if the rip off buyer was in the UK, you could cheaply send them an emptry trackable letter to 'prove' delievery :)
    What, after they had opened a claim? Or do you do this to every buyer?
  • Crowqueen
    Crowqueen Posts: 5,726 Forumite
    But, it's much harder to protect yourself overseas - as trackable to the door postage is expensive. At least if the rip off buyer was in the UK, you could cheaply send them an emptry trackable letter to 'prove' delievery :)
    So you scam buyers like this all the time?
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  • Crowqueen wrote: »
    So you scam buyers like this all the time?

    Huh? What, because I know the cons tricks going on in ebay I must be scammer? What a stupid question.

    For you information - I send all my items trackable, unless the value is a couple of quid then I'll take the loss if it get's lost.
  • terra_ferma
    terra_ferma Posts: 5,484 Forumite
    Huh? What, because I know the cons tricks going on in ebay I must be scammer? What a stupid question.

    For you information - I send all my items trackable, unless the value is a couple of quid then I'll take the loss if it get's lost.

    I don't expect you sell much on ebay then.
  • terra_ferma
    terra_ferma Posts: 5,484 Forumite
    But, it's much harder to protect yourself overseas - as trackable to the door postage is expensive. At least if the rip off buyer was in the UK, you could cheaply send them an emptry trackable letter to 'prove' delievery :)

    In the same way as there are rip off buyers anywhere in the world, there are rip off sellers like yourself anywhere in the world.
    If every time someone claims non-receipt you act this way, you have probably scammed genuine buyers as well as the scammers. So you are no different from the people trying to scam you.
  • In the same way as there are rip off buyers anywhere in the world, there are rip off sellers like yourself anywhere in the world.
    If every time someone claims non-receipt you act this way, you have probably scammed genuine buyers as well as the scammers. So you are no different from the people trying to scam you.

    I have never ever scammed anybody, but don't let the facts of the matter ruin your rant.
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