Direct Debit Indemnity Claim - PayPal - Goods not Received

Buzby

This is not a police matter (as you discovered). Neither is it an emergency, and calling 999 is no better than complaining about a party next door - not their concern.

You may find making such a complaint will affect you more. Walk away - but learn from it!

Hominu

DailyClicker wrote: »

Edit: This eBay member has 100% positive feedback, and over 700 Feedback Score, and currently has 8 cosmetic items for sale, which I find very strange

Not really. You were foolish to pay for concert tickets outside of ebay instead of using a service that protects you. He knows you can't affect his feedback and can ignore any communication with you, knowing that ebay can't prove otherwise.

Lets just hope he gets your letter and does the right thing, else it means going to court to get this sorted rather than just lodging a dispute via ebay.

I see now that if you buy tickets via ebay, you no longer deal with the buyer directly, but rather you send the tickets to ebay, the buyer sends the funds and then ebay forwards on the tickets.

DailyClicker

Buzby wrote: »

This is not a police matter (as you discovered). Neither is it an emergency, and calling 999 is no better than complaining about a party next door - not their concern.

You may find making such a complaint will affect you more. Walk away - but learn from it!

Fraud is a Police matter and after emailing the local Police station where the individual lives, they have decided to investigate and attempted to pay him a visit earlier today.

Unfortunately he wasn't in, but they have a date for when he returns and will visit him again. This could potentially be a criminal matter, depending on his intentions and what he states when they return.

Hominu wrote: »

Not really. You were foolish to pay for concert tickets outside of ebay instead of using a service that protects you. He knows you can't affect his feedback and can ignore any communication with you, knowing that ebay can't prove otherwise.

Lets just hope he gets your letter and does the right thing, else it means going to court to get this sorted rather than just lodging a dispute via ebay.

I see now that if you buy tickets via ebay, you no longer deal with the buyer directly, but rather you send the tickets to ebay, the buyer sends the funds and then ebay forwards on the tickets.

Yes, I should have purchased the tickets through eBay, however this would not have helped as the 45 day Buyer Protection would have still applied.

eBay now use StubHub which is a marketplace designed for these transactions with more safeguards for both the buyer and seller of the tickets.

jonesMUFCforever

DailyClicker wrote: »

Fraud is a Police matter and after emailing the local Police station where the individual lives, they have decided to investigate and attempted to pay him a visit earlier today.

Unfortunately he wasn't in, but they have a date for when he returns and will visit him again. This could potentially be a criminal matter, depending on his intentions and what he states when they return.



Yes, I should have purchased the tickets through eBay, however this would not have helped as the 45 day Buyer Protection would have still applied.

eBay now use StubHub which is a marketplace designed for these transactions with more safeguards for both the buyer and seller of the tickets.

Well if i buy tickets from Ebay then I would have made sure those tickets were in my hand well before the 45 days were up.
This is your only protection so why not use it?

Hominu

DailyClicker wrote: »

Yes, I should have purchased the tickets through eBay, however this would not have helped as the 45 day Buyer Protection would have still applied.

But you would have opened the case before the 45 day period expired. If he didn't have the tickets to sell at the time you agreed to purchase them, he would be breaking ebay rules as your only allowed to do that on stubhub, which acts as the 'go between', waiting until they have both the money and tickets, but sending them to the other party.