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can anyone help

can anyone help i recently paid for an item i got off ebay with a postal order, i haven,t yet recieved the item and now the seller is no longer a registered member, the question is will i get my item or money back.

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  • What feedback rating did the seller have?

    I'm guessing you probably won't see the item or your money.
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  • he has 99.4 positive , also when i read feedback a few have complained that dvd,s may be fake, it gets better.!!!
  • Reading feedback first helps sometimes :o
  • i realise that now , feel a bit of a fool but am using excuse that im new to ebay.
  • milkywoo wrote: »
    i realise that now , feel a bit of a fool but am using excuse that im new to ebay.

    How long has it been since you paid?
  • Have you still got the stub from the postal order? If you take that to the Post Office, they can tell you when/if it's been cashed. If it hasn't been cashed they'll cancel it for you (and if the seller comes back and moans about it, your reasons for doing so are perfectly valid and you can offer to send another if you want to...)
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  • soolin
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    If the postal order has been cashed then I'm afraid you have lost your money as there is no ebay compensation at all for payment methods apart from paypal. However, if the seller has been suspended for selling fakes he may well still ship the items, so if the payment was sent recently you may still get something by post.
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