posted on November 3, 2000 04:03:31 PM new
One more reason I decided to dump Payhell. They won't accept the standard green slip insurance receipt for items insured for under $50. Delivery Confirmation is only for items over 11 ounces or sent Priority Mail. Most of my items are antique postcards, sent for a $1.00. Buyers WANT that, they don't want to pay over $3 to send a postcard. OK, consider this scam, the buyer pays for insurance and pays by Paypal. He claims it never arrived and asks you to file for the insurance. You do and reimburse him. In the meantime, without letting the seller know, he also makes the same claim to his credit card company who removes the charge from his account causing Paypal to make a chargeback against the seller and take funds from your bank account. End result the scamming buyer can get the item for nothing PLUS the amount charged refunded to him as well! The seller loses the item plus actually pays the jerk on top of it! You don't find out until the funds come out your account, he already has the refund you sent him. Payhell offers NO protection to it's sellers.
posted on November 3, 2000 04:49:38 PM new
Scammers come in two flavors: kids and drug addicts. The kids don't have any money and want kid stuff or x-rated stuff. Not antique postcards. The drug addicts want cash, or something easily converted to cash. Ever tried to sell antique postcards out of a car in a strip mall parking lot?
"hey buddy, check this out. A gen-u-ine real-photo card from Circle, Montana in 1905. Worth $10, but I'll let you have it for $3. Yes. It's real, see for yourself. You really think I printed it on my inkjet printer? Damn, I think the guy from that store called the cops again..."
posted on November 3, 2000 05:36:58 PM new
Beg to differ, I have had no less than 3 different scams tried on me this month alone, all involving old postcards. Most everyone has a bit of the scam in their blood if they see an easy opportunity. One lady bought a very rare card that was in poor condition. I VERY clearly stated it's poor condition and warned in the listing not to bid unless you just wanted it for historical research and the condition did not matter. Bidding was still fierce, and she bought it but did not insure it. I felt funny about her and and paid for the insurance myself. I didn't tell her that though. A couple of weeks later she said it hadn't arrived. I replied with the date of mailing. She wrote back asking if it was insured. I replied "why would you ask that? You know you didn't pay for insurance". She never replied to that. I was tickled imagining her dilemna, she was disappointed at the condition, but she couldn't say much since I was so specific about it in the listing, she wanted to claim it hadn't arrived but I could prove it had, she couldn't say she knew it was insured because that would be admitting it HAD arrived and she had seen the "insured" stamp on it. The problem now is, she paid by payhell and I bet she'll try to claim it there. I am so glad I am out of payhell.
