PAY PAL question

[Ralph Wiggum]

Yep, definitely would go directly to paypal to see what's happened. I'd go as far as letting him know that's what you're doing.

Paypal is pretty rock solid, a "problem with payment" sounds like a crock to me.

[ZoonMaster5000]

Basically it sounds like he's told eBay you defaulted on your payment and now he's still doing the transaction via the backdoor at PayPal without ebays knowledge.

Pretty dodgy but at least you will still be covered by PayPal.

[Bladestorm]

Sounds like he's trying to pocket the profit from the eBay fees by avoiding processing the payment through them. The way he is doing it he only has to pay the paypal fees.

I'd tread with caution and talk to eBay/Paypal as you don't want to get in trouble because he is trying to do the dodge.
Buying an item you've already brought or discussed buying on eBay through other means (even just through paypal) is against eBay policy so you don't want to innocently be pinged with a mark against your account.

Good luck with it.

[UltraMarginal]

Well, before I could act on it in any way, I received an email from eBay saying that the listing had been removed. Noting that I had received a refund they said that if I was asked to pay otherwise and had, I needed to talk to the money transfer organisation and organise a refund.

I've since been and checked out the seller again and all his listings have been removed, and in the last week he has 5 negative feedback for doing exactly the same thing to 5 others.

I can't even leave negative feedback now as the listing no longer exists.
I have not sent any money. I wonder if it's a hacked account because it had over 100 positive feedback and has been around for a while.