heynoel wrote:
Timebandit,
thanks for the great advice! I am pretty worried at this point, he gave me a tracking number supposedly for usps that is not registering, and it was supposedly sent out on friday. I had no idea about the last listing of this watch - did you have it in your watch list? I would like to file a pp claim, but they state i need to wait 7 days before filing a claim. the seller did ask me to leave positive feedback when I get the watch so he can "collect the funds from paypal" Do folks here think I should go ahead and file (maybe the system won't let me?) or dispute with my credit card? I will try to call the guy later. it's 6 am here.
thank you everyone!
There is some positive in that!
It could be because of the holiday why the tracking didn't register, so keep trying it.
I've had my Paypal and Ebay accounts for a long time, but am familiar with funds being held for new users or sellers with low feedback, and in this case that is very good! If I were you I'd look up the criteria for funds being held, and even consider calling Paypal to see if they can/will confirm the funds from your transaction are on hold. If Paypal says you have to wait 7 days for a claim then I think your hands are tied as far as a PP, but again, if they are holding the money I think the hold is like 21 days so you should be ok. So try to find out the status of the payment, and contacting him probably still wouldn't hurt, and maybe you've even done so by now. Again the watch in the pictures are real, but when there's something else you find that's shady, like the other listing he had, you have to question if the pics aren't stolen.