I sold a luxury item for £100 last week. Through bids. Item includes all invoicing to prove authenticity (and I'm a long-standing successful seller with lots of fb)
Buyer paid, I was watching telly and had my phone on me and saw the PayPal notification come through, in real time.
Not even thirty seconds later I get a message from buyer saying "item is not real, I want my money back" and a load of mildly threatening language. Buyer has 8 feedback.
I'm not bothered, I've been on eBay long enough to know how it works so just went in to PayPal to refund - but the payment was on hold "there's something amiss with this payment so we've frozen it to protect your account "
This Immediately sets off feelings of something isn't right.
I message buyer back to say "your payment is on hold I'll return it when it clears"
Cue some more slightly threatening messages, but nothing I'm particularly bothered about. I think they wanted to panic me into refunding and possibly playing into their trap, but I didn't.
So now the payment has cleared and is there for me to withdraw or return. I haven't yet, I'm trying to work out if it's some weird, elaborate scam.
Anyway, now buyer has started a case that he "wants to return the item" - returning the item that's still on my dresser upstairs!
Can anyone shed any light?