Mary, sorry to hear of your payment troubles. How can a Paypal payment be bogus? Is it that a credit card that at one point was viable has been cancelled? There are more than just "some" honest folks out there, but when you experience the "dark side", it tends to belittle the positive for awhile. Hoping that this will be your last run-in with the creeps.
Dennis Young
Hotaka, Japan
>
> Edwin Lommers of Celebration, FL (aka kmps64). Anybody on the list know
> this guy?
>
> He purchases some brake levers from me & pays the next day via PayPal.
> Ok, so far, so good. I ship the levers the day after, like a good little
> ebay seller. He gives me good feedback a few days later, so I assume he
> has the brake levers. His feedback is all ok. All is well, or so I think.
>
> Two days later, PayPal puts a freeze on the funds, stating that they
> think it's a bogus payment. I email this guy multiple times, with no
> response. I go back to double-check his feedback, & now there are 4 new
> negatives, for the same thing! EBay pulls his registration. So I can't
> even leave bad feedback. But I do block him as a bidder (not that it
> will make a bit of difference). And because he doesn't have a verified
> address, I have no protection.
>
> No brakes, no money, no help. Luckily, it wasn't a lot of money, but
> still. And here's the punch line-if I had spent the money from my PayPal
> account before they froze it, I would have been responsible to pay them
> back! Jeez!
>
> Mary Kaminski
> Philly, PA
>
> PS: After dealing with everyone on this list & the iBob list, we get
> spoiled a little & forget that not everyone is as wonderful to deal
> with. FWIW, that was really nice of Baron & Cecile to help out. Nice to
> know that there are still some honest folks in the world.