I had no problem collecting my $175 from eBay when my "seller" took the money and ran. The process was cumbersome but worked exactly as advertised. Martin Needleman Annapolis, MD
Joe Bender-Zanoni wrote:
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> The most you can collect is $175 in theory.
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> I tried this on a fraudulent transaction. My suspicion is that actual
> payouts from ebay almost never occur. The process is ponderous, the service
> horrible, the decisions capricious and non-appealable. Has anyone on the
> list ever been defrauded on ebay and collected?
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