[78-L] Insurance

[David Lennick]

Interesting. I've never claimed through P**pal, only through AMEX which is 
linked to my account. I had a similar instance, someone in North Ontario 
selling transcriptions...someone apologized on her behalf at one point, citing 
family or personal difficulties, but there were no further replies, no further 
sales, she disappeared from eBay and AMEX reimbursed me and said they'd try and 
go after the seller (obviously they got no further than I did).

A few other instances of broken records resulted in immediate refunds, while 
others were ignored..those sellers were never visited by me again. One moron 
accused me of buying records and taping them and returning them (in fact I did 
not return them, and they're still here, broken). Another imbecile claimed that 
I didn't know what I was talking about because all his friends agreed that the 
LPs I returned (which weren't fit to put on the wall, let alone try and play) 
sounded fine. That was when I stopped looking at eBay entirely. I now hear from 
a lot of dealers who refuse to list there anymore, citing ridiculous limits on 
shipping costs..in the UK I understand, shipping cost has to be included in the 
selling price.

dl

DAVID BURNHAM wrote:
> I had an instance about 4 or 5 years ago where I ordered a couple of sets on e-bay and paid for them, (as I always do), as soon as I had won them.  These sets never arrived and all e-mails were ignored.  I finally contacted pay pal and was re-imbursed.  Several weeks later the seller contacted me and apologized for not sending the items, telling me something about a death in the family or whatever.  She asked me to pay for them again and she would send them to me.  I told her to ship them to me and I would pay for them as soon as they arrived, (pointing out that I had a 100% rating and was reliable).  She refused.  She lived in Spokane, Washington, and as I was passing by her front door a couple of weeks later I paid her a visit.  The people living there told me she had moved away months ago and that many people had been contacting the new owners about undelivered items.  Although Pay Pal did cover the amount, they did point out that this was
>  the only claim I could make for a certain period - I think it was a year.
> 
> db
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