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I'm interested in buying a laptop off of ebay, and I was going to pay via paypal, If I was to send them funds via paypal, and they didn't send me the comp, could I press charges on them? I know Paypal refunds up to $500, but I was planning on spending a bit more than this.

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I'm interested in buying a laptop off of ebay, and I was going to pay via paypal, If I was to send them funds via paypal, and they didn't send me the comp, could I press charges on them? I know Paypal refunds up to $500, but I was planning on spending a bit more than this.

I haven't done this myself, but I'm guessing that would be handled by eBay, and not PayPal (even though PayPal is owned by eBay). I would check if eBay has any Help-type pages on the matter.

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I'm interested in buying a laptop off of ebay, and I was going to pay via paypal, If I was to send them funds via paypal, and they didn't send me the comp, could I press charges on them? I know Paypal refunds up to $500, but I was planning on spending a bit more than this.

You can add addition insurance to your purchase. I suggest you do that.

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Yeah. One time:

A NEW Zire 71 Handheld - $27.00 :o

Turned out they were selling the information rather than the actual device. And they put that in the fine print were you don't normally read.

;)

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positive feedback isnt always a thing u can trust. few months ago i bought some paintball pods from a guy that had like 98.5 positive feedback and it turned out he had ripped off like 5 more people.

I got my money refunded by ebay.....but it was only 40 bucks.

I also recommend you add insurance to ur purchase.

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Not that its at all common, but see if they accept an Escrow service, where he sends the laptop to eBay or whoever the escrow service is, and then when you send the money to them, they ship you the item and give the seller his money. That way, if you sent the money and he never sent the laptop, you'd get your money back for sure. Problem is not many people accept any kind of Escrow. Just a suggestion. I can't really say much else because I've never been ripped off on eBay, surprisingly after 130+ purchases.

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Not that its at all common, but see if they accept an Escrow service, where he sends the laptop to eBay or whoever the escrow service is, and then when you send the money to them, they ship you the item and give the seller his money. That way, if you sent the money and he never sent the laptop, you'd get your money back for sure. Problem is not many people accept any kind of Escrow. Just a suggestion. I can't really say much else because I've never been ripped off on eBay, surprisingly after 130+ purchases.

I agree that service would be good. I buy everything through PayPal because its fast and gets your money zippity quick. You can get the sellers contact information which they must supply, so you can actually call this person up and rip them a new one. I did this when a month had gone by and had not recieved some Magic: The Gather cards I had paid $10 for (crazy I know...), and I mean 10 bucks is 10 bucks, I'm not gonna let some idiot rip me off for that, heck I'm in college, a penny is a lot! 125 pennies = 1 load of laundry (washer only lol). Anywho I called him, total of three times, and he said every time they were being sent. This upset me greatly, I'd swear but it'll just be **** out. Anywho I filed using that SquareTrade or whatever and by Ebay's buyer protection thing, and his approval rating was 98.5 which I figured was high, BUT still you have to look because there were many ppl having the same problem as me. He wasn't sending the items, not responding to emails, blowing you off on phone calls. He even tried to tell me he was at work when I called once...I'm like you put your work phone for your contact number on Ebay? Think not buddy. Anywho I finally recieved the cards about 90 days after I had paid, I left him a nasty NEGATIVE feedback...the ****er. (Yea I swore there)

But other than that no problems with Ebay.

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Even beware "escrow" services these days unless you know what you're doing.

If you pay by Paypal, use a credit card through Paypal rather than a debit from your checking account or something. At worst, your credit card *should* still protect you (though you may want to double-check their policies first, let alone those of Paypal).

Perhaps you can even arrange something like you submit half of the funds now via Paypal, half following receipt of the item???

Beware seller feedback in advance whatever you do....

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