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Not necessarily. Card theft, yes; bad/no product is fuzzy. If a shady seller can prove delivery of a package to the buyer, it becomes much harder for the buye
by tedmiston 8y ago
Not necessarily. Card theft, yes; bad/no product is fuzzy.
If a shady seller can prove delivery of a package to the buyer, it becomes much harder for the buyer to get through winning a dispute irrespective of what the package's contents were. Particularly if the merchandise is counterfeit but definitely proving that it's counterfeit is difficult.
Also with forum commerce for used things, it's difficult to sort out "this item isn't is the condition that was communicated to me".
If the seller can't prove delivery, then the buyer wins almost hands down.
On the flip side, an unscrupulous buyer can use this to their advantage with international shipping where it is extraordinarily difficult (and expensive) to prove delivery all the way to the destination across different country's mailing services.
- jstarfish 8y agoThat is not my experience. Paypal always sides with the buyer independent of any evidence presented. Having proof of delivery did not help any of my cases. Things were still claimed lost and I would be forced to eat the cost. Paying for signature confirmation just changed the nature of the buyer's claims to concealed damage, or they just signed it illegibly, insist it wasn't them, and still claimed it lost. All it helped were a few cases where I was able to make insurance claims with the carrier but it never got me anywhere with Paypal. I hear power sellers get more credibility.