Originally Posted by
theschwinnman
A couple years ago, I started buying laptops on ebay, then reselling them with better auction pictures, and got a good bit more money than what I'd purchased them for. It worked great, until I sold this guy a $600 laptop, he left me good feedback, I left him good as well. about three months after selling it, Paypal locked my account, apparently he filed a chargeback on his credit card, Paypal did nothing. He got off with the $600 and the laptop. I haven't used ebay since
Similar experience on a laptop sale on eBay. On mine the buyer shipped back a brick wrapped in bubble wrap and disputed with Paypal saying it was returned. Since he had a tracking # Paypal sided with him.