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04-03-21, 08:52 AM

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Originally Posted by indyfabz

I was wondering about that. I don’t use PayPal much, and I haven’t bought anything from eBay in probably a decade or more, but it seems hard to believe that the seller could pose as the buyer in a structured transaction/refund through eBay channels themselves.

Yeah, no, it cannot happen. Accountability is the entire reason eBay works, otherwise it would totally be scam central, which it is not. The OP made a bad move and got burned, but eBay cannot protect people from themselves.

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