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Swagger asked in Yahoo ProductsYahoo Shopping · 9 years ago

buying online and scammed?

I need some advice. A few people purchased some collectables from a guy. They all paid with paypal. The seller shipped each and everyone of them a empty package. He insured the items also and on one of the packages were sliced to make it seem like it was tampered with. THese were sports cards. The first person had opened his package (paid over 300.00) infront of postal carrier. Which the carrier called supervisor immediately. There was no sign of tampering. So the guy jumps on to warn other buyers. They just received their packages today so they go to the post office to open and yet the same situation. Post office says they will start an investigation for mail insurance fraud. Now each party had called their police department to fill out a report. Can they call the sellers PD. See this seller must have planned these big dollar scamms because he came off nice and then just went on a scamming spree. We all have his address but not sure what to do. Any advice?

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  • CoachT
    Lv 7
    9 years ago
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    Make a report with the Postal Service. Make a police report. File a complaint via eBay (if it was eBay) and PayPal, and make a complaint with the Attorney General's office in his state. He'll be taken care of if he is indeed running a scam.

    Hopefully PayPal will make things right for you but he may have worked the scam well enough that you've been stolen from. Trying to rip off the US Postal Service is usually a REALLY bad idea - they have no sense of humor about such things. He'd be better off scamming the IRS - who may now want to know if he's reported all that income...

    Get everyone to make the complaints though. A scammer's biggest hope is that the people he rips off are too embarrassed to complain to the authorities.

    You could also see an attorney about suing him but that may cost you more than you lost unless you do the small claims court thing.

  • margie k
    Lv 7
    9 years ago

    Absolutely contact the local post office where this creep resides. And then you should ALL take him to small claims court. ASAP. He needs to be stopped before he continues to rip people off !!!

    Source(s): ebay top rated power seller
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