[Leica] Re: online auction cautionary tale

[glehrer at san.rr.com (Jerry Lehrer)]

Bobert,

That is why I NEVER accept paypal for payment on anything I may sell.

Jerry


Robert D. Baron wrote:
> FYI, several years ago I had occasion to represent a highly reputable 
> camera dealer who sold an expensive camera to a young woman who paid 
> by P**P*l.  About a week after she received it she filed a complaint 
> with said P**P*l, alleging the camera was not as represented.
>
> Whoosh.
>
> The money was sucked right back out of my client's account.
>
> I was able to get (most) of the money back, but it was because I was 
> able to go directly after the young woman and we retrieved it from 
> her. Trying to get it out of the payment service would have been a 
> long, very costly and not necessarily successful adventure.
>
> And in that case postal insurance would have done no good because the 
> package was in fact delivered and received.
>
> Moral: be very careful out there.
>
> --Lawyer Bob
>
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