Ebay should require proof of delivery by sellers (from USPS, UPS, FEDEX, etc) before releasing customer payments to seller accounts, and I also see no reason why they couldn’t also delay such payment by an additional 7 days after proof-of-delivery to allow customers to file a complaint about non-delivery or a product mismatch.
This would handle 99.9 percent of the cases.
See the discussion above! That’s exactly why the scammers actually have something (small) sent to your address … so they can provide a valid tracking number to eBay … so they can get paid in a timely manner!
No, it would simply change the way the scammers work. If this were how it was implemented, that the customer is the final arbiter of being paid, the scammers would simply become customers instead of sellers on eBay. Then they take the merchandise they received, swap it for junk, claim on eBay that seller sent the junk, and simply resell the real product elsewhere.
Hmm, that’s something I overlooked. So, I as a buyer could be a scammer by buying an item from a legitimate seller, actually receiving it, then claiming I never got it, and so get my money back. Not sure how this could be prevented, other than by proving I never receive it somehow, which if I did actually receive it amounts to proving a false negative.
However, this gives me an idea of how I could get my nice new Macbook Pro for free.
