buyer protection

[englishteacher]

I want to buy a knife from someone here on the forums. I've only bought items over ebay before. What is my protection with paypal or money orders?

 

[beluga]

Paypal won't help you much if you deal with a bad seller. Happened to me once. I bought a lot of items from an ebay seller. The items has less quality that they were advertised for. Went to Paypal (since I paid with Paypal), and asked to dispute charges. To make long story short, I lost both the items and my money.

Postal Money Order might be better. They have certain procedure to track the MO.

 

[TheBadGuy]

Honestly, as a buyer, I think PayPal has better protection. If you file a complaint of non reciept within 30 days of transaction, the seller must provide online tracking of package to your confirmed address. With Money orders, you have a case for mail fraud, but they take months and months to investigate and you'll be lucky to ever see your money. That being said. I have been burned as a buyer using PayPal before. That's because the seller has a zero balance in his account and I am told that he will have to refund my money before he can ever use the service again

The Very best protection for you as a buyer here at BFC is the Good Bad and Ugly forum. If you do a search and turn up with nothing but positives, then I HIGHLY doubt you will have any problems. If you don't come up with anything in a search, don't be afraid to post a Question thread there asking about the seller. I am sure you could get some responses that way and the seller shouldn't be upset, your just looking out for yourself.

 

[Cougar Allen]

Moving to TGB&U....

 

[JamesA]

Like TBG said, your best "protection" would be checking GB&U.

 

[CarlHK]

PayPal won't help you but if you used a credit card via PayPal, your credit card company will. Been there and done that.