Bad eBay experience?

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    ebay / paypal together is a disaster. I recently tried to buy a softbox:

    The seller was unresponsive after 3 days (and I had paid instantly). So I decide to contact him. Well, ebay somehow allowed him to block any contact with him and instead replaced it with an FAQ. When I would try to select the "contact anyway" option, it would hit me with an unclear dead-end screen blocking contact. (getting annoyed)

    I call ebay, wait on hold for 30 minutes, and they give me the seller's email address. Ok, fine. I email the seller to ask what is up and he says he delayed shipping because paypal had a fraud warning on my paypal account. I tell him to ship it as he has received his money already. I login into paypal and there is indeed a notice about my account be restricted (even though it did actually pay the seller). To undo this restriction I would need to fill out a form, wait 3 days for some code to post on my credit card, and then put that code in. (getting angry)

    • Yeah, that happened to me once, but I caught it before I bought something. Took forever. But every store takesJaline
    • Paypal, unfortunately, so if you do a lot of online shopping it's quite useful. Not many good alternatives.Jaline

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