I bought a razor and soap not from this forum but I received a tracking number. It was shipping from California, and coming to Florida. 2 days after it was dropped off and the first update it was in Carolina, Puerto Rico…. WTH??? Then yesterday while at work I check the tracking# and it says delivered in or at the mailbox 1:37pm. I get home and get my mail but there was no package. Item was Expected to arrive on Thursday July 21st but says it was delivered 2 days earlier???
I contacted USPS to find out where it was delivered as it doesn’t specify my address it just says the city. They need to investigate so once they find out it wasnt delivered to my address I’ll have to do a charge back from cc as apparently PayPal will generally side with the scammer as long as it shows delivered. Scammers have been using this scam since at least 2017.
This is the first time it seems like I’ve been scammed in this fashion, and since I’ve been buying stuff online for years and fairly regularly it’s surprising it took this long for me to get scammed.
Just wondering others experiences about this.
Here’s the PayPal forum’s 16 page thread discussing this. Scamming seller used fake tracking number, PayPal automatically sides with scammer, twice. - https://www.paypal-community.com/t5/Security-and-Fraud/Scamming-seller-used-fake-tracking-number-PayPal-automatically/td-p/1831343
I contacted USPS to find out where it was delivered as it doesn’t specify my address it just says the city. They need to investigate so once they find out it wasnt delivered to my address I’ll have to do a charge back from cc as apparently PayPal will generally side with the scammer as long as it shows delivered. Scammers have been using this scam since at least 2017.
This is the first time it seems like I’ve been scammed in this fashion, and since I’ve been buying stuff online for years and fairly regularly it’s surprising it took this long for me to get scammed.
Just wondering others experiences about this.
Here’s the PayPal forum’s 16 page thread discussing this. Scamming seller used fake tracking number, PayPal automatically sides with scammer, twice. - https://www.paypal-community.com/t5/Security-and-Fraud/Scamming-seller-used-fake-tracking-number-PayPal-automatically/td-p/1831343