If you buy something online using PayPal and upon delivery it turns out to be not what was advertised, PayPal might refund your payment and require you to destroy the item:
I sold an old French violin to a buyer in Canada, and the buyer disputed the label.
This is not uncommon. In the violin market, labels often mean little and there is often disagreement over them. Some of the most expensive violins in the world have disputed labels, but they are works of art nonetheless.
Rather than have the violin returned to me, PayPal made the buyer DESTROY the violinin order to get his money back. They somehow deemed the violin as “counterfeit” even though there is no such thing in the violin world.
PayPal required the buyer to photograph the remains to prove it was destroyed. (How else can you prove to PayPal that the item wasn’t worth the money?) Glengarry glide: Eitan Hochster.
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January 11, 2012 at 3:17 pm
Anonymous
so….moral of the story is:
1) buy expensive violin via pay-pal
2) declare “counterfeit” and remove the “label”
3) buy cheap violin and add the “label” from the expensive violin (or fake a label if thats easier)
4) destroy cheap violin and send picture to pay-pal
January 11, 2012 at 4:01 pm
jeff
You forgot step -1)
-1) don’t sell expensive violins online via PayPal
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