Hi everyone,
I spent the last few hours trying to google if anyone has had the same incident as mine. I've read a lot of horrifying stories here but most of them are luckily resolved. I bought a Chloe bag on evilbay last month. Seller was responsive and as soon as I paid for the bag, communication slowed down. Red flag there. A couple of days later, I asked her for tracking number. She never replied. Messaged her again to which I got a response saying " I've shipped the bag. I will update tracking later." A week went by. I sent her another message to no reply. So after a month, I opened a case on eBay and the seller still couldn't provide them with a tracking number. Today I got an email saying that the case has been closed (after a week) in favour to the seller because I committed an International Customs Fraud? WTF!
I know I might be to blame because I asked the seller to send the bag as $100 value in the customs form. I didn't force her and I would still have bought the bag if she declined to do so but she agreed. I am in Canada and the seller is located in the US. I have bought numerous items before and I've had sellers that are generous and have sent me items with lowered value with no problems. I've also sold numerous times and have sent the items as lower value to help out my buyers with no problems. Customs duties to Canada is just expensive.
I called eBay and they said they can no longer help me and that I need to communicate to the seller directly... which is fine is she's responding to my messages but she's not!
Am I screwed? This is an expensive lesson to learn and I'm appalled that eBay would side her even though she couldn't provide them with a tracking number. Anyone has dealt with this before? Any tips that could be helpful to me? Thanks so much for reading this.
I spent the last few hours trying to google if anyone has had the same incident as mine. I've read a lot of horrifying stories here but most of them are luckily resolved. I bought a Chloe bag on evilbay last month. Seller was responsive and as soon as I paid for the bag, communication slowed down. Red flag there. A couple of days later, I asked her for tracking number. She never replied. Messaged her again to which I got a response saying " I've shipped the bag. I will update tracking later." A week went by. I sent her another message to no reply. So after a month, I opened a case on eBay and the seller still couldn't provide them with a tracking number. Today I got an email saying that the case has been closed (after a week) in favour to the seller because I committed an International Customs Fraud? WTF!
I know I might be to blame because I asked the seller to send the bag as $100 value in the customs form. I didn't force her and I would still have bought the bag if she declined to do so but she agreed. I am in Canada and the seller is located in the US. I have bought numerous items before and I've had sellers that are generous and have sent me items with lowered value with no problems. I've also sold numerous times and have sent the items as lower value to help out my buyers with no problems. Customs duties to Canada is just expensive.
I called eBay and they said they can no longer help me and that I need to communicate to the seller directly... which is fine is she's responding to my messages but she's not!
Am I screwed? This is an expensive lesson to learn and I'm appalled that eBay would side her even though she couldn't provide them with a tracking number. Anyone has dealt with this before? Any tips that could be helpful to me? Thanks so much for reading this.