eBay Seller Out $1,300 And Laptop Because USPS Insists Blank Box Is Actually A Signature

consumerist.com ^ | June 13, 2013 | Chris Morran

[gorush]

We are so ...

[2ndDivisionVet]

Yet if someone screws up their unemployment once that scam finally goes belly-up, watch them scream and complain on the nightly news.

[Road Warrior ‘04]

“We’ll fix our pension, $1300 at a time!”

[SampleMan]

Postal worker scores new computer.

[null and void]

Shouldn't she be out either $1,300 or a laptop?

[GrandJediMasterYoda]

Is she a Republican? I think I know what the problem is...

[Vendome]

If she had listed the laptop properly and enrolled in the Ebay buyer/seller protection program she would be fine.

I won’t shop or sell without it.

It wouldn’t surprise me to learn that she too some offer through private means.

I recently tried to sell something and had all kinds of fantastic offers.

They all wanted to do it private.

No thank you.

[NoKoolAidforMe]

.....screwed

[Las Vegas Ron]

Funny, I've had over 1,000 transactions equaling well over a quarter of a million dollars on eBay and using PayPal as the payment method.

Followed their guidelines, had two or three disputes and PayPal decided with me. On one single phone call I might add.

No promo here, just recounting my experience.

[DManA]

It is positively Pythonesque:

That's no signature.
Yes it is.
No it isn't.
Yes it is.
No it isn't.
Yes it is.
Look, in a signature one affixes one's name in pen and ink.
Not necessarily. He could have used invisible ink.

[A.A. Cunningham]

Worked briefly for the USPS 20+ years ago. If you get any mail consider yourself lucky.

[Obama_Is_Sabotaging_America]

FUUSPS! Slam dunk court case here. Oh wait.. 0bama’s birth certificate is REAL and the FBI’s Robert Mueller TOLD CONGRESS UNDER OATH he doesn’t know who is in charge of the IRS investigation!! By the way, this is THE FBI WE’RE TALKING ABOUT HERE.. You know, KINGS OF THE LIE DETECTOR TEST?.. Fiction is truth in 0bammyland.

[GeronL]

USPS?

Why not FedEx or UPS?

[meatloaf]

It’s always interesting to check the status of a shipment. I’ve got one coming that went from NY to NJ and is now in CO on its way to WV. Another went from MD to NC and is now back in MD on the way to WV!!!!!

[bigbob]

USPS should investigate...itself

[ncfool]

Holder to the rescue.....

[ZinGirl]

HA. and if you had ASKED them to ship it that route...you would have been charged triple $$$. OR...they would have told you it was impossible.

:P

[Oatka]

It is positively Pythonesque:
That's no signature.

Indeed it isn't. It's a scan of a dead parrot.

[Lurker]

They said “no” because that’s the easiest thing for the pavement apes who work for the postal service to do.