sinking_in_design Posted July 8, 2021 Share Posted July 8, 2021 Just had a case open against me by a discogs buyer. He filed an unauthorized use with their credit card or bank. The item was already shows received from tracking. New user on discogs. I feel like I have seen this scammer talked about on here. Anyway, at this point I have no recourse so just throwing this guys name out there so no one else gets scammed. Hopefully I don't lose both the record and the money since I have tracking showing this delivered. Discogs username: _alexforster Name: Alex Forster Email: bush94gmail.com Lives in NC DarrenMcCall and N8TRU 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DarrenMcCall Posted July 8, 2021 Share Posted July 8, 2021 Sorry to hear! Please keep us updated. Might be worth trying to reach out to your bank to dispute it from your side also. sinking_in_design 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
N8TRU Posted July 8, 2021 Share Posted July 8, 2021 That's a nightmare. Definitely keep us posted if anything else comes out of it. sinking_in_design 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
se7enstitches Posted July 8, 2021 Share Posted July 8, 2021 Talked to Paypal on the phone today after getting hit with one of these. They said as long as youre shipping to the address on the buyer's account and can provide the delivered tracking confirmation you should be covered under the Seller Protection. Dispute was resolved with no loss on our end luckily sinking_in_design 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shamrocks Posted July 8, 2021 Share Posted July 8, 2021 can you search for users on discogs? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Derek™ Posted July 8, 2021 Share Posted July 8, 2021 3 minutes ago, shamrocks said: can you search for users on discogs? With what criteria? Real name? E-mail? Regardless, I think that answer is no. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shamrocks Posted July 8, 2021 Share Posted July 8, 2021 yeah i just ask because ive tried before when someone sent me their username but no link. didnt know if anyone had expert level knowledge Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Derek™ Posted July 8, 2021 Share Posted July 8, 2021 35 minutes ago, shamrocks said: yeah i just ask because ive tried before when someone sent me their username but no link. didnt know if anyone had expert level knowledge I mean… https://www.discogs.com/user/ [Username] throwgncpr 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shelby Posted July 8, 2021 Share Posted July 8, 2021 38 minutes ago, shamrocks said: yeah i just ask because ive tried before when someone sent me their username but no link. didnt know if anyone had expert level knowledge discogs.com/user/[insert user name] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mychemicalrecords Posted July 8, 2021 Share Posted July 8, 2021 (edited) I had this exact thing happen to me last year after selling at item to a new user on eBay. They filed an “unauthorized transaction” with their bank like a month and a half after it was delivered and the funds for the transaction got withheld in my PayPal account. I responded to the dispute with all the info I had and called PayPal the next day, to which they said as long as you can provide proof of delivery to the buyer’s address on file (via a tracking number) then you’re covered by PayPal’s seller protection. They were able to release the funds back to me immediately and that was the last of that dispute on my end at least. I’m sure the buyer’s bank refunded them in the end but I wasn’t out any funds. Make sure you block the buyer from future purchases if you haven’t already. Edited July 8, 2021 by mychemicalrecords Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shamrocks Posted July 8, 2021 Share Posted July 8, 2021 1 hour ago, Derek™ said: I mean… https://www.discogs.com/user/ [Username] duh thanks lol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sinking_in_design Posted July 8, 2021 Author Share Posted July 8, 2021 3 hours ago, se7enstitches said: Talked to Paypal on the phone today after getting hit with one of these. They said as long as youre shipping to the address on the buyer's account and can provide the delivered tracking confirmation you should be covered under the Seller Protection. Dispute was resolved with no loss on our end luckily Thanks for the input. Yeah, I provided tracking to paypal so it does show this was delivered. I also bought the shipping through paypal so hope that helps toclears me on my end as well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mike Posted July 8, 2021 Share Posted July 8, 2021 13 hours ago, shamrocks said: can you search for users on discogs? You can also do "u:" then the username (no space) in the search bar. somethingvinyl 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
somethingvinyl Posted July 11, 2021 Share Posted July 11, 2021 On 7/8/2021 at 10:52 AM, mike said: You can also do "u:" then the username (no space) in the search bar. Oh. That's easy and I had no idea. Thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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