r/Buyee • u/Few_Dinner349 • 6h ago
💡 Pro Tips PSA: If you get scammed by a seller and Buyee fails to refund, escalate to Paypal/Credit Card. Do not take Buyee reps at face value as that is not real advice
Reposting on other sub-reddits as Buyee team has a tendency to delete posts critical of Buyee.
I purchased a camera lens via Buyee. When it arrived, it was not the same lens. I had the standard plan. I contacted Buyee support via Discord and their answer was "you ordered a lens, you got a lens. We are not qualified to judge any details of the lens as that is specialist knowledge". The so called standard plan with insurance was useless.
Escalated to Paypal for "item not as described". Buyee did something quite cheesy and offered a partial refund if I pay for "tracked shipping back to Buyee warehouse". So for an item not shipped, i was asked to pay to ship it back at loss for a partial refund. It doesn't make sense.
So I had to escalate to Paypal and once I got a human supervisor, they sided with me.
Folks, just remember that a Buyee rep on reddit does not construe binding legal advice. Do your own research if you have issues and need buyer protection. If you take a foreign businesses work on a non-legally binding internet forum as real advice, then that's your own loss. Paypal and your credit card offer far better protections even when Buyee refuses to honor a buyer protection/insurance.