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Paypal Orders Buyer of Violin To Destroy It For a Refund

Posted by samzenpus on from the we-had-to-destroy-the-village-in-order-to-save-it dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Erica was once the owner of an old violin that had survived through WWII, and decided to sell it on Ebay for $2500. The person who bought it decided it was a counterfeit and wanted his money back. Paypal decided to honor the request for a refund on the condition that the buyer destroy the violin and provided photographic evidence of the destruction. Couldn't he have just returned it?" Sounds like a hoax to me, but I guess it's possible.

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  1. Stranglehold? by Jane+Q.+Public · · Score: 1, Troll

    Hard to imagine how PayPal could have a "stranglehold" on eBay, considering that eBay basically invented PayPal, and PayPal is a wholly-owned subsidiary of eBay.