rfung - 8:11 pm on Dec 26, 2003 (gmt 0)

well, I should have been a bit more specific about my particular situation.

What I intend on doing is putting together individual buyers and sellers (sort of like an amazon marketplace or ebay) - my site being the intermediary. So, a buyer will request to buy a widget, the seller gets an email to which he needs to confirm. Then buyer pays for widget on my site, and once seller ships item out with any delivery confirmation shipping option, posts the tracking id back on the site, at which point I issue payment to seller.

Now, since I am the one taking the credit card payment, I'm the one liable for any credit card fraud issues. So perhaps now the scenarios I've given make more sense:

what if the seller ships out a box with junk to the buyer? the buyer gets it, he's pissed, requests a credit card charge back. Since the seller already entered the tracking code on the site, he's already been paid. In a way, I'm wondering how Ebay handles that...uhm..

For example, I just sold a digicamera to another ebay user. I seem to have forgotten to include the battery charger. Well, I paid with paypal, im verified, I sent it to the buyer's verified address, and I already have the positive feedback on ebay. There's absolutely nothing preventing me from just totally disregarding this person's request. Had this been a box full of junk that she only deemed to open after Xmas , what recourse would she have had?