I believe PayPal refunded me simply so I wouldn't sue them... but who knows?
Here is the lowdown...
I purchased ~10 1500W rated ATX power cords on ebay from a seller in china.
I fired up 2-3 servers and the cords literally started smoking/melting under ~300 watts of load.
Upon dissection of the cords, it was obvious they were fakes and would never be able to stand 1500 watts of load. They were all comprised of hundreds of 30+ gauge wires.
Long story short... I had to pay for shipment back to china in order to receive a refund.
I wrote to paypal in my furious state, explaining how the seller had nearly burnt down my home (what if the cables went as soon as I stepped out for a smoke?)... and they refunded me literally out of their own pocket.
They said [sic] ... "typically you must return the items but in this case we will refund the payment for you".
I wrote them back wishing the seller would have been reprimanded some how or have had to felt the loss but that was the last I heard from them.
I believe PayPal refunded me simply so I wouldn't sue them... but who knows?
Here is the lowdown...
I purchased ~10 1500W rated ATX power cords on ebay from a seller in china.
I fired up 2-3 servers and the cords literally started smoking/melting under ~300 watts of load.
Upon dissection of the cords, it was obvious they were fakes and would never be able to stand 1500 watts of load. They were all comprised of hundreds of 30+ gauge wires.
Long story short... I had to pay for shipment back to china in order to receive a refund.
I wrote to paypal in my furious state, explaining how the seller had nearly burnt down my home (what if the cables went as soon as I stepped out for a smoke?)... and they refunded me literally out of their own pocket.
They said [sic] ... "typically you must return the items but in this case we will refund the payment for you".
I wrote them back wishing the seller would have been reprimanded some how or have had to felt the loss but that was the last I heard from them.