Normally your credit card will cancel payment with a good reason. They will try to contact the "offender" though. In Paypal, you can "buy" insurance for what you are buying. If you are too cheap (or confident) to get the insurance, you only have yourself to blame. 3rd, if you go through EBAY's expensive and annoying insurance program, you can regain you loss minus $25, but only up to $100 or $200. I forget what the exact number is. why do I know all this? hmmm Jim 1537 On Sat, 6 Sep 2003 09:01:48 EDT doctorDHD@xxxx writes: > I was just wondering if you buy something on eBay and pay with a > credit card > either directly or through Pay Pal, can't you get your money back if > you don't > receive the item? > > Dave & 6530 > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > > > To address comments privately to the moderating team, please > address: > moderators@xxxx > > For more info on the list, tech articles, cars for sale see > www.dmcnews.com > > To search the archives or view files, log in at > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/dmcnews > > Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to > http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ > > > ________________________________________________________________ The best thing to hit the internet in years - Juno SpeedBand! Surf the web up to FIVE TIMES FASTER! Only $14.95/ month - visit www.juno.com to sign up today!