Duped by EBay seller? What should I do?

Question:I'm having a little bit of a problem with an EBay user. I bought an item from him for a total of about $60, paid him, and he unregistered him EBay account (or it may have been suspended). He seems to be Chinese and sent me one of those emails with alot of "???hi???" like Chinese text is usually displayed when the browser doesn't recognize the format. But he did tell me something about EBay not recognizing his transitorial username or something and assured me that he shipper the item and I should recieve it in 3-7 days via UPS. He later emailed me the UPS tracking number, but it is a 13-character number, and UPS numbers usually don't come like that... Anyways, UPS tracking can't locate it yet, but I know they might take a while (a shipment from Nike.com also didn't appear for a couple days once for me). His ebay name, chakanova - something was Russian sounding, location of item is in France, and his email and PayPal account seem to be Chinese names. What do you think?

Answers:
You need to report him to E-bay ASAP! Hopefully you paid him via PAYPAL, if so register a complaint with PayPal ASAP. Within a certain amount of time PayPal will refund you your money in the case of fraud. Good Luck!
Just start the dispute process through ebay/paypal. There is a chance that your purchase is covered under thier buyer protection plan, but you have to initiate the process. For a non-responsive seller this can take a number of weeks to complete but you will get your money back.

Also, try not to buy things from overseas sellers unless you can see that they are established (having sales going back a good number of months at least).
You should let ebay know about the suspisicon of this guy. They have a policy to cover these things. And Call UPS and ask them about the number. ask them if they can do a track for you as you can't find the item. It may be possible that coming from another country it could have an extra number. If I were you, have ups check it and then try to check each day yourself if they can tell you where it is. Keep emailing this guy and tell him you have not received the item nor can you track it.. Bug the heck out of him 3 or 4 times a day. Tell him to send the money back if you haven't gotten the item in 7 days. Good luck. I do a lot of ebaying an have run into many situations where I have to threat, and bug people.

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