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Re:PayPal forces buyer to destroy $2500 pre-WWII antique vio... by tfe on Tuesday January 03, 2012 @07:07PM (#3421974)
The official policy is probably to have buyers destroy counterfeit products to prevent their circulation (possibly at the request of manufacturers?), and that's the reason this happened.
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Re:PayPal forces buyer to destroy $2500 pre-WWII antique vio... by corroded on Tuesday January 03, 2012 @07:12PM (#3421992)
While I do get their point of preventing counterfeit circulation, who's to say that it is counterfeit? Paypal? The buyer? Unless they have a violin expert on board their team which handled the product physically, I don't think anyone should have the "right" to destroy something that's not proven as counterfeit.
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Re:PayPal forces buyer to destroy $2500 pre-WWII antique vio... by shasta on Tuesday January 03, 2012 @07:32PM (#3422064)
Next week: counterfeit kitten claims lead to international PR disaster for Paypal.
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Re:PayPal forces buyer to destroy $2500 pre-WWII antique vio... by tibbon on Tuesday January 03, 2012 @10:49PM (#3422655)
Frodo should have just sold the ring via eBay as a counterfeit 'ring of dancing +1', had Paypal deem it fraudulent and then had Paypal use its magical powers to destroy it.
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Re:PayPal forces buyer to destroy $2500 pre-WWII antique vio... by stcredzero on Wednesday January 04, 2012 @01:22PM (#3425207)
Paypal has a "Crack of Doom?" Actually, I'm more amused than surprised.
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Re:PayPal forces buyer to destroy $2500 pre-WWII antique vio... by gwern on Tuesday January 03, 2012 @11:05PM (#3422688)
'The Eye of San Jose is on us, Samwise Tibbon!'
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Re:PayPal forces buyer to destroy $2500 pre-WWII antique vio... by nerfhammer on Tuesday January 03, 2012 @07:10PM (#3421986)
pretty stupid policy when applied to antique violins.

The manufacturer for that matter has probably been out of business for 70 years.

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Re:PayPal forces buyer to destroy $2500 pre-WWII antique vio... by kennywinker on Tuesday January 03, 2012 @07:11PM (#3421990)
Yeah, that seems like what happened. A company like paypal that deals with literally every type of transaction imaginable ought to have a little bit more flexibility in their policies.
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