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E-Bay Buyer Protection - Should I be worried about a item I bought from E-Bay seller "Themissouriwholes"?

• Here is the link to the E-Bay item I recently bought listed below. http://www.ebay.com/itm/Brand-New-T-Mobile-myTouch-Q-Gray-T-Mobile-Smartphone-/150758565872?pt=Cell_Phones&hash=item2319e927f0#shId NOTE - The seller has great reviews but I noticed the seller is only selling 1 item which is the item "T-mobile Myoutch Q"..there were 3 quantities in-stock and not there's currently one more available for purchase. I bought the item on the 25th and the estimated delivery date for USPS Priority mail is 2 to 3 days "February 2 or the 3rd of this month". (Please remember the info above after reading my detailed question....Thanks!) I recently bought a $290.00cts T-Mobile Mytouch Q from the seller and now I'm starting to wonder if I shouldn't have. The seller has great reviews/scores but I notice there where like 292 positive reviews and 8 negative reviews from buyers who claim the seller did not have possession of certain items. The seller has great order reviews on a couple of sell phones recently but in the passed, 3 people canceled cell phone orders. One of the canceled reviews was actually from someone trying to buy a T-Mobile Mytouch Q. At the time I wasn't that worried about it because of the great reviews the seller ha over-all. Plus there's a Ebay Buyer Protection refund option listed for the item and also I thought to my self, maybe the buyer did not give the seller enough time to ship the item out. The Buyer stated the review for T-mobile Mytouch Q that the item was quote "cancelled transaction, item is not available/damaged, then opens unpaid case!!" I never used Ebay Buyer Protection before, I always dealt with PayPal's Buyer Protection and never had a issue with receiving refunds for cases made by me. How safe is Ebay's Buyer Protection? Should I be worried if the seller closes there account after seller there last item listed???? I mean what if the seller ends up selling the only item left and chooses to send me a empty T-mobile box before they "somehow" close there account.......Do you think my chances are slim at getting a refund by using Ebay Buyer Protection?..... I just find it strange that the buyer only has one more item for sell with such great reviews. Plus at the time when the T-Mobile Mytouch Q was listed for purchase buy the seller, The official T-Mobile site had a retail/sale price of $279.99cts for the Mytouch Q but now sales are off and it's back to the high price of $349.99cts.....I'm guessing maybe the seller bought a couple of retailed phones that were on sale just in time to sale on ebay rite?..... So what do you think? Should I just calm down in stop being so worried about it? Should I just take my chances and wait till Wednesday to see if the seller ships out the item or should I avoid what could be a long "hard to prove" Ebay Buyer Protection DISPUTE by cancelling the order while I still can?

• Answer:

  eBay owns Paypal so the ebay buyer protection is really Paypal buyer protection. They are calling it eBay protection to give the illusion that the site is safer then it has been in the past.The only difference is that the eBay protection covers the shipping cost to your location which for this item is free. The item has Expedited Shipping so there should be a tracking number for the package.