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Ebay fraud?????? weird shipping?

Ok I recently won an auction on ebay from a seller with 0 feedback, after speaking to paypal they made me feel comfortable enough that they had me covered in case of fraud, so I bid and won the auction, the shipping said "free shipping US Postal Service Priority Mail Flat Rate Envelope", the seller did not reply to two emails sent during the Christmas Holiday which was understandable, ebay advised I call the seller and I did, she was very nice on the phone and said she would ship the item out that day, later sent me an email with tracking info, the problem was that it was not USPS as her page said, it was www.theupsstore.com, when I called UPS they said it was a franchise that was not owned by them, the tracking # the seller gave did not work on the regular UPS website, weird? at www.theupsstore.com, the tracking link gave me a warning on mozilla, explorer, and chrome saying Secure Connection Failed www.iship.com uses an invalid security certificate. The certificate is only valid for iship.com (Error code: ssl_error_bad_cert_domain) the website is www.iship.com that has an invalid security certificate, I past the warning and clicked on the link and tracked the package and it said "SHIPPED" and expected jan 6, but the sellers email with the shipping info told me that the ups store said they would be shipping the item out mon dec 29th, the tracking # told me the item was SHIPPED, whats going on? the UPS employee I spoke to told me that the tracking #'s should be the same yet the regular UPS website and the employee over the phone do not recognize the number, I am very worried, is this some kind of scam? I will call paypal and ask them about this and am waiting for ebay to respond, but if anyone out there knows anything whether good or bad please let me know what you think.

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1. I had a similar situation as this. The seller said priority mail and sent me a tracking number. I used the tracking number and followed it across the county. However when it said it had been delivered to my home I did not have the package or anything with the tracking number. I called the post office and they were very upset that they had lost a package. A few days later the item arrived by UPS. I told the post office and they started investigating the tracking number I used. When I gave the seller negative feedback she jumped on me saying the item was out of stock and had to be sent from the warehouse, she spent extra money to send it ups so I would get it on time, and refused to sell anymore items to me. I would have been fine with this if she had answered any of my emails which she failed to do. I would say just wait until the 9th if you can an see if there item arrives. If not file a report with paypal and leave negative feedback. This will give the seller a black mark that other buyers can see.
2. paypal paypal what can i say - i thoyught i was covered when i payed by paypal for an item -no i was not the item they sent me was wrong comletley and less value than the item i bought - they paypal insisted i return the item which was going to costr me $ 54 - TO RETURN IT FROM aUSTRALIA TO usa more than i originALLY PAID FOR THE ITEM INCLUDING POSTAGE AND NO GAURENTEE THAT T THE ITEM I WAS GOING TO RECIEVE BACK WOULD BE THE ITEM I PAID FOR - AND AT MY COST TO RETURN THE ITEM THAT WAS TOTALLY USLESS TO ME
3. hi, I think is a scam, a common scam. be safe