What happens if hypothetically I buy your game because I want parts from it since mine aren't as nice or flaky. I get your game and swap the boards, dmd, coils, playfield, translite, etc, then refuse your game saying it's not as advertised. I ship you back your game since I don't mind spending $400 to ship when I got all kinds of better parts from your game. When you get your game back if you notice I swapped parts and complain to escrow, how do they know who to side with? At that point it becomes a he said she said unless you have amazing up close and detailed pictures and serial numbers.

Well I'm going by vid's post which says the buyer has 48 hours. So perhaps a playfield swap would be ambitious, but swapping parts here and there would be easily doable, like playfield plastics for example, a translite, a dmd, stuff that isn't easy to tie to a particular game unless you have exceptional pictures.

I guess I don't underestimate the vileness of people. Because to me if I was say a total asshole, using escrow would for an easy way for example to get a better cabinet or populated playfield. Spend the $400 shipping and when I get your game I disconnect a few cables, swap the populated play field and keep the machine with the better cabinet/playfield combo. I dunno, maybe I'm being paranoid but I've seen people go to more trouble for less illegal gain so I wouldn't be surprised if someone tried that. And even if you have pictures I can make the claim that you are using pictures of someone else's game and you were trying to scam me. Then it's back to he said she said. Anyways I'll stick with local sales and cash.

Yeah I mention it because it happened to me on ebay. I sold a cell phone, sent it to the buyer, he used it for three weeks and then said condition not as advertised and filed a complaint with paypal. He sent it back and it was all banged up, whereas I had sent him a mint condition phone. I filed a complaint with paypal and even though I had lots of pictures of the before and after they didn't care, they sided with the buyer. So I was now left with a banged up phone when I had shipped him a mint condition phone.

I have no experience with escrow services hence why I was asking, because I have no idea who they would side with. Would they be like paypal and automatically side with the buyer even if I have pictures? I ultimately decided I don't want to find out, and hence do local cash sales only. If someone is willing to do it to me for a $600 phone, then they may want to do it for a $6000 pin.

From what I understand, if you use your paypal account as "friends and family" but it's really being used for selling items then paypal will suspend your account if they find out. Also from what I understand if a buyer funds their paypal account with a stolen credit card, then the money will be taken from a seller even if it was sent via "friends and family".

It's only if you get reported or caught of course, it's happened to a fair amount of people that I know where they lost their paypal account for using "friends and family" payments for normal purchases. Your mileage may vary I suppose. For chargebacks I'm going by what the ladies I know have used paypal for, most have pretty much banned it and moved to other payment services like Circlepay or whatever because paypal issued them chargebacks even on friends or family payments. As for why it's happened to them and not you though I have no idea. But they have all pretty much universally warned me to avoid paypal because of it.