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Originally Posted by CoMoChief
If its been paid through pay pal then you wil still get your money because they have some type of protection thing for a certain amount of money.
pay pal will either bill his bank account, or do whatever but once the pay pal has paid you, then your good to go.
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Well, you can still lose after being paid by paypal. I agree the poster probably has nothing to worry about here, and I'm diving head-first into paranoia here, but this is why I say to be prepared to lose the money as a seller as well as a buyer.
Lets say you were lucky enough to sell to a thief who doesnt care about negative feedback on his reputation, as soon as he receives it, he'll start sending you e-mails asking where is his item, please ship it or else, you say you have shipped it but I didnt get it, etc etc. Couple weeks later he leaves negative feedback claiming you ripped him off, and complains to Ebay and Paypal to get his money back. Youll obviously claim the opposite, but ties usually go to the buyer. As a business, Ebay and Paypal need the buyers, and the sellers need Paypal and Ebay. If the seller gets screwed, hes much less likely to stop than a buyer.
This is highly unlikely, and if he doesnt ship the item he risks a negative feedback. In the position he's in now, I'd rather take a 0.1% risk of getting ripped off by a thief, than risk a 75+% chance of getting slapped with negative feedback for refusing to ship after the buyer won the auction and paid.