BEWARE OF FRAUD with this member


FRAUD ALERT!
I recently sold a Mytek Liberty DAC to this user.

Buyer: locmao003
503-583-1266
locmao003@gmail.com

In the Audiogon Selling portal they listed their shipping address as a US Oregon address.
I shipped the item to this address. 
Paypal payment made to my account.
USPS Insured shipment, with delivery confirmation.
Delivery confirmed on June 11, 2021 by USPS.
I got an email, from a DIFFERENT email address stating they received the item.

Next, I got a dispute from Paypal saying the buyer never received the item.
The buyer listed their address as VIETNAM! Not Oregon.
I NEVER sell or ship overseas and would not have accepted this purchase if that was disclosed.
Paypal has approved the claim, and took my $500 payment back. I am left without the original DAC or payment.

BEWARE of this Buyer!
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Is there are many traders on audio gun like this some have good histories some maybe not. They use a delivery address which is typically a mailbox place or a shipping company where they receive large amounts of items which are then bundled and shipped as a large shipment. They typically don't have US PayPal accounts that are registered to that address and so it's beware. When challenged they will persistently try to convince you that it's OK I don't feel comfortable and will usually pass.
 You should always Google the shipping address and look at it with the street view to see if it looks reasonable as a residence or a place that can be tied to the actual account name.
There are some unanswered questions in this thread. For it to be useful to the community it would help if the OP could clarify some of what took place with the initial transaction.
When you accepted payment into your PayPal account, was the buyer’s address the US based address and was it ‘PayPal Verified’. One can only assume that it must have been the US address since you said you’d seen no mention of an overseas address prior to shipping. In which case, you ought to be protected under PayPal’s Seller Protection program. If the buyer changed his/her address after the transaction with you, that really should have no bearing on your claim.
Can the OP please clarify, otherwise it’s just another ‘I got screwed’ thread and teaches us nothing other than not to get out of bed in the morning.
Did you see his feedback numbers? Did you communicate with him via phone (preferably) or email before agreeing to the deal? Did he have many or any posts on Audiogon?

I've even looked people up on LinkedIn.

Common sense things, but I wouldn't do a transaction like this without doing it.

Sorry for the hassle/loss you went through, but for anything over $100 I want to sell, I try to make it part of some trade in deal, or just hang on to it until the next dealer transaction. If a dealer won't offer a trade or at least to sell the item for me, it is tough for me to do business with them, but not impossible.

Good luck tracking this fraudster down.
I had an issue that involved both PayPal and eBay.  eBay chargedback my PayPal account from a transaction 5 years before!  Claiming buyer never received.  eBay had no records of anything regarding a dispute, yet they still debited my associated PayPal account.  PayPal was no help.  After multiple emails, escalations, etc, eBay gave me a credit against future eBay charges to the amount they debited my PayPal account.  Didn't get my money back per say, but it was a wash.  Soon after, eBay disassociated itself from PayPal.