text: has anyone ever lost money selling on e-bay? or had bad experiances? i sold a cell phone to a canadian for about 75 dollars, and because it was shipping outside of the us i didnt get a tracking number from the usps.   so the guy filed a claim stating he never received the item.  paypal said there was nothing i could do because i didnt have a tracking number and because i sold it outside the us.   within a day of him getting his money automatically from paypal, he closed his ebay account.    so the guy got the phone and 75 dollars