Help With Possible PayPal/eBay scam

Vanity | May 27, 2011 | Jim Noble

[ozaukeemom]

You are fortunate. There are plenty of instances of SNAD claims where the buyer simply returns anything and wins the dispute. As I said, most buyers are honest (I am mostly a buyer, sometime seller) and positive stories don’t tend to be told as the bad ones are. But, buyers do have the upper hand nowadays. I have no idea of a solution, just saying it does happen and Paypal admits to backing buyers most of the time.

[ozaukeemom]

Depending on what category you sell in, there are various scams. It is a shame.

[Hot Tabasco]

If I’m not mistaken, I think you have 40 days in which to resolve the problem..............Don’t panic, take one step at a time.

[Jim Noble]

It appears that PayPal made a mistake, this guy had another busted transaction and PayPal froze the wrong account.

The $$ are back, the account is unfrozen, it’s all good. Thanks to all.

[Finny]

Thank you! :^) I don't recall ever seeing a number for them before. THANKS AGAIN -- I'll be calling them Tuesday to take care of a problem I'm having with them. They keep claiming that the credit card company I've charged for registration to an event, is refusing the charge, when the credit card company has twold me twice that the charge has gone through and is PAID. Meanwhile, PayPal has charged the event sponsor $20 twice as a "service fee" to tell them that my credit card company refused the charge.

In 25 years that I've had the credit card, the company (American Express) has never messed up once, not one single time. I'm a big fan of American Express -- they've always been more than square with me. In the 12 years or so I've dealt with PayPal, they've screwed up a couple of times, and a freind of mine had a real nightmare with PayPal one time on an ebay sale.

Don't get me wrong, I'm grateful for PayPal in a lot of ways ... but it's not my favorite.

THANKS again, Val!