I HATE paypal

Swifty55 said:
They have to answer to somebody, they can not just decide who looses what, I would have thought that's against the law and theft?
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You would think so... apparently they get away with it.

You probably sign all rights away in the terms and conditions... i guess as they offer no financial "services" as such like loans or such they dont have to follow the same financial rules that many other companies would.

They are effectively an escrow service.
 
i had a similar issue with paypal about 8 or 9 years ago

I sold a Compaq Projector to a guy near Inverness in scotland

at the time it was £700 odd. I used DHL to send it he received it I had DHL proof then started a claim stating he did not receive it.

I submitted my DHL paperwork to paypal (from stories it seems the dispute system is better now) but they gave him his money back anyways.

In the end I went to the Police and started legal proceedings against paypal.

The local Inverness Police paid a visit to the guy who'd scammed me and retrieved my projector when I got it back it was not the one I sent (different serial). I eventually got my money back from paypal and prosecuted the guy for theft.

Because of this i rarely use ebay and i dont use paypal.

I also looked once at using paypal for business and they took upto 9%. Google checkout was much better.

Ebay and paypal are just moving towards protecting the consumer. But the seller is not a business entity it is an individual in a lot of cases which is just daft. Most individuals cannot afford the amount of returns, complaints or stupidity of your average consumer.

Avoid Ebay sell on forums such as this one were people know what there talking about and what to expect.
 
AtreuS said:
You would think so... apparently they get away with it.

You probably sign all rights away in the terms and conditions... i guess as they offer no financial "services" as such like loans or such they dont have to follow the same financial rules that many other companies would.

They are effectively an escrow service.
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Yeah, but they have to be accountable somehow, someone needs to find a loop hole! :mad:
 
I'm surprised there aren't more of the usual "well I've never have any problems with Paypal so you must not be following the rules" posts in here...
 
Hikari Kisugi said:
Question for the OP.
Have you 2 paypal accounts? and one was linked to the other, or had you a very old email address attached to your paypal account?

The £30 refund, was that justified? A dispute you simply never heard about?
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No i dont.

I used to have one along time ago, got sick of people trying to scam me so stopped useing it, plus my ntl world account was closed as i no longer had NTL internet.

Seems someone opened a dispute on the last day you could (when i didnt use account) and got there money back.

They linked the accounts as they had the same name... Good going paypal...
The thing thats annoying me is how stupid they are,... the refused to transfer £30 from my main account unto the old one because its agaisnt there security policy.. even tho i asked them.

It shouldnt take 12 days to send money to a bank or 7 days for money to be sent from my bank to them
 
eatcustard said:
Paypoo are regulated by FSA
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Not quite. They're authorised, and then only under EEA passport.

If they weren't embedded into eBay, nobody would touch them with a barge pole. Combine eBay's fees with those of Paypal, and you have a compelling case to look elsewhere.
 
I use ebay

won't touch paypal with a bargepole

if there's ever anything I want I always seek a mutually agreeable payment method with the seller, if they insist on using paypal I'll wait for another item to come up, there's nothing I want or need that badly that I'm prepared to bend over, lube up and await paypal to anally ream me
 
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