Paypal question

James07

James07

James07

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I have some items on a popular freeads website on behalf of my girlfriends parents who are moving from their 5 bed house to a static caravan :)

Ive had an email this morning regarding most of the items for sale asking if she could purchase everything. Itll be around £600 and she wants to pay me via paypal as she is bedridden after heart surgery but will send a courier today for everything after she has paid us.

What im wondering is if she buys everything and pays via paypal and then a few days down the line tries to claim the money back, is it possible for her to do that?

The gfs parents are retired so dont want to mess around with this hense why im doing it, but i want to make the right decision for them..

Regards,

James.
 
+1 this is 110% a scam, do not do it. They can and will claim back. You have no proof of sending them off either, as she 'arranged' the courier.
 
Great! please consider them sold as i am willing to pay your full asking price because i need to buy them for my cousin asap, i have read through the advert and i'm totally satisfied with it,sadly i would not be able to come personally to collect due to my hearing loss and I'm just recovering from heart surgery so I'm home-bound.
I have a courier agent that would help me to pick them up at your preferred location after you have received your money and i'll pay you via PayPal today.
Where is the pick up location so that i can inform the courier agent about it now?

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* Buying not for them
* Read the advert but not mentioned what they are
* Not seen the product
* Sympathy for multiple disabilites
* No family to help, sending an "agent" to collect goods
* Paypal

Ticks more than 4 of those boxes, 100% scam.
 
The reason it's a scam:

They pay via PayPal, their 'courier' collects the items. A few days later they lodge a claim saying they haven't received anything. PayPal request your proof of postage. As you have nothing you lose and they pay out to the buyer leaving you out of pocket.
 
How to beat this scam

1. Make new paypal
2. Accept payment to new paypal
3. Post a letter thats recorded to buyer to the address they used.
4. add tracking details to paypal
5. Move Money from new paypal to old then withdraw.
6. Laugh at paypal for allowing scammers to use them.

1. Paypal has tracking. Which will be delivered. Thus you are upholding the payment protection side of the agreement.
2. If they ignore their own policy, they will try and pull the money back, but Hey! look its an account linked to nothing. Woops
 
Now the question is. Can we scam the scammer? Get them to pay via paypal, courier shows up. give him a can of baked beans, but remove the label and write "MAGIC BEANS" in a sharpie. Get the courier to sign they've picked up an item with the value of £600 and they now take responsibility to deliver them to the original scammer.
 
Diagro said:
How to beat this scam

1. Make new paypal
2. Accept payment to new paypal
3. Post a letter thats recorded to buyer to the address they used.
4. add tracking details to paypal
5. Move Money from new paypal to old then withdraw.
6. Laugh at paypal for allowing scammers to use them.

1. Paypal has tracking. Which will be delivered. Thus you are upholding the payment protection side of the agreement.
2. If they ignore their own policy, they will try and pull the money back, but Hey! look its an account linked to nothing. Woops
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Unfortuantely with new paypal accounts, there is a 21 day waiting time before you can transfer the money out of the Paypal Balance across to your account (it sits as Pending for 21 days).
 
It's a tad scary people on a computer forum (in enough iq to do a sign up process) have to ask about this

It really shows you why is done and how easy it is
 
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