What did I tell you?
Avoid paypal for receipt like the plague. No matter how good you are, it can and will go wrong. And no they don't give a toss.
If you keep too much cash in your account to pay for things, you will find it disappears for 6 months to goodness knows where, you can't get it back, you can't talk to anyone, only goons who can't do anything, and take the flack, if you are lucky enuff to get through and find someone to talk to.
If someone doensn't like something, no matter how trivial, they can simply complain after 5 mins. even for non receipt, and then you can't pay for anyhting until you clear the balance subtracted for a dodgy complaint, you may not even get the cash back, whereas if your purchase is from someone dodgy, you may never see item or cash, and paypal don't cooperate with the police unless absolultely forced to. Until then, its civil, and lawyers aren't interested upto £5000. so that leaves small claims, for £50? £100? 99% won't bother at all.
Even if the buyer receives it, and you haven't sent trackable, they can claim non receipt and will win.
And paypals/ebay protection is intentionally written to confuse, obstruct and obfuscate, you don't know where you are, ebay listings security and paypals are contradictory. Its a mess. Even if it seems 'protected', it almost certainly isn't.
Even credit cards aren't guaranteed secure, my brother has been done by barclaycard, who are refusing to charge back on a technicality that is nonsense, so they have been boycotted for ever.
Just realise its setup in the banks, paypals, ebays favour, and more biased to buyers, and you won' t go far wrong.
Paypal health warning: severe danger of being ripped off or scammed.
13th December 2006, 11:37 AM
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