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Paypal.com screwing us over.

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Prefect

Junior Member
What is the name of your state? Pennsylvania

I find myself, yet again, at these boards. It starts back when someone tried to fraud me for about $675 dollars. Paypal.com was told by his credit card company that the charges were fraudulant. I submitted all the information about his deal with me (i sold him an online server service for a video game) and they declined me and said he was right. So he got his money and 1 months free service out of me. My Paypal account only had 16 bucks in it, so i wasnt at a huge loss. I figure since his CC company found paypal.com fraudulant that it was no longer my problem, especially since paypal wasnt helping me. So i closed the account.

Others in my family have paypal accounts, and paypal claims they have a "tie" between a fraud charge on our accounts. The addresses arent even the same on the accounts, they are just my family members. It is my dads and my brothers. They wont tell us any information about the accounts and said they found a link between them but wont tell us what it is. We have a lot of money held up in those accounts now because of paypal.com. What exactly can we do? This isnt the first time theyve held our money or charged our banks for charges that arent even real! I'm sick of their taking the buyers side crap, when i sent them e-mail after e-mail and e-mail RECEIPTS! Plus i gave them evidence of the guy posting about the purchase on his own website. They still denied me. My real questions are, how can they deny us information about our own accounts, and how can they not protect virtual services if they are one themselves? Cant something be done about this paypal bullcrap?
Help.
 
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JETX

Senior Member
Prefect said:
My real questions are, how can they deny us information about our own accounts
Sorry, but this website has NO involvement with PayPal. Only they can answer your question.

how can they not protect virtual services if they are one themselves?
See above.

Cant something be done about this paypal bullcrap?
Yep. Don't use them.
 

Prefect

Junior Member
So then my questions go deeper then as to say... Why cant i screw paypal.com like they are screwing me? They say its legal, so there shouldnt be any trouble right?
 

JETX

Senior Member
Prefect said:
Why cant i screw paypal.com like they are screwing me? They say its legal, so there shouldnt be any trouble right?
You can. Simply create a multi-million dollar company and somehow convince PayPal to give you control over their money... then screw them!! :D
Let us know your new company name so that we can track it.
 

Prefect

Junior Member
Or my friends can just file chargebacks on me, same thing. :D Its what paypal is doing, holding and stealing our money, so i might as well get some of it by doing exactly what they do! And hey! They call it legal! yay!
 

gig9

Junior Member
PayPal isn't Perfect

One thing that I've learned about PayPal is not to leave any money in the account. Once funds are received into your account - sweep the funds to your bank account as soon as possible.
 

JETX

Senior Member
gig9 said:
One thing that I've learned about PayPal is not to leave any money in the account. Once funds are received into your account - sweep the funds to your bank account as soon as possible.
One thing I have learned.... honest people don't have to worry about their PayPal accounts. I have had a PayPal account pretty much since they started and have NEVER suffered from a closed account, frozen funds, etc. In fact, I currently have several thousand $$ in my PayPal account. And yes, I will be doing an account transfer shortly.... but only so it earns interest for me and not them.
 
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Fat Tony

Guest
Yeah, I got to agree with Jet there, Ive used paypal for a lot of things for a good 2-3 years now, I believe. I avent had one problem with them in all this time. I just sweep the money out every 30 days, just like he said, so that it earns me interest, not them. Sell a reputable, respectable product, be fair with your customers, and follow their guidelines to a T, you'll have no problems there.
 

Zain Jaffer

Junior Member
I've had no problems with paypal yet, I've contacted their security dept reporting scamming incidents and the help I have recieved is pretty good.

You're correct in saying that they favour the buyer over the seller, I've noticed this too. - They are too "safe", but it's better then being unsafe.

Legally, I don't know exactly what you can do ... but it's YOUR money, so YOU are entitled to it, or atleast have the right to be kept up-to date with the situation.

Read their TOS carefully, and see if they breach any of your rights.

That's the best advice I can give.
 

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