A California woman who was trying to sell her timeshare received a call from a Real Estate salesman. The salesman told her that he wanted the listing, and asked the woman to open a PayPal account and send him a $2,500 retainer. The woman was not comfortable with the whole thing (totally understandable) and sent [...]
I paid for an ebay auction with my debit card and was put through Paypal. Paypal took the money from my account in under 5 minutes. Seller reneged on the deal and gave a refund. I looked for the money in the account where Paypal had taken it from and it wasn’t there so I go [...]
I purchased a product from a local seller and paid using PayPal on the 22nd of July. after 12 business days and no product (or response from seller) I logged a dispute with PayPal as goods not received. they allowed the seller a further 10 days to respond, which they didn’t. Paypal has just sent me an [...]
This is an update to a previous post entitled “PayPal Adds New Fees In An Underhanded Manner“. The post explained how PayPal added fees to previously free services without notifying their account holders about the new additions. PayPal has apparently replied to the charge via’ the PayPal Blog. Their argument is that since they took [...]
Another slap in the face for sellers using PayPal. It seems they are now holding a percentage of certain account holders sales before there is ever even a problem. According to one account holder, PayPal is not using much discretion when deciding which accounts to apply this “safety feature” to. And on top of this, they do not [...]
PayPal is apparently charging fees for services that were previously free. Adding new fees is PayPal’s prerogative. The problem is, they did not notify their account holders (or anyone else for that matter) of the change in the fee structure. Read more about it at PCWorld on Jared Newman’s Blog
I am a South African who purchased some items from Ebay. After payment was received the seller contacted me and advised me that the products had been shipped. After not receiving the products after one month, I emailed the seller once again he advised that the products had been sent and that it didn’t have [...]
I opened a PayPal account 7 days ago in order to receive a payment for a laptop PC I was selling on eBay. The buyer transferred $1000 to my account. It’s been nothing but sheer hell ever since. I still don’t have my money. They limited the account so I could not withdraw my money, [...]
