What can I do to prevent future $20 chargeback fees?
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I'm a programmer who sells scripts on a third party website for little amount of money, I make about $20 - $30 because I sell these scripts for very low prices and the community is very small. About a month ago, I received a chargeback disbute from a customer. Said that he never made the purchase, this happened with several other users on the aforementioned third party site. This is a seriously problem in the community that I sell scripts to, on occasion someone mass buys scripts, refunds all the scripts, and then distrubutes the scripts for free on another site illegally without saying a word.
I provided as much information that I could to paypal, and a month later I was slapped with a $20 chargeback fee for disputing a $5 purchase. I'm furious about that, but knowing how things work there is no way in **bleep** I'm going to get that $20 fee revoked so I have to comply. I just really want to know what I did wrong in this process, the offical reason that it did not go through was "This transaction was not marked as eligible for Seller Protection." and that I did not provide the proper documentation, but I was told by the third party service that all I needed to do was to tell them that it was digital goods. Either they were wrong, or I did something wrong and it's likely that I did something wrong.
I'm just wondering what possibly went wrong in this case. I'm wondering if I did not have the right account, what documents I should've sent, what other information I should've provided.
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How to stop chargebacks?
1. Stop selling on the internet.
2. For chargeback protection only products which qualify for seller protection; that means no digital goods.
Internet selling has risks, no matter what one sells, so it is important to focus on protection--like following PayPal policies for seller protection.
In some cases there will still be problems, so it is important to build those risks into your business profit margin. All business have some risks and they need to be part of the business profit model.

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