Friends and Family scam! Help.

[Joeymcfadd]

Keep this quite short. Basically a few years ago I bought tickets online for a show to see my sisters favourite singer. 

The tour/show wasn't till the following year, I found someone selling third row seats for $1,000 for 2 tickets.

I paid this individual via Paypal friends and family, and the tickets never arrived, I couldn't dispute it though because it was friends and family.

I phoned a paypal representative that told me there was nothing they could do, I went to law enforcement who wouldn't help either.

I am at a loss to what to do now, is friends and family the gift option? The Paypal representative said it's a gift of money to friends or family

and nothing should have been exchanged. Is this not just an easy way for scammers to abuse the system and get away with a serious crime?

How will I get my money back years on? Help.

[DPCreations]

You chose to send the money as friends/family; that was a GIFT payment.  PayPal makes it very clear in policies that you need to use goods/services payment when you are payment for goods or services.  

Whey you pay a friends/family, it is a gift paymetn with NO RECOURSE with PayPal. 

If you used a credit card and it is less than 180 days you could file a dispute there.

[Whac-A-Mole]

You wait too long,chargeback is 180 days,