Ebay scam - How to get my money back?

[edhead76]

Bought a tent for a family friend yesterday on Ebay and minutes later received an email that said I bought from a fraudulent account. WTF how does this happen? How do I get my money back...I keep getting bounced around between EBay and Paypal. Beyond frustrating. Tried calling PayPal and the system hung up on me. Can't find a place to email either company. 
I Will Never Buy On EBay Again. Ugh

[kernowlass]

@edhead76

What does it say next to the transaction in your paypal account?

1. Completed.

2. Unclaimed.

3. Unclaimed with a cancel option.

[edhead76]

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@kernowlass wrote:

@edhead76

What does it say next to the transaction in your paypal account?

1. Completed.

2. Unclaimed.

3. Unclaimed with a cancel option.

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None of the above options

[kernowlass]

@edhead76

What does it say then, only I don't know any other options that is shown next to transactions apart from PENDING?

[edhead76]

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@kernowlass wrote:

@edhead76

What does it say then, only I don't know any other options that is shown next to transactions apart from PENDING?

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Nothing as far I see. Just says Payment under the sellers name. 

[kernowlass]

@edhead76

Are you looking in your Ebay account or your Paypal account?

Did you send the payment via Ebays checkout or directly via Paypal?

[edhead76]

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@kernowlass wrote:

@edhead76

Are you looking in your Ebay account or your Paypal account?

Did you send the payment via Ebays checkout or directly via Paypal?

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Looking in Paypal account. 
Payment through Ebay via Paypal. 

It's already cleared through my bank so now this is gonna be a real process. 
EBay sucks. I'll never use is again. 
Paypal - same company - isn't any better. 

If you know a customer has been scammed through your website it should be pretty cut and dry. But it's not and they really don't seem to give two sh*^%

[kernowlass]

Well that has nothing to do with me as I was just giving up my time to try to help you. Never heard of a paypal transactions that didn't have one of those options. Suggest you contact customer service.

[edhead76]

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@kernowlass wrote:
Well that has nothing to do with me as I was just giving up my time to try to help you. Never heard of a paypal transactions that didn't have one of those options. Suggest you contact customer service.

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@kernowlass my apologies to you if you thought that i was somehow upset with you. that was never the case. I should've thank you for trying to help. I didn't. My bad. 
It appears that somewhere in the chain of things the money is being refunded. Thank you for your time.
But really EBay and PayPal need to figure out a cleaner way of doing this. Kicking people back and forth and between the 2 sites is frustratingly stupid and very unprofessional in this day and age of internet business.