PayPal

[Frankye47]

I believe Payapal should be a responsible corporate citizen. You should only provide this service IF you do due diligence on the companies using your service. It is a DISSERVICE to all of your members. We are being scammed by you and the companies you collect money for. Class action suit???

[PayPal_Siobhan2]

Hi Frankye47, 

Thank you for contacting the PayPal Community Forum, and welcome as a new member. 

We are sorry to hear you dissatisfied with our services. Our claims process is an arbitration service we offer to help resolve disagreements between buyers and sellers, but as you can imagine, it's extremely difficult for us to reach a decision that satisfies all parties. We deal with all cases objectively and with the intention of making a fair decision based on verifiable information which is available at the time. In general, you have 10 days to appeal if new information is presented. Go to your Resolution Centre and under 'Resolution Centre Cases' select Closed cases in the drop-down menu and find the claim. Under 'Action', click Appeal and provide the additional information. 

- Siobhan 

[Frankye47]

Fraudelent Companies. I think that PayPal can tell by the number of complaints on this forum that there is a serious problem with some of the companies you collect money from. You are promoting fraud by representing companies that are not legitimate. It would seem that research is warranted!

[kernowlass]

@Frankye47 

Yes, research is warranted and that is why you should research your sellers and the websites that you purchase from BEFORE you commit to buy.

Chinese Web Sites or on Social Media ads easy to spot (once you know the below signs) so buyer beware.

Paypal would not be able to check every individual seller / merchant / company in over 200 countries worldwide that adds paypal to their website to accept payments.

So they give you 'some' buyer protection but the onus is on you to risk assess your transactions.

They do stop bad companies from using Paypal when enough claims start rolling in.
However as they are in China (mostly) then its easy for them to just start over with a new name, so stopping them does not really do anything.

The BEST thing is to not buy from them in the first place, to recognise them -

1. No return address on the returns policy. The site will look as if its in your country (where they despatch goods from) but they will ask for returns to go back to China (returns depot) at a shipping cost often more than the item is worth.
2. No contact telephone number. if you click on contact the most you will get is webmail or an email address.
3. Rarely company address information.
4. Great pictures of items at bargain prices that turn out to be tat.
5. Fake reviews.
6. Google and you can often see previous company names as they change them once enough claims roll in and Paypal stop them using their services and start over.
7. Send fake tracking numbers to win item non receipt of item claims.