Scammer

[UnDanLink]

Hello everyone! I have a broblem at my hand where a person/seller tricked me to pay 40€ for game content/items what he never gave me. He told me to mark it as a gift "friends and family" for to avoid tax? And i see now he has no attention of returning the money or sell me the items because he puted me to Block list. What shold i do. This happend 23.6.2021

[kernowlass]

@UnDanLink 

A friends / family (or gift payment) is intended as a transfer of funds from family or friends to one another. For this reason, there is no processing fee when payment is made with bank or PayPal balance.
However as it is a gift payment, there is also no Buyer protection as no goods or services should have been exchanged.

If he was not a close mate or family member you should never use that option as it enables the seller to evade paying his paypal fees and negates your buyer protection at the same time.

You would also not be able to open a dispute apart from one citing an unauthorised transaction but that would be automatically closed as you did authorise the initial payment.

Be careful as using that option for purchasing goods is against Paypal rules and can lead to account limitation.

If you funded your paypal payment via a credit card then contact your card issuer and see if they will help you but unfortunately they may decline as well as it was a gift payment.