Paypal and Faxing input for Disputes

Shlev
Contributor
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So I sell an intangible item to someone, and within hours of them receiving the item they dispute that I ever sold them anything(that I effectively stole money from them).  The ONLY evidence I have against them is a chatlog, and after afew days of looking over the idiotic dispute areas, I attempted to submit the chatlog via the website.

 

They then requested that I FAX them the shipping information for the item.  It was **bleep**ing intangible!  I repeatedly listed in everything I submitted that the person received INTANGIBLE GOODS.  So I submitted to them yet again that the person was not SHIPPED anything, that I have no shipping information to FAX them.

 

Today I get an email from them stating that since I did'nt FAX them ANY kind of information(i.e. chatlogs) that they will finish their investigation without any of my input/proof.

 

So now if this all goes through in the buyers favor, I'm at a loss of money.  They effectively would have cheated me and stole what I was trying to sell them.

 

After this I'm not even bothering with Paypal anymore.  If it's this easy for me as a seller to be swindled out of hardwork, and not having Paypal putting in more effort to allow me to submit everything I have as evidence to not only protect MY income, but my integrity as a seller; then whats the point?  If it's this easy to swindle buyers out of product, then no thanks.

 

Is this all common on Paypal for other buyers, or is this just a really bad fluke and I've gotten the worst of it?

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BigKahuna97
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Sadly, I feel the best way to sum this up is it's "becoming more common".

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surplusdealdude
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Didn't read the User Agreement, did you?

 

You have NO SELLER PROTECTION for payments for virtual items.  None, nada, zip.

 

Now, go and read the agreement to see how else you've been leaving yourself wide open.

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