fraud

[fruad]

Very disappointed in PayPal. I wanted to purchased a item on eBay. I couldn't purchase the item unless i paid through PayPal. So i did what anybody who wanted to make the purchase would do. I went through all the steps & paid through PayPal. Less then a hour i received a message from eBay stating there may be fraudulent activity. Anybody with common sense would cancel the order, right? Well not exactly! I contacted eBay & long story short, they told me to contact PayPal. So on to the next, i contacted PayPal for them to basically tell me this: I have to wait for the seller take my money in order to get a refund. So now i have to wait to get robbed instead of them just cancelling the order b4 he robs me. I can't believe it. So when i finally get my money back I'm cancelling my account & will no longer do business with PayPal. I couldn't buy the product without using PayPal & now i have to get scammed to receive my money back. Instead of taking action to prevent me from getting scammed knowing the seller is scamming me. I'm done with PayPal!

[kernowlass]

@fruad

When you pay via paypal and then the transaction is cancelled or refunded paypal can't force the funds YOU authorised to do a u-turn from your funding source.

They have to process through to paypal and then when cleared > back to you again.

Not sure what part of that is you getting robbed as you know for sure you will get the money back in a few days time.

Luckily you paid with paypal and not bank transfer / cheque etc or you may not have been able to get your money back.