Legitimate Seller

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Does PayPal insure a seller is legitimate before they bill the customer?

[kernowlass · Accepted solution]

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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.

[DLM2557]

your info is good, but doesnt help after we already fell for it, i really try to be careful of things i buy, etc. but they really had me on this site, i also had seen videos of people getting these items in the past, i really thought it was the same stuff, but seeing paypal has some of this info from people complaining on there site, that should of made it go to people like me, stopped payment and told me the issues, if i decided to go ahead, then that would of been on me, but there was no warning etc, which it would of been nice to have some..so your info could of saved me, but it didnt, wish it had been where i could of stopped this..