I was given a gift of some money by a friend earlier this month for something trivial, and I didn't need or expect the money from him. I chose to refund the money, and my paypal balance quickly reflected the refund by taking the money out of my account, and it says the refund is Complete. However my friend says that he has definitely not received the money in his account. He originally gave me the money via his checking account, and according to the help questions on the site, the refund should have gone back to his paypal balance, which has not happened, and he has no record of the refund being pending or anything of the sort on his end.
What happened? How is it that a refund that should have been paypal to paypal seems to have gotten lost here? I'm a bit irritated, because this is making me think that simply sending him a gift back of the same amount would have accomplished exactly the same thing, but faster / without this weirdness.
