I think I've been scammed
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If you've sent the payment as a Personal payment, there's nothing PayPal can do sadly =/ It does sound quite fishy if he won't talk via eBay. All is not lost though- if you've paid via a card, you can contact your card issuer to initiate a chargeback to pull the money back. Alternatively, you can speak to ActionFraud, a division of the UK police specialising in cyber crime. Hope this helps dude, that's really rough.
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Should work with a debit card, yeah. If you topped up your PayPal balance first and THEN sent the money, that wouldn't be able to have a chargeback applied.
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I would file with your bank first as they would take it seriously anyway, filing with action fraud is always a good idea as it backs up your case.

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