The Community Forum is not available for new posts or responses; previous posts remain available to review. For comprehensive support options, please visit PayPal.com/HelpCenter Merchant Technical Support: For technical support and related questions, please visit our Technical Support Help Center or Developer Central
If you want to report illegal content under the EU Digital Services Act, please do so here
I realise there may not be a resolution to this and that I took the risk with this knowing what the potential outcome could be. A friend who lives in a different country was in desperate need of help and support and was (according to him) under threat of extreme violence if money was not repaid. I took pity on him and sent him money to help him out but made it very clear that this was a temporary loan as I don't work and have very little money available. I needed the money back in time to hopefully renew my car insurance in May. This gave him around 3 months at the time to pay the money back. He sent me two small amounts towards it in that time but still owes me $90. We are now heading into July, 2 months after the agreed repayment date and 5 months since he received the money from me. As I said, I realise that I took a risk with this and relied on a friendship and a verbal agreement to ensure I was repaid. I know there is little, if any, chance that I will ever receive this money back but I wondered if anyone else has ever been in this sort of situation before and if so, what did you do? Is there anything at all I can do to try and reclaim this money? It wasn't a purchase of any kind so there is no paper trail as such. Does anyone have any advice of what I could do? I do fully understand that I need to never do this again and need to stop being so soft and trusting. Please don't barrage me with insulting and negative responses, I know it's my own mistake.
I sent two payments in February, they were just payments sent through PayPal. I had some money put away in a savings account and that is where I funded it from.
Maybe I worded it wrongly but I never meant any offence to anyone or to put anyone off. I am just aware that because I obviously made a mistake in sending money with no written agreement etc, people might just want to tell me it's my own fault and berate me for being stupid. I don't understand what has bothered you about that. I just genuinely wanted some advice and not to be sent several messages about how I shouldn't have done it because I already acknowledge that I made a mistake. I am autistic and suffer from depression and anxiety and extremely low self esteem. I just wanted to get some advice and not just have people pointing out what I have already acknowledged. I genuinely am very confused as to why you have taken offence to a simple request to protect my mental wellbeing. I apologise if you think I have insulted you in any way. I never meant to and am confused about how I managed to?
