After reading this thread, something very sad has become clear to me: All along we see ourselves as PayPal users and customers, when in reality, we are actually their PRODUCT. Yokawa and others like them are PayPal's actual customers - it is off THEIR sales that PayPal makes their money. When in doubt, follow the money - if you're not the one paying it for a service, then someone else is, and that makes you the product, not the customer. Much like Facebook - we all see ourselves as its users, and therefore its customers, but it is a free service. We are Facebook's product, or I should say that our demographic information and access to micro-targeted user groups is their actual product, sold to marketing firms and bigger fish like Cambridge Analytica, etc. Yes, we put money into PayPal, but that doesn't mean we're paying them - we use it as a conduit to get our money from one place to another. In cases like these, PayPal will always take the side of the company paying the bills, which is scammers like this. They tell us we can dispute things but then use opaque beaurocracy against us. It's all a scam from the start to the end and PayPal couldn't care less as long as they make their cut.
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