My very many recent and negative experiences with PayPal tell me to jump ship and dump PayPal. At one time they were a protection device against fraudulent vendors but now I know why e-bay have taken over their own protection plans( I use the word protection loosely) because even e-bay aren't doing much to help the consumer!! I'm dumping PayPal; they no longer serve any useful purpose. If you think about it all they do is charge a fee to the vendor for their service, hit you, the consumer with a lower than normal exchange rate, so, they are making money at both ends. My recent costly experience ($1000) has proven that I cannot talk to anyone at PayPal, they don't accept resposibility for anything, provide no insurance or assurance. Therefore what good are they? I feel that using your credit card isn't a lot better but it does cut out middlemen that just get in the way for the purposes of making an easy buck!! This latest experience proves that they are willing to allow any unscrupulous vendor to use their service and are not the least bit interested in cutting off the rip off vendors. Its' all in the name of making themselves a buck. I don't want to go into a lot of detail simply because of the typing time but, as a result of my latest scam experience all PayPal did was tell me what other places I could go to get help; all of which turned out to be a joke. PayPal can now kiss my **bleep** and other than using e-bay to find deals they are no better, trust me. I'm a retired professional pilot/engineer/ Canadian diplomat and I will spend the rest of my life fighting PayPal and E-bay to prove how useless they both really are!! I spend endless hours going on forums and government sites trying to cut out unscrupulous vendors and telling people about the uselessness of both PayPal and E-bay. Best of luck with your problem. Fred
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