Just a hint. I believe that VISA debit cards offer some of the protection that you get with a UK credit card, banks usually give you the choice and let you change between Visa or Mastercard. With regard to Paypal and the EU, paypal moved out of the EU to Luxembourg, presumably to avoid EU consumer protection laws.
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Thanks for the reply PayPal_paula, sounds reasonable. Perhaps at some time paypal could be improved so it checks and if the payment is via ebay with-hold the email address. I have had so many ebay sales sites spaming me that I have had to cancel the email address and change the email I use for paypal. Naturally they don't use their ebay address so I don't know who they are.
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Re PayPal_barry Moderator on Jul-29-2010 03:48 PM. You state "the only circumstances where we would not ask a buyer to return the item is ........ if the item has been confirmed as a fake or counterfeit (it is illegal for someone to knowingly post fraud items). That is exactly the case I had when I was sold a fake memory stick but paypal refused a refund. Will you please therefore re-open the case and send me a refund.
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I have had a similar problem with getting spam after a paypal transaction. Paypal should not have given out your email address. Just ignore him, but for the future can we get paypal to stop releasing our email address to people who should not know them.
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I have been having problems with sellers sending spam to the email address I use for paypal. Why does paypal give out my email address to sellers? The transaction details are sufficient for them to ID the transaction. They have no reason to need my email address. Paypal please fix this.
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Unless they have changed it you can set up alternative delivery addresses in ebay and then still pay by paypal. Delivery is to the ebay overseas address. Paypal won't let you set up an overseas delivery address which is remarkable since paypal is owned by ebay which does allow overseas addresses. For the purchase you have already made the only option probably is to send a message to the seller.
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Unless the've changed it you can set up delivery addresses for ebay purchases and pay via paypal with delivery to other countries. However don't forget that if you have a UK credit card then you get much better protection using the credit card rather than paypal if a purchase goes wrong. I'm still chasing paypal for a refund months after the problem arose, they have sufficient exceptional clauses to avoid paying. On the other hand a UK credit card bank has by law to refund you when a seller is running a scam and disappears with your money.
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