Since then, I had the account released but things have gotten worse! Here's the chronology: April 1st notice from Paypal that the 'buyer' (remember I did NOT sell anything, I did not have anything listed with ebyay) had filed a chargeback claim and that to dispute it, I had to contact them within 24 hours. The 'buyer' claimed that this purchase was made without authorization to use the credit card. April 2nd less then 24 hours later, I called and explained the situation AGAIN to a Paypal respresentative. I was told that even though they 'understood' the situation, they were going to do the chargeback and had no knowledge of this as being a scam... ...there is documentation on the paypal site that says they recognize this as being a scam. On May 2nd, I was notified that the Post Office refunded the money that was erronously charged to me for a shipping label for an item I didn't have for sale. I'm guessing that they did that because that label was never used. If I have to (actually I'm going to tell paypal to research that, I shouldn't have to). Since then, my husband almost died from a small bowel obstruction and has been on disability for 12 weeks. I haven't had the time to check on the progress of this partly because of that and partly because I TRUSTED PAYPAL. April 29, I got a notice that they were doing the chargeback and charging ME FEES because "We did not receive a reply to our request for information within the required time period. We did not receive proof of shipment information." I don't care if Paypal handed this scammer almost $300 but now they want to charge me almost $50, $20 for each of 2 chargebacks and $9.24 for each of 2 charges for the TEMPORARY HOLD that was placed on my account! This is just too much for me to comprehend. They could have very easily verified that I had NO EBAY ITEMS FOR SALE and the PO DIDN'T PROCESS A LABEL. As if I haven't had enough, I'm trying to get ready to go out of town because my elderly parents are ill. What do I do??? How could this happen? I'm guessing there was no investigation by Paypal, must be a common write off. I hope they can prove me wrong.
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