Many thanks what if the transaction is not via Ebay? I am selling a couple of my horses, one potential buyer has insisted on paypal as a payment method but some of the terminology used is very similar to the car scamming that goes on. I am curious as to how these people operate and more over, how Paypal allow it to operate. If a payment is made and then held for a period by paypal, how can the purchaser eventually get their funds back and more over, how can the seller get their product (in my case a horse) back. if someone pays funds into paypal and there is a dispute, surely the purchaser cannot get the money back until the dispute is completed...is this the same if the purchaser pays via a credit card through paypal or is it a bit of a game where the seller tends to back down and reduce the price to a stupid amount to end up with something rather than a major headache.
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