This is about a Paypal payment that was outside ebay. A seller on ebay was selling a phone for £200 using Buy It Now method, someone else won it, but i emailed the seller telling him if the sale fails for whatever reason let me know as i'm interested in buying the same phone. He told me that the phone had not sold even though it seemed to have sold via ebay, well, we arranged for me to send payment directly via paypal rather than recreate an auction etc (my paypal account was empty so money went directly from my bank account via paypal), initially he was very quick to respond, but after i sent payment, he's gone silent. No responses or anything for 2 days. I tried going through resolution centre on Paypal to freeze the payment, however, i get the message: "We're sorry, but this transaction cannot be disputed because it is not a purchase of goods or services. Please contact the recipient directly." What can i do? I assumed that i was protected as that's what Paypal states everywhere you look, now it says i'm not protected. I have not received the phone and the seller has stopped responding. The more i think about it the more i think the ebay/paypal account may have been hijacked from a genuine user, but that is a complete guess.
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