I sold my old MacBook Pro on eBay over a month ago. After THREE buyers wasting my time and not paying, I finally had a legit buyer. He paid straight away and as soon as I got the email to say the money was paid, I logged in to see that my money was put on hold. I was going to use that money to pay for shipping but because it was on hold I wasn't able to ship it. Also, judging by the fact that I've had 3 suspicious buyers, I wasn't sending anything until I had access to the funds. I was told by PayPal to mark item as dispatched and I'd get the funds released 7~ days later. The money WAS released and I made a withdraw to my account so I could pay for the shipping and be done with it. Withdrawal was successful (would be in my account in 72 hours) so I went to sleep. I woke up to find that PayPal had said that my bank account "wasn't recieving the funds" and they reversed it charging me a fee for the privilage. I called the bank and they said PayPal were lying. As soon as they reversed the transaction they put a hold on my account saying that because I had more than £2000 paid in to my account in the last year (I hadn't) then I needed to provide a plethora of extra information - which I wasn't going to do. So anyway, my PayPal account was already £170~ overdrawn; as I was going to sell my laptop anyway, I was going to just let the funds cover that rather than have to send money from my account. Obviously PayPal have been useless in the whole process and every single "advisor" I have spoken to have been rude, obnoxious and TOTALLY unhelpful - I would describe them as a waste of human skin. Anyway, I advised the buyer to file a case to get his money back after I had explained the situation to which he has. PayPal are now down nearly £190~ with no way of getting it back from me and I'm **bleep** myself laughing. If they had just helped as I expected them to then this wouldn't have happened. I have since found numerous websites dedicated to exposing how useless and fraudulant PayPal/eBay is and I'm glad they aren't getting all the money from me. **bleep** PayPal. Edit: Apparently PayPal censor the word "Sc.rew". Get a grip.
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