Ah crappo, wish i'd seen this forum message before i did the same. A few weeks ago i sold some bitcoin, 59 items in total with a percentage going to charity, and yes the same is happening to me! well over 50% of all the transactions have been so far been reversed by PayPal. These buyers are clearly scammers! The thing that really **bleep** me off besides allowing myself to be scammed is the lack of support or ability to provide information to PayPal, their resolution and case systems is crap, only allowing pre-determined information to be submitted. I ended up writing evidence docoumets and cover letters and uploading them as PDF files in their ID document categories, then following them up with a phone call to make sure the PayPal staff recieved and actually read the cover letter, then forwarded them on to the relevant departments (To be fair to the staff they were always very helpful on the phone) So far none of the reversal cases have gone in my favor and now im currently over £500 out of pocket with more cases still happening as we speak, i stand to loose about £1000 in total! As im in the UK ive reported it to the Police National Fraud department and have recieved a Crime reference number. The dumb thing on the buyers part is their Full names and addresses are listed on the ebay transaction, wether they are genuine or not i dont know, but at least it's something for the police to work with. Ive leanrt the very hard way: DO NOT SELL BITCOIN ON EBAY, there is full buyer protection but absolutley none for the seller.
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