►►► YOUR PERSONAL PAYPAL STORY ◄◄◄ (Everybody has one)

[Cyberpaul]

Let's share each other's experiences on Paypal.


I'll go first....
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I've sold a site to a DP member not knowing that his/her Paypal account was hacked. $2,400.

I've got a fraudulent chargeback...
Then my account got limited. good thing i've already withdrawn some of it and purchased some stuffs in ebay.

[hav0c]

Is this going to end up being an I hate PayPal because I got scammed, thread?

[HurryHost.com]

good thing i've already withdrawn some of it and purchased some stuffs in ebay.

you will be charged for the money you spent trust me, i had a neg balance for about 2 months and they sent bailifs to my door

[Cyberpaul]

Is this going to end up being an I hate PayPal because I got scammed, thread?

Well you can't blame people for that. People worked hard for their money....

[immortality]

One time I was sent $10,000 and after I gave the person what they bought they thanked me.


Only stupid people get scammed or actioned by PayPal.

[hav0c]

Well you can't blame people for that. People worked hard for their money....
Edit: I could understand that if it were PayPal fraudently taking money from users. The OP had a negative experience due to a chargeback. PayPal isn't the blame for that action.

[Radz]

lol.. i kicked from them i had 15$ in my account and it was unverified.

[edwardsim]

well, overall had a pretty good paypal experience till now. no scams from anybody as yet ..

would recommend it ..

[getjimmy]

It is ur actions that leads to limitation by paypal,just dont accept those hacked payments and u will be fine.

[redwebs]

just becareful next time

[dbullet007]

I've never had any problems with them... however I try to not keep much money on my account, just in case some crazy-ass paypal guy decides to limit my account or something

[yahue]

I've never had any problems with them... however I try to not keep much money on my account, just in case some crazy-ass paypal guy decides to limit my account or something

The problem with that approach is that as soon as you try to withdraw most of your money, you get limited!

[paypalcommunity]

how do we know if we are accepting hacked payment ???? this is quite interesting for me since im new in using paypal here in the philippines.

[immortality]

Ive had more than $10k sitting in my PayPal account for over a month and no problems. I dont understand why people say "TAKE IT OUT RIGHT AWAY!"....

[wholahay]

are we able to send money on our account if we trasact big money like 10kusd?

[Titan3920]

never heard of paypalsucks.com?

[Lemon116]

never heard of paypalsucks.com?

Im the Co-Founder.

My 750$ withdraw is still pending since Jan the 24th... :D

[deadlychaos25]

My story - i got legit 10 $ and Hacked 20 $ at a same time which result into my acc limitation :D

[Panzer]

Paypal has been good to me.. so far. I got a little confused because i couldn't figure out how to transfer money from a NZ credit card to my paypal account. I found the answer on some forum, it wasn't in the docs.

[antriver]

Only stupid people get scammed or actioned by PayPal.

:(



I sold an ipod on ebay for £250. 5 months later the payment got reversed so I had a negative balance. Apparantly the guy who bought it had their ebay/paypal accounts hacked.
I never heard anything from PayPal since though. My account got closed and the police got the guy who was using the guys hacked account. He'd bought about £10,000 worth of stuff with it.

[SamBerns]

I have a had a great experience with PayPal. I created a website for some one. I showed them a preview, and said DON'T RIP THIS, IT HAS BUGS AND IS NOT COMPLETE!. The guy says ok. Next day I come one he says dont worry about finishing I just ripped it, Is aid it has bugs, he said its fine don't worry. So he pays me. And im fine. The next week he opens a claim against me in Paypal, saying I never gave him the layout and that I scammed him, LOL. SO I go his site, I take images, I take images of the PSD and code on my computer. I show Paypal. I also call them and I said what are my chances of losing this case. They told me that they don't usually interfere with virtual goods/services. And then the guy told me that its against his job to give me a definite answer but then said Over my dead body. So if you get a good support agent, and provide proof. You are always safe :)

[Nora]

My paypal experience has been nothing but positive. :)
Never had any trouble buying/selling things, never had my account limited either.. I think they're amazing.

[AngelaR]

Paypal sucks and you can't trust your money / account with them.. End of story. The only reason people are still using them is because that's the only method of online payment that most people will use. They have terrible security measures for the seller only the buyers. Try and protect yourself from a HACKED account when your selling a download on a script site. You can't and absolutely cannot win.

[wisdomtool]

My two bad experiences, one time they suddenly declared that they suspect me of money laundering and limit my account but it was automatically unlimited without me doing anything and without a trace of complaint in the open or closed cases.

Another time they hold a 25 cents incoming money saying that they had to protect us. They held it for 3 weeks I think then release it saying it was ok.

Two such cases after so many years in Paypal, I would say they did a fantastic job overall.

[Sevenheartz]

I've had absolutely no problems with PayPal since I began using it.

[argothiusz]

Got an account sign up under UK country because I can't verify since I am underage (3-4 years ago). Sold some virtual stuff then got charged back. Ended up with $-180 balance. Screw them I just leave the account there and gone :) I am glad I spent all the money before they charge back. Their chargeback policy is so stupid but oh well.

[hav0c]

Got an account sign up under UK country because I can't verify since I am underage (3-4 years ago). Sold some virtual stuff then got charged back. Ended up with $-180 balance. Screw them I just leave the account there and gone :) I am glad I spent all the money before they charge back. Their chargeback policy is so stupid but oh well.
It's not necessarily their chargeback policy. If someone disputes a transaction with their credit card, the card company will refund the cardholder and retrieve the money back from PayPal. Since PayPal (like any company), doesn't want to lose millions or billions per year with such instances, they're of course going to take the money back from you. In the end, intangible goods stand the best chance on losing a dispute since it isn't physically shipped.

Also, you've used false info when signing up so that wasn't exactly the smartest thing.;)

[nanox]

Once someone was trying to make a charge back for domain - the whole $1.5 :D