This is a really good one at it too, and figured I'd share it with the digitalpoint community I sold a website, dazvideos.com. It made a very nice profit in the short time I had it, and needed some quick funds. I found a buyer for $2,500 on sitepoint. I gave him FTP access, upon which he sent the payment via paypal. Then I pushed the domain to his godaddy account, and thought the deal was over. I log back into paypal, and notice I have an 'unauthorized' claim against my account. I sent paypal 13 pages worth of logs, and had 4 conversations with a paypal representative. Each time they understood my side and garunteed me that this guy has no case. I just got back from a holiday and checked it out. Turns out I "Shipped" the "Item" to the wrong "adress". Being the paypal address the money also came from.. Can anyone explain this to me? Also I noticed its the guy who owns lmmfao.com. Take a look, the website is mirrored on dazvideos.lmmfao.com
for big deals i always do this save money trust me you will not loose cash at all. Make him pay you and claim and then cancel after that nothing he can do to get his cash back period. Becouse you are only alowed 1 claim per transaction so its cash in the poket.
That's an excellent suggestion, and yes...it would work. Once a claim has been "resolved", you can't reopen it.
Actually it was once, at first I believe it was a 'chargeback' and then moved to 'unauthorized' claim once that failed, the file had not 'fully' been closed yet, or something like that is what I was told. As you see that the log has 11 entries.
Tyro, I just looked into it and apparenlty you cant make claims against money you have received.. Only against money you sent.
This is very sick. Call them. And take back the domain! Just email ICANN and GoDaddy and tell them what happend! or just claim you sent it away in an error! Try everything! Wish you luck!
I wouldn't give up so quickly. Ovbiously there was no item to send so they closed the request having incorrect information. Contact them again and ask them to reopen the case. Most importantly, however much you want to .... do not call them $#^$@!@!!#! or ##^%!%!@##^@! and especialy not !#!^%&!*! .... they tend to ignore emails like that. Continue to be professional and you might get yours back.
This is a good way to prevent chargebacks. Only one chargeback per transaction. Wish you best of luck. Man just don't give up, call those idiots (paypal) and tell them there was no item to ship and they should refund your money.
I agree. I mean $2500 is a lot of money to just watch get stollen out of your pocket. I wish I knew what you should do, but I don't. So best of luck to you.
I tried to be as professional as possible, I emailed paypal, godaddy, etc multiple times. I also called paypal 3 times I believe it was. Each time I was pretty much told there's nothing I can do.
Was the product a tangible one? I mean you really had to ship or was it a digital download? For digital downloads Paypal does nothing with buyers. No refunds (other than fraud credit cards). I had a dispute once where I bought a SDK and then found out it was not worth. Filed a claim, the seller informed "Digital product delivered", and Paypal closed the case.
No, actually I find it to be quite the opposite. I run a few websites that offer non tangible items for sale, and I regularly get chargebacks on almost a daily basis. Half the time I win, and the other half I dont. Paypals kinda sporadic like that. And no, I didn't get the domain back or anything.
Wow,great idea! I know hostgator.com do this but I didn't know that why they did it when I bought host from them,now I got it! Thank you!
Get it back then? Get in touch with ICANN and Where you hosted it and you will get it back. Claim it was in a misstake.