Will the funds be frozen if I open a Paypal dispute with somebody ? Or will they be frozen only if I escalate it into a claim ?
you means funds in your paypal account or the account of other person? If so then funds in other person's account will be frozen for further investigation and clearance. Opening a dispute is enough!
Yes His account will be in negative balance and PayPal will follow his transactions and finally will retrieve your money from whom he had sent
They will do nothing more than showing him negative balance to his account,so u will get nothing even if u win the dispute.
Nops. I won't agree with you here jimmy. This happened to me once when a scammer paid me got egold and scammed me and I made him pay me again for another exchange and then I transferred those funds from my PayPal to another paypal and even deleted that unverified Paypal. But after 5 days other guy (where I sent that money) got an email from paypal saying that your funds (same amount) is on hold and they finally returned him back. I guess that was because of Credit card payment or my account was unverified. Still confused that how the hell that happened :S
i dont agree with this completely.. i got scammed on ebay for a laptop(alienware laptop)for 600 usd and later i filed a claim...i got only partial refund saying that the scammer had only 175$ in his paypal.. so if it really goes into negative..and u know ofcourse to be an ebay seller..u need to have a verified account..so paypal could have claimed from his bank account.. but i didnt get the money back..just 175$
Yes, the funds will be marked as "Temporary Hold" by PayPal if you open a dispute or claim against a transaction. Once the case has been resolved. It will change to "Reversed" or Removed" depending on the outcome.
What if the guy spend the money I send him, then I open the dispute, then he got funds from elsewhere, will they freeze the new funds ?