BONGO LIKE SHINY BEADS, NOT PAPER AND PENNIES, BUT MANY PEOPLE LAUGH AT BONGO AND THIS MAKES HIM ANGRY IN SHOPS

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So, what's the main issues with Paypal? I always liked using them myself, but would like to know if its not a good idea... :/

I use it all of the time even though I lost £800 to them 3 years ago, not too much choice when ebaying. I sold a laptop (£800) got paid through paypal, sent it, 3 days later (After laptop was signed for - abroad) Paypal reversed the payment. Then had the cheek to say I was in the red by £800 and I had a couple of days to pay it back or they would start legal action against me. I went to the Police Internet fraud team as I had been paid by dodgy credit card and all I got was... Well paypal, we've had thousands of complaints and basically tough shit. Lessons learnt, never send anything anywhere other than a confirmed address, you are covered then. I sent to an unconfirmed address and lost out.

Paypal will take your money whenever they like. There are no regulations in place to stop them from taking it from your credit cards or bank. They also like to freeze your account for "suspicious activity". This means you took a payment from someone when you normally use the account to pay for items. It happened to me when I started using them again after the first fiasco I had 3 years ago.

1st time: I sold a Porsche on ebay to a lady who paid me the deposit of $5000 US through paypal... paid the remaining 43k with a cashiers check. I shipped the car to her, she left positive feedback and said she loved the car. 5 months later she reversed the charge on her Visa card which came back through Paypal. They didn't ask a question of me, just took the 5k from my bank account! When I disputed the action with PayPal, they did a cloak and dagger investigation and said sorry, she likes the car and all but there is nothing we can do since the funds were disputed from the CC company. Our seller protection will not cover this. So... paypal screwed me out of 5k.

2nd time: Signed back up with paypal.... like a fool. I bought a few things with it, everything was fine. Then, I sold a bicycle, they decided to freeze me up for "suspicious activity". I then was asked for my social security number, utility bill, bank statement, copy of photo ID, permission to do a credit check, or they wouldn't release the 2500 to my account! (not to keen on giving anyone all that info by email and fax) On-top of all this, they wanted a tracking number for the bike that said it was delivered to the guy that bought it, even though I had no money for it! I called and was jerked around for 1.5 hrs and ended up being told if I sent the tracking number, and all the other info, there was still no guarantee I would get paid. Unbelievable! Paypal SUCKS.

shocking i've only ever bought and sold relatively small amounts via paypal. definitely worth bearing in mind, f*cking disgusting behaviour for me. not good.

luckily i ain't had any of these issues... yet. they do scare the pants off me though

i assume you started this thread beejoir for the SOS site?

oooOOOooo do tell.... neate? banksy? if the word tribute was in the title your defintiely fecked though

My Walk in Harajuku ;D

very nice... i'm sure all will be good

Good point. Still think that the seller will be up quite a bit though.

I had a good start to the year and took quite a few payments, on ebay items and private transactions, with no bad feed back and 100% happy buyers.

Then out of the blue paypal suspended my account for abnormal activity, so I jumped through all their hoops, and provided all the information they needed, accounts and invoices, they released my account...... for a week, I took one ore payment, and they suspended it again with 1200 quid in, 5 months on and I'm still waiting to get it back!