Paypal is a scam.
www.paypalsucks.com/Here's how I got scammed.
1) pay through paypal via bank deposit
2) oops, bank $ levels are low
3) pay by credit card, whatever.
4) all is good
5) next day
6) next day
7) your bank payment has been accepted.
WTF?!
it auto tries to make the payment. there is no hint or indication it will do this, until you read the fine print ...somewhere. all indications are that it is unsuccessful, the language used etc.
The scam is making it somewhat easy to make a mistake with the system, sometimes. Most people most of the time find it easy and successful, but there is enough of a percentage to make a killing on the side. And you'll never get through the wall of homogenous call centres.
Obviously the other party wasn't scamming me as they had no idea how i'd pay. they said they received the first payment, then their account got put into negative the same amount. paypal were asking them for money they said they never even received. I believe them.
the money, quite a sum, got lost somewhere in paypal. You can spend days talking to a headless, homogenous, indian based organisation. In the end I gave up out of frustration. Got some of it back through insurance, but not even half.
You can read everybody else's stories on www.paypalsucks.com. I hate it. </rant>
