no idea really what else to use, i'm going to do a bit of a lookup tonight,
just do a general search on paypal and fraud or even fraudulant or this fraudulent and see the 1000's of pages that come up in google. like yourself i believed that i was protected thru paypal, but nope, no comeback on them whatsoever, and others have lost many $1000's and paypal is completley different from cheques, postal orders and cash, if they send any of the above as payment, its yours, cheques clear after 4 days!, and its legally your money. paypal can (and does) withhold transactions many weeks after payment!, so even if you think the money is yours it isnt. the only thing you can do is take out the cash immediatley and then when paypal removes the money from your bank / credit card claim it back from them. this company really is a bit dodgy to say the least Dean > -----Original Message----- > From: Andrew Collier [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, January 17, 2002 11:12 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: re :- PAYPAL for auctions, a warning > > On Thu, 17 Jan 2002, Dean Woodyatt wrote: > > > Having recently been scammed for $300 (thru paypal) for a payment on an > ebay > > auction, i did a little digging and came up with this > > > > www.paypalwarning.com > > > > so i'd recommend not to use 'em! > > And what do you suggest instead? > > PayPal is in many ways no different to sending a cheque, postal order, or > cash. If the seller scams you, you wouldn't blame the post office for > selling > you the postal order, so why is PayPal any different? If you don't trust > the > seller, then pay extra for an escrow service. > > The only method of payment that gives you any comeback would be a credit > card, and chances are that an ebay seller wouldn't have the means to > accept a > credit card payment. > > Andrew > > -- > --- Andrew Collier ---- > ---- http://mnemotech.ucam.org/ --- > -- > r<2+ T<4* cSEL dMS hEn/CB<BL A4 S+*<++ C$++L/mP W- a-- Vh+seT+ (Cantab) > 1.1.4
