I got scammed buying a puppy and used paypal. Paypal said that since the transaction wasn't through ebay it did not cover me. I ended up having to contact my credit card company to do a chargeback (they definitely sided with me). However, the money that was not from my charge card was lost($250). The other person that was scammed never did get her money back through paypal, last time I talked to her. If you check out ripoffreport and type in paypal it will tell you some of the things that happened, and that's only a fraction of the people who have bothered to complain. I thought by using paypal my money was safe and scam proof but it took so much time and energy to get back what I could and that was losing some of it, thankfully not as much as it could have been. They did nothing to help me recover my funds, all of it was up to me. |