PayPal Reviews

Frustrated, I went back to Ebay and pressed the "Pay Now" with Paypal button. There was only one request for payment there. In the same broken english were the same words: "i am seller of camera on ebay" with the amount of $494. It seemed okay. So, I TRUSTED Ebay and Paypal and followed their directions. $494 was taken out of my charge card account. I waited two days and went back to the auction site which showed that "Buyer has Checked out". Again I sent lengthy e-mails to the two e-mail addresses provided, asking about the camera shipment. I got one brief response. "No payment received." But I thought I HAD paid!
I went back to Paypal's site and found ANOTHER request for payment in the EXACT same wording: "i am seller of camera on ebay" with the amount of $497! Above it was the now PAID item for $494, paid to an unverified unknown female party OVERSEAS. At this moment it struck me like a ton of bricks: Was I was a victim of a transaction interception? My funds had been given to a woman OUTSIDE of the auction, and outside of the country! I had to do the right thing. I went back to Ebay and found the real seller's ID (a man) and e-mailed him immediately, and paid him his funds of $497.
Within hours I got a brief e-mail with the words: "Camera has been shipped". I then wrote the man two more e-mails asking about the lady overseas who got the previously sent $494. No answer in four days. I was still suspicious. I contacted Paypal and Ebay, and requested they get my funds back for the fraudulent first payment, and that I was very suspicious about the two identical wordings and their timing. It was possible that those two parties were working together to scam me out of more funds. I suspected this because of the terse answers and the identical wordings in poor english. Ebay answered with a form letter, stating it was a Paypal issue. But I HAD pressed the Ebay button to pay, TRUSTING this was the way it was done. Two more e-mails were ignored.

I contacted Paypal and they said they would "investigate" for ten to thirty days! I called my bank and their comment was that it "looked very much like the parties were working together". SUMMARY: My trust in Ebay and Paypal is gone. They together allowed unverified parties to recieve $494 in funds taken from my charge card. I hold them mutually and legally responsible; but my funds are gone. This is not right.