PayPal

I have sold a few widgets on eBay. Granted most of my business was on the river, still made a few sales on eBay. I have a history of almost 100 positive fb. I sold a few items this month, and PayPal is holding my funds for no reason. Oh well, of course they replied to my email listing a bunch of reasons none of which applied to me. One of the items sold, is received by the buyer, who gave me a 5-star positive fb, saying that my packaging was amazing & put it in all caps. Still PayPal is sitting on my money and won't release it.

BEWARE - your money is at risk. Besides, PayPal is not covered by FDIC/FSLIC insurance like the banks do, so if they go belly up, your money is gone. If this ever happens though, I'm throwing a party.

Yesterday I received 10 different SMS alerts, advising me for online transaction on favor of Skype via PayPal.
Somebody hacked into my PayPal, buying almost €500, 00 apparently to Skype!
What scares me is the fact that I haven’t authorized any transaction neither to PayPal or Skype, that my account shows €0 as remain credit without showing any transactions.
PayPal is investigating, I really hope for a positive resolution,
It is a terrible fraud!

Ebay does in fact OWN SKYPE AND PAYPAL alto they will TELL you they don't. They do but there are different corporate sets ups. Altho the CEO of ALL of these is the SAME person.
ebay is desperate to SELL Skype since even with these fraud charges Skype is a loser.
And Paypal is FAMOUS for being even MORE unresponsive to customer complaints than ebay--hard to believe such a thing could be true but there it is---and they don't even hand out a phone number to call if you have a problem.
They are also notorious for "Freezing" customers accounts for no reason at all. New user? Frozen. Old but infrequent user? Frozen. Customer makes a complaint? (How DO these "customers" manage to make a complaint when WE can't?)---Account frozen. Make a larger than usual sale? Account frozen IN CASE there is a complaint and the $$$ has to be refunded. Result? Account frozen. Zero out your Paypal balance? Account frozen. Getting close to the holidays? Your account MAY be frozen IF you sell in certain categories to PREVENT you from selling anything that MIGHT be considered "competition" to ebays "Diamond Sellers". The reason that they will give you? Oh you MIGHT make too many sales and you might NOT have anough in your account to REFUND all of the scammers who will then claim your item was NOT AS DESCRIBED and get a no questions asked refund from ebay.
Sooooo---be careful and keep an eye on the Paypal statement! And this is not the ONLY thing they will try and scam you with---I was scammed with allegedly trying to sell a motorcycle---the listing did NOT show up under my ebay listings (I am a seller just not of motorcycles) but surely somehow I would have been charged the FEES at the end---AND penalized when the motorcycle was found to be--fictional. There is a lot of info on this on some ebay FORUMS.

** UPDATE TO...Skype stole $212 from my account and they used Paypal to do it and now I hear Ebay owns Skype and Paypal. By me33

Pay pal returned my $212.00 and ebay doesn't own Skype. Skype still tried to burn me for $79.00 + $79.00 + $54.00.

Skype stole $212 from my account and they used Paypal to do it and now I hear Ebay owns Skype and Paypal.

I have had the same experience with PayPal/Skype in the last 3 days. It's a nightmare. 9 charges to my PayPal account from Skype. the last 2 while I was on a chat trying to get them to freeze my account. Now they say it was my fault, that I must have used it on a public computer and not logged off properly. I've only made 3 Skype calls in 2 years and all have been from my well protected laptop in my own home. And now PayPal says that I authorized the charges. The only charge I ever authorized was for $10 back when I first signed up. I still had $9.61 left in my account 2 years later. What a ripoff.

I have also been a victim of this fraudulent activity, and have had no resolution from paypal. In fact have been unable to make contact by phone. I have 13 unauthourised skype transactions and have never used skype. I would like to close my pay pal account, but cannot do so because my account has been frozen. Pay pal have lost all credibility and should be held accountable. How many people have been victims of this scam.

I have used PayPal for years and trusted them with my money, credit card numbers, personal information, etc.. One day I was notified by PayPal that some "suspicious" activity had occurred on my account. Since then my life has been Hell. The activity was not the result of any purchases, selling, or anything at all on my part. In fact, I had not used PayPal for some time and was surprised to hear from them at all. Someone had breached their security and got access to my bank accounts. Only, that is not the worse- the worse part is the way they have handled the situation. They made me feel like the thief, when it is because of them that anything took place! They told me it was their "policy" to freeze my accounts- not refund my money- and make me wait two weeks for an answer from them whether or not they would return the stolen money. When I sign onto my PayPal Account and check on the status of the dispute- it says they are "Waiting on a response from the Seller"! OMG! What Seller- I Never bought anything! This is just real scary and I no longer even feel safe. My personal information has been breached and not only that- it is their "Policy" to not allow me to close my account until they come to a resolution. In other words, the very people who allowed my personal information to go out- also still have control over the said information.
This is a true outrage.

This has just happened to me as well. Just before Christmas, four $10 charges appeared as debit card transactions at the same time. I called my bank and they removed them, and I had them change my account number and issue a new debit card.

Well, I just logged on to my checking account and there are four MORE charges for $10! I received my new debit card over the weekend but hadn't had a chance to activate it yet. The old debit card number shouldn't have worked. How did these new fraudulent charges go through after I canceled the old account?!

My Skype account was also hijacked. The perpetrator (not me or anyone authorized by me) used up all of my existing Skype credits in a series of 18 separate calls to Taiwan which took place over the course of about 72 minutes. This apparently triggered a recharge of my account, but instead of the $10 recharge that should have happened, there were two $25 recharges. I reported the two $25 recharges to Skype and to PayPal as fraudulent transactions and neither company has yet resolved the problem. PayPal says it's Skype's problem and Skype says it's my problem, even though Skype did nothing to detect the fraudulent activity and erroneously recharged my account in the wrong amounts (their policy says that your initial recharge amount will be used for subsequent recharges, and in my case that was $10 not $50). This is very suspicious since the two companies are both owned by ebay and one has the ability to fund the other. A little too symbiotic, if you know what I mean. The FTC and the CPC should demand greater consumer protection.

PayPal has no care for you even after several months or years.

If you have been banned, it is best to go stealth using this guide: https://www.slideshare.net/AuctionEssistance/ebay-incognitostealth

I agree, PayPal limited my account for no apparent reason. Gave me no appeal or exact reason why. I had to resort to going stealth with the help of Auction Essistance.

There is a forum I found on the internet that is free, and helps with Ebay, PayPal, business and the law. Just post any question, the experts will answer it if it has not already been answered!

The forum has a lot of expert advice on it. http://www.modeeworld.com/forums I found advice there about how to avoid EBAY suspensions, get past PayPal limitations, also lots of detailed help on creating your own business, getting past trademark violations, VERO and lots more. Plus general advice on how best to sell on EBAY, what sells the best, how to get the best price for your product, really everything related to EBAY and internet business.

Also advice about how EBAY really works and how PayPal really works. The inside scoop.

Beautiful forum. I was made a moderator of the forum and I love it!

Please send my email confirmation number and i don't know where i can that so that i can activate my account. It is already i month i didn't receive my confirmation number. my paypal ID is:
cyrilbillyh@domain.com

Please send confirmation number to my email:
comfortinghands7@rediffmail.com

As all my payments are pending. I already gave 4 mails i didn't receive any response. Hope you help me out of this problem.
Thank you.

I agree with everything you all are saying, I called in to see how much the interest rate was on this card and they told me 26.99%, because I have been paying on time and never late, and have been a customer for over 10 years, and I asked them about lowering the interest rate and they told me no, they can't do that, when I pay this $520 off, they won't have to worry about me, never again using their card or services. Totally rude people

Terrible - account - worst system to work with, paypal is UN organized!

My wife had her Paypal account compromised and someone went on a shopping spree. Our bank was pretty cool about it but Paypal was no help and couldn't have cared less. She killed the account and we will never use one again.

I have had a late fee every time I have sent them a check. Mabe slow mail ? I dont think so! This time I sent a check the same day I got the bill, payed in full. Now, I just got a statement that says I am payed in full but for some reason I owe them $0.10 a dime! I think they are expecting me to put the statement in the trash so they can charge me a late fee on that dime! This is un-real, and like you all, I cant access my account it is invalid, The hell it is. How much of my time is that dime worth fighting for ? Its not. The stamp, the check, not an issue. The late fee they are going to want to Zap me with If I dont do any thing is an issue. Now, I dont think, I know they are crooks. That is 3 out of 3 times they have been payed in full and still they think I owe money. S.G.

PAYPAL GE IS MAKING YOU LOOK REAL REAL BAD

can never get through to GE.i want to check my account balance.
i'm suprised a big company like eBAY puts up with this.
if GE can't handle all this then get the hell out.

I agree! I signed up thinking that I would be able to use my PayPal account to pay towards the card. NOT SO! What is the point? You can't make payments online. You can only get limited information about your account. You have to write in to get more information, you can't even call! The worst credit card experience I have had.

I agree these guys are scammers! I just tried to pay my bill online... can't do it. They have no way of letting you do it. Then called and tried to pay, they wanted to charge me a $15 processing fee! What a load of horse crap!

Same as others -but- In my case, due to medical bills (thousands) I am in the process of bankruptcy and originally the GEmoneybank was not going to be part of it. I WAS going to pay off the $1, 700. Not now! I just called the lawyer and had her ADD the account to the few others.

They lost even more money by being greedy. Too bad---so sad.ff21b

I've been trying to make my payment for over an hour now & can't locate the website. Last month I was late do to this. Sure know how to scam customers, don't they? I will be more than happy to join any class action.
Meanwhile, I will continue to attempt to make this month's payment & they will probably succeed in dinging me for another late payment. Let's organize!

Thanks.

Please send me an affidavit to fill out so I can get a refund for fabric that never arrived.Item #[protected].
Label package number is #[protected] 10 shipped via usps.
Purchased from Metrohouse Design, Ray Pepitone.
Thank you, Susan Robbins
magicrobbins@comcast.net
[protected]

I am very angry with Nationwide Campus because I made a purchase of Hair products on the 17/09/07 and paid an amount of $142.84 Australian Dollars. My Paypal reference number was [protected]. I have not received the goods and only 1 email from Candice at Nationwide campus who was checking into the order. To date nothing was received. I told them that I was going to contact you for reimbursement of my money or delivery of my goods.

Can you please advise me what I should do now as I thought paying by Paypal was a very secured site.

Regards,
Elsa.

What can I do about a vendor that I paid and never received the package and will not return my money.

Spoke to the vendor two times and now he will not answer be back the name is (Randy Wong) from scooterparts4less the item was
99 dollars the vendor stated that the part was delivered but we never received what do I do I want my money back. Give me advice how to get back my money!

Hi, After readinhg all this from other members as a wife i was so upset as to why my husband would give someone else a necklace.I was mad at the time but now i understand that people can and will be so cruell to hurt and steal from people almost breaking up a marrage which i have devoted 35 yrs to.Its hurtfull.If you do find thuis person please make sure he is punished and let him think about all the people he has hurt along the way theres no excuse to do this.
Thank You,
Craig and Lori McClarnon
scamed out of 325.00
phone-[protected] or [protected]

I own diamondjewelry.com and there was a scammer that coppied the name of this site and people who bought items at diamondjewelry.net never realized the difference of the .com versus the .net. They bought items on .net but the website proclaimed it was a .com site. 3 years later this scammer was never found and my reputation is still compromised! I can be reached at info@distinctivegold.com

PAYPAL WONT DO SQUAT TO HELP YOU... WHY? BECAUSE THEY MAKE MONEY FROM THE SCAMS ... DONT BE FOOLED INTO THINKING YOUR SAFE WITH PAYPAL OR THEY SIDE WITH YOU WHEN YOUVE BEEN SCAMMED

Yes it is true what the guys say above.
THERE ARE PHISHING MAILS !

Stefan is correct this is a phishing letter and should not be listed in the Amazon.com Complaints section. It would be impossible for Amazon.com, along with millions of businesses online, to control the phishing scams that circulate daily through the vast web vortex.

I did not purchase anything from diamond jewelry inc. Why they continue charging me? Help smb!

Have not bought anything from pay pal in 4 years will be canceling account, Hopefully not to late!

That's not from Amazon.com, that's just a phishing letter. If you click the link, you can cheerfully give a bunch of scammers in Nigeria your credit card information or PayPal password.

INFO on Charles Edwards, the person this "necklace" is being shipped to:

Charles Edwards
3 Pleasant St
Rehoboth, MA
[protected]

Here is the response that I have received from PayPal:

Dear Anna,

We appreciate you bringing this suspicious email to our attention.

Commonly referred to as 'phishing', these emails are sent by fraudsters in an attempt to collect sensitive personal or financial information from the recipients. PayPal takes phishing threats seriously - our fraud prevention specialists are working 24/7 to help protect you and enable the community to stay safe.

After review, we can confirm that the email you received was not sent by PayPal. Any website which may be linked to this email is not authorized or used by PayPal.

Our fraud prevention team is working to disable any website linked to this email. In the meantime, please do not enter any information into this website. If you have already done so, you should immediately log into your PayPal account and change your password, as well as your security questions and answers. We also recommend that you contact your bank and credit card company immediately.

If you notice any unauthorized activity on your PayPal account, please report it to us by following the instructions below:

1. Log into your account at https://www.paypal.com
2. Select the "Resolution Center" subtab.
3. Click "Report a Problem."
4. Select "Unauthorized transaction," and then click "Continue."
5. Enter or select the transaction ID for the transaction you would like to dispute, and then click "Continue."
6. Complete the report for Unauthorized Use on a PayPal Account, and then click "Continue."
7. Confirm that the claim is correct, and then click "Submit."

If you have any doubt whether an email is really from PayPal, forward the message to spoof@paypal.com

To learn more on protecting your information, click the "Security Center" link located at the top right hand corner of any PayPal website page.

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Important: PayPal and its representatives will NEVER ask you to reveal your password. There are NO EXCEPTIONS to this policy. If anyone claiming to work for PayPal asks for your password under any circumstances, by email or by phone, please refuse and immediately contact us via our secure webform online.

Sincerely,
Nick
Protection Services Department
PayPal, an eBay Company

Oh my GOD Paypal does not and WILL NOT send checks to people for you, you are an 1diot and this is a false complaint.

just send your complaint here http://www.ic3.gov
Goodluck!

Pay Pal are the ### of the earth, Rip Off is all they do.