Many years ago I used to trade items and accounts in a major MMPORG. I bought a fairly high level account with quite a bit of items to trade off and about a month after the purchase the original account owner went through the account recovery process to re-take possession of the account. They probably looked at my history and concluded I bought accounts to play them and were hoping I had loaded that character up with valuable items, when in fact I was mostly a trader at that point and the first thing I did was offload everything valuable.
I sent eBay and Paypal the terms of service of the MMPORG that said selling accounts was not allowed, so technically the seller should not have been able to list it for sale. Paypal agreed and got my $1100 back. The person who recalled the account screwed themselves because I had sold two sets of armor that were no longer available in game for $450 each.
I count myself lucky that they were too stupid to have removed the funds I paid them with, so Paypal was actually able to recover my money. So, while I recognize they're evil, they did actually help me out once so I have a soft spot for them. Also, in all the years I've been using them I can't point to a single instance when my credit card was compromised by Paypal, but numerous instances where a store that didn't take Paypal DID lose my information and resulted in fraudulent charges.
You must be one lucky person then. Because PayPal screwed me multiple times. I lost 1500 cause some buyer locked my account. Take forever to release funds sometimes.
There customer service has not helped me out what so ever. My credit card company saved my ass when they couldnt.
What was that $1100 dollar purchase or was it a selling something? And what happened?
Also Fuck Paypal
Many years ago I used to trade items and accounts in a major MMPORG. I bought a fairly high level account with quite a bit of items to trade off and about a month after the purchase the original account owner went through the account recovery process to re-take possession of the account. They probably looked at my history and concluded I bought accounts to play them and were hoping I had loaded that character up with valuable items, when in fact I was mostly a trader at that point and the first thing I did was offload everything valuable.
I sent eBay and Paypal the terms of service of the MMPORG that said selling accounts was not allowed, so technically the seller should not have been able to list it for sale. Paypal agreed and got my $1100 back. The person who recalled the account screwed themselves because I had sold two sets of armor that were no longer available in game for $450 each.
I count myself lucky that they were too stupid to have removed the funds I paid them with, so Paypal was actually able to recover my money. So, while I recognize they're evil, they did actually help me out once so I have a soft spot for them. Also, in all the years I've been using them I can't point to a single instance when my credit card was compromised by Paypal, but numerous instances where a store that didn't take Paypal DID lose my information and resulted in fraudulent charges.
You must be one lucky person then. Because PayPal screwed me multiple times. I lost 1500 cause some buyer locked my account. Take forever to release funds sometimes.
There customer service has not helped me out what so ever. My credit card company saved my ass when they couldnt.
They are anti gun and anti freedom of speech.
Paypal is good protection for BUYERS, which means they're poor protection for sellers.