Comments on: PayPal Fraud Protection

By: Zeone

Zeone — Thu, 21 May 2009 08:08:26 +0000

Amazon.co.uk is highly unscrupulous. They allow fraudulent buyers to rip sellers off with the “empty envelope scam”, Basically, we sold a buyer a £200+ games console and couriered it to them. On receipt, they claimed that a USB cable was missing and filed an A-Z guarantee claim. They then sent us an empty envelope and told Amazon.co.uk (according to them) that it was the console. Amazon.co.uk refunded the full £200+ to them AND charged us for doing so! Sellers beware.

By: daniel

daniel — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 15:23:52 +0000

PayPal cover only to fraud seller not at buyers

By: Joe

Joe — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 00:50:21 +0000

Paypal? What about just money orders & checks?

By: Robert

Robert — Sun, 16 Dec 2007 19:33:03 +0000

PayPal’s fraud protection is an out right scam, people shop and buy as you have no protection at all, the only thing that is up and up with PayPal is the price increases.

By: Fred

Fred — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 17:45:54 +0000

I have to agree, PayPal is dubious. I think they can go down big if Google or some such actually implements a more effective mechanism to make fraud much more difficult. I have never used Google Payments so I do not know if they have.

By: Brian Moore

Brian Moore — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 04:40:06 +0000

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By: Alan Whitcomb

Alan Whitcomb — Sun, 26 Aug 2007 19:08:44 +0000

Did you ever get a “second chance” email to buy something you bid on? I did.. and I sent the money to the seller via paypal. The next day I got an advisory saying that the sale was a scam. A nice email from Ebay warning me. I looked in my paypal account, and the money had not been taken. I wrote paypal an email asking them to cancel the transaction. I got a nice form (email) letter saying that all transactions are final.

Signed..

Unhappy camper

By: TIM

TIM — Fri, 24 Aug 2007 20:16:07 +0000

Paypal is a total scam just for saying that you are protected when in reality you are not.

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By: Steve Bepko

Steve Bepko — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 20:40:17 +0000

Tracking is great but expensive. Even USPS Delivery Confirmation is almost useless for tracking, if you do things electrnoically the only messages you get are (paraphrased) “The USPS was advised that a package is forthcoming” – with no hint as to who the package is addressed to – and another message when it’s either delivered or the attempt was made. The Buyer (receiver) really has no protection, but I wonder if this is good enough to protect the Seller (shipper)? Anyone have any experience with this?

By: Ronald Gerard

Ronald Gerard — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 16:34:41 +0000

well, it seems the same, in most on-line transactions. Bought something, that a web site was acting as an intermediary for. (Seems) neither of us could contact the seller directly. I’ll go with Chris; get a tracking # from the person who’s selling the item, AND TRACK IT!! Had a few things that were listed as delivered, that I never received; tracking them @ least let me know they were vanished, and I could lodge a claim.

By: Jim

Jim — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 13:41:56 +0000

I had a situation with Amazon in which I complained that I had not recieved an item that the seller claimed had already been delivered. Amazon settled entire $ amount in my favor. A day or two later I found the package at my front door where it had evidently been for some time. I do not go in and out my front door and previous packages had always been left at my carport or side screened in porch. Also this was in the heart of winter and it was already dark out when I returned home from work. Just never saw it there. I felt very bad for the seller and embarrassed. I contacted them to make it right but they said they were not allowed to receive any further transactions after Amazon had settled them. I always check my front door now for shipped packages. I hate that this happened.

By: Luis

Luis — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 02:28:33 +0000

Hey Chris,

Have you heard of PayPal’s Security Key, is a small electronic device that produces a random number to add to your password giving you an extra layer of security. Check it out at PayPal’s site, or on a review I did on my site. The key works on eBay as well and with Verisign as a partner is likely that other institutions will join the effort to secure our online shopping.

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