Your WORST PayPal Experience please...

unless i have a credit card connected to my paypal i'm forced to use echecks, which takes 10 days with my bank, and people thought i was trying to scam them because they didn't instantly get the money

i don't have a credit card, can't get one, and my paypal is setup for direct bank withdraw

 

14days ago, my PayPal account was hacked. They bought products for €1000,- Thanks to the good support of the shop where the product were bought, I don’t have to pay the bill. Since then I have deleted my account. Somehow they hacked my password and my second authorization sms code. So my advice, stay away from PayPal.

 

when paypal backed the seller. I tried buying an empty wii u box for my other wii u. this is how it came, and I lost. look at how thin that paper is, it's virtually skin-tight:

 

Been using PayPal pretty much since it started and never had a bad experience. PayPal are awesome in getting your money back any time you get scammed. They are better in this regards than credit card companies.

 

well, I had another one where I had to speak with a manager. they said that formatting a drive for a media player meant I tampered with the system. wtf!?

 

The 30 day waiting period for cash withdrawal (where I live; not applicable everywhere) kinda sucks.

The worst experience was when I made a large payment for an out of stock item, got refunded, but the exchange rates between dollars and my local currency ate up $20 in the two transactions. I was peeved.

 

here's how you use paypal SMART

1. create 2 accounts
2. verify one account, add cc etc this is your main account. never use this account to ACCEPT transactions
3. create a dummy account do not verify that add any cc details etc to it
4. use the dummy account to accept payments ONLY
5. immediately send the funds from your dummy account to your REAL account when they have paid you can do this easily just use the email address of that account and send $ to it

now if the assholes try to scam you just let that dummy account get taken down don't respond to ANY disputes or even answer any emails. you already have the $ in your real account so fuck them!

this is how I use ebay now

 

I sold some stuff on eBay I think it was 80.00 I was even nice and added a few things like memory cards to it I didn't charge much shipping which cost me 20.00 to ship, and they said they never got it.
So I had to give his money back through PayPal wasted money on shipping and never got my stuff back, I had tracking they just said we don't know where its at and there's nothing we can do.

 

Paypal can be annoying with retailers to get refunds as they’re different procedures.

Can’t you use a debit card?

 

bank doesn't offer visa enabled debit cards