I bought on ebay for a while and made lots of money. After making about 50k one year on ebay paypal sent me an email limiting my account until I gave up my list of wholesalers and contacts. I told paypalblows.org about this and seems as tho many people had the same problems and then just didn't answer the paypal email, called paypal and closed their accounts. They knew what was coming to them and so did I. I'll never use this service again, and do we really call it a service or do we call it a "money racket"?

I am a US citzen born here and have only left the country once for a wekend in Canada 10 years ago. I am newbie to Paypal and thought it legit; only to find out they can unilaterally freeze your account and invade your credit card and bank account and privacy and send Equifax after you and all of this, according to "Rick" in their service department, is their right via the Patriot Act. His statemnt that they can monitor your activity like any bank ( although we have never had such a privacy invasion from a bank in the 52 years we have lived here since birth ! ) and his rude attitude clearly demonstrates a company out of control. Please do not fall victim to these people by using Paypal or Ebay as you give up your identity to them and they are obviously distributing your private information.

I sold a very small item to a buyer on ebay. The buyer left great feedback for the auction, saying how quickly I had shipped the item. A couple of days later, however, the buyer opened a dispute through paypal saying they had not received the item!

On a hunch I contacted other sellers that have had dealings with this same ebay buyer, and was told that the buyer did this same thing or similar to them as well. This person(s) is committing fraud, and I have highlighted this to paypal but apparently they don’t want to know about it.

PayPal is insisting that I must prove that I shipped the item. The problem with this is that even though I have the receipt for the shipment, it does not have the forwarding address on it. This is because I had to do it at the postage machine, because the wait time at the post office counter is usually over 30 minutes long (I only get 30 minutes for lunch).

Paypal is saying that even though the buyer has left feedback saying that they received the item, they will not accept that as proof. Also, after expaining the whole situation, the customer service advisor advised me to contact the buyer! I nearly threw my phone out of the window. Had he not been listening to a word I said??

I feel that this person will get away with conning alot of people, and ebay and paypal do not care. I got a receipt for postage and proof they have received the item, but paypal is still trying to make me pay up!

Everybody seems so concerned about buying a bogus item. But what happens when a seller sells a perfectly good, as described item, just to have the buyer file a PayPal complaint for no good reason?

I’ll tell you. The buyer gets to keep the item, and PayPal negates the sale and comes after the seller for the money they have refunded the buyer. And when you try to explain to them that the buyer has the item and they need to reverse the refund, it falls on deaf ears- and then they turn you over to collections.

I’ve done about $75K in business through PayPal in the last 2 years without incident, and before this incident I had 100% positive ebay feedback. Paypal’s dispute process is a joke. So a buyer can blantently steal my item, then file a false complaint so they can get the item for free? And then PayPal backs them up??

Sellers be warned…PayPal did me real dirty.

I now have about $3, 600 in my Paypal account. I was selling on ebay and everyone was happy, I never received a single negative feedback.

But when my balance reached $2, 000 PayPal limited my account and told me I had to go to the resolution center, and that they need some information from me. So I submitted all the information they had asked for, and when I tried to login the next day my account said

“you have been permanently limited and you will be able to withdraw your remaining funds in 180 days”.

By then my balance had reached the $3, 600. PayPal has obviously just ripped me off. I can only guess that it was because of someone bought an item from me, then filed a fraudulent dispute in order to get their money back. I bought the item from Sears, and even have the receipt!

PayPal is siding with buyers even if they are scammers. Don’t ever use PayPal, they will rip off and don’t even care! They are refusing to remove the limit no matter what evidence I provide.

I even received and email saying that my account is back to normal after being reviewed. so i logged in after about 3 hours, but the limit was still there! When I called them then they told me to redo the appeal, which i did, and still my account is limited!