F'ING PAYPAL!!! Be careful or this might happen to you...

[FragTek]

Oh yeah... PayPal put me in the hole $450 by taking $650 out of my bank account for a refund on a payment of which I had funds in my PayPal account!!!!

Beware, if you accept an international payment in a currency other than your own be advised that if you let PayPal automatically convert it to your currency they will NOT let you issue a refund on a payment from your PayPal balance. In this instance they just thought it would be a great idea to suck it right from my bank account when I had the funds available sitting in my PayPal account.

So lets tally this up shall we? I get jacked $25 for the PayPal fees (they won't refund them since I automatically converted the money), I get hit with two overdraft fees on my bank account (because it was a refund of 2 payments) which are $35 a piece, and I don't have any money in my bank account for 3-4 days while PayPal deposits the money from my PayPal account in to my bank account. That's a $95 f*ck up, THANKS GAYPAL! EAT A

AND HICCUP!!!!

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[JN]

...and people look at me funny when I say that I don't take Paypal.

Paypal have over £400 of my money from a few years back. Something i'll never see again.

 

[FarFarAway]

Paypal do suck,....but find me a better and cheaper way of transferring money to someone abroad and I'll use it

 

[JN]

Paypal do suck,....but find me a better and cheaper way of transferring money to someone abroad and I'll use it

Western Union?

Cash sent via priority mail?

 

[Dav0s]

are cheques international?

 

[JN]

are cheques international?

Can cost a few quid to cash them depending on the bank - but ye, cheques are valid worldwide afaik.

 

[FarFarAway]

WU no way and I aint sending anything via world mail lol

 

[FragTek]

PayPal is quick and painless if all goes right. But in this instance, I got raped and I'm really not happy about it at all.

 

[Dav0s]

tbh id never send anything over £50 by paypal

 

[masterblaster]

stopped using Paypal (and Ebay) earlier this year, I'm prolly about 500 quid out of pocket becuase of them and despite following ALL their procedures to the letter, still nothing... I will firebomb both of them one of these days...

Isn't it about time Google came up with something to bury these bas**rds once and for all

 

[JN]

Isn't it about time Google came up with something to bury these bas**rds once and for all

That would be nice - and if its google you can be sure that it would most likely be totally free and just supported by some kind of ads.

 

[Dav0s]

i thought they did, cant remembr what it was called tho

 

[FragTek]

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i say we start a petition tn get google to start something up because were through being robbed blind by paypal.

 

[roscoe2000]

They did me as well.

I sent a phone in good faith (only £80 but still!!) the buyer was dodgy so they took the money back oyt of my account.

So where the hells my £80...surely they didn't give it back to the dodgy buyer so they must still have it.

B*****ds must be ripping people off for millions.

www.paypalsucks.com doesn't seem to put people off using it though.

 

[NoL]

I only buy with PP now, as far as payments for things like phase, I only take Money Orders.

 

[llwyd]

only substantial amount ive transfered through PP was to frag a while back, if that money went missing i would have gone mad

 

[Rastalovich]

For eff sake, it`s about time this international currencies thing was knocked on the head imo. I don`t care if u called it a dollar, pound or a credit - just get a world currency - let effers use their own currency in their own countries if they like, but have it cost em prehaps.

The world is too small for all this these days.

I`m

ed at UK banks atm, primarily at the HSBC - who claim to be "The world`s local bank" - what a load of b**l***s. They (and to be fair all the UK banks, only HSBC boast the catchphrase strongly in their adverts) was to charge me £21 to transfer ANY amount of coinage from my UK account to my US account. Doesn`t matter if it`s £50 or £1000, the charge is the same. wtEf is that all about ? Doesn`t sound like a local world-bank to me ?!? Link me their forum, if they have one, and I`ll light it up just on that subject.

And yet I can use my UK cashcard in the US and be charged something like 0.02% - where`s the difference ?

eff sake.

Never used paypal, don`t really care too tbh. My sister does tho and gets on tremendously with it ala ebay, but then I don`t use ebay either. Not for any nasty reason to be truthful.

 

[MikeEnIke]

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i say we start a petition tn get google to start something up because were through being robbed blind by paypal.

Man, you are behind on the times.

https://checkout.google.com/

 

[Dav0s]

yeah thats what it was called

 

[FarFarAway]

The google fees are still pretty steep afaik