Comments on: Freelancers Beware of Receiving Payments via Credit Card through PayPal

By: Arnold Leung

Arnold Leung — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 17:52:13 +0000

I have heard about this from another friend before. This is why we only take cheques for all projects. But then, we are a Canadian company with only US and Canada clients. For us, its not that hard to set up a US account.

Arnold

By: Neonic

Neonic — Sun, 17 May 2009 13:46:51 +0000

Try paypay.com or moneybookers. I use both of them. Paypal is not cool anymore.

By: Neonic

Neonic — Sun, 17 May 2009 13:46:14 +0000

Try paypay.com or monebookers. I use both of them. Paypal is not cool anymore.

By: mark

mark — Wed, 13 May 2009 13:03:59 +0000

Hey I feel for you. It’s almost better not to take credit cards cause it gives the customer the option to steal by making a false charge back,saying the item wasn’t as described or I never got it.. I had a customer that bought a new cellphone from me. I recieved an e-mail from him saying, Thank you i finally recieved item, I am very happy!!
He lives in Spain, anyway just 2 days later this !!##@$$?!! decides to do a dispute with Paypal. Bottom line, even after providing tracking numbers and invoices Paypal was still taking this guys side. So what I am out $300? No way, so what I did sent him an e-mail stating that I am representing my client. Which is actually me. He thought I was some big shot lawyer!! I made up some phony name with an e-mail thatsaid from the law offices of Todd Miller or whatever…Scared the .. out of this loser!!
. I made it look totally official. I said if you do not drop this dispute immediatly with Paypal. We will sue you for fraudulent online activities in court. We have your e-mail stating you recieved the item. Suddenly this jerk changed his tune..and withdrew his dispute!!
And I am not out $300. He got a new phone, and I got to keep the profit!!
Case closed.
Take care,
Mark
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By: Colm Brazel

Colm Brazel — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 10:46:04 +0000

Hi,

It would appear the person you were dealing with was a nasty bully. I am sorry for your trouble.
However, I believe if you pursue Paypal with a little more determination, there may be a better outcome. There appears to have been a communication breakdown between you and Paypal.

You need to contact them again and point them to this site and demand to know the outcome of this dispute. I’m sure its also not in favor of Paypal to have their service fraudulently abused by any user such your client.

” I never received a response as to what the outcome was after I had put my case forward and supplied evidence of receipt of the product and service. The full transaction amount remained deducted and there was nothing I could do about it.”

Colm

By: Former eBay Seller

Former eBay Seller — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 04:20:53 +0000

One should not accept PayPal because payments can be canceled at any time by the buyer, regardless of the method they used to fund the purchase (credit card or from funds already in their account). The only difference between the two is you’ll also be accessed a chargeback fee if they used a credit card.

The customer does not need to have received your goods to do this. I had several buyers cancel their payment immediately after I emailed them their tracking number. Fortunately the items I shipped were still in transit and I was able to have UPS or USPS pull the item from their system and send it back to me; however, I was out the shipping, my time, and a sale because most of these items had other legit bidders who would have actually paid for the item. eBay/PayPal told me they had technology to prevent this – lol – they are not even good liars (or more likely don’t even make the effort because they know they can get away with anything and their is nothing you can do).

It does not matter if you have proof eBay/PayPal

By: Dryden

Dryden — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 13:29:29 +0000

I think the best way to deal with this is, if you trust or at least have references on the person or even if the amount of money is few, then I don’t see any arm in using paypal.
If you don’t, know don’t trust, or if it is a large amount of money, then use Wester Union. If the buyer becomes suspicious of you for using this type of payment, instead of demanding the the full payment upfront make him only pay a week in advance…