This essentially relates to user IDs: spousey01 & richslater79

These 'people' (insert your own suitable description here) purchased items from me and a few days later once they received the item,  lodged a false claim via Paypal to extort a refund from them. Paypal being there usual helpful selves immediately 'stole' the funds from my account so they can give them back to the scammers.

Neither of these maggots has grounds for a Paypal complaint and this has now been passed to the police as a fraud case and the FSA / financial ombudsman both informed.

I am awaiting the outcome of Paypals final investigation but suspect it will be the same as usual - give the buyer a refund and leave the seller out of pocker for the best part of £300.

*** UPDATE - PAYPAL SIDED WITH THE SCAMMERS AND LET THEM  KEEP THE MONEY BUT I DID GET THE ITEM RETURNED ***

This was all because the muppets ordered the wrong item, this was entirely the buyers mistake but paypal do not care, they just give the fools thier money back and ask them to send the goods back (the goods can be returned in any condition as paypal blatantley do not care and will automatically refund the scammer. 

Not a good policy for Paypal to have and I know this happens to a lot of people.*** Sellers - beware !!

I just want to alert people that Paypal do nothing for sellers other than take money from them. Both of these buyers are making false claims for refunds which as we all know is fruad but the Paypal system is there for buyers - not sellers.

This is not the first time I have been ripped of by Paypal - they sent me funds from a buyer only to take them back from me 2 days later because the buyer claimed to his bank that he did not make the purchase and despite someone at his address signing for the item, Paypal did absolutley nothing except 'steal' the funds back from my account and give them back to the buyer.

Both cases are almost identical - the seller sends item out in good faith, item is in good condition and is as described / photographed in the listing but the buyers IQ is unfortuntely lower than thier age so they file a dodgy paypal complaint and get refunfed!!

Well done Paypal - at least you are helping the criminals.

SELLERS BEWARE - DO NOT TRUST THESE BUYERS OR PAYPAL

DO NOT LET PAYPAL GET AWAY WITH IT - THEY DO EXACTALLY WHAT THEY WANT AND HAVE NO PROBLEM RIPPING OFF SELLERS AND BUYERS ALIKE.

A DODGY SELLER CAN SET UP A PAYPAL ACCOUNT, SELL GOODS, COLLECT THE MONEY THEN EMPTY THE PAYPAL ACCOUNT AND VANISH. PAYPAL WILL GIVE THE USUAL REPLY - THAT THEY WILL ATTEMPT TO RECOVER THE FUNDS BUT IF THEY ARE NOT THERE TO BE RECOVERED.....

BUYERS CAN CON SELLERS OUT OF MANY ££££s USING PAYPAL - JUST TELL THEM YOU DID NOT GET THE ITEM OR THAT IT WAS NOT AS DESCRIBED AND PAYPAL BASICALLY STEAL THE MONEY FROM THE SELLERS ACCOUNT WITHOUT THIER KNOWLEDGE.

THE SELLER HAS NO WAY TO GUARD AGAINST IT EVEN IF THEY WITHDRAW FUNDS AS SOON AS THEY GO INTO THE PAYPAL ACCOUNT AS PAYPAL WILL 'HOLD' ANY PENDING WITHDRAWALS AND WILL HOLD ANY NEW FUNDS RECIEVED TO MAKE UP THE NEGATIVE AMOUNT.

PAYPAL CHARGE WAY OVER THE TOP FOR THE SERVICE THEY PROVIDE AND CARE ABOUT NOTHING EXCEPT TAKING YOUR MONEY.

IF A PRIVATE INDIVIDUAL DONE WHAT PAYPAL DOES ON A DAILY BASIS THEY WOULD BE SERVING SERIOUS JAIL TIME. PAYPAL PROCEEDURES ARE SERIOUSLY DODGY AND FAVOUR ONLY PAYPAL.

PAYPAL ARE HOWEVER REGULATED BY THE 'FSA' AND I URGE EVERONE WHO HAS BEEN RIPPED OFF BY PAYPAL TO COMPLAIN TO THE FSA - THE FSA WEBSITE HAS PLENTY OF CONTACT DETAILS - EMAIL ADDRESS, POSTAL ADDRESS AND FAX NUMBERS. IF THE FSA GET ENOUGH COMPLAINTS THEN THEY SHOULD LOOK INTO WHAT PAYPAL ARE UPTO IN CLOSER DETAIL.

BE SURE TO KEEP COMPLAINTS FACTUAL AND INCLUDE THIS - PayPal FSA Register Number: 226056. The FSA will not look into individual complaints but if they get enough people complain about Paypal then they will look into thier business practices. Individual complaints should be directed to the financial ombudsman as they will deal with individual issues when Paypal steal your money !

LETS STOP PAYPAL SPOILING EBAY.

EBAY WILL NOT ALLOW WESTERN UNION BECAUSE IT IS SCAMMER HEAVEN BUT PAYPAL IS THE ONE DOING THE SCAMMING NOW AND THEY GET AWAY WITH IT.

Another big scammer is user id: e.b.a.ysurplus

he issued a paypal compaint over a very minor issue so I offered a refund, simply to get my item back and be done with it.

 Should be a simple case of get item back and issue a refund but no...scamming a-hole decided to give Paypal a tracking number for an envelope containing 1 bit of paper !!! Guess what paypal do..... !! They should be aware that a large car part could not have been returned via Royal mail - it's too large but no...they simpl take the scammers word for it.

Do not trust Paypal - they will give your money to thieving gits !