PayPal has been cookin' up a new scam. The Deny Button is greyed out with no way to deny payments from unconfirmed addresses, leaving the door wide open for PayPal shenanigans later. (plenty more about it on the painpal forum at sleazebay.)
I am an EBAY Powerseller with over 7300 positives & 99.8% satisfaction since 1998.I have just encountered Paypal's newest payment glitch. Last year someone cheated me out of $475 through paypal via a fraudulent transfer/unconfirmed address scheme that paypal did not catch nor refund. It is & has been the subject of an on going police investigation. Since then I have only accepted paypal in cases where I knew someone or allowed small transactions to my personal account under the $500 rule.I did NOT turn on the paypal acceptance button at any time but merely chose on an individual basis to accept or deny paypal. At EBAY LIVE in Las Vegas , I was told by Ebay & Paypal reps repeatedly that we were under NO obligation to accept any Paypal credit card payments,etc. On Sat. Oct 28,2006 I found a credit card payment sent to my personal account from Japan with an UNCONFIRMED address. When I went to deny this payment, I found the deny button not be working.
When I called Paypal to report what I thought to be a malfunction on my computer or software issue,I was told that UNDER NEW EBAY GUIDELINES,we could no longer deny paypal payments for EBAY items.The rep at paypal furthermore instructed me that this included items with unconfirmed & unverified addresses.
I was then offered a "one time" opprtunity to reset my account to deny the payment but was told that unless I upgraded to a "premier" account, this situation would "keep happening" & that my clients would only be refunded their monies after 30 days of being unclaimed.
I feel that this situation is INTOLERABLE & am thinking of involving both regulatory authorities as well as my law firm to confront this stuation. Does anyone have a similar problem or am I the only one??
Contact me @ wfn2@mindspring.com or call me @ 770-396-1787. My Ebay id is wfn2 & my name is Bill
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anonymous wrote: I am an EBAY Powerseller with over 7300 positives & 99.8% satisfaction since 1998.
I was then offered a "one time" opprtunity to reset my account to deny the payment but was told that unless I upgraded to a "premier" account, this situation would "keep happening" & that my clients would only be refunded their monies after 30 days of being unclaimed.
I feel that this situation is INTOLERABLE & am thinking of involving both regulatory authorities as well as my law firm to confront this stuation. Does anyone have a similar problem or am I the only one??
MY GOD!!!
You mean PayPal is requiring Powersellers to use a Premier or Business account if they want to deny a payment? What on earth are the Powersellers using free PayPal accounts going to do?!!!
I hope he contacts his AG and gets this intolerable situation addressed.
The horror, the horror.
Everyday, in everyway, I'm getting healthier and healthier.
Actually Contacting both the AG and the FTC may be a great suggestion.
And this may be a shocker but I agree that powersellers have no business using a free account to accept payments on feeBay. No wonder so many can't compete.
Of course that's NOT the issue is it? The issue is the inability to Deny the payment.
No we can see how they maid those financial gains last quarter. With thier new 30 day BETA float program. Wonder how many millions were in the "BETA" test of this new program in the last three months?
I had one and clicked on accept, it went to another page telling me about the buyer, i.e. how many transactions etc. and then had both the accept and deny buttons available.
