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Originally Posted by armysmoke
If you funded your paypal account with a credit card then you can file a dispute with your credit card company. You will lose your paypal account though.
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Unfortunately, I paid with funds from my paypal account buddy so I have no recourse in that regard
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Originally Posted by AmateurBros
I've had customers (scammers) in the past, that I did design work for, they received the work / used it -- but charged me back on Paypal and Paypal gave them their money back, even though it was digital design work.
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That's interesting because according to Paypal's BS reply, they shouldn't have given your scammer back his money sice it was digital "design work". Just shows you that their policy is total crap.
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Originally Posted by TrafficRush
I would call your bank!
Next time you hire a programmer I would use escrow through paxum or if via paypal make sure you put it for tangible goods like all work on a CD
Item: CD OF PHP/DEV
and make sure you include your shipping address. This will back you up.
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I can't call my bank since I paid with funds from my paypal account
I will definitely have to keep that in mind about a CD good. That's a good way to protect ourselves
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Originally Posted by dirtydirtyangels
Paypal made it very clear that they cannot protect non tangible purchases, for your information if you lie about the purchase and say you bought a jacket or something it works usually :D
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I didn't realize that website wasn't non tangible. I thought it referred to downloadable products like you buying a song from the itunes store. Things like that. Haha have to keep in mind with the jacket thing.
There might be a silver lining to this story, Brandon contacted me yesterday afternoon so hopefully he will follow through and we can get this project completed. Keeping my fingers crossed.
Still pissed with Paypal though. It's an idiot policy that opens the door for pure scammers to rip off people. Here's an example:
A scammer could theoretically open a paypal account, offer something for sale digitally (fake software for example) collect payments through paypal and then not deliver it and Paypal would stand behind the scumbag and protect him. That is messed up, scammers in Nigeria can quit with their old scams. Just open a storefront online store and scam people "legally" with Paypal as their partner protecting them
