PayPal transaction review?

[sealfin]

Has anybody else here ever received an email pertaining to these? I've just received one regarding a registration of shivering kittens (http://www.sealfin.com/) – it looks nearly-certain to be genuine (I've forwarded it to spoof@PayPal anyway, as a precaution) including a few details which would only be known to myself, the buyer, and PayPal – but PayPal are requesting a lot of details they should already know – and who in their right mind would commit fraud for a $3.95 game? :wacko:

[MarkJ]

Someone in Germany wanted to register Descender (http://www.sloppydisk.com/descender/) through PayPal, and I let him do it. So I went through the hassle of creating account, and then having paypal send me like an $11 check. It really wasn't worth it, because now I get all this spammy e-mail from paypal, and the occasional paypal scams. The PayPal experience is probably the most suspicious online financial site I've ever encountered, and I can't fathom how people like David Rosen use it as their middleman for all registrations.

I know a couple guys whose accounts have just been completely frozen by PayPal and unable to withdraw money. I believe slava from Unsanity (http://www.unsanity.org) lost $5000 through PayPal...

[MarkJ]

If you are a bona fide, up-standing individual with hundreds of successful transactions, but someone pays you with a stolen credit card, your account (by PayPal's own admission) is immediately flagged as being "criminal behavior" and any money in that account is confiscated.
via PayPalSucks.com (http://www.paypalsucks.com)

That's very scary. Over the years, I've had several sales through stolen credit cards with eSellerate, where we've had to refund the order and contact the credit card company. I can't imagine having all my sales in PayPal, and then they suddenly take all my money because someone tries to pay with a stolen card.