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Just experienced my third chargeback, and this time with candystripes, I sent him 80 dollars btc, and he sent 80 dollars paypal. Its astounding how paypal ceases to help the seller, I will cease any business with them. Total of 200 dollars down the drain with these chargebacks, I see why people use btc instead of paypal...

Once is a mistake, twice is boarder line stupid and then a 3rd time with candystripes ahaha no comment. At least now you see that it is not worth doing business with untrusted traders :)

Unfortunately, this happens. BTC and Paypal has always been trouble.

 ::). Why are you even still dealing with this idiot, never mind accepting payment in such an easily refundable method as Paypal? There are several trustworthy members here who would have sold you coins for PayPal as well.

When did he send you paypal funds? Candy had multiple complaints against him just not with chargebacks. Not sure why you would deal with someone like him.

I've been using paypal to buy and sell to a select few and haven't had any problems the past 2 years. You just have to be very careful who you deal with.

Your first mistake was dealing with Candystripes. Your second mistake was using Paypal. Come on, we had this so many times, PayPal is not a safe method to pay for BTC.

Why would PayPal help? Honestly. What part of DON'T USE PAYPAL is misunderstood around here? I'm afraid your money is gone.  :(

If I recall correctly, Candy was on MP chat talking about paypal flagging his account and reversing a lot of transactions against his will. While I have no insight into what exactly went down, I have heard of this happening to paypal<->bitcoin dealers, who I very much trust. If you haven't already I'd make sure to get in contact with Candy, it's possible you weren't scammed

No way ?!?!? you got a paypal chargeback from Candystripes? I cannot believe that. I never would have thought he would scam

/s

Candystripes is pretty smart though. He has many many alts that skype you sending ddos threats or something and multiple paypal accounts sending you money. He sent me 27 dollars and said I should refund that back, but I could have refunded it and then he could have chargebacked THAT 27 stealing even more from me. NEVER deal with him, he is such a scumbag.

Yep it is gone and this is the last time I am using them as a seller. e-coin.io looks like a promising visa bitcoin debit card and straight to cash is probably the most safe and zero possibility of chargeback. Tired of paypals awful customer service, they did nothing to help me

Yea no shit don't deal with him. Anyone ever considering to deal with candy is just asking to get scammed, period. Even if you are receiving bitcoin he will try to scam you.

Candystripes is a well know scammer, you should not trade with him also with the use of the escrow it is so risky.

By the way, I'm not saying it's your fault. Fricking scammers! Sorry to hear about your loss.

This is a funny thread. Let's go through this step by step, since this thread makes me look like a scammer:

1. We used to exchange alot. Sometimes up to $100+. He trusted me, I trusted him.
2. We exchanged $50, $20, and $17 in the course of a week.
3. Suddenly my PayPal was limited, and PayPal AUTOMATICALLY chargedback my last 5 sent transactions.
4. I won the chargebacks
5. My account is limited so the money is sitting there.
6. I had a friend send him $150, and I made a new PayPal and sent him $27 on top to cover it.
7. Now he is holding $177 of my money. He owes me $90.

Waiting for him to come online and hand over the $90.

I may have attempted to extort, but williamj2543 is the REAL scammer. Look at his trust: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=trust;u=191301

Don't know how he's not neg repped yet, he's a HUGE scammer. And this thread is a deceiving, misguiding lie.

Escrow wouldn't have done anything since he did the chargeback days later, escrow cant help in terms of paypal transactions.

Honestly, Candy's side of the story makes sense. Call me crazy but he may be innocent for once. We all know the situation with paypal/btc. Seriously though, stop using paypal. It fucking sucks.

His friend sent me 150 and told me to keep it if the chargeback went through. It did, and I am giving him some steam cames to repay him, and he has agreed that this is fine. He sent 27 dollars and of course I did not send it back because he could steal EVEN MORE by charge-backing the 27 he sent me. Never deal with this scammer. I will not be using paypal or dealing with anyone when exchanging btc, its just not worth it
Referring to when he is talking about "automatic chargeback", I don't give a rats ass about that. I am still down my 80 dollars and I do not have it. If he really cared about his shitty reputation he would sent his 80 minus 27 dollars back, through bitcoin. He just gambled away all the money I exchanged to him....

according to this, now you are the scammers since you keep the overpay amount


remind me if im wrong but according to candy you are now holding the extra money

The person who sent me the extra money was NOT candy, and I have known him for a while as well (both me and candy know him). I don't want to reveal his name to the public, but PM me if you have questions. The friend sent me 150 for reperation for the chargeback, apparently because Candy told him so, and he said just to keep the money if he does chargeback. Both Candy and the friend were fine with that. When the chargeback did happen, the friend told me to keep it but buy him about 50$ worth of steam games in return, I have already bought him a couple games he told me, and he is looking for more he wants. The friend is fine with that, and after all it is his FRIENDs money, not Candy's, as he says it is. The reason I am keeping the 27, is because if I send it back he could just chargeback THAT and scam me for 27 dollars more on top of 80 dollars.
If any trusted members want proof I can PM you everything. So the friend who sent 150 dollars is fine with me keeping it with the deal we made, and Candy is pissed because he wants to scam 27 on top of it. He even admitted he wanted to try to extort me. So he owes me 80$-27$, preferably in btc so that he doesnt chargeback that like the scumbag he is.

Re-cap:
Friend who sent me 150 is fine with me keeping it, and actually instructed me to keep it as long as I buy him the rest of his games, and block Candy

Candy want me to send back his 27 dollars, when he should sent me the remainder of the 80, which is 53 dollars.
I will not send him back his 27 unless he sends me 80 dollars worth of btc only.

if this was the case then i think candy is pulling another trick again
if you got proof to this, you can just posted it here , you can always censor the name of the person who give you the extra money to shut candy down in this case

Sure.
Here is the tx from him http://gyazo.com/53954b518954d872f435249fe0dbc553
I told michael to post here to confirm that money was from him and to confirm our deal

The $150 came from my paypal account, I gave it and let Funtotry keep it since Candy fucked him over on a chargeback.
That is, in exchange for $50 worth of steam games.

If you guys have a problem with me sending money from my own account then go have a field day. I could care less.

Its so funny that people are getting scammed by a known scammer even his trust is full of red marks.. Some people really amuses me :)

I thought candystripes' account is sold.

Which account did he use?

He claims it was but I doubt it is. And he's probably using other accounts or ones offsite and he is best known as 'candystripes' so that's what people call him regardless of what account he may or may not be using.

As many before I will tell you that in the face Op:

1. If you are dealing with suspicious person. Stay alert. Do not use paypal.
2. Use paypal if you are trading with trustworthy people.
3. You said you were dealing with Candystripes in the past and he did the same thing?

So...

You have to remember this quote:

"Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results." -  A. Einstein

I hope it helped.

No no, I did some deals with candy and this was his first chargeback with me. My other deals were all fine. 1 of the chargebacks was from localbitcoins, and another one was from ebay. I trusted candy cause we did many things before

Firstly, I don't think that paypal even allows the buying and selling of cryptocurrencies... ::)

Hello,

PayPal is sucks,my last problem with paypal was when I cashout all my money from there
When you hold a large amount of money in PayPal and cashout a little bit everyday is called unclean activities
PP SUCKS.

Wondering can you chargeback with skrill?

PayPal Payza Neteller and Skrill all have chargeback!
Many user's don't know about neteller and skrill chargeback

Why still using PayPal if it already happened twice. if you don't learn of your mistakes it will happen a 4th and a 5th time.

Hello dear,

Many user's don't have other solutions,so THEY use it to add or cashout the money

its so obvious, should have a bitg poster: DONT TRADE BTC THROUGHT PAYPAL

Wow, thanks for the heads up. I thought skrill was better than paypal in terms of dealing with cryptocurrencies, and more people have used skrill.

Yea I didn't know about this either. If I sell my BTC, I always do it via bank transfer. That way if they try to chargeback the money they'll need to pretty much sue me :D

I don't like dealing with bank transfer since it's completely defeating the purpose of bitcoins, which is to stay anonymous.

Hello,

When you want to make an exchange via skrill or paypal you need to ask the persona,what is the source of funds!!
If they say via CC DO NOT TAKE.

Yea on the 2nd time I swear I would quit paypal but its was the only option for me getting money into my bank quickly and easily. Just figured out how to use interac e-transfer (didn't know my bank that that capability) and I have been using that ever since. I use the exchange quadrigacx (canadian) and they usually complete the money into your bank account and useable in about under 12 hours, sometimes in less than 1 hour. Paypal usually took about 3-5 days to insert and I believe there were some fees as well.
I don't trust any p2p exchanges anymore, just me an a REPUTABLE and REGISTERED company.

Simple answer is to never do this. Never use paypal for this reason as many just scam charge back and end up losing the dispute. I have had this pulled on me a number of times in the past but I had enough evidence to sustain what was said what was agreed. With images and also screen recording that provided eveidence of the transaction taking place me sending the coin and them receiving it and them saying payment received etc. Some I had to take legal action on with paypal as they suspended my account once in the past for trading Bitcoin but I had them to rights due to what I had spoke about to support in emails and theri responses to and eventually got my account back and funds.

Now tho I will never do BTC for paypal or even Paypal for BTC unless it is close friends  I actually know and wanting a helping hand at times. Other than that no way would ever do trading with paypal for buying or selling.

Same, I will never deal with BTC-Paypal or even paypal -> random user ever again. Only trusted companies. Paypal is MUCH friendlier towards buyers hence why if you sell BTC they always win. Paypal with a reputable company however is a good solution. I was scammed on localbitcoins, I had the signed transaction with the user, transaction ID, trade ID on the site, proof of everything including the seller telling me, but I still lost the dispute. I contacted BBB and they took 3 months for paypal to tell me the same copy pasted message. Only 70$ but if it were 700$ or something like that I would have gone the legal route and took action. Paypal is pretty ridiculous sometimes.

Hello dear,

You can deal via your PP >>  BTC I don't know why not
You for 70$ don't do nothing / anything but me for 50$ I contact all webiste that are connected somehow with paypal
AND I WIN. :)
I struggled because they were my money

Can you tell us the reason you accepted Paypal from CandyStripes even though his forum account was loaded with negative feedback and his overall reputation on the forum was that he was a scammer. This was backed with a lot of proof. There are several trusted sources you can use to exchange Bitcoin to Paypal and you chose someone that was the exact opposite of trusted according to almost everyone that's had the pleasure of seeing all the threads and topics he and others had made involving his situation. I'd like to know the reasoning of why you sent money to him, I don't see how you could trust someone like that even if you did talk to him a lot. There really is no hope for scam prevention for people like you if you still going to conduct business which involves risking money to someone who is already a proven scam artist. I've seen this happen many times and I fail to see the reasoning how some people can just dump 1000's of dollars in some cases to complete strangers with minimal to no trading history or in this case a proven scammer. Although not close to that amount of money, if you have things like a computer, internet, forum profile, paypal account, etc, you should have the knowledge to not send money to proven scammers and not just blindly and mindlessly do something without thinking of the consequences just because there's a computer right in front of you which gives you the ability to do it.

I did many deals with him before, never REALLY checked his trust but I knew there was negative trust. I also had him on skype for a while and I was so trusting cause we did like 5 more deals previous to that.

Weird because on PD he's actually having 2 accounts, ejaculation and candystripes.

He scammed me out of a account I was selling(Whitelisted), I was trying to help him back in the days of PD2 and he said he needed to test out his betting bot(Never trust a person who gambles), I had a whitelisted account that someone gave to me and decided to help him since he needed a higher paying faucet.

He revealed my password while broadcasting through join.me and at that day, there was a loan request posted on PD. Thankfully one mod that had my google hangouts pointed out his style of posting isn't exactly like mine, and told him to go on to google hangouts. My account got banned from posting because of that incident.

He's probably creating new alts on bitcointalk most likely.

Hello dear,


My question is simple!
Do you believe in all you just say?


Ok,so this is not trust,by making some low transaction one by one with amount of 17 and 20.

Hence the reason why many don't deal with PayPal. I have a question here that which kind of payment cannot be disputed? Gift category payments or other kind of payments via PayPal?

Usually I have heard that payments sent under the "Goods" category are chargedback but I am not sure of this.

No no it was much further than that. The money was all sent in 1 day and that was the 50 20 and 17 to make a total of about 80.

a lot of stories about Paypal scams:

http://www.paypalsucks.com/

candystripes is a known scammer, and using multiple alt account names. dont bother with paypal.

3rd time... And with Candystripes.. Come on man

At some point you gotten sharpen up and cut your losses. I wouldn't use PayPal anymore if I was you.

You don't have to check his trust in order to see that he has negative trust. Any time you look at his profile, or anytime you look at his post in the marketplace, or anytime you read a PM from him you will see the negative trust as well as a big red warning saying to trade with caution.

Not only that but it is very well known by pretty much the entire forum that CandyStripes is a scammer and you should avoid doing business with him, period. IMO you are an idiot for even considering doing business with him.

Well I would have not started business with him if I didn't have any previous experience with him, but I had him on skype, he msged me, and its been multiple months, or even maybe up to a year I knew him. The previous txs (probably 150$ total) all went perfectly well, so I assumed he wouldn't scam on this one based on our trust.

I don't understand why the BTC users are still using Paypal

Most find it easy to use since its linked to their credit cards.

In this case I`m sure you prove to the issuer of his credit card company, and get his funds as a legit purchase. but not by contacting paypal. You need to get a hold of the credit card issuer meaning the credit card co. eg: chase, mastercard.

Describe your bitcoin as $80 physical items, like a PSU or something else then a digital item.

You explain the charges and what happened and they will send you a form in the mail, but the customer support on the line will transfer the call to immediately retract after hearing your story. You act like a gullible person, they will pretty much take your side and consider it was huge event which you weren't aware of, which is true.

Then just sign off the paper work, and then send the mail back. Which is the a letter of confirmation, on what you have told is the truth.

Your a weak hearted whore that don't deserve oxygen. Whores make the world go round though don't they.

Yeah but try getting a refund from a paypal transaction can take a long time if not paid for with paypal balance. Users dont like this.

it's very risky to accept payments from Paypal. your account can be locked and the payments reversed anytime.

a lot of stories here: http://paypalsucks.com/

it's very risky to accept payments from Paypal. your account can be locked and the payments reversed anytime.

a lot of stories here: http://paypalsucks.com/
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This is my main concern of Paypal, that you can actually have your account locked very easy.
I got my account locked simply because I moved and have to change my address.
That was apperently so suspecious that paypal wanted me to send in adresss prove, so I did,
then did I have to make a test transfer (1 EUR) from my credit card, and send in prove of the transaction.

You know what happend next???
Then did thay want me to send in a copy of my passport.... this is where I said STOP.
I called paypal to make sure that I did not get in the hands of one of those nasty phiphers, no it was really paypal who wanted all that, I refuse to send ind a copy of my passport, that could be horrible missused if leaked. So from that day and forth is paypal not my "pal" anymore, I abbanded my account and never used paypal again. Nasty, nasty, nasty company. Not recomended  >:(

LOL at this thread! HAHAHA!

Funtotry scammed me $90 PayPal!

Yes definitely, I'm the one who took your money /s
Are you seriously trying at this? You obviously took my money and still owe me. Michael adair has been paid back his money he gave me so thats none of your business

What is all this about? is Pierre11 the one who scam OP or was it the other way around?
In any case the person who got scammed should open a scam accusation thread and present the case.
this is good to prevent others for being scammed.

The link is here -> https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?board=83.0

 paypal must consider seriously integrate like escrow service, this would make them literally skyrocketed.

The moral of the story:

STOP USING FUCKING PAYPAL!

Paypal and e-bay are splitting as independent companies, Not sure how relevant that is, Paypal is having legal disputes as to it's digital commodity use, and how it's implicated in e-bay, so they are separating the two to help resolve this situation.

This effects me, I like to use PP to buy BTC, I don't like to jump through all the KYC hoops of other payment methods, but only people who really trust me will sell me BTC, and even then they like PGP on my btc address to check my account is still owned by me.

It will all work out in the end.

Yes, Normally just confirmation (sending from) of my registered e-mail address with PP is enough.

But you're only dealing with small amounts, right?

Hey funtotry! Could you please pay me back my $90 PP? Thanks

Hey pierre11, wanna send me back my btc? Thanks

Once you send me my $90 PayPal, I think we could call it fair

Use paypal only when you need it
I will try next mount to open a services that aloo to exchange pp via btc
The services will help you to exchange pp via btc without chargeback.

Paypal and Bitcoin doesn't mix. Anyone who accepts Paypal for Bitcoin is running a HUGE risk of losing his money.

Remember, friends don't let friends use Paypal.  :)

Paypal indeed sucks.

But just want to point out that candystripes buy a shit ton of alt accounts when he can, to do more of this crap. It sucks cause most people know hes a scammer and begged on primedice I see all the time.

I seen that guys name mentioned several times, its not even just your incident but also on luckybit.

he seems to be a regular gambler for every popular site. as for the chargeback, theres not much you can really do, paypal always lack the customer service they need.

Yea of course I can't do anything. Paypal screws sellers, they didn't even look at the damn evidence.

What was the mesages mentions in this dispute?
Usually when people have problem with pp dispute don't mention bitcoin
I see a lots of dispute's and all that mention btc have been lost.

PayPal screws sellers? Naww, they screw SCAMMERS!

Welcome to the club.  Paypal is notorious for this kind of crap!  Hard to believe that a multi-billion dollar a year payment processing platform that was born on the net is either unwilling or incapable of investigating these scamming twat-waffles!

Note to anybody considering selling crypto's for paypal in the future...Just Don't Do it!

I found a great site to sell on www.cryptothrift.com they use escrow and there own payment system.Never had a problem there

On the 16th of June I bought 7TH of hash at Zeushash of member Turnoff aka mmmaybe and others, the deal was escrowed through Master-P.I gained control of the account and the seller said just to change the password and they would give me email address when they notified everyone of there new address.In 3 weeks I never got the email and in that time I added more Hash and never touched a penny of the mining earnings.Friday I think the seller got in touch with Zeushash and said the had lost there password and Zeushash allowed them to change it and gain back control of the account.Now the personal email and work email we used to talk during the sale are denying they are the seller and have no knowledge of anything.Monday the seller on here Turnoff said it must have been hacked and they will speak to Zeushash and get me it back but they were too tired at that present moment and of course never heard from them again.I have notified Gothenburg Police of the fraud so be wary of dealing with those names and please notify me if you sell them any other accounts or sales.