I'm from Belgium. As I said, I already talked to my lawyer and spent money on the case. He told me recently the case isn't going well and asked if I want to submit a complaint to the ECC (European Consumer Centre). I think he just wants more money so he'll say whatever to keep the case going..


Believe me I want to. The problem is that none of my buyers use bitcoin and therefor I have to rely on PayPal, Skrill.



The rules of PayPal say "We can give your money to a thief and officially put you in debt to us"? That's so fucked up

You know, after this I haven't had a PayPal account and it's so inconvenient. Everyone can pay with paypal, not so much with bitcoin since it's a bit troublesome for someone who's never worked with it before.

One can still chargeback from you if your account is empty. Your PayPal balance will simply go negative and they will demand you to restore your balance.

Hey guys, I'm new around here.

A few months ago I was doing business with PayPal selling digital goods online. There was a lot of work so I decided to entrust a friend with a lot of goods and he started selling them and sending the money minus his cut (20%) to my PayPal.

After our dealings were over, however, he decided to chargeback a few of the payments he made. I had an issue with PayPal before this and they told me they will be closing my account and let me withdraw my money, which I did. So now ("now" being 3-4 months ago), months later my PayPal balance is at 0 and I'm done with them, when I get mails telling me my dear "friend" charged back over $ 4.000 from me and they are demanding I put money on my account.

He claimed unauthorized transactions through his bank. Payments were sent as GIFT. Before this he also tried to chargeback all gift payments made to me, about $ 8.000 total, claiming someone went on his paypal account. Luckily, PayPal denied his chargeback after investigating.
I explained to them how this guy is attempting to steal money from me and that I am in no interest in helping them give a thief money from my pockets. I made screenshots of all our Skype conversations, added neat comments and sent it to them and they denied my appeal.

Few weeks later I got a letters from a collections agency, demanding I pay an initial sum of my debt to PayPal (totaling about $ 4.500).

I actually even went to a lawyer for this. Just two weeks ago he mailed me telling me the case isn't going well...

Anyone know what to do with this? I really don't want to give PayPal compensation for the money they literally gave away to a thief.

I don't know if it's allowed, but I'll gladly offer some compensation if someone can help me out with this.

Thank you