Recently i was contacted by a buyer who wanted to buy some animals of me. The total amount of the animals was € 3.000,-.

I asked them to be paid through Paypal. The 30th of December i received the money, it was cleared by Paypal directly. I live in Holland and the customer lives in England. So i went to England on the 3rd of January to bring the animals to the work adres of the customer.

The 4th of January i received an e-mail from Paypal that my account had been frozen.
I contacted paypal why it was frozen. Offcourse i did not receive a response.
On my Paypal account Paypal wanted everything from me, copy bankaccount,creditcard,energybill,invoices and what more. I supplied them with everything... but nothing. I got pissed more and more...
And then they refunded the € 3.000 !!! to the buyer. Why ? Because the paypal adres and delivery adres did not match. Something that is known as the "neighbour" fraud and is well known by Paypal.
All in all i got fucked for € 5.000,- ($ 6.500) and i am still fighting Paypal on al my social media outlets, newspapers, blogs and more.

Sorry to hear on this. First try and contact the buyer to arrange payment in another form. If the buyer is not honest then do the following:

Send an email to complaint-response@paypal.com outlining in full the situation. If there is no chargeback request initiated or no buyer dispute and the transaction has gone through, PayPal have no right to be tampering with your money.

If the Protection Service department fail to do anything about it, file a complaint with the Financial Services UK Ombudsman for them to look into into it.

Let us know how you get on.

Totally sucks and thats a pretty penny to be holding on to. Horror story by horror story I think we are all figuring out that PAY PAL SUCKS BIG TIME! It's just not EVEN funny how they do people. Yea, they got me, still working on getting my money but I can be thankful it wasn't as much as they stole from you.

Go get em'!

No the buyer is not reacting anymore.... Paypal says they closed the case and are taking back the €3000,- (plus the animals that are gone that makes € 5.000)a huge amount for me.

Really nuts at Paypal !