Paypal can go and
Update
Well Paypal have had me running round for the past 2 months for paperwork so that I can prove my GHD's I purchased off ebay were fake. My letter from the hairdresser was not good enough. Paypal kindly extended my 3 days so that I could convince my bossess at work that a Police Incident number was going to be created as Paypal wanted one, which is not the norm. Finally did this and faxed it to Paypal..... all sorted, I have now done everything they have asked ..... ran around getting documents left right and centre.
Then I get an email "sorry we have your documents but they were too late and you will have to talk to the seller yourself" WTF !!!!!
I spoke to my colleague who used to solely investigate Ebay and Paypal fraud and he told me the following........................
1) Paypal DO NOT protect you if you buy something off ebay and collect it yourself.
2) Paypal is NOT a secure website altho it lets you think it is
3) Paypal's server has been hacked into recently and all your bank account details are floating about somewhere
4) Paypal's staff in their nice offices in Dublin have 6 set emails to reply to your complaint so if you need a different reply you wont get one.
I wont go on about what he said about ebay, but I have deleted all my bank details and card details from my paypal account and deleted my ebay account.
I will be going through Trading Standards re Paypal and Ebay, good job I got some Trading Standards contacts
... they pi$$ed Shell off !!