Is paypal.com Safe?

Paypal is extremely useful in allowing users to make payments for credit cards, goods/services bought online. They also provide effective filters for safety including fraud detection. Because paypal has these controls, sometimes users will be frustrated because transactions may be flagged for anything including if your email does not match the one they have on file for your account, or a credit card not being registered. Overall, I have had few problems, and as a seller, have been protected against fraudulent unauthorized buyers using someone else's account information.

I ran out of space as these boxes never allow enough space to make points. I won't write it all again. PayPal has no regard for its customers, indeed has become like the stereotypical mega-bank. It's finally attained a level of incompetence usually found at large businesses. As of this writing I'm not allowed access to my own credit cards at PayPal--for reasons only PayPal knows. When I asked them by phone, I got no reply and was issued only orders as to what I need to do, which is all a waste of my time. PayPal doesn't care about my time, that much is clear. I will only ever use it again when there's no other option. Meanwhile, some government agency ought look into breaking up PayPal, which has become a de facto online monopoly. Monopolies are supposed to be illegal.

As a buyer, I've never had a major problem using paypal. As a seller, it sucks. A lot of people don't realize PayPal routinely holds seller's money and freezes their accounts. Basically, they make it pretty much impossible for them to ever be left holding the bag. They keep enough of your money, long enough so that even if a bunch of your (normally perfectly happy) customers suddenly start alleging fraud, they have enough of your money to not lose out. They do this even if you have never had any customer issues at all. I know that from personal experience. From reading sites like paypalsucks, I'm thoroughly convinced that: 1) It's normal for PayPal to hold/freeze accounts more often, and for longer periods if you have minimal issues, like the occasional chargeback. 2)You won't get your disputed payment money if there's a chargeback even if you have great evidence that you've fulfilled the order in question flawlessly. 3)If there are serious customer problems, they'll probably keep all your money forever. Wikipedia, which only allows documented claims in its articles describes and documents many such cases. PayplSucks and the like A section of the site list a bunch of alternatives, and compare them to PayPal. I'm troubled that they seem to push one alternative in particular, Merchantinc.com; perhaps they get referral fees. However, they do list several alternatives, and discuss the pros and cons of each. Oddly, Google Checkout isn't mentioned, but it's rather new, and perhaps the site isn't updated regularly.

They are support fakesellers from China! Three times I have get a fake goods form China and they are make a final decision in sellers favor! Блиади! Они поддерживают китайских поддельщиков известных брэндов (последнее из которого я получил - подделки VICTORiNOX) Вместо того, что бы заставить сраного китайца возвратить обратно платёж и уничтожить подделки, они заставляли МЕНЯ отсылать подделки обратно за мой же счёт! А после этот же казёл (китаец) продаст эти же подделки другой жертве сговора китайцев и палки! Ну ни пидерастия ли? Байер протекшн - пустой звук! Пайпал - гавно, которое поддерживает китайских поддельщиков!