Paypal Prepagata Reviews 160

I have closed my account with them and strongly recommend others do the same. I had understood your money was safer if you paid with PayPal. Absolute rubbish.
The company advertised on Facebook with English name turned out unexpectedly to be Chinese. Their goods were rubbish. Struggled to get credit but they insisted I had to send goods back to China at my own expense. Had no help at all from PayPal. They did absolutely nothing.

First of allthis is not an official paypal website so stop going here

They support scammers. Do not use them. I have trusted them for almost a decade now, and they have closed a case in the sellers favor, and will not refund me.

MY ADVICE:
Stay away from PAYPAL
They steal your money !!!!!!

Received this email:

We have initiated the closure of your PayPal account
After a thorough review of your PayPal account, we will begin closing it to protect ourselves from potential financial losses. You will no longer be able to use your PayPal account.
What happens to your balance?
If you have money in your PayPal balance, we will withhold the amount for up to 180 days. We regularly review your cash release account. A gradual closure of the account allows us to separate while taking into account any obligations that may arise.

When we initiate the closure, we will monitor the movement of money in your account. If your balance is in the red, deposit the amount you owe to avoid further action.
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I received such an email.
No elaborate explanations.
No contact options.
There is almost DKK 100 in my account which I can NOT get.
DO NOT know exactly what they are doing at PAYPAL ..
And I can NOT get hold of them so I can get an explanation.
There is no help to be found on either their websites or phone number you can call ..

Most everything I read here I believe is true. I have had some of the worst customer service ever. Buyer Protection???? You get more protection from 2 wet sheets of toilet paper. I am required to prove nothing was delivered? I can send a picture on my empty mailbox but it is the sellers shipper not mine and they wont write me the letter. PayPal is off all our sales sites as well.

The company PayPal has developed into a fraudulent company and commits the offence of committing fraud and the deliberate misappropriation of customer funds.

1. customer accounts are closed for no reason
2. client funds are embezzled for 21-180 days
3. catastrophic customer sport
4. the advertised buyer protection is not really available and is undermined and leveraged by constantly changing business conditions.
5. there are thousands of complaints to the Federal Financial Supervisory Authority (BaFin) regarding the company PayPal.
6) Thousands of former PayPal users have been charged with fraud and the deliberate misappropriation of customer funds.
7) Many well-known and reputable shops have banned PayPal as a means of payment and replaced it with others.
8. customer data are passed on unauthorized to the company "SANDOW TRUST". Thus it may be possible that you as a customer or seller are blocked on other trading platforms.

etc. etc...

Misleading advertising?
Is this exclusion compatible with the blatant advertising with which PayPal advertises on eBay and other shops?

At least that seems doubtful. Slogans such as: "Free PayPal buyer protection in unlimited amount" or "Always simple and secure" give the impression that effective buyer protection also exists as advertised.

That this is not always the case, however, is shown by research on the Internet. Ever more eBay salesmen - commercial and private - customers of PayPal report on accounts partially blocked for months. The additional demand of proofs and vouchers, which seem to have nothing to do with the auction and similar little comprehensible pitfalls.

But also buyers are often rejected with their application for buyer protection, because in the opinion of PayPal it did not come to a "substantial deviation" of the article to the article description. Such examples were also shown in today's Full Kanne article.

All in all, the buyer protection with PayPal represents nothing more than a gesture of goodwill, to which no claim exists at all on closer inspection. It is solely up to PayPal to let the buyer protection take effect. Against the decision the customer can do finally de facto nothing at all.

Therefore the impression suggests itself, with the advertisement of the official means of payment of a new generation it could concern a misleading advertisement forbidden by the UWG. The consumer is deceived precisely because of the fact that the advertised buyer protection does not exist as a claim at all, but is only placed at the discretion of PayPal as a gesture of goodwill. Buyer protection thus becomes a toothless tiger. The customer, however, weighs himself in security due to the advertising and perhaps rather enters into questionable transactions on the Internet, which he would not have entered into at all with a regular transfer.

But also the promise to sellers is not always kept. Here the impression is created that the turnover of a shop or the eBay account can be increased, since the customer weighs himself in security via PayPal and, as a satisfied customer, gladly returns to the shop to generate further turnover. This may well be the case.
The problem of arbitrariness without the possibility of legal protection had to be experienced by the seller in the second example. His buyer submitted a dubious expert opinion from another merchant and inserted Paypal for the payment...

Better to renounce the buyer protection?

Ultimately, PayPal does not really offer its customers the promised seller and buyer protection. In view of this, the question arises as to whether the service provides both buyers and sellers with extra security on eBay. Because in the case of fraud, a payment that was instructed by PayPal cannot simply be cancelled without PayPal checking the process again. The subsequent procedure with submitting receipts etc. often takes several weeks, in which the real eBay fraudster has long since been over the mountains with the goods.

Conclusion:
1. avoid PayPal as much as possible
2. any credit card payment via an alternative payment provider is much safer, as payments are claimed directly via the card provider.
3 The actual business model of PayPal is absolutely unnecessary.

I am a long time paypal user, and really like the service. So when i know there is a paypal prepaid card that can be used, i made one at the tobacco shop. The staff already warned that there could be problem activating the card when sending pictures. it is really happening... i spent the whole afternoon trying to do this procedure, but it doesn't work. Either getting error 803 "input non presente" or others related to file error. I regret i did not read here all the comments before being enthusiastic about a card co-branded with paypal. Now i think this 10 euro is totally wasted. Having asked my italian friend to call the hotline but unable to connect to an operator (but knowing it's talking to unhelpful or incompetent officer, i think it is pointless to call anyway), i wrote an email to them. not sure if i will even get a reply. Hope people reading this will not consider using this card. i am really sorry for paypal being associated with such bad service with Lottomatica.

Sono un utente paypal da molto tempo e mi piace molto il servizio. Quindi, quando so che c'è una carta prepagata paypal che può essere utilizzata, ne ho fatta una al tabaccaria. Lo staff ha già avvertito che potrebbe esserci un problema nell'attivare la scheda quando si inviano le immagini. sta davvero succedendo ... ho passato l'intero pomeriggio a provare a fare questa procedura, ma non funziona. O ottenendo l'errore 803 "input non presente" o altri relativi all'errore del file. Mi dispiace di non aver letto tutti i commenti prima di essere entusiasta di una carta in co-branding con paypal. Ora penso che questo 10 euro sia totalmente sprecato. Avendo chiesto al mio amico italiano di chiamare la hotline ma non riuscendo a connettermi con un operatore (ma sapendo che sta parlando con un ufficiale scortese o incompetente, penso che sia inutile chiamare comunque), ho scritto loro una e-mail. non sono sicuro se riceverò una risposta. Spero che le persone che leggono questo non considerino l'utilizzo di questa carta. sono davvero dispiaciuto per il fatto che PayPal sia stata associata a un così pessimo servizio con Lottomatica.

This Company has cause me the most very, very high levels of stress. I find it hard to communicate with them,they won't pay me money that is rightfully mine eg , in refunds and sales.
They say I can't close my account with them as there's thing pending . I have spent thousands via them ,over the years. And they have treated me appallingly. I think they should be investigated. Bad, Bad company. Don't sign up with them, you'll be sorry.