The Danger of Selling Pixels on Paypal

Didn't we all know this already? Nothing new :|

 

The Dangers Of Selling things, receiving money on Paypal

Greetings fellow sythe members. I'm posting this thread today to present to you the dangers of selling accounts/gold, or any type of pixel, using Paypal.

Firstly, selling pixels over the internet is a very risky choice. All from the danger of scammers.
You may be selling an account, the guy is willing to go first, and pay an outrageous amount. This makes you very excited, after you've received the payment, you'll give him all the information to make the account securely his. A few hours/days go by, and you see you may be have a negative balance (from spending the money), or less money than what you already had in your Paypal account.



Reason being: With selling an account over the internet, you are unable to provide proof of purchase, therefor the scammer can simply file a dispute to Paypal, putting the money "on hold" for a matter of a week. That gives you a week to appeal it. How you appeal it is by giving paypal a tracking/shipping number. In which case you don't have for you bought an account without using mail. In which case, you're fucked.



So, the scammer just waits a week or so to revive the money. And you then loose the account/gold/whateveryouwereselling. Happy days!

I DO know how to appeal this. However, it will greatly benefit scammers. So if you desperately need to know, you first must be trusted on sythe, and I'll tell you in MSN chat. Otherwise that's a mystery for you.

 

mhm,..

 

5/10, easy stuff to know

 

OK guide, 7/10

 

May you tell me? It will help me

 

basicly dont trade pixels with paypal?

 

I got scammed filed a dispute and lost. 120 bucks...
So its still hard for the scammer.

I'm so mad that the dispute lost.
He got 120 bucks for free.

 

makes sense... i never even thought about gettin scammed like that..

 

good to mention to ppl who dont know but its almost obvious

basically 1 tip: buy from a verified paypal user

 

Well, if i get fucked over i know who to come to.. =]

 

This isn't a guide on buying pixels from paypal. It's a guide on selling them...

 

thanks for the info did not know this

 

This is why i dont plan on using paypal ;3

 

Nice guide, does claim and cancel always work? IS it sort of scam proof is you do that?

 

no, theres already a guide on this.

 

its alright but needs more detail.

 

Can this still be done even with a verified PayPal user?

 

Yes, I believe it can.

 

I don't understand how you prevent this then, even when using an official MM in a trade?