Comments on Profile Post by JayC

Yeah, paypal will side with them in almost every case of this. This is why I issue invoices for everything, period.

I've had PP reject every claim from someone doing F&F for payment. Super weird.

I've only heard of it happening. Personally, I'd sooner eat the 3.5% than risk someone funding it with their credit card and doing a chargeback...

Wait, paypal can side with them? The whole point of gifting money is that you are not technically buying anything. You are just giving money away. There is nothing for paypal to side with here, no goods & services were technically exchanged.

Except when the person who says... "What?! I didn't send them a gift. There most have been a mistake." The person who sold comes up short, with only proof they shipped "a gift"...to someone who gave them "a gift". It's to paypal's disadvantage to side w people who are subverting thier fee structure.

It seems either way has issues based on what I've seen/heard. Pay the fee and they usually side with the seller.. Use the gift payment method with a CC, they do a chargeback and PayPal just takes the money from you to give it back to them

To give context - this just happened to a friend who shipped an amplifier from the Netherlands to someone in Eastern Europe. Because it smelled a little scammy we thought it was safest going the gift route in case they made a false claim but apparently not.

Paypal will almost always side with the sender of money during a gift dispute. Or, well, that's what a lot of furry artist drama taught me.

Also, getting "gift money" on regular intervals (as in, not using business transactions for business) will result in a swift investigation closure.