A lot of people refuse to buy with anything other than paypal. I don't sell things online very often, but I do regularly buy things from ebay. Here's the way I

A lot of people refuse to buy with anything other than paypal. I don't sell things online very often, but I do regularly buy things from ebay. Here's the way I look at it. Paypal has historically sided with the customer close to 100% of the time, mostly because they are not a bank and therefore are pretty much powerless when a customer issues a chargeback. That's why fraud is rampant. If its trivial for an unethical person to steal things on a regular basis using paypal, because sellers have no reliable form of recourse, I can be pretty certain that as an actual honest buyer I'll practically never have to worry about getting screwed over by a seller.