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How I beat an online scammer and made $2,100 in the process
- diehunde 7y agoThat was a fun story. I like the way you write. Did you read any of the books on improving writing? Normally I'm not able to read posts this long but in this case it was easy. Congratulations on the win.
- ryanckulp 7y agothanks for the support and feedback. one book i recall is The Elements of Style, often called Strunk & White: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Elements_of_Style https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Elements_of_Style otherwise i've not studied writing per se, just "practice" a lot in blog posts like this one. my shtick is to add humor, remove qualifiers, stay conversational. all tips real writers would share too, but maybe not the same writers. ;)
- diehunde 7y agoYour style is also confident. I remember I read about that in the book "On Writing Well". That's also refreshing.
- julienreszka 7y agoi enjoyed your story
- ryanckulp 7y agothanks Julien! clever personal website btw ;)
- julienreszka 7y agothanks :)
- anonlastname 7y agoThis guy is a huge loser
- masonic 7y agoThis wouldn't work with PayPal USA. They have a hard rule that Seller protection applies only to tangible goods received from a PayPal-recognized common carrier with tracking to the buyer's Confirmed Address. This would be an automatic reversal. Beyond that, the buyer could do a chargeback through his card issuer. If successful, PayPal takes back 103% of the payment.
- ryanckulp 7y agothis was PayPal USA, i'm an American.
- masonic 7y agoYou lucked out... for now. Again, a CC chargeback will be hard to fight.
- ryanckulp 7y agoi find CC chargebacks (for us, they're via Stripe) more likely to win than PayPal tbh. and often w/ CC chargeback an accountant simply wasn't aware, mistakenly filed. PayPal, otoh, is often used by people with bad intentions on Day 0.