It was my very first transaction on eBay. I sold an iPhone 1st gen a year after it came out. I got an email asking if I would be willing to send it to an addres

It was my very first transaction on eBay. I sold an iPhone 1st gen a year after it came out. I got an email asking if I would be willing to send it to an address in some country but the billing address was from someone in Florida. I said I could but they'd still need to verify they were this person... anyways, guessing they got impatient and paid $600 to try and get me to send the iPhone. I was 17 years old. So I was just going to send it. I didn't care. I had my money. What could I really do? They won the bid. I think when the phones first came out, they were $500 so to sell it used a year later for a higher price than what I bought it for was awesome. So I was getting ready to send it the following day, packaged up and ready to go. And Paypal sends me an email me to let me know I was involved in a fradulent transaction and that they were looking into it, but that I should do nothing. They froze my account and said it was pending an investigation. I was frustrated and checked for 2 weeks and it remained frozen. After that, I completely forgot about the whole thing and went about my life, and I ended up just keeping the iPhone and using it. Paypal and eBay were still just a few years old at that time and had nowhere the amount of support and business structure or insurance they have nowadays, so I just wrote Paypal off as this crappy company that was preventing someone from receiving their phone and me from getting my money. I was pissed and didn't want to be reminded of it so I logged out. A year went by and I wanted to buy something on eBay and I had to go through this process of connecting both Ebay and Paypal together again... and I get logged in. The iPhone is right next to me at my desk. And somehow, there it is. There is money sitting in my Paypal account. It's the $600 that was frozen, but this time, it wasn't frozen and I immediately put in a request to be transferred to my bank account. I didn't think it was real until it actually hit my bank account. Back sometime in the early 200s, that was a lot of money... still is to get a bill paid.