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> Using a more trustworthy intermediary when I’m ordering from random tiny merchants is a really easy and low impact way to reduce my risk and hassle here. but
by blibble 3y ago
> Using a more trustworthy intermediary when I’m ordering from random tiny merchants is a really easy and low impact way to reduce my risk and hassle here.
but we're talking about paypal here
- toast0 3y agoPayPal horror stories abound, but they're usually specific to receiving payments. I think I've read a few about buyer side disputes and PayPal doing clawbacks for chargebacks from other payment mechanisms, but those seem to be much rarer. Anyway, I don't recall PayPal ever having data security issues where payment information was leaked in bulk, as has happened with some retailers.
- NoZebra120vClip 3y agoYeah, I can count on one hand the number of times I've received payments there, and it's always from individuals whom I know and trust, obviously, and we had a prior agreement to exchange the money. I also had a decent chargeback experience, long long ago; I think it was about 17 years ago. It was just an independent band selling tee shirts, and I ordered one, and then they said whoops, we've got none in your size, sorry. But no refund from them, so I pursued it via PayPal, and the situation was easily resolved. Obviously, there was no repeat business for that vendor.