Paid The Wrong Person

[shaintiques]

Yes that is right. I paid the wrong person through paypal. I recently ordered a custom pipe from someone. I restored a pile of estates and sold them to pay for it. But when I went to paypal them, I sent it to the wrong address. Their email address and the guy I actually sent it to are off by one letter. Paypal says they can't cancel the transaction or refund my money because I sent it as a personal gift and with my paypal balance. So if the person doesn't voluntarily return my money I'm out of luck. Lesson learned. Double check addresses and always pay with a card from now on. I'm hoping the guy will refund it, I emailed him but its been a few days and nothing.

 

[deathmetal]

Ugh. This is one of the 10,000 reasons I avoid paypal.

 

[johnbarleycorn]

Wow that is a bummer. Hope it works out.

 

[deathmetal]

It's a total bummer. I am sorry to hear it.

 

[pagan]

Sorry to hear, hope it works out for you

 

[shaintiques]

Yes a big bummer. I also hope it works out. Learn from my mistakes. I almost always copy and paste email addresses so as to avoid this kind of thing but got lazy and it bit me. Oh well. I've got some more pipes to restore and sell it seems. Are there still people in the world who don't check their email for a week. That's my hope.

 

[johnbarleycorn]

Well it IS possible.

 

[deathmetal]

You might want to claim it was a hack... immediate suspension of transaction.

 

[texmexpipe]

Man, hope it works in your favor

 

[hextor]

awww man, i hope he does the right thing, that sucks!!!

 

[jpmcwjr]

Yes, good luck on that. I also try to copy-paste, and now I will be sure to do that.

 

[anthonyrosenthal74]

I'll sometimes go a few days without looking at my email. Hopefully the guy just hasn't seen it yet and will fix the issue very soon. Sounds like an honest mistake, don't beat yourself up to hard over it and hope for the best.

 

[ashdigger]

I've done that twice now, but I got lucky and got it resolved because they were Forum members. Good luck. I know a few people that don't check emails, I'm not them.

 

[hmhaines]

Jeez, that sucks man. I'm sorry. Fingers crossed that it comes through alright.

 

[wyfbane]

Oh man. That is my nightmare! I double and triple check, and then check again before the last confirm button. I dread that. I really hope that guy is an honest one and gives you back your money.
Sorry this is happening to you!

 

[josephcross]

Thats rough, I hope it works out for you.

 

[ssjones]

Ugh, I've seen old, one-time use Paypal address pop up in the auto-fill and wondered if that was possible. I hope you have a happy ending here.

 

[jitterbugdude]

That's odd. I did the same thing about a month ago. I went in to my PayPal account and it let me cancel the transaction. It was a personal gift transaction too. If I remember correctly I went through the cancel procedure and it wouldn't let me but I kept scrolling through different pages on PayPal and I found another page with another option to cancel, which I did.

 

[hakchuma]

how much did you send?

 

[bigpond]

I hope this works out for you.
Paypal is great but all bets are off when folks forego any personal protection to save 3%. Seems a small price to pay for peace of mind.