A looong time ago, I used to play this addictive card game on my phone. The game is basically a Pokemon type game where you hunt and collect cards and battle other players with the cards. Eventually, I stopped playing the game and decided to sell the cards on Neoseeker. Since everyone else was doing it, I thought it’d be safe. I noticed every seller stated to send money as gift via Paypal and write in the notes: “Payment for virtual goods. I do understand that once I get the item, no refunds can be made.” That statement clearly is as bulletproof as Saran Wrap. I was able to sell off all my cards for about ~$1,000. Don’t think that’s good because the time I spent playing and collecting was grossly under slave labor wages.
Fast forward to this morning when I got this doozy in my inbox. I kept wondering what the hell this was since I hadn’t sold anything on Paypal for exactly $50 this year. Sure enough, I open it up and my jaw dropped. My first reaction was, “HOLY SHIT PAYPAL! C’MON! THIS WAS FROM MARCH 2014, NEARLY 1.5 YEARS AGO.” And that’s what I wrote in the chargeback dispute claim. Most likely, I will lose this chargeback since you can’t sell virtual goods on Paypal but yet, Paypal Digital Gifts can sell electronic gift cards just fine. But I honestly don’t know if I’m more mad at Paypal or the freaking credit card that let him do a chargeback that is 1.5 years old!?! There’s gotta be some kind of statue of limitations to this! Who honestly goes back 1.5 years of credit card statements and goes, “Hmmm, I don’t think I authorized that charge. Let me go dispute it.” C’mon Paypal, can’t you smell a freaking scammer when you see one? AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRGHHHHHHHHHHHHH.
Moral of story – NEVER sell virtual goods on Paypal because you will lose all chargebacks.
wtf…
Oh, sucks 🙁