Originally Posted by
EjustE
In my eleven years of using ebay/paypal. I had one single dispute (as a buyer, and because I initiated that, because what I got was not what it was not meant to be). As a seller, paypal and ebay will give you the benefit of the doubt (speaking from experience. The disputing party has to prove that the item received was not what was advertised to be - and that is a tall order. You need to find someone to attest to that) If you sell and you know what you sell and you ship it properly and don't overcharge, you are fine...
I don't doubt that you and many, many other people have had success accepting Paypal. Maybe I'm being paranoid, I can see that.
I do not have any first hand experience being ripped off with Paypal.
But nevertheless, there are many ways to be ripped off by credit cards. Having worked in the restaurant industry for 20 years I had chargebacks all the time. It is the cost of doing business.
Paypal is yet another layer between you and the buyer, and Paypal has it's own additional sets of rules to protect buyers. I don't mean to highjack this thread, but being honest as you stated is not any sort of guarantee that you will not be ripped off.
Just google 'paypal rip off' and you will find plenty of bummed out people who had paypal take their money back without any real recourse.