mrgeorge01
Junior Member
- May 21, 2014
- 186
- 15
I would advice anyone who will be trying this method to be aware of scammers. Yesterday I listed around 40 games and Immediately started getting orders. My PayPal was filling and I was feeling great about actually making my first $ online. 15 Sales and $600 worth of sales made by my eBay account,people started contacting me and issuing refunds,stating their accounts were hacked and it made unauthorized purchases from their name. Ofcourse PayPal favours the Buyers and it started refunding their money from my PayPal balance,which meant I was going to be minus -$350 since I bought the game codes and sent them via eBay message once they bought the items. I currently have 8 held payments in my PayPal for $200, I dont even know what will happen with those payments,they'll most likely be refunded to the "hacked buyers" and I had 50 euros,which I immediately sent to another PayPal account of mine and withdrew them asap. I also stumbled upon a thread in another forum about exactly the same thing - someone selling digital products and being "scammed" the same way I was. I removed my linked credit/debit cards from my account and will go and cancel both my cards today. I also actually redeemed some of the codes I had sent to people,since the hackers actually scam you into sending them a valid code and selling it somewhere else and said to myself that it would be better if atleast I had some games after being scammed and the codes being used by someone else who did not give a penny for them. I redeemed around $100 worth of Steam Games,some new games like Dishonored 2,SIV Civilization(Not quite sure the exact title). I won't be able to run them on my notebook since it's very slow,but hey atleast I got something out of it. Benefits from the whole thing - around $20 and $100 worth of games. What will happen to my PayPal account once eBay want me to pay invoice and start giving everyone their refunds? I'll probably get a negative balance or something,for which I could not care less since I don't think it's that "dangerous" for me once I cancel both my cards that were ever linked to that paypal? Anyone have any insight on this?
I did this too, and have 2 buyers claiming the code I sent was invalid... Is there anything I can do?