Xionraserei1 wrote:I agree with Crisis and Saturnfan. Payment is Needed first. Paypal will get your back if its a sour deal. Dont gift a shit ton of money and you will be ok. NEVER NEVER ship anything without getting paid EVER. no matter who it is.
You could still get screwed by Paypal. If I bought something for say $500, then that person withdraws the money from Paypal and closes the CC or bank account tied to the Paypal account, I'm screwed.
Another 'real world' example would be people writing bad checks. I found out much later that a friend's mom was a habitual bad check writer. Turns out this is the reason they moved so much. The SNES that he gave me one Christmas it turns out was paid for with a hot check even. By the time I knew it was 7 or 8 years later. It wasn't a big city where we lived so you'd think that she'd have been caught for stealing all that money from places, but as far as I knew before I lost touch she never did.