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Old Jun 22, 2012 | 3:19 am
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bealine
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Originally Posted by hayk
I'll never use Paypal except when buying from ebay, but currently I don't know what to do.
My account is not charged yet thus I can buy another ticket using normal payment. What will happen then?
That's exactly what happened to me using a "reputable" courier company - one that is a household name. (For legal reasons, I cannot name the company as it is the subject of a complaint to Consumer Direct.)

If you subsequently pay by a normal method, and then the PayPal payment proceeds, you could end up paying twice and then having the very Devil's own job trying to get one of the payments reimbursed - exactly what happened to me.

............and every phone call to PayPal or British Airways (or the courier firm's customer services) is at a "National Rate" cost.

I have been left feeling that PayPal and Ebay (apparently, they are one and the same company) are nothing but shysters and confidence tricksters.
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