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DO NOT trust Paypal, read my experience

I decided to write this review to warn others from dealing with paypal, they have charged me before completing the registration process, and after charging me they have asked for me to fax them extra documents that I don't have, I told them that I don't have that documents, and I asked them to find an alternative way, they replied stupidly asking the same question, I called them and wasted my money on international calls, every one of their rude employees gave me different answers. at the end I asked them to close my account, they refused, they said that the cannot close the account neither they can activate it if I don't send them the faxed papers. Simply they are either stupid or they were stealing me. I still couldn’t get my money back, but I had to cancel my credit card because they had a continuous access on it, and that cost me allot also. There should be a law to watch such companies...
You watch your money, and don't trust those companies that call themselves as a company for your own security; it is a company that will have a full access to your credit card... I lost much with my registration trial with Paypal (www.paypal.com) be careful from this company.

Not my experience. I had to fax them papers on my credit card, if I remember correctly. But that wasn't a problem after that. I think it was a bank statement. I use PayPal almost every week to buy from eBay.

perhaps its because you live in what is considered quite a dodgy country by many others?
all ive had to do with paypal, and ive been using them for years, is enter my card and bank details online, they performed a chargeback on my account of $1 and i had to enter the reference that showed on my bank statement

Paypal has always worked very well for me. From what I remember, I gave them my bank account information and then they made three small deposits. To verify, I had to let them know the amounts of those three deposits. Now, 100's of transactions later, I am a veteran and still highly satisfied. Sorry you had an unfavorable experience.

Ok... Maybe you had some good experience there, but I advice you all to have a look on this site (www.nopaypal.com) and also you may search Google for other peoples reviews on this issue... in the site I gave here, you will find too many stories that are simillar to mine..
they also say that with paypal things goes fine until you face a small silly problem, then you start to suffer, one of them says, that he sold an item for a specific amount of money and after he recieved the payment to paypal they have limited his account and he cannot get him money from them until now !!
read and see how they deal with people,
if you think that they read those fax papers then you are mistaken, someone says that he faked the papers and faxed them and things went fine, where is the security in that? you can steal a card number and fake the fax paper, the more secure way was the $1.95 decuction and verifying it by the 4 pin number, I did that but they didn't satisfy with it, they are like machines, they Don't have minds to use and think, when I be honest with them and tell them that I don't have such a paper, they reply saying: "we are still waiting for the fax" like robots....
the main problem there is that they are not trained to handle problems, when you have a problem then you are stuck there....
one more important issue that i have mentioned: how come they have charged me before verifying my card, they claim that they limited my account because they cannot verify my account, then what if I stole that card, why did they charge the real owner then? they should have asked for all of the papers they needed then they could start charging, that is really silly, common people search google and have a look on www.nopaypal.com, there are books talking about paypal's cheating, you can read everyday a new story there... if you had a good experience with them then this is not meaning that they are good, it is just you are lucky that you didn't face any problem yet!

Okay, let's get real here.
What documents would they ask for that a card owner wouldn't have? Why don't you have the documents?
The domain name, NoPaypal.com, was registered back in 2001 in order to drum up support for a class action lawsuit. Yep, that person had a bad experience when Paypal was new. The "Bash Paypal Bandwagon" was in full force several years ago. You are a little late.
If I stopped using every service/vendor that someone had a bad experience with, I'd have to stop using everything.
If I go to a restaurant that sucks, I don't go back. Don't run around like chicken little yelling "the sky is falling".

they wanted either a water bill or electricity bill in my name, well my card is not issued from the same country that I am currently living in, I was living there once, but even at that time I was renting a home so the bills were not in my name, and I have no other document to send them in my name, so this is realistic, if you don't like to believe that they are theievs then you are free, keep dealing with them , everyone is free in this life, I just liked to warn the other people and give an advice, so take my advice or leave it, but don't regret later!!

EMU said:
they wanted either a water bill or electricity bill in my name, well my card is not issued from the same country that I am currently living in, I was living there once, but even at that time I was renting a home so the bills were not in my name, and I have no other document to send them in my name
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so you have a bank in a country were you dont live, no way you can confirm your current and previous addresses and you are complaining that paypal wont deal with you!!!!!
good! im glad paypal wont deal with you, if you were to rip me off, what could i do about it? i couldnt find out where you live or where you bank.
wake up, smell the coffee, get yourself a bank and a real address that you own and pay your way in, then maybe, just maybe youll have some financial credibility
jeesh!
dont tell me... you are nigerian and you have $1 200 419 that you need to invest, but your governmnt charges too much tax.........................
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you people thing yourself something?? huh..
work your mind a little bit, I dont have to give you all the details, dump yourself and deal whoever you like to, I just wrote my experience, and as I said before you are free to get the advice or leave it,
are you working for paypal guys? you appear to be from UK? by the way I am not nigerean and I do not care about you or the companies in your country, if you want to realy talk about ropping people, then read carefully my story and see how paypal took the money before even getting the fax, then what if really I was ropping someone's card? why did they charge him before getting sure? I was ropped by paypal and didn't get my money back yet.... maybe you cannot think wide.. it is your problem, that is why in your country we always hear such stories, but thanks God we don't have much like those stories from local companies, you even didn't use your mind to look at the flag near my name and your wide imagination lead you to nigeria, cool
for your information, my bank is now handling the case with this stupid paypal company, I respect my bank and I am very happy of their fast reaction against what paypal did, I wont be posting any further details about this topic in this forum cuz it looks like the people here are to fight not to get advices and advice others, you could have read it and either propose me a solution for my problem like someone who did in other forum, or you could just close that page, but you prefer to defend paypal, they probably from your way of defending, you are one of them !
Good luck for the good people..

the reference to nigeria was a joke, the clue was in the monetary amount, for someone so concerned about scams, im surprised youve never heard of the "nigerian 419" scam
google it
btw, i know what country your flag is from, i said as much in my first reply when i politely commented on the fact that many businesses in the world may not trust doing business with people from that country, hence the requests for additional verification of who you are.
the fact that you bank in another country and have no id relating to where you live really makes it of no surprise that they dont want to deal with you.
they charged US$1.95....... not exactly fraud of the century is it?

after sending one item paypal says..international shipment
We are sorry for the delay in transferring the money that was paid by Katrina Baral into your PayPal account. We hereby inform you that the money that we are ordered to transfer into your PayPal account (€180.00 EUR) is too Small for us to transfer into your PayPal account due to International Transfer Limit from our PayPal Transfer Department Unit and the new Policy of our PayPal. So the real amount that can reach your account from our PayPal Transfer Desk start from €400.00 EUR upward. we contacted Katrina Baral about this situation to make an additional payment of €220.00 EUR into your PayPal account.
We are happy to tell you that Katrina Baral have made an additional payment of €220.00 EUR into your PayPal account which is already deducted from the buyer account. It's already confirmed and approved by us which means the total amount of €400.00 EUR is approved and it is ready to be credited into your PayPal account TODAY. So we think we can sort the problem out by you sending the Excess Fund. Katrina Baral ask us to tell you to help him send the excess fund of €200.00 EUR to his daughter and use the extra €20.00 EUR for the western union charges and for your transportation.
You are advised now to go to any western union Outlet/Office and send the excess fund of €200.00 EUR to his daughter and get back to us with the western union details so we can verify and get your account credited without any further delay.

Yackie Mobile

Hey everyone. I normally don’t post things like this but I wanted to get the word out about problems with Yackie Mobile. I have seen a few people on the boards say they were going to be trying them. I did and am not very happy. The product looks great on the website but it ends there. I placed an order for there most expensive SIM Card. The transaction cleared my credit card account and I waited a week to get a shipping confirmation which never arrived. I called them on the “Customer Service” phone number which is answered by a guy who tells you to email the support department. All I wanted to know is when they were going to ship my SIM to me. He told me at this point they have had many delays in getting SIM cards and could not give me a shipping date. I am very frustrated because customer service won’t help with a refund and support doesn’t reply to their email requests.
He assured me that in the future things like this wont happen because changes are being made. That really doesn’t help me now.
I have since called my credit card fraud department and they have reversed the charge. I know you can’t judge a company by one customer’s experience. I just wanted to give everyone a heads up. If you are thinking about ordering from them you may want to call and talk to customer service and make your own informed decision.
Thanks and I hope this helps International travelers with there SIM card decisions. I did get another brand and am very happy.

You don't give your location. Here in the UK, it is very frowned upon (though not actually illegal) to charge your card account before shipping goods.
Also in the UK, if something is "Yackie" - it means it has a bad taste. I would avoid this like the plague.

Yackie
Update.. Email I got this morning.
Good Morning Mr. Brown,
Let me apologize in advance to you for the inconvenience caused by our shipping delay. Unfortunately at this time, since the order has already been process in the system I can’t refund your Credit Card. I have received the notice for cancellation, and soon as we are able to do the cancellation, we will process your request for cancellation. Again we do apologize. If we have any further question, please do not hesitate to contact us at [email protected].
YackieSupport

TheBrit said:
Also in the UK, if something is "Yackie" - it means it has a bad taste. I would avoid this like the plague.
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Surely you mean "yuckie", "yukky", or "yucky" agree with everything else btw.

kevino said:
TheBrit said:
Also in the UK, if something is "Yackie" - it means it has a bad taste. I would avoid this like the plague.
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Surely you mean "yuckie", "yukky", or "yucky" agree with everything else btw.
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Where I'm from, oop North, in Yorkshire the word is Yacky. :wink:

stay away from fastgsm.com

I paid my $20 via paypal. Their automated system happily accepted my payment then promply complained that my (paypal verified) email had not been verified and that I should follow instructions in the email they had sent.
I never received any such email. Not in regular, junk, spamassassin folders. This is my 100% reliable email address that never loses an email. I promply filed a complaint with paypal. Next day their response was that I did not respond to the email (that I never got) so they activated it manually but I have already lost confidence and want my money back. So far they have refused to offer me a refund so I am continuing to fight it on paypal.
My advice is to stay away!

Hi,
1. we do use Google Premium (Paid) services to send out the emails. It is most reliable service in the market.
2. You can any time ask for verification via separate email.
3. We never refuse to make refund if credit not used
Your situation mostly happens when you use stolen PayPal and can not control PayPal primary email. Or maybe you are competitor who try to damage reputation - you have 2 posts only so you do not have any reputation.
Mike
FastGSM

when I tried to connect my phone and unlock it, I get the error
that my account does not have enough credit even though I have paid for it
already . Please help.

thats just harsh thanks for the tip ill b sure to stay away

i'll also wait for a day, if they don't reply, I'll raise a PayPal claim too.

I like the competitor trying to damage reputation assumption. Real professional.
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i have the same problem..
I habe write a email to fastgsm but ntohing comes back..
now i muss complain my paypal acc too.
sorry.. i'm german.. my english is terrible..

Um.. just curious - isn't that something that can be done by yourself without having to contact a site like this?
Not bashing the site or anything but was just curious.

avgjoegeek said:
Um.. just curious - isn't that something that can be done by yourself without having to contact a site like this?
Not bashing the site or anything but was just curious.
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i dunno but its funny the CS guy pwned op in 2nd post

FastGSM said:
Hi,
1. we do use Google Premium (Paid) services to send out the emails. It is most reliable service in the market.
2. You can any time ask for verification via separate email.
3. We never refuse to make refund if credit not used
Your situation mostly happens when you use stolen PayPal and can not control PayPal primary email. Or maybe you are competitor who try to damage reputation - you have 2 posts only so you do not have any reputation.
Mike
FastGSM
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Awesome English dude, you Chinese?
Sent from God, who uses OMGB-5.

Hello, FastGSM crew is 100% trustable. They make unique solutions on the market (many many world firsts) and for many models only they can unlock them (specially usa/canada and latin/central america models). They helped to a lot of users there to unlock their phones including me - Me personally did unlocked around 25 phones with them.

Smokeey said:
Awesome English dude, you Chinese?
Sent from God, who uses OMGB-5.
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guess so.. Wah Wai Electronics or something similar is their paypal name.

To unlock your phone, call your provider customer service and say politely "I would like to have my phone unlocked. Can you please provide me the code?" and viola - you have your code in the mail in about 3-7 days. Even if you are on the contract, they will get it to you in anyway. Use google people.
PS: I unlocked my Nokia while being on the contract, on the 5th month

FastGSM said:
you have 2 posts only so you do not have any reputation.
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From someone who's got 1 post

Beware! fastgsm scam!
They suspended my account immediately after I purchase $20 credit. It’s been almost a week and multiple attempt to contact them and all I got is automated reply.

Why is my Google Credit payment method declined?

I was trying to purchase game. Cytus to be exact. It's a cool music game and I wanted the full version for lyk $2. Now here's my problem. I have to use my debit/credit card to purchase it. My Google Play Credit has been declined. Or at least that's what it says when I try to purchase the game. It's just this game I'm seeing it with too.
I'm guessing the developer has blocked that payment method. If this is true, then what's the point of Google Play Cards if developers can block that form of payment?
Granted, I'll buy the game later this week. It's just it was bill paying week for me last week, so this college kid don't have an extra $2. That's lunch money. LoL!!
But that's all. I want to know why a developer would block Google Credit as a form of payment... Should I upload a picture?

Here's an image of my Google Credit being declined. If this is possible, then this will render Google Play Cards useless.
Thing's I've checked:
1) Made sure it was under my primary email address since I have multiple email addresses
2)Checked to see if it was the credit itself, but I can use my Google Credit to purchase other apps.

Bump. I am running into the exact same issue. I can't figure out for the life of me why it has crapped out.

The OP already stated why it was happening. Developers on the Play Store have the option to decline certain types of payments - one of which is the Google Credits. I guess there must be a reason for it - maybe a Google Credit isn't actually worth a full Dollar to the developer due to transaction fees or something?

No_Nickname90 said:
I'm guessing the developer has blocked that payment method. If this is true, then what's the point of Google Play Cards if developers can block that form of payment?
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SimonTS said:
The OP already stated why it was happening. Developers on the Play Store have the option to decline certain types of payments - one of which is the Google Credits.
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At no point did the OP definitively state why it was happening. He/she merely guessed at why it is happening. I'm trying to find if there's an actual reason so we can see if it can be solved or not.
Anyways, a guy on reddit was talking about his app and I was trying to buy it. Ran into the same error message. I asked him if he knew why it was happening and this is his response:
"Thanks for the feedback, as far as I read it's because Google just support multiple currencies for developers based in some countries, it doesn't support for my country yet, that makes impossible to people pay with carriers and with gift cards ... Hope they fix it soon !"
So maybe this only happens when the app's dev team is based out of certain countries that Google hasn't established all of its services/support yet. I looked the dev up on Facebook and he's in Barcelona, Spain, FWIW. It's still a guess but hey at least we have some more info.

GWallet account HARDCLOSED for BTC trading w/ a friend. Tap/Pay +app buy options?

10 Yr old acct here, and most of the necessary text is in the title... I own EVERYTHING google and this is completely heartbreaking. Tablets, an entire family with Nexus's, Chromecast, glass etc.
Trying to let this affect my life as little as possible. Bought my 360 via Moto, but I seem to be locked out of Nexus Device purchases via play, app purchases, RMA warranty options via account holds, and Tap and Pay via NFC.
Never suffered a chargeback or a problem, and I know the guy that I transacted with regularly... Google sent vague "business transactions may violate TOS" emails once or twice, but I replied that I knew the person on the other end and called in to verify that everything was Google to go.
Then one day it was locked.
They've even OK'd business transactions now (New TOS), but conversely banned digital things since june, so the issue flipped from one problem to another..
Advice on alts, and any future prospect of sorting things out?
Thanks!

Sounds like an issue between you and them .... Not sure what anyone here can do for you?
Rules is rules usually. Break them and the hammer falls.

KJ said:
Sounds like an issue between you and them .... Not sure what anyone here can do for you?
Rules is rules usually. Break them and the hammer falls.
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Wondering if, since I can't seem to get anywhere within their departments and a lifetime google ban is INSANE as an outcome, if there are any other NFC tap and pay options to use in stores, or advice on buying apps. Thanks/

FishFan319 said:
Wondering if, since I can't seem to get anywhere within their departments and a lifetime google ban is INSANE as an outcome, if there are any other NFC tap and pay options to use in stores, or advice on buying apps. Thanks/
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If you got a life time ban I think you're on your own
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