well,

i need to know if i am covered by paypal for buying non ebay goods, because im about to buy a punto bonnet off some totaly random person who emailed me saying they have one (i advertised on ebay saying- WANTED SILVER PUNTO BONNET- EMAIL- bla bla IF YOU HAVE ONE), and i dont want to lose the money im spending on it as they could just be some fraudster? thanks.

Have a read at this;

https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=p/gen/pbp-info-outside

uno_94 said:

well,

i need to know if i am covered by paypal for buying non ebay goods, because im about to buy a punto bonnet off some totaly random person who emailed me saying they have one (i advertised on ebay saying- WANTED SILVER PUNTO BONNET- EMAIL- bla bla IF YOU HAVE ONE), and i dont want to lose the money im spending on it as they could just be some fraudster? thanks.

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get them to put it on ebay and buy it that way,then you are covered

I wouldnt say you were covered as they are not for sale on ebay.

I bought some imprezza STI rear seats off a seller on ebay and i am currently in the process of purchasing the fronts, but we are not using ebay.

We are in daily contact via email and phone.

So i would say paypal does not cover this and i recommend you have a contact number of the seller of the bonnet

dont follow any links he gives you to paypal though, just got to paypal yourself and put his details in the send money form

the person seems quite nice, so she should be ok, she had the paint code for the bonnet, so she must have the car? hopefully anyway.

I done this very same thing this morning. I had bought some stuff off a guy on ebay who turned out to be a really nice guy. Been chatting with him every day since. Turns out he has more stuff that is not listed on ebay and is having some specially made for me. So I took the plunge and sent him the money today. But then because I know him as an ebay seller, if there was a problem I could use ebay to get his details etc.

But he's honest and it's nice to trust people, Stilosporting will tell you that too

I don't worry about doing this aslong as you can use your judgement.

ive sent money like this a few times and mainly with xbox mods had people send me cash off ebay.the biggest was over £500!.personally i would not have sent this sort of cash to someone else but luckily im an honest type of guy so they got a specced up xbox

u can only recover funds tht are in the paypal account
if you send the money and they withdraw it i dont think you can do nowt
sorry if its been mentioned earlier i been out on **** and cba to read full thread
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