Help, I have been scammed & lost everything. *stressed*

superfran_uk

Needs more info... If you want help you're going to have to be honest about what you bought.

peter_the_piper

Elance seem to be an online freelance work site, unless they are doing a dissertation for the OP I can't see anything tangible there. Could be another site of same name not on google possibly.

zerog

To be honest I'm struggling to understand how or why a student would buy $3000 worth of cookers from the US via Skype...

JimmyTheWig

Why are people saying the OP bought cookers?

zerog

JimmyTheWig wrote: »

Why are people saying the OP bought cookers?

Because this.

cloud360 wrote: »

mini cookers which fall under consumer electronics (physical goods), but sellers said to paypal i paid them for a service to increase traffic on a website that i dont even have.

I lost claim and paypal sided with seller because they say they dont cover non physical goods

JimmyTheWig

Ah, I see. A different thread. Thanks.

ballisticbrian

And paypal think i paid for non physical goods when I
didnt.

Why don't you just get onto paypal and explain the situation. It would be a bit of a stupid system if anyone could click that the buyer paid for non physical goods when they didn't.

gb12345

peter_the_piper wrote: »

Elance seem to be an online freelance work site, unless they are doing a dissertation for the OP I can't see anything tangible there. Could be another site of same name not on google possibly.

Elance is a freelance site and they have an escrow service for people to pay for the services they receive.

It would appear to me that the OP has either advertied on the site for the goods or somehow got in conversation through the site with someone who claims to be able to supply the goods.

The OP then appears to have gone offsite (which probably breaks elance's T&Cs) to conclude the deal.

The OP has also posted the same thread in Credit Cards.

I would say that he is basically stuffed - the "seller" has made out that he has purchased a service, so PayPal won't refund as it is an intangible item. He's obviously been unfortunate enough to be scammed by someone who knows the way PayPal works and used it to his advantage.

spacey2012

Best advice I am going to give you is to ask an Adult who is a bit older and wiser to help you approve any future transactions.

EKEA

So to clarify:

You purchased "mini cookers".
You paid "for goods and services" through PayPal to the sellers business account.
The seller claims you paid for SEO services.

Do you have invoices for the "mini cookers"?
Apart from the chat logs, is there anything else that points to the sale of goods like a website?

When you pay for "goods and services" you usually have to type in some more info, what did you write?

Next time, get the guy to list it up on eBay, sent you the item URL, then you can buy it straight away. It's unlikely in those 30 seconds anyone else will find it on ebay, but then you are both protected by their rules.