Originally Posted by The_Jazz

Go read The Consumerist: Shoppers Bite Back to get some horror stories about PayPal. Just search by the name. There are better, more secure, less biased escrow sites out there.

Originally Posted by MSD

There are two types of people who use PayPal: Those who have been thoroughly fucked by them, and those who will keep saying "well I've never had any problems with them" until they get fucked. Do whatever you can to keep yourself in that second group for as long as possible, then hope that when you do get fucked, it's a small transaction.