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PayPal Reviews Summary

The overall reputation of the company reflects significant customer dissatisfaction, particularly regarding its customer service and support. Many reviews highlight frustrations with delayed transactions, ineffective resolution of disputes, and a lack of proactive communication. Customers frequently report feeling unsupported in cases of fraud or issues with received goods. However, some positive sentiments emerge, particularly regarding the perceived reliability of PayPal as a payment method for certain transactions, which customers associate with enhanced buyer protection. Despite this, the overwhelming trend indicates a critical need for improvement in customer service responsiveness and dispute resolution processes.

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service
625
value
568
shipping
244
returns
284
quality
533

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Latvia
2 reviews
0 helpful votes
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Bad service
May 14, 2023

Completely useless. Their buyer protection policy is total crap and allows sellers to get away with conning hard working people.

Date of experience: May 14, 2023
Portugal
1 review
0 helpful votes
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PAY PAL LOCKED ME OUT OF MY ACCOUNT FOR NO VALID REASON, PRETENDING I WASN'T THE REAL USER OF MY OWN ACCOUNT. THEIR CUSTOMER SERVICE IS LOUSY EVEN NON EXISTENT. AS SOON AS YOU TRAVEL, PAYPAL LOCKS YOU OUT BECAUSE THEY AREN'T ABLE TO VERIFY YOU. IF ANYTHING CHANGES SUCH AS YOU CELL PHONE NUMBER, PAY PAL IS UNABLE TO VERIFY YOU ANY OTHER WAY. I BOYCOTT PAYPAL AND INVITE PEOPLE TO DO THE SAME.

Date of experience: May 14, 2023
Texas
2 reviews
2 helpful votes
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Solid company that I've worked with handling my transactions for over a decade. Customer service is exceptional.

Date of experience: May 13, 2023
Maryland
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Had to use theirs Fraud protection but, woah boy, what a joke. Fought with them for over three weeks and invariably will never do business with them again. They even refused to close my account or release my bank carda This I believe is racketeering.

Date of experience: May 12, 2023
Texas
1 review
0 helpful votes
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I had 6 debit and credit cards stolen through this app. This is a completely untrustworthy app. Please delete it.

Date of experience: May 12, 2023
GB
2 reviews
5 helpful votes
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Absolutely disgusting, disgusting, disgusting, service... avoid at any cost... thieves! Must be shut down! And burned ro the ground!

Date of experience: May 8, 2023
Florida
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Never use pay pal! They don't protect you like they say they do. I ordered something online & after I ordered it I realized it was a scam. I try to cancel the transfer of money. But they wouldn't do it. They let it go through instead. Now I'm out the money & never received the item I ordered. Pay pal helps the scammers scam our money. Don't use them. They are big fraud! Someone needs to do something about them! They are definitely not on our side! They are on the scammers side!

Date of experience: May 4, 2023
Nigeria
1 review
0 helpful votes
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It's not quite bad, not that easy to navigate, good for making payment and buying stuff online, have a lot of features.

Date of experience: May 3, 2023
Louisiana
1 review
0 helpful votes
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They randomly cancel accounts saying after their review they have decided to terminate business with you. But when you contact them to find out the issue to resolve there is no explanation and they say they just made the decision. Even though you are never late with payments.

Date of experience: May 1, 2023
GB
1 review
0 helpful votes
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I had several thousand dollars transferred to PayPal. I tried to withdraw the amount into my bank account however their security system blocked the transfer. There was no explanation from Paypal. After spending several hours over SEVERAL DAYS on chat and phone with their customer service dept, they informed me that the block was due to me logging in from overseas (EU FFS!) and that there was nothing that they could do to override the security block. Perhaps CEO Dan Schulman, CFO Gabrielle Rabinovitch or Sri Shivananda could do something, but why would they bother? They are likely responsible for implementing Paypal's INSANE security system. No other financial company / bank operates with such draconian protocols that humans cannot override. If you value your sanity then NEVER USE PAYPAL! APPALLING COMPANY! P.S. This problem for me is still ongoing...

Date of experience: April 26, 2023
Canada
1 review
0 helpful votes
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1. Pp agents give customers the wrong instructions, 2. They refuse to compensate customers for the consequences of their instructions, 3. They hold your data hostage, you literally can't close your account until you tell the BBB that you're a satisfied customer/happy camper, 4. Insulting treatment

Date of experience: April 25, 2023
New York
1 review
1 helpful vote
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Horrible experiences
April 25, 2023

My new business, DoGoodUnited.com, has added PayPal as a payment option for items on our website. They've been withholding our money for weeks, demanding more and more answers to ridiculous questions. It's a waste of time to deal with and harmful to every business. We will stop working with them. I was ripped off as a customer, now I was ripped off as a business partner too. Horrible experience!

Date of experience: April 24, 2023
Oregon
2 reviews
0 helpful votes
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PayPal allows their sellers to change the software to automatically place an order as soon as you click on "review order". This is illegal. Paypal should be sued for it. It is legally an unauthorized transaction and PayPal will do nothing to back you on it.

Date of experience: April 21, 2023
Pennsylvania
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Unauthorized purchase
April 19, 2023

Contact PayPal withdraw on my account they say unauthorized open case check in case closed no $ back

Date of experience: April 19, 2023
California
2 reviews
1 helpful vote
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BBB Complaint against PayPal
April 18, 2023

I want to thank Adam M. In PayPal Business Litigation. As a 23 year customer I know that sometimes a situation may arise, and it is greatly appreciated when someone like Adam steps in and resolves the matter.

Date of experience: April 18, 2023
Greece
1 review
7 helpful votes
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They protect Chinese scammers
April 18, 2023

I used PayPal a lot, and I thought it was a protective mechanism working ok. In the past they helped me sometimes. But when I had a big argument (more than 300$) with a company that was a complete scam and I wanted to return many of the items, they clearly took sides with the Chinese (false presentation of goods, the clothes look like plastic bags…) and didn't helped me at all. Finally, customers are not protected, online buying is a chaos. Double and triple check before buying.

+4
Date of experience: April 18, 2023
Massachusetts
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Annoyed
April 17, 2023

Terrible customer service, called multiple times, waiting for my insurance claim payment from GEICO to be released. Everytime I call I get "oh yeah I see what's happening___ insert new bs excuse, please give us until tomorrow to resolve this thank you"

Date of experience: April 17, 2023
Australia
1 review
9 helpful votes
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Don't believe they will refund you when you get ripped off by retailers. They won't. Their whole dispute and appeal process is a sham. Please find another way to pay for goods on line. They don't live up to their hype. Not even worth one star. How much proof do they need?

Date of experience: April 16, 2023
Arizona
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Address issues
April 15, 2023

They have the wrong address for me, it was an address that was over 2 years old. Numerous phone calls and chats before they admitted their mistake. Out $46 due to their error, merchant is ignoring me as well. Another merchant never shipped the order, that was $ 46. I can get a voucher for my trouble. F that. I no longer have PayPal.

Date of experience: April 14, 2023
New Jersey
3 reviews
15 helpful votes
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I have used Paypal for many years on my active online website, but no more. Paypal has become an enabler of scam buyers and refund blatant scammers even when tracking proves otherwise. It is honestly shameful. I removed the Paypal button from my site and no longer purchase with Paypal either. They have become a terrible company and abuse sellers. I have taken my business elsewhere. There are plenty of other options nowadays and Paypal did it to themselves. Good riddance!

Date of experience: April 13, 2023