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When you become as big as PayPal as quickly as they did, trouble is guaranteed to follow. This will be due both to growing pains as well as becoming a target for snipers. In the case of PayPal, trouble and controversy have been dogging them virtually since the beginning. Aside from ongoing and never-ending controversies over frozen accounts and whether they do business with legal or ethical businesses, there have been a number of more substantial concerns over their security and dispute policies.
One prominent case involved 150,000 cardholders in Spain having their accounts temporarily frozen in 2015 due to an apparently fraudulent unauthorized $15 PayPal charge being made to each of them. That amounts to a theft of $2.5 million, a matter that took PayPal months to resolve.
Additional controversies have arisen over the years over PayPal’s acceptance and/or blocking of payments to porn and gambling sites and fundraising sites for human rights activists and accused criminals (who may be the same people in certain circumstances).
If you are experiencing a dispute over a product or service that you purchased, the good news is that a dispute resolution service is in fact available through PayPal. A number of limitations and caveats do apply, however. So make sure you follow the fine print to ensure your case qualifies.
First of all, only commercial purchases can be disputed. Personal payments sent as “Family and Friends” do not qualify for any sort of formal resolution. So if you’re having an argument with someone you know over money you sent them not for specific goods or services, you’ll have to work it out amongst yourselves.
Speaking about working it out amongst yourselves, even if your dispute is for a commercial transaction, PayPal strongly recommends contacting the merchant privately to attempt to settle it amicably before escalating to official channels. This is good life skills advice in any case; if you can settle matters without involving the authorities, it will generally be a happier, smoother, and less costly situation for all involved. Consider collision insurance claims as an example of this principle.
In order to inform your merchant of the dispute and make your attempt to work it out, you should go into your PayPal account and find the “Resolution Center.” Please note that due to an idiosyncratic rule of theirs, you won’t be able to accomplish this task from PayPal’s mobile app; rather, you will need to log in from a web browser.Furthermore, you will need to pay attention to timeframes. Primarily, you have 180 days from the payment in order to open a dispute with the Resolution Center.
Venmo is a subsidiary of PayPal, and among the most popular mobile payment services in the world, though it is currently only available in the United States. Originally conceived as a peer-to-peer digital cash transfer service, refunds and disputes were not possible.
In 2016, Venmo began offering its platform for consumer purchases, making dispute resolution a necessary service. It remains surprisingly primitive, however. If you are in the midst of a Venmo commercial payment dispute (as with PayPal, non-commercial money transfers are ineligible for refunds), you are instructed to contact the merchant on your own to attempt to resolve it.
In the event you are unsuccessful, you need to send Venmo an email at support@venmo.com detailing the nature of your dissatisfaction and they promise to look into it. They do not, however, promise any sort of solution. Again, the primitiveness is amazing for such an advanced system and such a big corporation.
