Need some help with paypal...

How do you make people agree to a paypal agreement which stops them from reversing the payments. You have to make the sale 'seller illegible' or something. Thanks for any help in advance.

Seb

If the item being sold is a physical item, you're protected as long as you leave a return address and can provide tracking information in the case of a payment reversal. If you're selling non-tangible goods like services or digital goods, there isn't a sure-fire way of protecting yourself. It really depends on the situation; if it's a domain sale, then you're more likely to win the Paypal dispute as your registrar will have records of your ownership plus you probably have some sort of agreement or contract made out with the other party. From my own experience, Paypal does not do much to protect sellers of digital goods and services.

It's ok...you just need to be a verified/business member.

Well, someone's funding source for his verified Paypal account could be a credit card. You, as the seller, won't know this unless he/she files a chargeback and even then it might be too late.

Withdrawing the money out of your Paypal account sounds like a plausible way to protect yourself but Paypal can still deduct the amount from your balance, leaving you with a negative total. It's happened to me before - not a pleasant experience.

What i have is 2 paypal accounts, one to accept the funds and one to send it to for that is not possible to be done, and sometimes yes you get negatie due to that, but sometimes its not that bad.

I have been charged back for many $100s. There is a way where they actually cannot chargeback to you...how do you think sites like sitepoint and godaddy don't get chargebacks

Hmm still need to know this.

here is an idea which I am going to start putting into practice:

If your selling webhosting, you simply dont send the info to their email but you send it by post (recorded delivery) so you have a tracking number.

If your selling designs and websites then you put the skin onto a cd (less than 1 pound each to buy, not much) and send the cd to their address again by using a (recorded delivery) so you have a tracking number.

You could perhaps give them the info by email if you wanted too but I suggest you still post the info to them, this way you have proof of delivery and acceptance, hence they cannot win a chargeback, unless they try lying.

What if the recipient lives in a completely different country, then sending a CD is not so easy, hope there really is a way to prevent charge backs like Seb has said.