

Is it their fault your buyer is unhappy and wants their money back? Again, I would argue that it is not, and that sellers should take action to stop these refunds. PayPal has provided their service to you when you process the payment on their platform, and you paid your fee for this. If you are getting a lot of refund requests after deliving your product or service, I would suggest that you need to look at your own procedures and figure out why buyers are not happy with what you delivered them. If this sort of thing is happening, that’s called fraud, and there are other procedures in place to deal with that besides simply refunding the orders and expecting the payment processor to cover it.

This would also eliminate any possibility that competition or internet trolls could try to submit a bunch of orders so that you have to pay a bunch of fees. As such, if the buyer cancels the order before the product or service is shipped / provided, you can simply void the transaction, and no fee would have been charged, so there is no fee that needs to be refunded. The payment fee of 2.9% is not charged for an Authorization. This is the point at which the transaction is actually processed, and the money is moved from the buyer to the seller account.

You could have used cash or check, mailed envelopes and purchased stamps, waited on time in the mail, deposit check at the bank and wait on it to clear. Then, when your buyer wanted a refund for one reason or another, they processed that refund for you quickly, easily, and securely. They provided their service for you to process the order payment quickly, easily, and securely. Really? How exactly is this, I would ask.? You did use PayPal’s service exactly as advertised, right? Others are claiming that PayPal is just being greedy. Many are making claims that PayPal is stealing their money by keeping fees when they process refunds.
