Paypal have found in my favour and refunded me for an item that has now arrived. What should I do?

Question

I bought an item for £215.
I started a dispute with ebay and the seller finally sent me the item.
I forgot to terminate (close) the dispute and Paypal have found in my favour. I have been refunded £150 so far. What happens now? Can I keep this money or will Paypal start some sort of recovery process against me? Is it just bad luck for the seller or can I be forced to give back the money?

I presume the seller has proof of postage. Has anybody else been in this position before?

Answer 1

You have the item and if you are going to keep the item you need to pay for the item.

Answer 2

Do you still want the item? I would log into paypal, and send them the money you have been refunded back.

Your seller won't have proof you recieved the item unless they sent it "recorded signed for" or "Special Delivery" or used a courier. Proof of postage is not proof of delivery. But I'm sure that's not the point.

Go to www.paypal.co.uk and click on send money. As a recent payee you should easily be able to select your seller.

I know it seems tempting sometimes to teach bad sellers a lesson, but £150-£215 seems to me to be too much of a lesson.

Answer 3

As other users have said, the decent thing is to return the money.

As far as the law is concerned it is theft. The relevant case is Attorney General's Reference No. 1 of 1983 [1985] 1 QB 182. In that case an employee received an extra £74 in her pay by mistake. On discovering the mistake the employee failed to give the money back. The Court of Appeal confirmed that this was an offence contrary to section 1(1) of the Theft Act 1968.

Answer 4

Do the right thing and pay the money to the seller. He may have had a non-performing seller strike, but i would think that would be he last of his worries, when you make the offer of paying him the money.

Get his email address and pay him via paypal that way.

Answer 5

yeah had same thing, disputed something got refund and item turned up, i did the honest thing though and told the seller and they sent me an invoice/money request for the amount through paypal and i paid them their money!!

and yes paypal can take it back. they have the right to. give it back before your disputed against.

Answer 6

Honest, mate. You've now got the item. Hence legal title will pass to you ONCE payment has been recieved by the seller and not before.

Send the item back or repay the cash.

Answer 7

send it back or you are going to get the seller banned from ebay and that isn't fair, so do the good thing and tell paypal that you have received the item.

Merry Christmas

Answer 8

If the business enterprise wont tell you who he despatched the object with there's a minor alarm going off. deliver the business enterprise and email advising you % the monitoring id and the call of the courier if not the Royal Mail. in the event that they're unable/unwilling to grant those then log a dispute with eBay and enable them to chase it, they're charging expenditures for their website and repair. i propose doing it with PayPal too, although their investigators have been highlighted on various shopper watchdog programmes as ineffective. undergo in techniques, on the top of this you could depart adverse comments and there is little they could do approximately it, verify the business enterprise isn't pulling a speedy one with others. good luck

Answer 9

common sense is to give the money to the seller and inform Paypal that the item has arrived and you are returning the money awarded you.

Answer 10

Hmmmm if you are happy with the item now you finally have it, common decency says you ought to refuse the refunded payment really.

However, if the seller has been a totally evil git ........... naw, send it back! Be a nice HONEST person - it IS christmas!

Answer 11

You have your item, now do the right thing and pay the seller for it. You don't want to get bad feedback.