PayPal
PayPal Overview
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PayPal has 1.8 star rating based on 4054 customer reviews. Consumers are mostly dissatisfied.
29% of users would likely recommend PayPal to a friend or colleague.
- Rating Distribution
Pros: Easy to use, No pros, No pros for now.
Cons: Poor customer service, Customer service, Fraudulent activity.
The aggregated data is based on reviews and questionnaires provided by PissedConsumer.com users.
PayPal has 1.8 star rating based on 4054 customer reviews. Consumers are mostly dissatisfied.
29% of users would likely recommend PayPal to a friend or colleague.
- Rating Distribution
Pros: Easy to use, No pros, No pros for now.
Cons: Poor customer service, Customer service, Fraudulent activity.33% of users think that PayPal should improve its Customer Service.
46% of users say that they won't use PayPal in the future for similar services or products.Recent recommendations regarding this business are as follows: "Boycot PayPal at any cost. They don’t have the best interest of the consumer.", "Don’t use PayPal they’re part of the scammers too", "Don’t buy eBay Chinese", "Don't trust them. Lots of complains online.", "Don’t use paypal".
Most users ask PayPal for the refund as a solution to their issues.
Consumers are not pleased with Customer service and Reliability. The price level of this organization is high according to consumer reviews.
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Verified ReviewerPayPal won’t refund timely when fraud occurs on their platform.
Fraudulent businesses use their platform, and PayPal fails to address concerns timely. PayPal owes me $2,623, and they are dragging their feet to pay it.
They continue to reward fraudulent behavior.
I have avoided PayPal for years, and this is a prime reason. Never do business through PayPal.
- Horrible customer service and policies
Preferred solution: Full refund
User's recommendation: Boycot PayPal at any cost. They don’t have the best interest of the consumer.
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Verified ReviewerResolved: I give them a 2 because there's some cool things that they make much easier. 2 months ago 8 would have given them a 4 - 41/2....
Noticed I have an the screen shots of the advertisement, receipt, and same tracking info!
I can't get my money back and more it's to the point I call eveny day.
Im told I'll get it Saturday and they Saturday they'r say the date is moved up. This has happened 4 x now!
The worst part is the man that claimed to be overstock, he advertised on Google as overstock.Com I got a receipt from overstock. Com that looked exactly like previous orders I had with them. This man who loves in China who I found in minutes after realizing this was a person portraying himself as overstock to rip people offf her is still able to do this using pay pal as the financial institution the money goes thru for him to receive it.
I sent pay pal all the fake paperwork he sent me and his fake advertisement and they still will now get it give me my money back. At first they said they would take it out of his account then if he's over drawn to give me my money. Now they just ever me around Everytime I call. What did I purchase it ask?
A 50 INCH SMART TV WITH ALEXA. NOW I'VE BOUGHT RUGS FROM OVERSTOCK. COM SO I DIDN'T HESITATE. WHEN I DIDN'T GET TRACKING INFO I CALLED OVERSTOCK READ MY OTHER NUMBER FROM THE RECEIPT HE HAVE ME AND THERE'S NO SUCH ORDER.
I offered PayPal the name phone number in China, his personal email and they don't take that info from me and still aren't done investigating? I'm the USA THIS IS CALLED FRAUD. ALSO MISREPRESENTING YOURSELF FOR FINANCIAL GAIN IS A FELONY! AND THEY ARE MEETING HIM GET AWAY WITH THIS.
I HOW HE'S NOT TAKING OTHER PEOPLE'S MONEY. I'M SURE HE FOR MANY OF US. IT WAS PERFECT LOOKED JUST LIKE OVERSTOCK. OF OM.
AREN'T I INSURED FOR THIS?
$250,000 INSURANCE ON MY MONEY.
EXCUSE AFTER EXCUSE
ISN'T THIS NICE OF PAY PAL? SO I'M out THE MONEY AND MY TV!
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Verified Reviewer |Resolved: Login problem
Buna ziua, nu mă pot loga în contul meu PayPal. Am încercat să resetez parola, dar din păcate nu mai știu detaliile de la întrebările de siguranță!
Într-un final, am reușit să schimb parola, dar tot nu mă pot loga.
Vă rog să îmi dați accesul la cont și să îmi eliberați fondurile în contul bancar de la SaltBank! Vă rog să îmi restituiți fondurile!
Preferred solution: Full refund
User's recommendation: Restituirea de Fonduri Durează foarte mult !
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Verified ReviewerResolved: According to pay-pal is saying that I purchase something from a company called Grand chill for 87.45 even though the tracking shows that it was deliver in some town in Tennese
my card bank is taking care now. my card bank hold the payment and is going to investigate, something that pay pal did not do.
Paypal denies my claim even though I showed them where the package went to Morriston, TL. I did not buy anything from them, but according to Paypal, I did.
- It just to be very convenient using it
- Never thought that they were going to behave this way
Preferred solution: Full refund
User's recommendation: don't use paypal
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Verified Reviewer |Mi-a fost spart contul
Am avut contul înregistrat cu email vladimirdraghia7@***.com, după care am adăugat adresa de email belabele056@***.com și numărul meu de telefon 072642****. Cineva mi-a spart contul, a adăugat un alt număr de telefon și această adresă rosuflorentina824@***.com. Doresc recuperarea contului.
Preferred solution: Să recuperez contul că mi-a fost furat /spart
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Verified Reviewer |Withholding Refund after receiving from vendor
On 09/30, PayPal closed a dispute I had filed, and the vendor issued a refund. I received an email from PayPal saying that my refund will take 5 business days to post.
It's been 9 business days and 13 days since the dispute was resolved, and SHEIN, who I made the purchase through, refunded me for the purchase, and I am still yet to receive my money. Whenever I call, I get put on hold and then later get hung up on.
I have been transferred across several departments over several days with the same thing. I will be gearing up for legal action as this is deceptive and a waste of my time and money, as I have had to continually contact PayPal with no resolution, and nobody seems to want to answer where my money is.
- No pros at this point
- Terrible customer service
Preferred solution: Full refund
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Verified ReviewerWon't help me at all
So I went and looked at a small building and decided to buy it. The deal was I paid 300 that day; it would be at my place the next.
I did this, and the person selling me the building never showed up and stopped answering the phone or door for me. Then I found out it wasn't his building to sell. Almost 2 months have gone by, and I have received no help at all from Cash App or PayPal. The money was pulled from my PayPal to someone else's Cash App to make the payment.
So why isn't this getting fixed?
All I did was purchase this thing, and he gets my money and scot free. *** that, help me.
- Scams aloud
Preferred solution: Full refund
User's recommendation: Don't use PayPal or cashapp
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Verified Reviewer |İnjustice done to me
The email address I'm currently writing to has been used by a profile with an Indonesian number and address, and an unintended action has been taken. The email I received states that the account is at PayPal.me/fatihemreyildirim.
Currently, PayPal is not available in our country, and it is impossible for me to become a member.
Please destroy this account; otherwise, I will take legal action. My name, surname, photo, and mail were used by an Indonesian number to create a PayPal account.
- Phishing risk
Preferred solution: To remove this account completely since my mail and name infos were used without consent.
User's recommendation: Stay away yourself to be frauded so and put 2 step verifications for your mail addresses.
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Verified Reviewer |Account issue. Cannot withdraw money
I tried linking up my mustard card several times, but it was declined, and my account can't withdraw money.
Preferred solution: Account withdraw
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Verified ReviewerBad response from PayPal
I purchased two pairs of sandals online from a company called Ellocu Pte. Ltd.
on May 24, 2025, that were supposed to be leather, and they turned out to be entirely made of plastic with a hard band of plastic and some hard material, which was extremely uncomfortable. The soles were also pure plastic, making them rather dangerous to walk on. The total cost for these was $131.05, which included charges that I was not aware of at the time of purchase. I complained to the company I bought them from, who offered me a 40 percent return of the cost.
I started a dispute with PayPal, who were extremely bad with correspondence, and finally, on August 15th, the company said they would refund the whole amount if I sent back the sandals to an address in Singapore. As I assumed the return would be expensive, I got in touch with PayPal and asked them to tell the seller to give me an address in the USA. They did not do that, stating that the goods were to be returned to the address given by the seller.
To say that I am disappointed in PayPal is putting it mildly. They have left the way wide open for these sellers of trash to keep on doing it.
- Easy to buy products
- Extremely difficult to correspond with and bad customer service
Preferred solution: Full refund
User's recommendation: Stay away from Chinese companies, especially this one Ellocu Pte, and be very wary of PayPal as they don't always stand up for the consumer.
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Verified Reviewer |PayPal account
Other.
I need a PayPal account from united state for the withdrawing money from my crazy rock game account to withdraw it to my mobile account Business
Preferred solution: Money
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Verified ReviewerFalse closure of account
PayPal doesn’t care even if you were not the problem to begin with
For the past few months, I've been having PayPal issues, constantly telling me about suspicious activity. I've always followed their protocol, and I barely use the platform—once or twice, probably three times a month.
They ask me to resolve some things, which I did try to clear up, and something was happening to my account that I was unaware of.
After giving info, they still closed my account permanently, without further explanation and review. I found other folks with my situation as well.
- Ok to send transfer
- Any little thing can place acct on limitation
Preferred solution: Get my account back
User's recommendation: Be very careful with PayPal they can still shut you down no matter what
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Verified ReviewerI still have no access to my account
Paypal customer service doesn´t reply in time, or not at all. They have specific hours, and if the customer is not available, they simply don´t care. They don´t answer by email.
I´m still waiting for my issue to be solved. I lost access to my paypal account.
I have the email and the password, but I don´t have my old cell phone number from may years ago, that´s why access to my account is denied. I contacted Paypal support and they always take hours to reply, the messages disappear, and I´m not available in another time. Besides, I really hate talking on the phone!!! And nothing can be verified through the phone, there´s no security at all in those measures, since cell phones are stolen all the time.
Why does support wants so much to talk on the phone? Are they gonna recognize my voice?
I received messages in my email, that I can´t read without accessing my paypal account!! And the problem is precisely that I can´t access my paypal account.
I´ll start petition signed by 100.000 people to expose this and I´ll start a legal action against paypal if my issue isn´t solved soon.
- Dont reply to emails
- Keep our money hostage in the site
- Support doesnt reply in time and messages become unavailable
Preferred solution: Access to my account so I can retrieve all my money and close it
User's recommendation: Don´t trust them. Lots of complains online.
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Verified ReviewerI can't login PayPal in my country
I can't login PayPal in my country I don't know why. Please help me I want to earn money from online for my family and my future.
I can't work because of my not healthy and disease. So please help me
User's recommendation: I'm Row Ess
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Verified ReviewerAccount Locked / Scammer Phone Numbers
Stay away, close your account, and file with CFPB and US Attorney. Scammers are using PayPal credible phone numbers and there's no way for a consumer to report the fraud.
They will block your access to the PayPal account - ridiculous - and state you need to log in to get in touch with them? There are much better options than PayPal (Affirm, Klarna, Afterpay...) who offer stronger product, better service , and security.
I had called it to file a dispute against a vendor and to be refunded $7,000 paid. I don't know who I spoke with but I wasn't even allowed to access the report when the alleged vendor responded.
This has lead me to file a criminal complaint. I don't know who he knows that works for PayPal but it is clear inappropriate and unlawful use of company database was used to retailate against a customer.
- Do not warn or inform customers about datahacks
- Hard to access customer service or find a valid customer service number
- No way to report or file complaint easily
Preferred solution: Full refund
User's recommendation: Get your personal information & business elsewhere
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Verified Reviewer |Unfairly limited account
On the 3rd of August I received funds from an account I've received funds from before for the amount of $300. It was a personal transaction 34K250038****092V.
Upon receiving this transaction, my account was temporarily limited, stating I had to verify my identity and address. As I was uploading my documents, they permanently limited it with no notification before my documents could even upload. I reached out to support and got a lot of bots with the same generic automated response. In the event I actually spoke to a human, they gave me conflicting responses.
At first, they acknowledged the limitation was an error made by the system as they don't limit accounts manually, and they would have the limitation lifted in about 5 days.
When I checked back in, I got a different agent, and they told me the review team declined to lift the limitation and they couldn't state the reasons. I tried to get a contact number so I can call and speak to someone as I'm in South Africa and was never given any contact info for South Africa, just 'the decision is final and no action can be taken.' I tried finding out where I can lay a complaint against PayPal in my country, and again 'the decision is final and no other action can be taken,' which seems unlawful that they can limit my account unlawfully and I can't take further action against them as I'm in Africa and they get to keep my money simply because their system glitched!
- Unethical business practice and they have no human customer service just bots
Preferred solution: My account to be unlimited urgently
User's recommendation: Stay away from paypal
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I wrote this, but it should have been $40 and not $4050 Typo!!!