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I am tempted to call paypal again, but that company is so horrible to deal with, I refer mostly to the Credit side, that I just don’t want to today. I have lots of stuff to list and I’m going to put that call off until I feel like another 2 hour, possibly pointless run around where I might be given false information, have to ask over and over for written/site proof, and possibly be hung up on.
So I apologize, I could prolly get some answer from them today, the validity of which would more than likely be ambiguous and/or questionable, but at least it would be an answer.
P.S. I have seen changes in ebay, some that I agree with and some that I don’t, however, I have always felt that ebay and I have a pretty good and trusting relationship. To say this nicely, I don’t feel the same about paypal. And even less so about Synchrony bank.–You live in the US and you bought an item on eBay in Canada.
Yes
–Then you received a tax charge only through Paypal that does not show up on your eBay transaction page.
No, it was visible on the invoice on the ebay site in various different places (they have many pages detailing a transaction)
–You called Paypal and they couldnt help you.
Yes
–You called ebay and they gave you a refund.
Yes, because they say that the creation of the tax charge was a glitch and took responsibility for it. Ebay also gave me a coupon.What is still a mystery, and of the most concern to me, not the $6+ charge, was why it went directly to my PP CC without my choosing that. One cannot split payment methods within ebay’s pay system as far as I know, although I have seen that option in paypal.
Also, FYI, ebay’s tax policy description page shows the detailed information regarding each individual’s state tax policy. As of right now, that information is not being processed by a background system on ebay in a uniform and consistent way. This is basically what I was told by ebay. Therefor, we each need to just check on what we are charged when we see tax charges. Also, some tax charges are not legitimate. And that is where my knowledge gets fuzzy. I couldn’t quite get the rep to expound on that one. I asked her at that point to explain to me as if I was trying to do it (charge an illigitimate tax charge to my customer to make extra ch’ching) and I think that made her scam alert go off and she got, justifiably, a bit guarded. I realized right after I asked that it might make her worried, but it was too late. The fact is that is possible however, as my case is could be proof of that. I say possible and could because I’m not 100% sure she said it was an illegitimate charge and gave me the refund for legitimate reasons, or just because.
So, if anyone has any ideas as to how a Canadian purchase, shipped through Seattle was allowed by the system to charge me U.S. tax that was illegitimate (or even if it really is because one rep saying so, even giving me a refund, does not make it true) and that charge was ran AUTOMATICALLY, with no choice given to me, through my PP CC, please do comment.
Maybe it’s a fluke, and that’s all. No big deal. I don’t know yet.
