paypal and trades?

[new guy]

how safe is it to buy something off someone via paypal? what happens if you send the money and they just never send the thing you buy? also how do trades work?

[VIPmeetSPL]

PayPal ensures both sides. If any side commits fraud Aslong as you do not gift money PayPal will help you retrieve money and trades...well that's a different story. There ur just out on a limb hoping both sides come through should be bad you both ship items at exactly the same time with a representative. Of fedex or ups on the fone for conformation

[corey0928]

This is why you don't trade anyone without good amounts of feedback. Or if they don't you make sure they ship first so you can recieve/inspect equipment but then again you'd need good feedback in order for most people to ship first. Also never send $ as a gift since you lose all your buyer protection and PayPal will just tell you there's nothing they can do

[inm]

One way to do trades would be to:

Send Money via PayPal (nothing too much, just something as collateral)

Then, whoever sent the money sends their package

You get the package, inspect it

If it all good, the other person sends the money back, then you ship out their package.

In a sense, you're both "buying" each package in separate transactions, so if the deal goes sour, PayPal is still there to back you up.