tooltrainer

Why is it greed and not merely taking advantage of a potential opportunity? Sheesh the morality police are really out in force today.

Yeah Paypal had refused to call my Godaddy rep because the seller had already provided sufficient proof that the transaction happened and was legit.

Couldn't agree more!

LOL!! Brilliant!! I should totally provide them screenshots showing that I just sold their domain out from under them. ROFL.

I never said I was a squatter, and I'm not. I buy domains that are very low value to basically everyone but me, because I know how to drive traffic and monetize it effectively. And I almost exclusively buy new domains (less than 0.5% of my portfolio is pre-owned domains). shop.com would have been a VERY unusual purchase for me, I've only bought a domain for more than registration costs once before and it was also $500 (though that transaction went flawlessly).

But my Godaddy rep provided his contact info and was happy to speak to PayPal on behalf of myself and Godaddy. PayPal actually said they didn't need to speak to Godaddy because the documents provided by the seller were authentic.

PayPal's buyer protection is supposed to protect against items that are "significantly not as described" which this clearly was. So yes, in that respect and by PayPal's own stated guidelines, it is fraud.

Actually I did all of that. But of course I saw the current, legit whois info which is what I would expect to see before I had purchased.